A little side thread just for Phred (that's rhyme, gimme a dime)-

We once had a solid black, silky longhaired kitty named Bunky. I don't know where my son got that name, but it took. Once, me and my boyfriend were watching one of those "Police Academy" movies (okay, it was raining, we had already worked the last jigsaw puzzle, and were completely bored) and in it was a kitty named Bunky, who was also black and long haired! That's when bf told me that firehouses often had resident cats, and they named them Bunky as in "bunkmate" becuase the cats would snooze in the bed with them at night! Is that true? (Bf often didn't know what he was talking about.)