Thank you very much everyone - for your comments and for signing the guest book!

Gary, I'm sorry you couldn't load the page, I have no idea why it wasn't working!

PIT, I have to admit I simply forgot the thing with the washing machines and dryers, and it's true, it IS a huge danger; a friend of mine has once lost a cat in a dryer.

I think I mentioned cat gras somewhere else, but not in the paragraph about toxic house plants, that's true. I'll add that info.

About neutering/spaying: actually I was referring to both indoor and outdoor cats, but maybe I did not point that out clearly enough. I've mentioned indoor cats at the end of the article.

I'm not sure about the average life span of indoor/outdoor cats; I've got that info from a website. We also had a discussion here on this subject, but I guess it's hard to get the correct numbers.

Kirsten