Thank you all for your kind words!

Well it was QUITE a night. Neither Dad nor I got much sleep. Marlin was a PEST! He has slept on Dad's bed every night for . . . months! And now last night we declined every plea to put him up there. He whined and scratched, whistled and did everything he could think of to get our attention: "Hey, it's bed time and I'm still down here on the FLOOR!"

I had removed his comforter from Dad's bed and set it up with a pillow wrapped inside on the floor. I tried encouraging him to try it out. Sugar immediately trotted in, stepped on it, circled and plonked herself down in the middle! Thank you, Sugar, Marlin required demonstrations of how it is done.

Marlin finally gave up and went to sleep (not sure WHERE) about 4:30 AM. Oh joy, we got 2.5 hours sleep before it was time to get up! **yawn**