About Squeak the cat in post #49. My wife and I have had Squeak for 14 years, before that she belonged to our son-in-law, and for the two years prior to him, another family. Squeak has always been, for the most part, an in-door cat. She will venture outside if someone is with her, but even then won't leave the sidewalk.At her heaviest she weighed 12 lbs, she now tips the scale at a little under 5. Her hearing isn't what it use to be and she has a bit of arthritis but is still spry enough to jump up on a 16 inch high table to watch bird in our yard. If there was a lap available 24 hours a day she'd be curled up on it sleeping. Lap time is what she lives for.