Sparky (photo left), our Maine Coon/tabby, insisted on helping us with the final edit. It only looks like he's sleeping on the job. Bratly (photo below), who apparently sensed she would soon leave us, is featured throughout Stardust Dads. The little 10-year-old calico is shown here checking out her next-door contemporaries in a photo taken Thanksgiving 2001. She died in January 2002...