What do we mean," Patience, Honor, Virtue, Integrity?"
One of the basic tenets of cat whisker collecting is that the cat whiskers may not be
taken from a cat, they must be given by the cat.
Sharon Lee, a noted cat whisker expert (out of self-defense), reports numerous
instances in the Lee-Miller household of cat whiskers left in strategic places:
on top of typewriters and computer keyboards, in the middle of the off-limits-to-cats
kitchen table, on the chairs and co-pilot chairs in front of computers, and even
occassionally on the royal blue quilt in the master bedroom.
Lee, who states that both bad karma and bad scratches result from the forceful
removal of cat whiskers, also admits to the "joy of the chase" when one of her four cats
develops a particularly wonderful whisker.
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Copyright 2001 by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. Updated February 4, 2001. Comments to Sharon Lee