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• A cat preening its back or the back of its ear is said to be a sign of rain.

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Cat’s Litter Box Looks Like Mud Bog DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My female cat “Sandy” will drink a quart of water very quickly. Then for the next couple of days, her litter box looks like sandbox after rain storm.

It’s a big mess, and looks like a mud field. What’s wrong with her? -- Fred in Rochester, N.Y. DEAR FRED: I can’t tell you what’s wrong from here, but I can tell you to take Sandy to the veterinarian as soon as possible and describe to him or her exactly what you told me. If Sandy has any other unusual behaviors or symptoms, such as seeming lethargic, irritated, hiding out for long periods and so on, tell the vet this as well.

Frequent urination is a sign that a serious illness may be developing. It’s one of the symptoms of feline diabetes, for example -- although only the vet can make this diagnosis.

Often, the illness can be managed, but only if your cat gets prompt medical attention. If caught early, Sandy might only need minimal changes in how she’s cared for -- a change in diet, some medication and more frequent checkups.

If you’re worried about the cost of care, please mention this to the vet when you go in. Something can be worked out so that Sandy can get the help she needs. Many states and cities offer assistance to senior citizens with pets, so that pets can get annual checkups, needed shots and tags at little or no cost.

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• African Gray parrots are said to be so smart that they can make up their own sentences. For example, one Gray, named Baby, knew his owner’s name and heard people ask the owner if she was leaving for work. He also heard her tell the kids to go to school. He put it all together and said, “Mom, go to work.”

• Dalmatian puppies are born pure white, without their distinctive spots. It’s only when they start to grow that their black or brown spots begin to appear.

• A dog’s whiskers are touch-sensitive hairs called vibrissae.

They are found on the muzzle, above the eyes and below the jaws, and can actually sense tiny changes in airflow.

• According to a recent survey, the most popular name for a dog is Max. Other popular names include Molly, Sam, Zach and Maggie.

• An American Animal Hospital Association poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners admit that they talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages on an answering machine while away.

• According to ancient Greek literature, when Odysseus arrived home after an absence of 20 years disguised as a beggar, the only one to recognize him was his aged dog Argos, who wagged his tail at his master and then died.

• An estimated 1 million dogs in the United States have been named the primary beneficiary in their owner’s will.

• At the end of the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life,” an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

• Barbara Bush’s book about her English springer spaniel, “Millie’s Book,” was on the bestseller list for 29 weeks.

Millie was the most popular “First Dog” in history.

• Before the enactment of the 1978 law that made it mandatory for dog owners in New York City to clean up after their pets, approximately 40 million pounds of dog excrement were deposited on the streets every year.

• Who’s smarter, cats or dogs? Cats have better memories than dogs. Tests conducted by the University of Michigan concluded that while a dog’s memory lasts no more than 5 minutes, a cat’s can last as long as 16 hours, exceeding even that of monkeys and orangutans.

• Cats have more than 100 vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• Cats, not dogs, are the most common pets in America.

After cats and dogs are Parakeets, coming in a distant third at 14 million.

• Contrary to popular belief, dogs do not sweat by salivating.

They sweat through the pads of their feet.

• Dachshunds are the smallest breed of dog used for hunting.

They are low to the ground, which allows them to enter and maneuver through tunnels easily.

• Developed in Egypt about 5,000 years ago, the greyhound breed was known before the ninth century in England, where it was bred by aristocrats to hunt such small game as hares.

• Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.

• A cat’s brain is more similar to a human’s brain than that of a dog.

• A cat’s arching back is part of a complex body language system, usually associated with feeling threatened. The arch is able to get so high because the cat’s spine contains nearly 60 vertebrae which fit loosely together. Humans have only 34 vertebrae.

• A cat’s hearing rates as one of the top in the animal kingdom. Cats can hear sounds as high-pitched as 65 kHz; a human’s hearing stops at just 20 kHz. • A cat’s heart beats at 110 to 140 beats per minute, twice as fast as a human heart.

• A cat’s tail held high means happiness. A twitching tail is a warning sign, and a tail tucked in close to the body is a sure sign of insecurity.

• A cat’s tail plays a vital part in the cat’s balance and in the “righting reflex” that allows it to land on its feet after falling from a height.

• Seventy percent of people sign their pet’s name on greeting cards and 58 percent include their pets in family and holiday portraits, according to a survey done by the American Animal Hospital Association.

• Small dogs are rapidly gaining popularity, according to American Kennel Club registration statistics. Three toy breeds are among the top 10 in popularity on the most recent list: the Yorkshire Terrier, Chihuahua and Shih Tzu rank 6th, 9th and 10th, respectively. A decade ago, no toy breeds were in the top 10.

• Some 39 percent of pet owners say they have more photos of their pet than of their spouse or significant other.

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• Ray Charles Robinson dropped his last name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and patterned himself in his early career after Nat “King” Cole.

• Charles got his first taste of commercial success in 1953, when he arranged and played piano on bluesman Guitar Slim’s recording of “The Things That I Used to Do,” which sold more than a million copies.

• What became known as the real Ray Charles sound emerged in 1954 on a record called “I Got A Woman.” The recording reached #1 on the R&B chart in 1955.

• On June 26, 1959, Charles cut his first country cover when he recorded the song “I’m Movin’ On,” originally done by Hank Snow. Perhaps it was irony that this would be his last session for Atlantic Records, and move on he did. Charles, by 1959, had posted some 20 hits on the R&B charts.

• Ray performed at President Ronald Reagan’s 2nd inauguration (1985) and President Bill Clinton’s 1st (1993).

• Charles founded the Ray Charles Foundation for the hearing impaired.

• Charles tested actor Jamie Foxx by asking him to play a line of Thelonious Monk Jazz before he acted in the movie, “Ray” (2004).

• Ray preferred to be paid in single dollar bills.

• Charles neither used a cane nor dog, but navigated by the sound of his hard-soled shoes instead.

• Ray could ride a motorcycle, drive a car, and fly a plane even though he was blind. He had been able to play piano, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet and organ since attending School for Deaf and Blind in Florida.

• Rolling Stone magazine honored Charles by naming him the 10th greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll artist of all time.

• The dark side of Ray’s life is little known: He was addicted to heroin for nearly 20 years and got clean in 1965.

• The Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, once called Charles “the Genius of Soul.”

• Did you know that Charles made a cameo appearance in the biography movie of his life, “Ray”? And the screenplay of the movie was translated into Braille so that he could read it.

• In 1994, Ray received the Helen Keller Personal Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind.

• Charles had three #1 pop hits with “Georgia On My Mind” (1960), “Hit the Road Jack” (1961) and “I Can`t Stop Loving You” (1962).

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• After the space flight, Gagarin became an instant, worldwide celebrity, touring widely to promote the Soviet achievement.

He proved quite adept at handling the publicity.

• Gagarin received so much fan mail the Russian authorities gave him his own zip code, Moscow 705.

• Like John Glenn, Gagarin was considered too valuable to his country to risk in another space flight and was grounded from future space missions. Gagarin eventually became deputy training director of Star City, the Russian equivalent of Cape Kennedy and Johnson Space Center combined.

• On March 27, 1968, Gagarin died in a MiG-15 UTI Russian fighter plane on a routine training flight near Kirzhach, Russia.

• Contrary to popular belief, the moon does have an atmosphere. It is very thin. If you took all of the molecules in one cubic centimeter of atmosphere from the moon and lined them up, they would fit inside the period of this sentence.

• The U.S.S.R. captured the first photo of the moon taken from space in 1959. The image was of the dark side of the moon.

• The first spacecraft to send back pictures of the far side of the moon was Luna 3 in October 1959. The photographs covered about 70 percent of the moon’s far side.

MAN & THE MOON (continued): • In China, the dark shadows forming a face are known as “the toad in the moon,” not the “man in the moon.” The toad is considered one of the five poisons of yin. It is believed that eclipses occur when the “toad in the moon” tries to swallow the moon itself. • The temperature on the moon reaches 243° F (117 C) at midday on the lunar equator. At night, the temperature falls to -261° F (-163 C).

• The first U.S. flag on the moon was deployed by Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin during their historic EVA on July 20, 1969 • The footprints left by the Apollo astronauts will not erode since there is no wind or water on the moon. The footprints should last at least 10 million years.

• Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot.

• The Apollo 13 Mission was planned as a lunar landing mission but was aborted en route to the moon after about 56 hours of flight due to loss of service module cryogenic oxygen and consequent loss of capability to generate electrical power, to provide oxygen and to produce water. It was later made into an award-winning movie starring Tom Hanks.

• Opposites attract? Not on the moon. The moon has no global magnetic field.

• Due to its size and composition, the moon is sometimes classified as a terrestrial “planet” along with Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

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“Supraventricular” indicates that the fast beat arises in the upper heart chambers, the ones above (supra) the ventricles, which are the heart’s pumping chambers. Those upper chambers are the atria.

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• In Colorado, it is illegal to mutilate a rock in a state park.

• Those who track radio statistics say that Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” is the most-requested song in the United States -- and this despite the fact that the song was never released as a single on this side of the Atlantic.

• If you use Listerine to freshen your breath, you might be interested to know that its original formula is 26.9 percent alcohol by volume -- that comes out to 54-proof gargle.

• There are lots of sports fans out there, and a lot of sports to enjoy: football, basketball, soccer, baseball, hockey ... olive oil wrestling? OK, maybe there aren’t a lot of oiled wrestling events here in America, but in Turkey it’s the national sport. Kirkpinar, as it’s known there, has been popular since the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish town of Edirne has been hosting the annual tournament since 1361.

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• On Aug. 13, 1942, Walt Disney’s classic film “Bambi” premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The company had released its first feature-length animated film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” in 1937.

• On Aug. 12, 1953, less than one year after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb, the Soviet Union detonates a 400-kiloton “Layer Cake” bomb fueled by uranium and lithium deuteride, a hydrogen isotope. The explosive power was 30 times that of the U.S. atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and the mushroom cloud it produced reached 5 miles into the sky.

• On Aug. 16, 1896, while salmon fishing near the Klondike River in Canada’s Yukon Territory, George Carmack reportedly spots nuggets of gold in a creek bed, sparking the last great gold rush in the American West. “Klondike Fever” reached its height in the United States in mid-July 1897, when two steamships from the Yukon arrived in San Francisco and Seattle, bringing more than two tons of gold. • On Aug. 15, 1961, two days after sealing off free passage between East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East • On Aug. 14, 1912, the first double-decker bus appeared on German authorities begin building a wall --the Berlin Wall the streets of New York, traveling up and down Broadway. -- to permanently close off access to the West. The city The double-decker originated in London as a two-story, would remain divided until Nov. 9, 1989. horse-drawn bus.

• On Aug. 10, 1993, a rare collision of three ships in Tampa • On Aug. 11, 1934, a group of federal prisoners classified Bay, Florida, results in a spill of 336,000 gallons of fuel as “most dangerous” arrives at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre oil. The incident marked the first use of a computerized rocky outcrop 1 1/2 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. trajectory model to track an oil spill using data on wind, The convicts were the first civilian prisoners to be housed weather and the movement of tides to determine the extent of a spill. in the new high-security penitentiary.

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2. Meanwhile, to 1-quart saucepan, add water; sprinkle with gelatin. Let stand 2 minutes to soften. Cook on low to dissolve, stirring. Remove from heat.

3. From limes, grate 2 teaspoons peel and squeeze 1/2 cup juice; if using Key limes, do not use grated peel -- it will make filling taste bitter. In bowl, whisk lime peel and juice, milk and yogurt. Whisk in gelatin mixture.

4. Spoon filling into crust. Cover; refrigerate at least 2 hours to set. Serves 10.

• Each serving: About 235 calories, 5g total fat (1g saturated), 6mg cholesterol, 185mg sodium, 42g total carbohydrate, 7g protein.

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Perhaps the powers that be feel they should be delivered earlier.

Much news lately about the late Orson Welles. I had the pleasure, or I might say the displeasure, of working with him on some of his radio presentations. He wasn’t easy. And oh boy! When Orson got hungry, work stopped and the great Welles ate. We sat and watched. And oh how he did love to eat.

Aside to Peter D. of Palm Beach, Fla.: Yes, that Keir Dullea now starring in the “Castle” series is the same Keir Dullea who played Lana Turner’s son in “Madame X.” And yes, I was the policewoman in that same pic.

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I’m sure he has remained that way today. You also might remember Keir from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and the cult film “Bunny Lake Is Missing.” I wish him all the best!

Filmtown is mourning the passing of Fess Parker. He is being called “King of the Wild Frontier, a Television Icon and a Gentleman.” And that he was. I had the pleasure of knowing him when he came to New Orleans and I had a TV show there. He was a guest. So polite. So nice. But I might

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A younger generation will get a taste of “Private Benjamin,” and a new star, Anna Faris, will shine.

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