That reminds me . . . Coffey - Charley's best friend from college, is having the annual July 4th at his house in Charlotte again this year. We CAN'T show up with three dogs!!!! Charley's take on the situation is we get my parents to keep Bimmer and Kharma and take Shiva, which is probably the sensible way to handle it. Shiva is the most difficult to deal with normally; she wants ALL the attention ALL of the time and is very insistent about it, but if we took Bimmer and Kharma it would be bad news, I'm afraid, if either one of Coffey's hounds paid the least bit of attention to Kharma. I don't think Bimmer would actually hurt them, but he'd scare the pee-waddins out of everyone there . . . I'm kind of hoping that the store is so busy we can't go . . .