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Thank-you notes from Jasper and Chloe. Dear Jurgen Nation, Thanks for the fuzzy mices! My momma, she gave me one of those when I was a baby and I loved it! I gnawed it and generally treated it like a real mouse, growing when anyone came near it. Then I pulled the furry part off the plastic. A pretty good trick for a creature with no opposable thumbs, eh? Now is the perfect time to play with this toy because my mom is redoing a cabinet in the office and she's put down this tarp, see. It's folded and I love to burrow between the layers. It makes lots of rustling noises. I'm doing it right now WITH the mousie! It drives mom caaa-razy, which is why I love it so. Gotta go now. Licks and bites! Love Jasper Dear Jurgen, Mom says I have to thank you for the toy even though I won't play with it. I'm sophisticated and cannot be bothered with toys because I have lots of condescending stares to give. I do appreciate the thought though and don't you worry. Jasper, the scoundrel -- I don't know why Mother ever brought him here. He drives me insane. Just when I curl up in a good spot to nap, he comes along and bothers the hell out of me so I'll get up and he can have the nice warm spot -- will put them both to good use. Before he knocks them under the couch, anyway. That's where all the toys end up. Then mom and dad yell at him for pulling himself along the bottom of the couch with his claws while he looks underneath for something he can grab. They call him Bad Man and Stinkerton. (My nicknames are Gorgeous, Beautiful and Pretty. Oh and Chloe Monster, but we won't talk about that right now.) I just thought of something, JN. Even though I'm not going to play with the mice, I'll still get a lot of use of them. While mom and dad are yelling at Jasper while he runs around nuts with those mice, I can give them my surperior look that says, "See how good you had it before he came along? I'm perfect, dammit." What? Sophisticated girls can say dammit, too. Yours appreciatively, Chloe