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Your definition about health mighî be incompîcte. Just because you don't feel sick or have any sympîoms doesn'î nccessarily mean you are healthy. How many tiries have you heard of a person who died suddcnly of a heari sntack? His/her family members are shocked. "He was always s0 healîhy", they say. Was he? If he was healthy with a strong and healthy heart and a good nerve supply, would he have had a heart attack and dicd? Usually, in such cases, the person is not healthy - just healthy looking. Most bodily functions go on aIl the urne without you ever bcing awarc of îhem. You normally arcn't conscious of whcn your organs are working correctly and you may not kriow it whcn they aren'î - until i's 100 laie. Remember when you firat leamced, back in grade school, the Earth was spirining around ai an incredible spced. If you were tike most kids, you wcnt oui into the schoolyard and stood sitl and tried to feel the Earth spinning. How could it possibly be happening if you didn't feel it? 0f course thc scicntific evidence was s0 over- whclming that there could be no room for doubt that ibis unhelievable phenomenon was truc. None of us ioday, as adults, doubt for a second that the Earth iv spinning - even if we cant feel il underfoot. Yet, we have trouble blicving irterference in our nervous sysîem can cause health problema in the test of the body, or tIsai we can be very unhealthy and not show any symptoms - despite Uic overwhelmirig evidence. Robert Rushion Carpet Care 103: Carpet Shading iarpetshadingiv cul-pile carpets (ofien referred to as "watermnark- ing o pooling ') is as optical effeci caused by apparent differences ini depUi of colour, which depends on the direction from which thc carpet iv viewed. An area may appear dark when viewed from one direction, but paie when viewed from the opposite direction. This effect is a matter of how much lightisi reflecîing on the fibres of the carpet; dark areas are absorbing more lighî, whiie pale areas are reflectmng more light. 've got somte gaps to MIi in my garden. What cao you suggest? Why not t-y something other than a flower or shrub? How about trying clumps of omnamental perennial grasses. They are hardy, distinctive and often very elegant. Here are some suggestions from Landscape Ontario. Smali Grasses-Small clump forming grasses and grass-like plants like sedges make excellent rockgarden plants or can be mass-pîanted as an attractive groundcover. They work well wiîh spring-flowering bulbs or as border edging. Mid-Size Grasses-These omansmental grasses are 45 10 100 cm. talI and make nice focal points in perennial borders or annual bedding achemes. Fountain Grasses make a good alternative 10 tIse usual Draceana 10 add heighi and interesi and can be used in planters and tubs. TaIl Grasses-The mosi weIl known of the taîl grasses is Pampas Grass which does not thrive in Ontario but for tIse same spectacular effect you cao use Plume Grass whose flowerheads can reach 12 10 15 feet in heighî. Grasses can make attractive lawn omnamentals. A circular bcd planîed with only one type of omnamental grass will make a splendid showplace! FELINE LOWER OJRINARV TRACT 0ISEAUE (FLOUD) t have spoken on this subject before and because it iv such a common problem, it bears repeating. Hand on heari, i have historîcally had one or more cats in my hospitai for the diagnosis and treatmenî of FLUTD on average, 4 oui of 6 days of the week. The incidence of ihis remains sîatic. FLUTD involves the urinary bladder sud urethra, and regardless of the cause, resulîs in pain during urination. Most cati show this pain by urinaîing in places other than the litter box or by frequent visits to the box, straining sud vocalizing when urinaîing. Causes of FLUTD include, to mention a few, bacterial infection, viral infection. non-infectious inflammation, tumors sud crystais in the urine. My discussion iv going to focus on the latter. Crystals resembie microscopic bits of sand thai form iv the urine. Excessive crystal escretion causes irritation of the bladder sud ureibra aud can lead to obstruction of urine flow. Obstruction occurs mainly in maie cais aud ihis cas prove fatal if not correcied. This iv due 10 the small diameter of their ureîhra. Many cais die every year because of ibis, - cubher deîecîed too late or euihanized because of the huge cost required to remedy the probîem. The mosi commun source of crystalluria iv diet. My personal opinion iv that there are fat too many dicîs available in the pet stores thai resuli in, or can contribute to, FLUTD. At Tylo Nuser, wehav anexcllet seecton f hrdy sîudying nutrition, and ail Veterinarians have access to current ch y o o useromforhver a rdxclentuse. Yinou ca pick studies concerning pet dietary maiters, su please be assured that if grasses 10cos rmfo vr adnus.Yucnpc you consuit your veterinarian you will be receiving infornied and for size and shape-tufted, mounded, upright (divergent, up to date information. ereci or archmng) and arching grasses from 35 cm to 270 cm The reason i have been prompted to Write this ariicle today, is in height and you cari choose for colours of grasses-blues, that in the past month I have had to put ihree cats to sleep because greens, straw, gold-and colours of flower plumes. Corne of thîs problem. see what omnamental grasses cari add to your garden's beauty. If you have any questions concerning your pets diet, please con- tact your veterinarian, who will only be too happy to help you. -M