TODAY'S TURN: Healthy pet love

THE ISSUE:
A friend of mine once had a cat, I forget his name. All I remember is that he was around forever and he was really, really fat (the cat, not my friend). Looked like he swallowed a football. One day I noticed that the cat was just staring out the window for over an hour, didn't move a muscle.

Turns out the mangy critter had passed on to Kitty Heaven and my friend had had the cat stuffed. The point is, people love their pets. When they pass on, we might like to do something special in their memory. Keep them alive, so to speak.

THE GOOD TURN:
The Cincinnati Public Library has set up a special fund to memorialize your pet and buy library materials at the same time. It's a LOT less creepy than stuffing him/her/it, and it'll help some kids bond with books like they bond with Buster.

Send at least $15 to the library, and they'll use it to buy children's books and material about pets. Here's the Pet Memorial part: each item is marked with a special gift plate inscribed with your beloved pet's name. So Patches the python, Buddy the blowfish, or Zeus the shih tzu can live forever. Without the glass eyeballs.

CLICK HERE TO DO THIS GOOD TURN:
Create a library Pet Memorial in your pet's name
(In case you're wondering, your live pets can also be memorialized.)


Thanks to my buddy Mark Kerley for the heads-up about the pet memorials. Visit his design site here.