So, a colleague/drinking buddy based in the great Northwest (my favorite kind of folk) wrote: "About time some cat pictures showed up in your set - I was about to accuse you of speciesism." See, he likes cats...

As Kabul Kitty had only just left my room, I decided right then and there to draft the Kabul Kitty Demands, which must be adhered to:

• screen door must be left unlatched; front door to my little room MUST be left unlocked and a bit ajar. This allows Kabul Kitty at will entrance. Failure to do so will result in loud Taliban-breaking-in-like noises

• Kabul Kitty must be greeted with much baby talk and petting

• Kabul Kitty will then proceed to the fridge and half-meow. Failure to immediately open the door will result in Kabul Kitty doing it herself and grabbing that-which-you-do-not-wish-her-to-grab

• Approved menu for Kabul Kitty: cheese, milk, tuna, leftover chicken. Selected item must be immediately provided upon demand. Failure to do soŠ well, it's not pretty, so don't go there.

• Following her meal, Kabul Kitty will require a vigorious head and shoulder rub and much baby talk, while both kitty and food provider are laying on the bed.

• Kabul Kitty will not tolerate humor made per her girth nor her half-meow (more like a soft "mrf").

• Kabul Kitty has the right to explore the closet and everything in it, at any time.

• Kabul Kitty has the right to ask to be let outside, only to turn around and come right back in, up to five times within an hour.

• Kabul Kitty has the right to go down seven doors and repeat the entire process with the French guy working for the UN air services.

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