Cats love Macs

I love a good convergence of interests, so I was particularly pleased to discover this gem of a Flikr image pool: Cats love Macs.

This one's an easy favourite and, though it's not a cat, this one is also brilliant. Absolute gold. Unfortunately for me, (like the football-loving father whose son only wants to play basketball), my cats' interests always seemed to lie elsewhere. Tanis favoured the bed, Comma the TV, Tiggs preferred a good book, and Mishka was insane, so... hey, I haven't introduced Mishka on the catablog! Whoops. Have to get onto that. In the meantime, enjoy some cats and their Macs. :-)

Good news from the Lab

Well, if you’ve been worried about what the future might hold if you happened to have your FACE EATEN OFF BY A DOG, I’m pleased to say the news is good! Isabelle Dinoire, the first person to receive a partial face transplant after having her FACE EATEN OFF BY A DOG, is reported to have complete feeling in the new tissue after only five months.

“The scars have considerably healed. The doctors are confident. In addition, I have recovered total feeling,” Isabelle Dinoire told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. During the 15 hours of surgery, a team of doctors replaced a gaping hole from a dog mauling with a partial face that included a new nose, mouth and chin.
     “Each day that passes, I think, above all, of the donor and her family whom I cannot thank enough,” the 38-year-old mother of two said. “We must not forget that today, thanks to them, I have become visible again.”

No word yet on the condition of the labrador’s face.