I was just thinking I should share this with you cat lovers.  Our cat
Ginger is about 11, we adopted her when she was 1.5.  One day early
on, I was making Ziti, and decided to give her a piece of the uncooked
stuff to bat around the wood floors.  She loved it so much, that the
next time I made ziti, she came running when she heard me pour the dry
ziti into the boiling water.  Now, years later, she will always arrive
in the kitchen when I make ziti.  If it's any other shape of pasta,
she will ignore it.  She must know it by the sound.  Then, she bats it
around for a little bit before knocking it under the fridge, or until
one of us steps on it.  What a hoot!

Beth