I just received this email. It was in response to one which I sent weeks ago.
Power to the people on the internet!

Subject: Fat Cat Contest Clarification
Date: 12/10/04 4:46:06 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: SLogan@bowtieinc.com

Thank you for your note and concern about The Fishing For Fat Cats contest.

On behalf of the entire CAT FANCY staff, I would like to clarify and correct
our the contest announced in the January 2005 issue. Our original intention was
to make this contest a weight-loss challenge, rewarding CAT FANCY readers who
have succeeded in slimming down their obese cats. Somewhere along the way, the
contest was inappropriately simplified into a fat cat contest. We thought our
readers would understand it from the surrounding article on the dangers of
obesity from “Trim Down Your Fat Cat,” the story in which the contest
announcement appeared.

From this point forward, we are canceling the “Fishing for Fat Cats”
contest, and replacing it with the Weight-Loss Challenge, in which participants
will have to involve their veterinarian. Entries already received will be
automatically considered for the new contest. Look for the new contest
announcement in the March issue and, thereafter, online.

Thank you, again, for sharing our concern about the health and well-being of
cats.

Purrs,

Susan Logan, Editor