On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, David Silberstein wrote:
#Besides the dogs mentioned in my previous post, I remembered
#cats or kittens being mentioned somewhere. Fortunately,
#there's the booksearch:
#
#
# Jhereg, ch. 15 (referencing Aliera)
# She relaxed against the back of her bed, absently
# stroking a cat that I'd not been introduced to.
Well done! And that reminds me of yet another argument for it.
> Noish-pa's familiar, Ambrus, is a cat.
< But we're talking about pets, not familiars!
> But Ambrus is described as a *cat*, not a wildcat, a lynx, "a small
dzurlike creature", or any other variation on a wild felid. If we can
trust the translation at all -- and Brust isn't shy about using
Dragaeran names for unEarthly animals -- Ambrus is a _felis domesticus_,
the felid species that arose from domestication.
-- Mark A. Mandel
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