an actual accomplishment!!! last Fall ('06), I happened to pass the glassed-in room being used by volunteers readying cats for adoption, etc. & spied a gray one ranging around the area while her cage was being cleaned or? Instant love @ 1st sight. I thought I was in the mkt for another blk one but this one went home w/ me. she was here because she had been in a shelter which was flooded & had been brought out. She appeared to be young, maybe yr-old little solid gray. the color of cigarette ash. Lighter-colored nose & toes. When ever she could, she liked somebody to crack the tap a bit & she would drink from the stream. She was looked at by a vet who pronounced her fit, etc. Bullshit. she scratched alot although I couldn't catch any fleas. Finely combed out a tiny clue & rushed it to ANOTHER vet with a compound microscope & it turned out to be the shed skin of a louse. Looked it up. there is a somewhat rare species of cat louse and a dose of Frontline----no further problem.