>Oh, and the goats are probably guiltless: though I guess allergy and >zoonoses are not that uncommon. Okay, okay. Zoonoses (ZOH-oh-NO-seez) is the pural of zoonosis, which is a disease that can be transmitted to humans from other vertebrate species - as I now know from looking it up. But all I could picture at first was a bunch of camel snouts pushing thru the bars - a whole row of zoo noses. Diane Wiessinger, semi-literate in Ithaca, NY