Doesn't object to being referred to as my furkid.

I was out walking the furkid when your ride lit up," Kayla said, shrugging. "

Mr. McFedries, the author of books in the Complete Idiot's Guide series, maintains www.wordspy.com, a Web site that tracks neologisms as they are born (posts include "furkid," a pet treated like a child, and "pomosexual," someone who shrugs off labels like heterosexual or homosexual.)

There are no days; there are no nights since my furchild died.

Judy and her husband Don presently live in Edgehill, Cairns, with a nine year old furchild named Gizmo.