Misty, in her infinite beauty, is sweet-tempered and oh-so-friendly. She had a lung infection - http://www.animalhealthchannel.com/calicivirus/index.shtml - and so her purr box is a bit odd-sounding. She needs to be nebulized each day to assist her breathing. She developed feline panleukopenia (often known as feline distemper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_panleukopenia )but has overcome the feline disease that usually ends in death.