Have you ever had misunderstandings in email communications - where someone read your email and completely mistook your intentions, perhaps even taking offense or feeling hurt, when you had no intention of coming across in such ways?

Emoticons have been developed to help avoid such problems. These are little yellow faces with varieties of expressions - most commonly a smiley face, but including angry, surprised and other such emotional expressions.

it is even more common to see a smiling      or sad face    in emails.

Here are a few suggestions for animal emoticons. I find that most people respond with warmth to them:

              
 

                                  

Good sources for images:

http://funpic.com

http://funnycatpix.com/pictures_2.htm

http://www.xmission.com/~emailbox/funnyphotos1.htm

http://www.funnydogsite.com/

Blessings

Dan Benor, MD
www.paintap.com