On Sun, 5 Nov 1995 dmartine@ccr.dsi.uanl.mx wrote:

 Last chapter portrays Shampoo out of character. Shampoo would never resosrt
to cheap tactic like turning into a cat to make Ranma run away. She
would have fighted him with her own resources.

have you seen Fowl Play yet?  Shampoo is p*ssed at Ranma and dumps water 
on herself.  Her cursed form is one of her resourses and she has used it 
as such.

Bruce

PS.  Isabel is a lass, not a lad.