There aren’t too many movies out there where a cat is the star, let alone one where a cat-loving man is featured prominently. Rhubarb, originally released in 1951, is a tale about a cat, an eccentric millionaire, and a baseball team. Rhubarb stars “Orangey”, a cat whose most famous role was “Cat” in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
George Knapp, a postal worker in New Hampshire, has adopted a kitten who was found stuffed inside a mailbox in Boston. George and his wife have named their new kitty “PD” - as in “postage due.”
George looks like he’ll be good to this little kitty, no?
Photograph: Eric J Shelton/AP
Travis’s wife, Jackie, sent me this wonderful story of how their kitty Lola came to join their family. It’s such a great story that I’m just going to post it here in its entirety. Take it away, Jackie:
“I am a woman who loves a man who loves a cat. After finding your blog I couldn’t resist sending you the story of my man who loves a cat.
Faithful menandcats.com readers may recall some time ago that I put out a call to Save Boris - the famous cat who’d been featured in the New York Times - and that my friend Dave happily took Boris in. In today’s NY Times “The Hunt” column “Where are they now?” the fate of Boris is revealed to the world (although there is no mention of menandcats.com’s role in securing a new home for Boris, perhaps because the Times has already covered the Men and Cats phenomenon):
[Boris] landed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, with Dave Sargent, 34, an art handler who wanted a playmate for his cat, Shouyu. Like Boris, Shouyu has cowlike black-and-white markings, though his nose has a blaze, not a heart.
Boris, all 20 shy pounds of him, spent his first weeks cowering beneath the sheets, Mr. Sargent said. But now, the cats happily play and wrestle. Boris spoons with Mr. Sargent at night.
Ms. Davis intended to reclaim Boris after the six-month wait, but realized that another move would be tough on such a creature of habit. After Maxine’s birth, she feared that Boris, unintentionally provoked, might swat at the baby. Meanwhile, Mr. Sargent grew increasingly attached to the cat.
Ms. Davis and Mr. Sargent were reluctant to divulge their sentiments to each other. But now that they have, they’ve agreed that Boris will remain in his Greenpoint home.
“It made me teary” to know Boris is so happily settled, Ms. Davis said.
“I couldn’t imagine him not being here,” Mr. Sargent said. “He is such an important part of my family now.”
A cat survived a 27-story fall from a high-rise building in Manhattan, while a man with a tree service used his harness equipment to rescue a cat stuck in a tree on Staten Island - the cat had been up for four days while his desperate family tried to get him down, calling upon all kinds of city agencies who weren’t able to coax the feline down. The cat’s owner, Richard, told the Staten Island advance “sleeping the last four nights hadn’t been the same with out his feline companion around to wake him up.”
