“Who or what is Ugly Bat Boy?”

Posted on July 31, 2009 by janine

Last night, I went to the World Famous Pub Quiz at Rocky Sullivan’s in Brooklyn, accompanied by my husband and some friends. Imagine my pleasant surprise when the very first question was “Who or what is Ugly Bat Boy?” I got (probably a little too) excited, because not only did I know the answer, I had blogged about Ugly Bat Boy on this very website! (The answer, of course, is “World’s Ugliest Cat.”)

The host of the pub quiz, Scott, announced that he was obsessed with Ugly Bat Boy, which I appreciated. I told him about menandcats.com and he was kind enough to mention it during the evening. I tried to impress my trivia team with even MORE Ugly Bat Boy trivia (“He lives in New Hampshire!”) but alas, Scott and I may have been the only two people present who were obsessed with the alleged world’s ugliest cat.

Ugly Bat Boy in his full glory

Charlie and Noodles

Posted on July 29, 2009 by janine

Menandcats.com reader Jenny says her Noodles is “the most pose-able kitty ever” and is a much-adored 12-toed cat. Noodles took to Jenny’s boyfriend Charlie “like a duck to water” and loves to be covered up inside anything, including boxes, blankets, and Charlie’s coat. Funny, Noodles looks a bit like my black-and-white feline who shares a name with Jenny’s boyfriend.

Two cats, one brain: hiccuping edition

Posted on July 27, 2009 by janine

Charley and Thurston are very connected to each other – they are from the same litter and have never been apart. I often say that these two cats actually share one brain. The other day, Charley had the hiccups (yes, cats do occasionally get the hiccups) and while I was worrying about how to help Charley cure his hiccups and googling “hiccuping cat,” Thurston sat down next to Charley and licked his head. Then Charley stopped hiccuping… and Thurston started.

“Did you see that?!” I asked my husband. He nodded. “That was so weird, it was like Thurston transferred Charley’s hiccups to himself!!” Wow. Two cats, one brain indeed. And for the record, Thurston’s hiccups subsided within a few minutes.

I leave you now with a YouTube video of a cat hiccuping.

Dear Thurston,

Posted on July 20, 2009 by janine

A typical view of Thurston upon waking up

Dear Thurston, I love you beyond 100%, I truly do. It doesn’t bother me much when you poke your head around the book I’m trying to read, or drape yourself across my neck while I’m trying to sleep, or greet me in the morning eyeball-to-eyeball. I don’t even really mind when you use my rear end as a pillow and sleep on it when I’m sleeping. But Thurst, really, do you have to jump EVERY time the air conditioning cycles on? At least you’re not constantly licking your belly any more, but still, you have been living with this A/C unit for a number of years now. And when you are sleeping on top of me, and I’m asleep, and you jump 3 feet in the air, well, it startles me too. Also, I would think you’d be used to my sneezing by now – and as I always point out to you, you sneeze too. And yet every time I sneeze, you go running as if a volcano has erupted. Well, I guess you’ll always be my delicate, sensitive Thurston – and I will keep trying, in vain, to explain things to you like sneezing and air conditioning. Love, Cat-mom

A cat-tastic movie

Posted on June 30, 2009 by janine

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.”

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