I purred with delight when I saw this commercial for the first time today featuring a “six-toed cat cam!” I immediately thought the cat must be a reference to author Ernest Hemingway, a famous resident of the Florida Keys (and one of the most well-know ailurophiles) who owned a six-toed cat. My suspicion was confirmed by this website about the ad campaign, which states “the copper-colored feline is a direct descendant of the six-toed cats once owned by world-renowned author and former Key West resident Ernest Hemingway.” In fact, Key West is the location of the Hemingway Home, where over 60 cats still live.
Six-toed cat cam!
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Menandcats.com reader Juliana sent me this wonderful photo of the late, great Joey Ramone with a feline friend. Little did Juliana know that the Ramones are one of my all-time favorite bands and that I love, love, love Joey Ramone. In fact, when I got married, I suggested my husband and I both change our last name to “Ramone” (if you get married in NY State, both husband and wife can legally change their last names to a mutually agreed upon last name that is neither the husband nor wife’s original surname). The husband, however, rejected this idea. In my heart, though, I’ll always be Janine Ramone.
