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Two cats, one brain: hiccuping edition

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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,

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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

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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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And Boris lived happily ever after

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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.”