A couple of alert menandcats.com readers have tipped me off to the Caboodle Ranch in Florida. Craig Grant takes care of over 500 cats who had been previously abused or neglected. The cats taken in by Craig are fixed, vaccinated, and of course, fed and given plenty of affection! The cats get to roam around in the sanctuary on 100+ acres, complete with trails and cat perches everywhere. Now that’s a dedicated cat man!!

Craig and one of his many cats, from the Caboodle Ranch website.

Hopefully by now you’ve done your taxes, but this scenario where a man has his furry pal “help” him with taxes is pretty funny. Wouldn’t it be great if our cats could be considered dependents?!

From today’s NY Times Metropolitan Diary:   

Dear Diary: 

This happened on the day I brought my kitten, now an elderly cat, home to my apartment in Chelsea from the A.S.P.C.A. shelter on East 92nd Street.They gave me a cardboard travel crate to carry her, and I took her on the 6 train downtown. Almost as soon as the train started moving, she began to cry and wail. I was self-conscious then, but when a huge and rather intimidating man — dressed like a biker, with chains and a neck tattoo — sat down across from me and began to stare, I couldn’t wait for the ride to end.Then he spoke — “My kitty does the same thing” — and gave a sympathetic nod and grin.

Lara Bergen

Is this cat who lives in a vet’s office in New Hampshire* the “world’s ugliest cat?” His name is “Ugly Bat Boy” but he gets plenty of affection from the man who adopted him, Dr. Stephen Basset, and clients at the vet’s office.

*You know if he was my cat, I would have been tempted to name him “Mew Hampshire.”