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Category Archives: Just cats
Charley learns a trick!
My husband was very skeptical that I could teach Charley a trick, and refused to admit he’d learned it until he performed the trick on at least 5 separate occasions. Well, I’ve taught Charley to jump onto the top of his scratching post on command by saying “Charley, up!” He’s a smart cat and he likes to jump and perch, so I knew he could do it!
Cat-loving man of the week: Ken Wahl
According to USA Today, Ken Wahl, “an award-winning Hollywood actor is joining the effort to find whoever glued a cat to a southern Minnesota highway last month.” He will be donating his Golden Globe (won in 1990) to the existing reward fund to go to the person who turns in the cat abuser. USA Today quotes Wahl as saying that “his heart belongs to his main love, Sweetest, a rescue cat from the Stray Cat Alliance.”
What a guy!
Six-toed cat cam!
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.
Bookstore cat in NY needs a home
According to Gothamist, the long-time store cat from Manhattan’s Skyline Books needs a new home, as they are is closing up shop at the end of this month (after being in business for about 20 years) and the owner has other pets at home that she believes won’t get along with the eight year-old bookstore cat, Linda. Update: The owner of Skyline says he’s taking the cat home with him. Unfortunately, I also must report that my favorite Brooklyn bookstore with a cat, Bookcourt, no longer has their resident store cat around. He developed some behavioral issues and it was decided he’d be happiest in a home and not a store. Oh well, they must do what’s best for the cat and their customers! 