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No one loves cats more than I do – but let’s face it, nobody loves cat barf. If you have one cat, and you wake up to a small pile of vomit on your floor, you know who the responsible party is. If you have more than one cat – well, as the infamous line from Spinal Tap says, “You can’t dust for vomit.”
Since we have two cats, one can never really be sure exactly which cat did the barfing. My husband, however, claims he always knows, based on psychological profiling. I’ve started to call him a “CVSI” or “Cat Vomit Scene Investigator.” Last night, I was awakened at 4 AM by my husband, who proclaimed that a cat had barfed all over our trunk and sofa. “It was Thurston!” he told me. “How do you know? Did you see him do it?” I asked. “No, but Thurston ALWAYS sits there. I KNOW it was him. Thurston will barf on furniture, Charley only does it on the floor.” Well, I can’t say he didn’t nail their feline psychological profiles purr-fectly. And that concludes another exciting episode of “CVSI: Cat Vomit Scene Investigator.”
Chad and Chloe are representing the world of twins! Not only does Chad have a twin brother, Chris, but Chloe also has a twin sister named Abby. Chad, Chris, Chloe, and Abby all live in Florida. Chad and Chris’s sister, Joey, reports that “Chloe and Abby love playing outside near the pool.”‘
Michael Showalter is a funny dude. He was in the TV show “The State”, the movies “Wet Hot American Summer” and “The Baxter”, and the comedy sketch troupe “Stella.” So, already, what’s not to love about him? But add to that the facts that, according to this NY Times article, he lives in Brooklyn and says “I love cats. I had a cat for 14 years” – well, that makes him Officially Awesome. He has a new comedy album out called “Sandwiches and Cats.” As long as he doesn’t combine the two into a cat sandwich, he’ll have an honored place on menandcats.com.
Photo from NY Times
At the menandcats.com HQ, the cats are usually fairly predictable. Thurston will generally be snuggling with me when I wake up and waiting for me on the bed when I get out of the shower; Charley will regularly wait for me outside of the bathroom when I’m in there and likes to be picked up and draped over my shoulder – but only if it’s the RIGHT shoulder, not the left.
Occasionally, however, the cats seem to temporarily “switch brains” and start acting like each other (sometimes I joke that they actually share one brain). The frightening thing is that now my husband I do this too sometimes. Usually I am always cold, he is hot… but one day he will be cold, and I’ll say “We’ve switched brains like the cats!” Recently he had a dream that seemed like a dream I should have had instead of him. Brain switching!!