What affects us affects cats
Orangey was a professional film cat; a working cat and an animal actor. This celebrated red tabby cat a.k.a. ginger tabby had roles in 10 feature films. He was owned and trained by animal handler Frank Inn and credited under various names including Jimmy, Jeremy and Rhubarb. He starred in the film Rhubarb (1951), …
In an overly dramatic headline on one news media website, the author states that “1,000 feral cats unleashed on Chicago’s streets to fight rat problem”. That is not quite the way it is because the Tree House Humane Society have a “Cats at Work” programme in which they employ community cats as a deterrent …
This story has an elegant symmetry to it. A dilute calico feral kitten was born with a congenital defect. Her nose is deformed and using the conventional, human view of beauty, she is ugly. She turned up at the front door of a student foster home where, as I understand it, visually impaired and …
There is a celebrity cat on the Internet called Stryker the Cat. We don’t even know the gender of this cat but I will presume that she is female for the time being because she is on the small side, let’s say, for a serval. And she is a serval not a Savannah cat …
It is not only on the racetrack that Lewis Hamilton beats Sebastian Vettel. It’s pretty clear to me that Lewis Hamilton likes animals. We know that he likes dogs and I can see by the way that he handles a racetrack cat that he is sensitive to all animals including cats as well. How …
Well, first things first. Who is Furguson and how do you spell his name? I have seen two spellings, the conventional way “Ferguson” and the cool way “Furguson”. The cool way is the right way because it contains the word “fur”. This is his stage name and, incidentally, it is also his real name. …
There is no doubt, when looking at the appearance of Grudge, that this is a brown tabby Maine Coon, the American cat from the state of Maine on the East Coast of America. It is said that (and I agree) the best looking Maine Coons are the brown tabbies because they are the most …
The cat in Alien was Jonesy. Ripley escaped the Nostromo with Jonesy. She put herself and Jonesy into cryo-sleep where they remained for 57 years. A salvage crew picked them up thinking initially that together they were an alien life form because they read Ripley and Jonesy as one set of DNA and therefore …
