Peggy Keener: Cat tales (tails?) confidential
Published 5:31 pm Friday, December 1, 2023
Some time again I wrote a column about America’s love of the PB and J. Some time later I obtained a word from my son, Jeff, who proceeded to inform me that a lot of the world exterior of the U.S. doesn’t eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Indeed, they don’t even know what we’re speaking about!
Then Jeff added that he remembered studying in regards to the U.S. Army dropping instances of scrumptious life sustaining peanut butter to distant Afghani villagers throughout the early days of the battle. What we thought was a yummy and beneficiant gesture turned out to be a complete thriller to the recipients. They hadn’t a clue what to do with it. Our humanitarian gesture was a bust. But, all was not misplaced, although, as a result of the Afghanis quickly found that their goats beloved it!
Moving on to some cat snippets which can be extremely ostrobogulous … uncommon, weird, far out. If you personal a cat, don’t let him/her learn the next ……
The historic Egyptians have been identified to take their mummified pet cats of their tombs with them to enterprise into the after world. (Hmmm, I ponder if that included dogs? Move over, Rex, you’re taking on an excessive amount of room.)
“Unsinkable Sam” was an precise cat that survived the sinking of three WWII ships. After the third calamity, Sam was honorably retired from naval responsibility. (But, then, wasn’t that too quickly? Like didn’t he have six extra lives to go?)
Taylor Swift, at present America’s hottest songbird, owns not solely an overweight cat, but in addition a fats cat. Olivia Benson has an estimated internet value of $97million. Honest, it’s all fastidiously cat-alogued. This makes Olivia the third wealthiest pet on the earth. (This is so lame. She can’t even carry a tune.)
The origins of demonic black cat superstitions come from way back to 1233 within the time of Catholic Pope Gregory IX. It was his Vox in Rama that began all of it. (I’m unsure what Vox in Rama was, but when it was that scary, I’m fairly positive that had I learn it again then, it will have turned me right into a Baptist.)
Once upon a time, Ernest Hemingway obtained a present. It was a six-toed cat. He was completely smitten with the polydactyl creature discovering them cat-hartic. Thus he started amassing them. Interestingly, you may nonetheless see their uppity descendants slinking into the salons in Key West. (They’re nonetheless complaining, too, in regards to the additional cost for his or her pedicures! Like what’s one other toe … or 4?)
In the 1700s, the oldsters on the small Japanese island of Tashirojima started bringing in cats. Why, you ask? It was all due to the mice that have been ruining their silk manufacturing. The experiment was profitable and the silk was saved. But as we speak there are actually extra cats there than people. (They ought to have gone with polyester.)
Felicette was a cat born into poverty. Eating from soiled rubbish cans and sleeping in even worse alleys, she led a depressing life. But then she was adopted. Obviously it was an enormous life upgrade for her. But even that doesn’t evaluate to what occurred subsequent. In 1963, Felicette obtained the big recognition of being cat-apulted into house ala a French rocket. (Of course, being an boastful cat, she shunned her spacey fame as a result of, let’s face it, nothing in comparison with that of merely being a cat!)
You suppose the politicians are unhealthy as we speak? Get this. In Talkeetna, Alaska, Stubbs the Tabby Cat, served as their honorary mayor. His reign lasted from 1997 to 2017 when Denali, one other cat succeeded him. For poor ‘ol Stubbs it was a cat-as-trophy.
Do you bear in mind the Broadway smash “Cats”? It had over an 18-year run. The costume division wanted numerous hair for the actors’ costumes. Obviously, cats didn’t have that a lot to spare. So, what did they do? Well, in fact, they sheared yaks. Actually, to the tune of three,147 kilos! No one within the viewers knew. But the cats did. They snubbed the fake tresses—though the make-up folks fastidiously used cat-acombs—and the cats refused to attend the reveals. That is exactly why you didn’t see any tabbys within the theater.
I’m not sure whether or not Netflix or Amazon Prime actually care, however in 1894, Thomas Edison created the first-ever cat video. It was a brand new type of cat-aracting referred to as “The Boxing Cats”. (It is uncertain that the 2 powerhouse networks have the movie as we speak, however nonetheless you might ask. Aside from that, don’t you agree that it was in all probability sensible for Edison to have dropped that gig and simply stick along with his gentle bulb?)
And lastly, this cat story which can be true … or false. At one time it was thought that Johannes Brahms killed cats after which labored their dying cat-erwauling into his music. (What? Was this the identical man who—good grief!—composed Brahms’ Lullabye? Yiiikes! Brahm’s Meowabye?)
