Landlord sued over dead cat stench, bag of cat carcasses left to rot.
The best paragraph is the first one:
“Tenants of a Brooklyn building said their landlord came up with a new idea for how to push them out: Let the smell of the cats out of the bag–dead cats, that is.”
In all seriousness, this is [...]
Archive for September, 2008
the headline says it all
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, tagged brooklyn, rent stabilization, stench on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
squittens?!?!
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, tagged genetic deformities, hemingway cats, inbreeding, radial hypoplasia, snowball, squitten on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you follow cat news, you may have heard that last week the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum announced that it had reached an agreement with various government agencies that would allow the famous Hemingway cats to continue to live there. Hemingway cats are cats with six toes descended from Snowball, a cat given to [...]
cat of the week: urchin
Posted in cat of the week, strays, tagged cat of the week, lara, urchin on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Meet Urchin.
Gender: F
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Current Place of Residence: Greensboro, NC
Age/Coloring: Tortoiseshell, About four years old
Mom: My friend Lara
Means of Survival Before Finding Mama: McDonald’s trash, the kindness of strangers
Likes: Laying on Mama’s feet, shedding hair on her vintage furniture, Grandma’s old dollhouse, dudes.
Dislikes: When you do not pay attention to her.
look at that face
Posted in strays, tagged cat incest, chicago, inbreeding, strays, yoda on September 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In the midst of an article about a lovely Chicago family who takes in strays was this photo. What on earth could make a cat look like that? According to the article, it’s inbreeding, which makes looking at her almost more bizarre. If there was ever a reason to prevent cat incest . . . [...]
operation save a life
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, tagged adoption, hurricane ike, texas on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Houston SPCA has started up a program to find foster homes for Galveston animals that are refugees from Hurricane Ike. This article in the Houston Chronicle details a day in the life of one shelter where animals are both temporarily rescued as well as reunited with their owners. Little kitty and puppy orphans! I [...]
RIP atkinson/fonzworthy/dave/ginger
Posted in RIP, tagged england, facebook, fonzworthy, heather, RIP on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
He was a cat with many names. But Atkinson/ Fonzworthy/ Dave/ Ginger was also a cat that made his way into many hearts. A group of neighbors in Bath, England, “adopted” the stray years ago, and he roamed from house to house, spreading his love. To me, this is such an awesome story not just [...]
big cat news
Posted in Uncategorized on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Big cat stalking Sydney may be no urban myth
Some say they’ve seen wild black panthers in the Sydney suburbs, but others claim it’s just feral cats with really, really thick coats.
Ghost cat sightings give residents pause
A similar story in Virginia (strangely reported only in a newspaper from Alberta). In this case, it’s cougars, and [...]
another day, another library cat
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carnegie, once an official employee of the city of Rochester, charged with keeping the mouse and bat population of the Rochester Public Library under control, died last week.
Library secretary Gail Pearson remembered him fondly, “from falling asleep in a patron’s brief case, to lying head to head with a small child on the floor, with [...]
“end is nigh for cat skin trade”
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, tagged cat cruelty, gross, switzerland on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
thank god.
Apparently, cat fur and skin is believed to relieve rheumatism in Switzerland. According to this article, many tanners are willing to make blankets out of cats for just a couple hundred euros. But luckily, now that most other countries in Europe are officially banning this sort of thing, Switzerland is too.
The thought of a [...]
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jack is my cat. he twitters:
- the first cat with swine flu! http://bit.ly/1tQDFs (via @RachelShukert) 6 days ago
- this is gross. i wouldn't want mommy and daddy eating a cake that looks like my litter box: http://bit.ly/1TI4mY 1 week ago
- respect your pet . . . or else (possibly slightly NSFW, but ok for all you cats and dogs who work at home) http://bit.ly/1KfaZ6 2 weeks ago
- unless they have more treats in space. 3 weeks ago
- i am glad i am not a space cat: http://bit.ly/kMuTq 3 weeks ago
