Posted in other animals, tagged dogs, slanket, snuggie on July 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you thought the Snuggie (or the Slanket, for that matter) was ridiculous, check out the Snuggie for Dogs:
When I asked Heather, my lovely friend who sent this to me, why there was no Snuggie for Cats, she said “because a cat would cut a bitch.” True.
Posted in animals being friends, bad things happen to good cats, cats on film, do-good, medical, tagged cats with diabetes, cats with disabilities, new jersey, paraplegic cat, tabby's place, tashi on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is Tashi.
Tashi is paralyzed. But since he arrived at Tabby’s Place, an animal sanctuary in New Jersey, in November, he’s been learning how to walk. He has hydrotherapy sessions and does Pilates-like exercises to strengthen his legs and to learn how to walk. He also hangs out with his best friends, two diabetic cats named Albert and Tony.
Of course, this is all very expensive. So if you’d like to help pay for Tashi’s Pilates (or his medicine, or Albert and Tony’s medicine), go here.
And if you’d like to see Tashi in action, check out these videos:
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, RIP, tagged cat in the clouds, mount washington, new hampshire, nin, observatory, RIP on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is Nin.
For years he lived on the highest peak in the northeast US at the Mount Washington Observatory, helping staff members with important calculations and just being generally lovable.
The former stray, the subject of a children’s book called Cat in the Clouds, was put to sleep this week. He’ll spend eternity overlooking the Northern Presidentials, “peaks he saw from the mountain home he loved.”
RIP Nin.
Posted in famous cats, tagged japan, sony, sony cat, tono inoue on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is Toro Inoue.
Before today, I had never heard of him. But according to this site, he’s the sony mascot, sort of like the mickey mouse of japan. People are excited because soon he’ll finally be featured in an American game, but I wish somehow he were drawn to look cuddlier.
Oh, and he doesn’t always have a fish for a body. In case you were wondering.
Posted in art, bad things happen to good cats, cats looking silly, terrible cat tattoos, tagged bad tattoos, cat art, cat tattoos on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
About a month ago, I brought you some awesomely bad cat tattoos. Now, I bring you even more:
Why is this cat eating with chopsticks?
Yes, a wild cat’s blood always comes out in x’s and stripes. They’re very orderly that way.
As I looked for cat tattoos, I thought that there was no way I could top the cat butthole tattoo from last time. I was wrong. It’s not that this one is a worse idea for a tattoo, it’s that the tattoo itself is just so shitty.
If you love butthole tattoos, you’ll love cleavage tattoos.
And finally, we conclude with a somber, serious one.
Posted in cats on film, tagged japanese, maru, youtube on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I mostly just enjoy his tail swishing back and forth at the beginning:
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, famous cats, tagged comma coffee, health issues, june joplin, nevada, small cat on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You may remember back in February and March when I posted about Small Cat, the cat evicted from her home at Comma Coffee in Nevada due to “health concerns.”
Small Cat is back in the news today after the state health board denied a variance that would have allowed her to come back to the store.
Emotions were high on both sides, and some of Small Cat’s fans said they might appeal to the state legislature. I’d like to think that maybe the state legislature has more important things to deal with, but I also don’t understand what the big deal is. Comma Coffee is an independently owned business. If June Joplin, the owner, wants to have an entire cat circus in there, what’s the problem? As long as she posts a sign out front notifying people with allergies (or people who hate cats), why can’t Small Cat come back?
Posted in bad things happen to good cats, tagged animal cruelty, cheyenne cherry, tiger lily on July 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This is Tiger Lily.
This is Cheyenne Cherry.
Cheyenne recently pled guilty to animal cruelty and burglary in the death of Tiger Lily. She and a friend broke into her former roommate’s apartment, where the friend put Tiger Lily into the oven and turned it up to 500. The pair then escaped so they wouldn’t have to hear Tiger Lily meowing and scratching, in pain and desperate to escape.
At court, Cheyenne told an animal rights activist “It’s dead, bitch.” She’ll most likely receive a year in jail and has been ordered not to have a pet for at least three years.
I always struggle with whether or not to post stories of animal cruelty here on world wide whiskers. Nearly every day I read a story in which a cat is the victim. It’s horrifying and disgusting, and it makes you wonder who around you is capable of such an awful thing. Not that such a thing is necessarily enforceable, but this girl should be ordered not to have a pet for life, because a year in jail is not going to change the attitude that let her allow this poor cat to die.
Posted in cats looking silly, cats on film, cats with jobs, famous cats, products, tagged cat apparel, cat t-shirts, hall and oates, helen hunt, keyboard cat on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A while back, I posted a video featuring Keyboard Cat, Helen Hunt, and Hall and Oates. I hope you all enjoyed it then, because Warner Music Group has now removed the Hall and Oates audio from the video. Apparently there are still a few places you can view it, but most people seem to be in agreement that all Warner did was make Hall and Oates seem even more uncool.
And in other Keyboard Cat news, here is a Keyboard Cat t-shirt that my friend Dan sent me a picture of:
There’s no end in sight for Keyboard Cat . . .
Posted in amazing cat tales, bad things happen to good cats, tagged cat pee, cats and computers, cats and house fires on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s not much more to say than that, folks. When a fire broke out in an Australian suburb, it was at first unclear was the cause was–until the two teenage boys who survived the blaze revealed that their cat had peed on a laptop moments before the smoke alarms started going off.
I think it’s entirely possible that the cat sniffed out a fire somewhere else in the house and peed out of panic, or that the cat merely peed to alert its owners of a such fire–but I admit it’s not entirely probable. So cat owners like the owner of the cat in the below photo (by jpmorse on flickr) should consider themselves warned! Your cat may only look like he’s just checking his email . . .
