Friday, January 12, 2007

Now That's a Cat

The Humane Society nicknamed him Goliath, but his real name is Hercules! I don't want to disrespect the memory of our late, massive cat Ski, but he wasn't this big. Of course he was mostly muscle. Ski was like the Babe Ruth of cats, he may have looked overweight, but he could play the game like no one else could.

You have to read the entire story, but this is worth noting:

Goliath, a 20-pound stray whose girth got him stuck in a pet door while trying to plunder some dog food, is back with his owner.


Okay, he was trying to sneak into someone else's house so that he could steal some food!? What, they weren't feeding him enough at home? Maybe they had put him on a diet and that's why he was going around and raiding other houses. "I'm telling you Martha, we've had him on this diet for three months and I think he's fatter than when we started."

And you've got to know that his street cred is going to be shot when word of this gets around to the other cats. The squirrels will even be laughing at him. But I guess they probably already were. Many people may not know this, but squirrells love to laugh at other animals that they know can't catch them. It's their second most favorite thing to do, right behind gather nuts. Their third most favorite thing to do is to suddenly dash out into traffic.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

both of the hartfield's cat are bigger than this one. first time i had to take care of them i thoght they were over stuffed pillows. once Gran took them to vets for a sleep-over and stuffed them onto a pet carrier, nothing but fur sticking out on all sides.