Oct 24
I am not a cat person. First of all, I’m allergic. Or at least that’s what I tell my friends when they ask me to take care of their cats. Secondly, I’m afraid that they’ll come steal my breath in the middle of the night.
There’s a black cat in my neighborhood who always tries to come into my house. I have thought about stuffing it in my car and driving it to Round Rock, dropping it on a curb next to a gated community and leaving it to fend for itself. But I can never bring myself to do it because I don’t want that overgrown hairball in my car.
Supposedly Hillary Clinton abandoned her cat Socks after she and Bill left the White House. The cat was a prop to show Hillary in a softer, more maternal light. But Socks was given to Bill’s personal secretary Betty Currie, who was single and needed the company.
What will female voters think of this, as Hillary tries to convince them that she’s human? I’ll tell you what this female voter thinks. Me. Ow. At least she didn’t strap Socks to the roof of her car on a family vacation.
“In the annals of human evil, off-loading a pet is nowhere near the top of the list,” writes Caitlin Flanagan in the current issue of The Atlantic. “But neither is it dead last, and it is especially galling when said pet has been deployed for years as an all-purpose character reference.” Oh, lighten up, Flanagan.
This reminds me of when I had a pet rabbit in college. Our heater was always on the fritz because we were irresponsible college girls, so I would lock up Rutger in his cage and blast the completely safe portable electric space heater at him. We had some really good times. Unfortunately, after I graduated, I needed to get rid of him. Long story short, some neighborhood kids stole him.
You tell me how that’s “evil.”
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All I have to say is I’m not a big fan of cats (although I also don’t advocate tying pets to the station wagon roof or allowing neighborhood kids near bunny wabbits). If Bill Clinton can stand to have Socks on his shoulders like that while showing no signs of panic, I’m sure they took better care of the cat than I ever would have. Plus, they were moving on to their jet-setting NY lifestyle, and the cat probably needed a more stable environment.
/then again, Bill’s probably comfortable with his face buried in a little p*ssy now and then.
//ugh. i can’t believe i just typed that.
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Where does strapping your dog to the top of your car — a la Mitt Romney — rank?
Here’s a recipe for your next gathering:
http://www.thecattbox.com/catts%20kitchen%202.htm
Oh, for crying out loud. She did not abandon the cat. He’s living a stable life with a trusted associate.
How does that compare, as Triangulation of Death points out, to Romney’s animal cruelty or to Guilliani off-loading his kids?
Lame.
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Re: 4. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
Hillary is clearly an animal hater and an orphan-baby-eater. How can we trust her as president?
Re: 5. Pink Lady
We trust you, don’t we?
“who owes her success purely to dynasty.”
at least a ‘good’ dynasty.
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Re: 6. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
Only as Blogger in Chief.
It Takes a Village to raise a cat.
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Re: 6. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
No, not really.
9. Chilicook.
Winner.
Re: 9. Chilicook
In some villages, people eat cats. Seems like giving one to your husband’s secretary is pretty mild.
Was Socks adopted? Did the Socks rescue agency barge into Betty’s house to take Socks back? Is Hillary going to have to cry on daytime television, so that Betty’s (grown) children will get their kitty back?
What about First Dog Buddy Clinton? He was mowed down by a car a few years after leaving office, when he got loose from a careless handler (Vince Foster?). Did Buddy have any sort of relationship with any of the Clintons at any time? They may as well have adopted themselves a brown baby and let it get loose from a nanny and mowed down. This, to me, is the most egregious of the excesses of the Clintons and may prevent me from supporting this faux-caninist candidacy.
Is Socks a puppet?
/No, no. That’s us.
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Re: 12. Shriz-noat
Buddy is in doggie heaven. Just like my poor terrier Muffin Melida of McLean.
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TJ: Yeah, it’s like when you’re a kid, and your parents put your dog to sleep, and they tell you it went off to live on some farm.
Pink Lady: That’s funny, that, no, because, uh, our parents actually did, uh, send our dog off to live on a farm.
TJ: Uh, PL…
Pink Lady: What? Wh- hello? The Millners’ farm in Connecticut? The Millners, they had this unbelievable farm, they had horses, and, and rabbits that he could chase and it was- it w- …..Oh my God, Muffin!
“I have thought about stuffing it in my car and driving it to Round Rock…But I can never bring myself to do it because I don’t want that overgrown hairball in my car.”
I thought you couldn’t bring yourself to do it because it meant you would have to go to Round Rock. Ugh.
That cat looks like Hitler. It would be considered anti-Semitic NOT to give it away.
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Re: 17. JohnCornyn’sBoxTurtle
http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl