{"id":45,"date":"2006-08-10T20:04:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/anneb\/?p=45"},"modified":"2006-08-10T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T03:08:27","slug":"the-resident-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdylorrin.net\/anneb\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"The Resident Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As we explore some of the numerous restaurants in NYC, I’ve made an observation. Many of the restaurants seem to have a resident cat. Above is a kitten helping to bus a table at an unmentioned restaurant (I don’t want any retaurant owners or cats to get into trouble). The same kitten entertained us and our neighbors by attacking a napkin and shoe laces. It also sat in my lap and purred while I scratched under his chin. I wasn’t the only one completely enamored. Numerous people tried to tempt the little kitty to their tables.<\/p>\n

I have a “Resident Cat” theory. My grandfather used to have a dairy farm and cats served an important purpose – control the mice population. Of course, I won’t mention what happened when the cat population got out of control. Well, there are mice in NYC. And rats, although rats are big and I think many cats are actually scared of the big ones. But my “Resident Cat” theory involves not rodents, but cockroaches. I think restaurant and store owners have cats to control the roaches that seem to be living wherever food and trash are in abundance. Cats can be ferocious little hunters. The only problem I would foresee involves cats liking to play with their catch before eating it. I can imagine that a few speedy roaches have made an unfortunate get-away. Thankfully, the feline roach-catchers in these restaurants are friendly, unlike the barn cats on my grandfather’s farm!<\/p>\n

And since I’m on the cat topic, I had to include a couple of pictures of Chloe, one of our cats who has taken up residence on a window sill in our apartment. Occasionally Zoe steals her sill, but mostly Chloe owns it.
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