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August 19, 2004
A Carpet of Fur
Since Visible Hand has been back here in the Flyover, he's been scooping me on all the important reporting emanating from the Lincoln Journal Star. He got to Bereuter before me yesterday and today he beat me to the tale of 146 cats taken from home, which included this line: "When I first walked in the room, it looked like the floor was just fur," Weverka said. "Then we realized they were cats. Real cats."
J mocks the local paper a little for placing this story on the front page. "[s]ee it return to the bread & butter of local news--cat rescue stories." The funny thing is, this really shouldn't be news in Lincoln, because this same story appears about every 6 months. There are houses overflowing with cats in this town, and every once in awhile, someone notices. This story was only notable for the record-setting number of cats and the gentle whiff of cat piss that could be smelled from a block away.
Here's a nugget from the filth that kept the cats in the locked room: "Meyer told officers that about five years ago he had just four cats. The feline family grew from there."
What has Bob Barker reminded people to do every morning for the past two decades?
And what local news story would be complete without a nice description of the behaviors of un-neutered male cats? "A yellow ring, left by male cats spraying the area, surrounded the concrete block walls, Weverka said."
And now back to hard news reporting.
Posted by Half-Cocked at August 19, 2004 09:41 PM
Comments
I noticed that today had a follow up to the kitty cat story. This is big time.
Posted by: Eric H at August 20, 2004 10:05 AM