If there were a way, any way, of capturing the energy spent looking at cats on the internet and turning that energy into petrol, I’ll tell you what, there’d be at least 20p off a litre of unleaded. Watching cat videos is the yin to the massive wobbling yang of porn and as such is something to be encouraged. Here’s the question though: what do the cats get out of it?
The truth is that nobody knows, and those who might – the women who dedicate their lives to studying feline habits by letting dozens of them live in their house — usually turn up dead in a pile of furballs and unopened newspapers before anyone can question them. But the issue of quite who cats are and what they want will not go away. It was brought into focus once again this week when a pet, who had disappeared mysteriously five years ago, reappeared equally mysteriously in a completely different part of the US. You know that bit in Seven where Kevin Spacey just appears in that cop shop? Well it was like that. But with fleas.
The cat, known to humans as Willow, disappeared in Boulder, Colorado in 2006 and reappeared on the streets of Manhattan two days ago. Delivered by a passerby to a cat shelter, Willow has now been returned to its owners thanks to a microchip found in its neck. Clearly overcome with emotion, one of the owners, a Jamie Squires, said: If I could, I would microchip my children.
That’s the spirit. Anyway, Willow disappeared for five years and nobody knows what happened. Not only that, they’ll never know, because the cat would never tell. If it were just an isolated example, this may not even have been a matter for concern. But isolated it is not — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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