They're independent, they're affectionate, they're loyal, they're beautiful, they're
sagacious, they're mysterious, they're ineffable, they're inscrutable.
They don't want to seem to have to be a part of you.
They like to sort of suggest that they don't need you.
Cats are magic.
They really are magic.
Probably the most mysterious creatures in the world.
But they're also very vicious.
They're very cruel things.
That's another thing I like about them, their ability to be one thing and then another.
The domestic cat harbors a sort of split personality.
And then even the most demure pussycat lurks a creature of the wild.
That's another thing I like about them.
Even after thousands of years, we still know little about the behavior of domestic cats.
Now, scientists and labor alike attempt to understand them, to demystify this elusive
feline.
For them, the domestic cat is every bit as intriguing to study as the lion or the tiger.
To share one's life with a cat is to invite a bit of wildness indoors.
If the writer was correct when he philosophized, God made the cat that man might have the pleasure
of caressing the tiger.
She's not a cat.
She's a person.
She's my friend, don't you, Till?
Quite often when I'm writing, she keeps an eye on me.
And I say thank you by giving her whiskers.
I'm fussy about my food and I'm fussy about Tilly's food.
Whiskers knows the taste cats love and the special nutrition they need, like essential
fats for a shiny coat.
If she knew it was good for her, she probably wouldn't eat it.
What you eat is what you are.
Because whiskers knows cats best.
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Buy this, sell that, make more here, property, investments, etc.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
No, I think we'd better reconsider.
But I now know my real assets are my family.
Sure, money is important, but we need the security of knowing it's there when we need
it.
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Well, it's a home richer, where people kiss the ground, in the parlor, where the people
kiss the ground.
Today the Western world enjoys an unparalleled love affair between man and beast.
The cat now surpasses the dog as the number one pet, and annually we spend more on cat
food than on baby food.
On any weekend, proud owners display their pampered pets to thousands of fellow enthusiasts.
Some three dozen breeds compete.
Long hairs, short hairs, and some that seem to have no hair.
There are nearly 58 million pet cats in the United States alone.
While many are common alley cats of little monetary value, some exotic breeds sell for
as much as $3,000.
And although many people dislike and distrust cats, a far greater number adore and indulge
them.
Keeping cats and their owners happy has become a major industry.
It's extremely durable, it's synthetic fur.
Look at the beads in the middle there.
You see the beads?
Okay, listen.
You hear that little scratchy sound?
Drives the cats crazy.
They love it.
This is one of our kitty condos.
We have a birthing area or litter area.
Kitty pan comes down on the bottom.
It's made of solid wood construction, stain resistant carpeting.
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The cat, as you can see, has a tubular body.
Everything is in line.
It's got the long body, the long tail, the long head to go with the rest of the body,
long bone.
The people keep him in wonderful condition because he's very muscular.
He's not skinny at all.
He's just slim and hard like an athlete.
Like a specter floating from the mists of prehistory into the shadows of modern times,
two species of wild cats still prowl parts of Africa and Europe.
Presumed to be the ancestors of today's house cat, they even look like tabbies.
But wild cats are fierce and formidable animals, in no way tame.
In ancient times, many became tame when farmers fed and sheltered them as valued rodent killers.
The farmers were Egyptian, the time more than 3,000 years ago.
The cat became adored and revered in Egypt.
Ever since has the cat's honored role been matched anywhere in the world.
One goddess in the form of a cat symbolized pleasure, fertility, and maternity.
Cats were also associated with the deity believed to start the sun on its daily course, and
one who symbolized life itself.
The Brooklyn Museum maintains one of the world's finest Egyptian collections.
Its curator is archaeologist Richard Fazzini.
He divides his time between ancient ruins and ancient artifacts.
Prized in any such collection is a cat mummy, embalmed as were the ancient pharaohs themselves.
This pussy cat has been this way since, well, he's hard to date, but let's say at least
2300 to 2500 years.
Now why, you might ask, did the Egyptians mummify animals?
Well, because certain gods could appear in the form of certain animals.
And so it could be a pious gesture or part of some cult ritual to present a mummified
cat to place it in a temple or to place it in one of the great animal cemeteries.
It is possible in the case of animals such as cats that an animal mummy might also be
a cat which has been ritually murdered.
Because most of the animal mummies of cats that have been examined tend to be very young
cats.
So a cat that was raised for the temple, not somebody's favorite pet, a cat that was raised
for the purpose and killed for the purpose and placed in a coffin of some sort.
But the heyday of the cat was to pass.
Once sacred, the cat would come to be hated and scorned.
The same eyes perceived as the throne of the gods became feared as the seat of the devil.
Believed by many to be the companions of witches, thousands of cats were tortured, burned and
hanged as recently as colonial times in America.
Veterinarian Michael Fox is vice president of the Humane Society of the United States.
He writes extensively on cat behavior and human-cat relationships.
It is intriguing that cats have been revered in history and persecuted.
There was one pope who had all cats killed.
This love-hate relationship I think reflects an aspect of the dualistic psyche of human
beings.
We love things conditionally.
We love them if we can control them and they will bend to our will.
Or we love them because they are mysterious, that they're an aspect of nature's wildness
which the cat embodies.
The domestic cat is but one of 38 species of cats, most of them astonishingly alike.
Take away their spots or stripes, their short or long fur, disregard the differences in
size from four pounds to more than 600, and a cat is a cat is a cat.
Few pet owners are aware that most of the behaviors of their house cat have a parallel
somewhere in the wild.
The cat is an enchanting combination of beauty and utility.
Its sinuous movements delight the eye.
Cats get some of their suppleness from their shoulder joints which are so constructed that
they can shift the front legs freely in almost any direction.
They have almost no collarbone and an exceptionally limber spine.
Ever fluid and graceful, cats are marvels of strength and balance.
All cats advertise their territory.
The brain deposits a pungent scent.
Scratch marks are visual signals and may also carry a scent from glands in the paws.
Glans on the face and tail deposit scents at home, just as in the wild.
Almost more than one signal is left.
Territorial fights could be deadly between animals with such sharp teeth and claws.
So most disputes are settled by body postures and intimidating bluffs.
Friendly greetings are generally more fleeting and subtle, a nose touch or body rubbing.
Exactly how and why cats purr remains a mystery.
We do know that both purring and kneading with the paws first appear in infancy to
stimulate the mother's milk to flow.
Like hunters, cats must conserve energy whenever possible.
They snooze about two thirds of the time, but always remain alert to sounds.
Hence the term catnap.
Kittens and cubs are helpless at birth.
At first, they can neither see nor hear.
Their life guided primarily by touch and smell.
Amazingly, each has a preference for one particular nipple, which it locates by smell.
In the wild, this efficient behavior frees the mother to resume hunting sooner.
Excellent protective mothers, cats will quickly move their offspring if they suspect danger.
To teach their young how to hunt and kill, many cat mothers bring home live prey for
practice.
These caracals nicknamed desert lynx may seem to be playful or cruel, but they're merely
learning.
Striking the prey stuns it, but the cubs are too inexperienced to deliver the fatal bite.
Cat mothers keep their young fastidiously clean.
The soothing sensation of tongue rubbing against fur is duplicated each time a human strokes
a cat.
In this way, a bond is formed and cats come to regard us as surrogate mothers, a role
we hold throughout their lives.
In the wild, as young felines play, they refine the predatory skills essential to survival
as adults.
Whether domestic cats similarly practice stalking and hunting is subject to debate.
Many experts feel that play exists as a behavior in its own right simply because it's fun.
With indoor cats, many owners can attest to a phenomenon affectionately called the evening
crazies when pent-up hunting instincts erupt into a frenzy.
The
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As hunters that rely on stealth, cats are always alert for cues that could mean food
or danger.
While smell is not their primary sense, no odor escapes them.
They use smell mainly to find the territorial boundaries of other cats or to know if other
cats have been in their territory.
To gather information about potential mates, cats use a second olfactory system in the
roof of the mouth.
Inhaling the airborne scent while curling the upper lip creates the grimacing look.
Cats move their funnel shaped ears to zero in on sounds.
They probably have better acoustical discrimination than either dogs or humans.
Often a cat can identify the faintest squeak or rustle within an inch or two of its exact
location.
The function of a cat's whiskers is not entirely understood, but if they are severed, the animal
may lose its equilibrium and stumble into things.
It may even be unable to make a clean kill.
Whiskers also transmit information about captured prey.
To remove all traces of food, cats regularly groom.
Fastidiousness is one of their best known traits.
Thin and abrasive like sandpaper, the tongue is covered with hook-like projections that
can even tear flesh from bone after a kill.
To writers, artists and poets, cats' eyes have embodied all things magical and mysterious.
The scientist knows that vision is one of the cat's most vital senses, the key to its
success as a hunter.
At Florida State University, the question of how cats see the world has been studied
for more than 25 years.
Professor of neuroscience and psychology, Dr. Mark Berkeley, defied cynics who told
him the independent cat would never make a good laboratory subject.
He designed a system that not only works, but actually appeals to the cat.
Banking on the animal's inquisitiveness, Berkeley built a box that invites exploration.
But when it responds correctly, the cat is rewarded with food.
Generated by a computer, an image will appear in front of the cat on one side of the screen.
The cat must tell the researchers, yes, I can see that.
It does so by poking the right-hand plexiglass panel when the image appears on the right
and the other side when the image appears on the left.
From the work of Berkeley and others, we know cats cannot distinguish between human faces,
have poor color vision, and, like us, experience visual illusions.
But perhaps most noteworthy is their ability to see at night.
Under low light levels, the cat is anywhere from six to ten times more sensitive.
That is, at a light level where we perhaps couldn't see anything, he still sees not
very well, but certainly better than we do.
I suppose it might be the difference between a starless night and a moonlit night, where
under a starless night, that might be the way it looks to us, but to the cat it might
look as if the moon were up.
Able to pierce the darkness with vision at least six times more sensitive than our own,
the night truly belongs to the cat.
Throughout its history, myth and folklore have enthralled the cat.
Near Oxford, England, scientists have been exploring whether the legendary solitude of
the cat is fact or fiction, or can cats adapt successfully to living in groups.
Bert Parker has kept farm cats for more than half a century, as many as 80 at a time.
A good cat is worth a lot.
She's a valuable asset to any farm.
Our cats have increased.
There's a few more than what we really need, but what do you do?
You just let them go on.
They do keep the rats and mice down to a limit.
I don't say they have every one, but they do catch up with them at the finish.
But what happens when this usually solitary animal lives in close quarters with so many
others?
Oxford University Professor David MacDonald has studied farm cats since 1978.
Why is it that people have tended to typecast cats as antisocial, as solitary creatures?
I think there's two reasons.
One of them could be that the sorts of things that cats do socially are not the sorts of
things that classically people have had in mind when they thought about wild animal societies.
And I think that's because cat society is based on a rather subtle, covert language.
And the sorts of signals that pass between cats, and the one I personally think is important
is this business of rubbing, where one individual rubs its lips and its cheek against another
individual, happen very quickly.
They happen very rarely.
And if you're not tuned in to looking for it, you just don't see it.
So I think people have spent their lives living amongst cats and formed an impression which
hasn't taken into account the subtlety of the relationships that occur between the cats
themselves.
So, 12 years ago, I began all this by asking myself the question, are farm cats part of
a real society?
Or are they nothing more than the equivalent of, say, mosquitoes flocking around a bright
light in the dark?
It turns out that they are living in a society, and therefore it's a bit irritating in a sense
that one hears so many people saying, oh, the only sociable felids, the only sociable
members of the cat family as a large group, are lions.
That having been said, there are a lot of similarities between these barnyard lions
that we have around here and the lions that we're ever more familiar with from programs
and researches about the African lions.
Lions are the only wild cats that normally live in a group called a pride.
At its core are the adult females, usually related.
Researchers have discovered that within a pride, the females look after and nurse each
other's cubs.
Here three different females allow the same cub to nurse.
Although a lioness gives preference to her own cubs when they want to nurse, at times
she will allow younger sisters or brothers, nieces, nephews or grandchildren to join in
too.
David MacDonald was intrigued that among farm cats, the same communal behavior occurs.
The student, Warner Pasenese, often follows the cats around the clock, just as naturalists
do in the wild.
Is this a habitual site?
These two particular females haven't been here before that I've seen.
So we have generally the females taking in turn to suckle these kittens.
Again indiscriminately, any kitten that is there is suckled.
And there's absolutely no discrimination between the males?
There is none.
There is no discrimination.
Although unrelated females may help each other in this way, generally the behavior only follows
bloodlines.
Mothers, daughters and sisters cooperate most often.
But it is quite possible that other related females will also nurse and care for the kittens,
much like an extended family.
Six weeks old, this kitten has begun only recently to explore on his own.
Today he has accidentally become separated from his mother.
Out of hearing range, she knows nothing of her kitten's dilemma.
A related female hears him but does nothing.
He starts back uncertainly.
Out in the barnyard and still no sight of his mother.
He comes upon the related female, now nursing her own litter.
Hungry, tired, the kitten is willing to risk hostility to get close to her.
In the end, she accepts the tiny, distressed explorer.
With eyes like that, he had to be called Groucho.
We take good care of Groucho.
He's part of our family.
And we eat well, so we make sure he does too.
With whiskers, he loves a taste and it's good for him.
Isn't it Groucho?
Whiskers knows the taste cats love and the special nutrition they need, like taurine
for healthy eyes.
Really, he's getting the best care.
Groucho loves his whiskers.
Because whiskers knows cats best.
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If this irresistibly lovable cat is a good cat, then you're a good cat.
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If this irresistibly lovable, unsurpassably colorful, and innermostly soulful, you got
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I wish I were big.
The irrepressible Tom Hanks.
What did you do to my son?
I am your son, Mom.
He's an irresistible big kid.
I wanna spend the night with you.
Do you mean sleepover?
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Because cats are seen as self-sufficient hunters, many people feel no qualms about abandoning them.
Nationwide, millions are dumped every year.
Near Oxnard, California, animal welfare activist Leo G.
has tried for weeks to trap two cats living in this jetty.
Such brutal conditions are a death sentence for cats, and he devotes his life to rescuing them.
When the winter hits, these rocks are really cold, and the waves are cold, and the mist is cold,
and the fog is cold, the cats are cold.
And everybody thinks they have a fur coat, they're gonna be fine.
And it's always like this, and when it's a bad winter especially, it's really pitiful.
Here at the farthest tip of the rocks, the cats have retreated from the taunts and
bottle throwing of uncaring strangers.
But they are also completely cut off from fresh drinking water, so Leo baits his traps with it.
Hey, Jet.
He has named the cats Marina and Jetty because of where he found them.
Come on, Jet.
Come on, Jet.
Come on.
It is not uncommon for Leo, infinitely patient, to return to the same spot week after week.
Marina.
Marina.
To Grillo, these cats appear relatively tame.
Clearly, they were not born wild, but raised in the comfort of a human home.
But these same humans abandoned them.
The cats no longer trust.
Hey, Jet.
For Leo, it is always a waiting game to see which is stronger, thirst or fear.
Thatta boy.
I'm coming down.
All right, Jet.
All right.
Here you go.
When I get a cat and those traps are set, and I get a cat to go in the trap,
and that door comes down and slaps, that is the most exciting feeling.
And that little saga, that little story, the trips to this one little rock to feed
that one little cat is now over.
It has an ending.
After weeks of failed attempts, this day would finally bring success.
Tired but exultant, Leo would trap both Marina and Jetty
and bring them back to a world of care and love.
Grillo runs four licensed shelters in California,
but they are only for animals he himself has rescued.
An ever-changing number of cats and dogs live out their lives here.
If it gets too crowded, he says, I just expand.
Leo and family live nearby with 60 cats.
This ranch house is home to more than 150 at last count.
Dry food, seven tons a year, is left out at all times.
Canned food is fed twice daily, totaling more than 80,000 cans per year.
All of this is paid for by private donations.
There we go.
Come see Jetty and Marina.
After a trip to the vet for shots, blood tests, spaying, and neutering,
Marina and Jetty are ready to meet the others,
but only from the safety of their cages.
JJ, junkyard, come on.
Come see your friends. Come on.
This cat is in ecstasy just to have food.
Real food.
Yeah, look at that.
Beautiful thing is they were caught together and they can...
They're all in the same cage.
They're all in the same cage.
They're all in the same cage.
They're all in the same cage.
They're all in the same cage.
They're all caught together and they can tame down together.
Come for each other.
Whatever drives Leo Grillo, obsession or passion,
he spares hundreds of cats a certain death.
What happens when we bring them in is we try to reestablish the trust.
And we just tell them we love them.
We show them we love them.
We show them we care about them.
And we build their trust up again.
Eventually they trust us.
Oh, you're a good boy.
That was my baby.
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For many people, the cat is all but hypnotic.
Soothing and calming just to behold.
Through the ages, an uncounted number,
graceful, beautiful and mysterious,
have captivated the human mind and eye.
Scientists learned that simply petting a cat
lowers human blood pressure.
Now, some go further and suggest cats
may actually benefit our longevity.
In a small town on Long Island,
one of the most famous cats in the world
is a muesli.
The muesli is a very popular cat.
It's a very popular cat.
It's a very popular cat.
It's a very popular cat.
It's a very popular cat.
In a small town on Long Island,
one innovative woman is playing a role
in the sweeping changes in health care.
When her cats helped her cope with an illness,
Joan Bernstein was inspired to reach out to others.
I became ill.
I developed chronic fatigue syndrome
at that time not knowing what it was.
The disease was not defined at that time.
And there were days when there was no way
I felt like getting out of bed,
crawling out of bed, literally, in pain.
And feeding the cats,
changing litter pans,
and doing everything else that has to be done.
But I did it because the cats insisted that I do it.
But I did it because the cats insisted that I do it.
Sometimes they'd just be my hot water bottle
or my comforter,
whatever I needed them to be.
They became.
And so I became very aware
of the value of the cats as a therapy.
of the value of the cats as a therapy.
of the value of the cats as a therapy.
of the value of the cats as a therapy.
Lonely, often forgotten,
Lonely, often forgotten,
the institutionalized elderly
have been cut off from a lifetime
of friends and memories.
have been cut off from a lifetime of friends and memories.
Ladies and gentlemen,
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Jones Tonkinese cats
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Is this gorgeous?
Bred for their stable temperament and sociability,
they offer therapy at many levels.
They offer therapy at many levels.
The warmth of the cat on her lap
The warmth of the cat on her lap
is very important.
Just holding the cat in her arms,
first of all, it's good exercise for her.
She's utilizing the muscles
in her arms and her hands
so we have the physical aspect of it.
Look who I brought you.
Look who I brought you.
You think she's trying to tell you something?
You think she's trying to tell you something?
Come on.
Okay.
She'll stay right there with you, Mr. Hook.
Patience who have difficulty
with recall.
with recall.
With recall of the present.
In other words, remembering the present from
now to tomorrow or now till next week
or now till a month from now.
They will remember the cats.
She's a lot like the one I brought here
one time who was sitting on your shoulder,
remember?
And I took a picture of you with the kitten
sitting on your shoulder
and only half the picture came out.
Ha ha ha.
Beautiful.
He really is a good guy.
So soft and so pretty, isn't she?
Some scientists believe cats
touch people more than other
pets do, literally and figuratively.
Their live
and graceful movements are non-threatening.
And the cat's shape
and size are basically the same
as a human baby's.
For most people, an automatic
invitation to nurture
and love.
She is beautiful.
Aww.
I'd love to
hold you all day and all night.
I really would.
Another world
touched by Joan and her cats
is a residential school
for autistic youngsters.
The cause of autism
is not fully understood
and currently there is no known
cure.
One more.
Hello.
Oh, good.
Good.
Locked largely in a world
of their own, the children are
extremely difficult to reach.
How are you doing?
I'm gonna have a third.
John erupted uncontrollably.
Easily frustrated,
he often reacts with raging
tensions.
While no one pretends
the cats are a miracle cure,
they regularly bring about
miraculous breakthroughs.
How can you tell me what color they are
if you don't look? For Joan,
the cats open a window on a bright
new world.
Hey, John.
I think you're playing a game.
John, if she's
red, then I'm from Mars.
Do I look like I'm
from Mars? No.
She's brown.
And what color are her eyes
again? Blue.
That's right. How about looking at the
eyes? How about looking at
them? Oh,
okay. Did you want to give her a kiss?
Okay.
Etta?
Etta?
What have I got? Etta becomes
very agitated.
As you can see from her rocking back
and forth in constant motion.
And the more she
rocks, of course, the more
agitated she is.
I can take the cat over to her, and at first
she may thrust it away.
But if I'm persistent,
sometimes I have to withdraw a little bit and come back
to her. But if I am persistent,
the cat can stop
her.
Later, Joan will try again.
What have I got?
Is this a nice cat?
Do you
like this cat? I see them
relating to the cat
so much more openly, so much
more freely than they do
to other people.
They can trust the
animal. With every individual
I've worked with, they have
eventually reached out.
And I think it's because
there is, again,
that sense of communication
that says, trust
me, I won't
hurt you.
Is she saying give her a kiss?
Do you want to?
Okay.
Let me turn her around this way, give her a kiss back here.
A little closer.
Good. Okay.
Joan senses she
can approach Etta again.
Okay. By holding
the cat and focusing her
attention on the cat, she will stay
still and she will talk to the cat.
She's with us
for several minutes
at a time. How about saying,
hi kitty. Hi kitty.
Hi kitty. Good.
Good. Okay.
We're talking about
therapy.
We're talking about hands-on
and we're talking about
one-on-one and up close.
We're also talking about cats that
are capable of creating
interaction or
curling up in somebody's
arms and saying,
I'm all yours.
Right this minute,
I belong to you.
You're special to me.
And I love you.
So hold me and feel good.
The accused is charged
with willfully neglecting
to worm her pets, your honor.
This almost killed her dog,
Fifi, who in turn infected
her cat, Tom.
Furthermore, this suffering could have easily
been prevented.
Simply by treating her pets
once every three months with
Drontal All Worms, the best
defense against all intestinal worms
in a single day.
The best defense against all intestinal worms
in a single day.
Drontal, it's a crime not to use it.
I seem to spend my life doing
research, and the down to earth
people must too.
They've improved their laundry liquid
with more cleaning agent based on
palm kernel oil and added a new
floral fragrance derived from natural
ingredients.
Naturally.
Steaming at the Regal Theatre,
a sizzling comedy hit that's not to be missed.
So take the plunge, bring a friend,
bring a group, unbook now.
It was hysterical.
It's the first theatre I've ever gone to and I really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it after the first shock.
I thought it was absolutely
magnificent. It's fun.
It's excellent, it's really funny.
I think it's fabulous.
It's great, it's fabulous.
It's great.
Now playing at the Regal Theatre, book on
3815522 off box.
Australia still
has a lot to be thankful for.
Thank you, I thank you,
thank you, I thank you,
thank you, for all this
tenderness.
Thank you, I thank you,
thank you, I thank you,
thank you, for this happiness.
I thank you,
thank you,
thank you,
every time that we caress.
Thank you, I thank you.
Guilty, guilty.
Why be
guilty of neglecting to worm your cat
when Drontal All-Wormer for Cats
now comes with a no-fuss
pill applicator? So easy.
It's a crime not to use it.
It was said that a long time ago,
probably in our own golden age
as gatherer hunters, that we could talk to the
animals and they would talk to us
and I think part of
understanding felonies is that
we can learn the cat's repertoire
and have a deeper communication
and communion with our
cats.
Love for cats is part
of a universal love for all
creatures which impels us
toward a reverence for all life.
Subtle,
amusing, enigmatic,
regal and serene,
cats remain ultimately
independent of their human companions.
They move among us
as half wild creatures,
the only domestic animal
man has never fully
conquered.
Plain or fancy,
barn mouser or lord of
the forest,
they have fired our imagination.
But we wonder,
did we adopt the cat
or did Tabby simply dame
to share his life with us?
In the end, it is a tantalizing
mystery, one that we,
being mere humans,
can never hope to solve.
Stay on 10 now for the conclusion of Elvis and Me,
followed by Clark Gable and Joan Corvin
in the movie classic
Strange Kaigo.
Thanks for watching!