Dude the Museum Cat; Cat who helped trafficked women is honored; cat hates cat-sitter; and lagniappe – Why Evolution Is True
Ben Madilynn
This ginger tom, “Dude” is quite famous on the Internet. He helps run the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science, and he’s now sixteen, a Senior Cat. But the Dude abides.
The Museum has put up a number of videos of Dude at work, which are below:
Rescue Cat Goes To Work At A Museum With His Dad Every Day (The Dodo)
Rescue Cat Goes to Work At A Museum With His Dad Every Day (The Dodo on Facebook)
This cat runs a museum (The Dodo on TikTok)
‘Dude the Cat’ has earned many titles at the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science (6ABC)
Cat Goes to Work Daily With His Human at a Museum (Laughing Squid)
Delaware Museum resident Dude, the rescue cat, goes viral on YouTube (Delawareonline)
Hear about Dude the museum rescue cat from his cat dad Chris Hayden (Delawareonline)
The Dodo fell in love with ‘Dude,’ a famous museum cat in Delaware (Delawareonline, subscribers only)
These cute animal ambassadors will make you smile (10 Best)
Dude also has a Facebook Page and an Instagram Page. His story is in the short video below
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The BBC (click the picture) has the story of Marley, who at the time was a competitor in the National Cat Awards given by Cats Protection in four categories, Family Cats, Incredible Cats, Connected Cats, and Senior Cats (click the link to see the winners. Now, I find, Marley won the category of Incredible Cats. Click below to see the pre-award description of Marley
From the BBC:
A cat who helps women who have been trafficked is a finalist in this year’s National Cat Awards.
The event, organised by charity Cats Protection, highlights the “incredible bond” between cats and people.
Black and white Marley lives at Caritas Bakhita House, a safehouse in London for women who have been enslaved, exploited and trafficked.
Karen Anstiss, 59, the head of the house, said Marley was the “fluffy heart of our home”.
. . . . Marley is a finalist in the Incredible Cats category.
Ms Anstiss said seven-year-old Marley had helped bring comfort and hope to the 11 women who currently live at the safehouse.
“Often Marley placing a gentle paw on our guests’ legs is the first kindness they’ve experienced in years,” she said.
“He has this incredible gift of empathy, knowing instinctively who needs him.
“We adopted Marley four years ago and I think he’d suffered abuse as he is terrified of men aged around 30. So he recognises our guests’ trauma.”
And from Cats Protection:
. . . . One woman was in such distress she couldn’t speak to us, only to Marley. But, because she trusted him, over time we were able to build a bridge and reach her.
Marley, who is seven, is also staff supervisor, security guard, patrolling the grounds, and chief gardener. Nobody is allowed to touch his patch of daisies! In art therapy he’s a popular muse and one guest even composed a song for him. At 7pm staff and guests sit down for dinner together, like a family, and Marley joins us. He’s the fluffy heart of our home.”
Here’s a YouTube video of Marley, and it will make you tear up:
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From Parade Pets we have a TikTok video of cat being chastised by the cat-sitter, whom it apparently hates. Click below to read; I’ve embedded the video.
The text:
Cats aren’t big fans of change. This can be a problem if you go out of town and leave them with a sitter—especially if they aren’t a fan of that person. One kitty knows this all too well, and she’s not afraid to let her feelings be known (hisses and all)!
In a September 2 TikTok video shared by The Burton Bunch (@uvacase), the gray cat gives her sitter a piece of her mind and she’s not holding back. It’s so hard not to LOL at this.
Sound up, of course:
@uvacase My BFFs cat still hates me. Bless her heart. ❤️😬😾#angrycat #catsoftiktok
The 38-second clip captioned, “My BFFs cat still hates me. Bless her heart,” shows the cat’s angry conversation with her temporary sitter. Though the woman explains the feline’s parents will be home soon, the kitty meows and hisses in response. If we had to guess, she’s not saying anything nice!
With more than 25,000 likes, many people are shocked the cat seems to understand the sitter’s words.
“The hissing at ‘May the Lord have mercy on your soul’ is wild,” one person. wrote. “The way its responses changed with each of your questions was crazy! That cat knows exactly what you’re saying!” another noted. “I was hoping for one last hiss, and the cat delivered,” another added.
Many had a lot of feelings over the cat’s hissing almost on demand and shared similar stories of their own interactions with angry cats.
“I watched my sister’s cat while she was on a ski trip in the 90s. I’m still scarred, emotionally and physically,” one person commented.
“That’s like my son’s cat. Even though I’m the one who found him, he always hisses at me when I go feed him when my son’s away. Can’t figure
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Lagniappe: Hili’s rescue. This picture of baby Hili was, says Malgorzata, “taken a day or two after we got her.” Hili was born in June of 2012, part of a litter of cats in Dobrzyn. The staff of the kittens contacted the father of Paulina, the present lodger upstairs (Paulina was young and didn’t live upstairs yet), and that father decided that Andrzej and Malgorzata needed a cat after their beloved Pia, a very small tabby, died. (There used to be “Pia dialogues” on this site. In October Paulina and her sister came over to Andrzej and Malgorzata’s house with one of the kittens, and said tht they needed this cat. And that is how Hili came to be adopted.
h/t: Malcolm, Ginger K.
