A Parable for Our Times

Scientists at the University of Tokyo have bred a mouse with no innate fear of cats.

Stand by for a startling jump in kitty obesity.

A Cutting Issue

BBC headline:

TV cat poll was fixed, BBC says

And so was the cat, presumably.

Sebastian Haff, Call Your Service

From the BBC:

A US cat that is reportedly able to sense when a nursing home's residents are about to die is baffling doctors.

Oscar has a habit of curling up next to patients at the home in Providence, Rhode Island, in their final hours.

According to the author of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the two-year-old cat has been observed to be correct in 25 cases so far.

Of course, the fact that Oscar took out large insurance policies on each of the patients had nothing to do with it.

The Cat Came Back

Why I don't have a cat.

Sign of the Apocalypse

A cat with 26 toes.

Crazy Cat

From the BBC:

It has long been known cats can suffer from dementia.

Translation, based on common experience:

Cats are demented.