Cat o' Doom "Man's new best friend"
The people at news.com.au should pay a little bit more attention when they're recycling old photographs... On their front page today, they use a picture of Oscar the cat in connection with a story on the DNA-sequencing of an unrelated cat:
While I've got no issue with cats being "Man's best friend" -- my two cats are more like children than pets -- Oscar isn't your every-day house cat.
In fact, he seems to be the grim reaper. (or is that the grim rea-purr?) Since some snuggles from Oscar inevitably precede the death of the person snuggled, I'm not sure whether he should be described as "man's new best friend" or "leading to advances in medicine."
Although, Oscar has been written up in the New England Journal of Medicine...
It's Friday, therefore I'm easily amused, and perhaps not as sane as I ought to be.
In fact, he seems to be the grim reaper. (or is that the grim rea-purr?) Since some snuggles from Oscar inevitably precede the death of the person snuggled, I'm not sure whether he should be described as "man's new best friend" or "leading to advances in medicine."
Although, Oscar has been written up in the New England Journal of Medicine...
It's Friday, therefore I'm easily amused, and perhaps not as sane as I ought to be.
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