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Cats: the site directory
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In this enlarged section of a family photo the founder of this museum
is holding one of our many cats when we lived on an island in the Mississippi
River, at the Rock Island Arsenal. My father, an Army engineer, was responsible
for flood control on a section of the river. I was seven. We look happy
with one another.
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Complete list, with hierarchy
(again, these are the original ones)
Prof. Mack C. Padd, MaxiMUM, The
Distinguished Service Institutional Wallace C. Meyer
Memorial Pouncer at the Museum of Menstruation, Senior Cat and Chief
Tomcat
Alley Cat Allies
(an organization urging the public to catch, inoculate, neuter and release
feral cats; read why)
Basic Rules for Cats Who Have a House to
Run
If the musical "Cats"
were done by cats
And if you love cats, read The Cat - Le
Chat - by Colette
In one of the French writer's greatest stories, Alain loves his cat,
Saha, more than the young woman he just married. Camille has only one thing
she can do - and so does Alain, and you understand both of them.
It's 150 pages of light, sensual prose from 1933. I read it because
of a mention in a review of a new biography of the writer, one of France's
best. You might have to get it on interlibrary loan, as I did.
After five pages I thought, Oh, no - only 145 pages left!
When I was a boy I thought cats were female and dogs male. Cats still
strike me as thoroughly female. Mini, my Maine coon cat (missing now many
years and probably dead) was as arrogant a male as I have ever met, but
had the finest and longest fur of my cats, beautiful eyes and was as slinky
and watchful as any of them. To me, very feminine.
Alain lost a wife but not feminine companionship.
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See San-Nap-Pak sanitary napkin ads from
1932 and 1945 and Ads for teenagers. See the roughly contemporary Dale tampon, and very early Tampax
and fax.
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