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MaxiMUM, and Now MiniMUM, at MUM, Or, Putting Another Cat into CATamenia
Purrfect symmetry is now reached in the pouncer staffing at this museum.
The (up-to-now un-) Distinguished Albert Lasker
Memorial Pouncer at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health,
Minnie Padd, (at left, sketched by a former
honorary police artist of Kirchheim, Germany, a suburb of Heidelberg, who
is now the MUM director; I kid you not) also known as MiniMUM
(will this silliness ever stop?), a maybe two-year-old cat who has been
longingly peeking into the museum through the glass doors for three months,
joins Mack C. Padd as the brace of CATamenial
Guards at MUM! (Catamenia is medicalese for
menstruation, not enthusiasm for cats; that's catamania, I guess.)
Minnie, a laid-back, friendly Maine coon cat (they
look like racoons) - yes, Minnie is a male
in a bit of convenient gender adjustment - hurt his
paw while cruising the neighborhood, and I decided to take the homeless
guy to the vet to fix his leg, get his shots, and remove his Manhood, to
put it in a way appropriate for this family audience
used to Female Topics. He is now sleeping five feet from me, remarkably
adjusted to domestic life after 1.5 days.
But not yet adjusted is Mack C. Padd, or
MaxiMUM, the fun-loving, short-haired half
Burmese cat, called by some (actually, I'm the
only I know who has called him this) - drums, please - the Distinguished Service Institutional Wallace C. Meyer Memorial
Pouncer at the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health. They have
only sniffed each other under the door of the room Minnie is now sleeping
in, and Max hissed. Will fur fly?
Fur the news this week, this is it. Next
week I will have recovered enough from feline frantics to offer the non-cat
catamenial information and history.
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New this week: Japanese Tampon
with finger cots