Archive for the 'cats' Category

08
Feb

Cool Pumpkin Designs for Halloween

It’s just February but I have found some cool pumpkin designs that can make Halloween more fun. This is Alison and her pumpkins. It was amazing to see these designs, especially when she carved a Totoro pumpkin! Cool! …and the frog, although I am afraid of frogs… I loved it.

 

 

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05
Feb

what a fat cat

“Why do we love fat cats? Duh! Because they’re so cuddly, cute and fat, of course!

Many fat cats have become Internet phenomenon - the web has seen several viral emails on this subject (including a famous fake one that purportedly show a monstrously large mutant cat found in an abandoned nuclear research facility, see below).

The fattest cat on record is Himmy, a tabby belonging to Thomas Vyse of Redlynch, Queensland, Australia. Himmy weighed 46 lb., 15.25 oz, and died in 1986 at 10 years of age. Fearing people will simply overfeed their cats to top the record, a fully justifiable reason, Guiness Book of Records stopped accepting applications for this record.

The average weights for adult male and female cats are 6.2 lb and 5.4 lb, respectively (with neutered cats ranging from 7 to 11 lb). So, why do these fat cats weigh so much? Sarah Hartwell explains it all here: Feline Medical Curiosities: Dwarf Cats, Giant Cats, Fat Cats.” Continue reading ‘what a fat cat’