Posted on 10/06/2008 12:19:43 PM PDT by Daffynition
IF you ask Adam Fulrath who is the love of his life, he will barely blink an eye before responding: Parappa.
Mr. Fulrath, a 37-year-old design director at Time Out New York, keeps five photographs of Parappa, a shorthaired, bicolored, mixed-breed cat, on his desktop. He knows that it might be considered a little weird that a grown man would be so enamored with his kitty, but Mr. Fulrath, who is into video games and comic books and calls himself a “straight, geeky guy,” doesn’t care.
“She’s my primary relationship,” he said.
Mr. Fulrath is one of a growing number of single — and yes, heterosexual — men who seem to be coming out of the cat closet and unabashedly embracing their feline side. To that end, they are posting photographs and videos of their little buddies on YouTube and on Web sites like menandcats.com, and Twittering about them to anyone who will listen.
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“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
~Robert A. Heinlein
Gamey ... but funny. Reminds me of the time the Lab dragged home the hind quarter of a deer that was in the process of being butchered. We roamed the neighborhood looking for the “owner” but didn’t find anyone who had recently shot a whitetail.
Nope. Nothing gay about cats. Or mousse. Or ruffled cuffs. Or bare chests with gold chains...
Awww, thanks. Num, num.
Oh, that’s neat; do you mind if I borrow it?
My husband is NOT a ‘cat person’ but he was the one that found our current cats at the shelter after MY cats, aged 17 & 15 had died of old age. He did it for me, and I thought it was very sweet. :) Plus, he appreciates how I’ve cared for and put up with his smelly hunting dogs all these years...
My worry is that these men are developing unhealthy relationships with CATS. They’re CATS! Not living, breathing women. That’s the part I find scary...anyone that puts pet relationships above human relationships is not firing on all cylinders, IMHO.
Gawd, that’s funny as h#ll! LOL!
Thanks, Daffy; I’m fine.
Please use it freely.
Uhhh,.. because we can?
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I feel sorry for the poor tiger. He just wanted to get ahead.
;o) Thanks ,Jack..I have 2 kittens now to keep my adult cat harrassed and entertained..
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