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To: Innovative
Whatever happened to the bookstore cat? There were a couple independent bookstores with cats around here. One went out of business and the other was swallowed by Booksamillion and now there are no more cats.

Maybe Amazon.com could by out icanhascheezburger.com to have the internet version of that.

9 posted on 12/13/2013 6:58:10 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
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To: KarlInOhio

There’s a bookstore in Park City that has a cat or two that roam around. We didn’t see them the last time we were there in October, but we heard other customers ask about them and they were assured the cats were still there.


14 posted on 12/13/2013 7:30:12 AM PST by ChocChipCookie ("Demons run when a good man goes to war.")
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To: KarlInOhio

They still have cats at Hemingway’s home:

“The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum is home to approximately 40-50 polydactyl (six-toed) cats. Cats normally have five front toes and four back toes. About half of the cats at the museum have the physical polydactyl trait but they all carry the polydactyl gene in their DNA, which means that the ones that have 4 and 5 toes can still mother or father six-toed kittens. Most cats have extra toes on their front feet and sometimes on their back feet as well. Sometimes it looks as if they are wearing mittens because they appear to have a thumb on their paw.

Ernest Hemingway was given a white six-toed cat by a ship’s captain and some of the cats who live on the museum grounds are descendants of that original cat, named Snowball. Key West is a small island and it is possible that many of the cats on the island are related. The polydactyl cats are not a particular breed. The trait can appear in any breed, Calicos, Tabbies, Tortoise Shell. White, Black, etc. They vary in shapes, sizes, colors and personalities”

http://www.hemingwayhome.com/cats/


18 posted on 12/13/2013 8:23:21 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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