For-Real Cat Ladies Wanted

[icouldbewrong]

Maybe someone will see that not everyone who loves animals and has the money, time, and space for more than a couple is mentally ill.

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Yay! Great point.

What qualifies animal hoarding as a "disorder" is when the animals aren't taken care of.

Also, this is something I think women are tagged with more often than men. I know men who love animals, and have a bunch, and that's not considered crazy.


Semi-off/semi-on topic: When I was a kid, I used to watch a Disney movie called, I think, "The Headless Horseman." Pamela Tiffin played a girl who could whistle (silently, I think) and all the dogs in the area would come running. I thought this was the coolest thing.

On the other hand, there were a LOT of movies about boys who loved animals (Old Yeller, The Yearling, etc.), but not girls who did. In fact, in the movie Cold Creek or Cross Creek, which was about the woman who wrote The Yearling, it turns out the true story was about a little girl and her pet deer but it was changed to a boy for the movie (and the book, I guess).

 

[Meow House]

Anyone who registered as Meow House is a contender. But watch this link: this is roughly the tone of the piece.

CLOM 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2bTh9hkjVA

Will - that's not, to me, overly "making fun of someone"; but that's not the kind of cat lady I am:

1. My house is not filled with piles of boxes and stuff;
2. I'm either a lot younger than her or remarkably well preserved;
3. I don't have any interesting "artwork" to bring in to the interview.

I'm not sure whether she was playing along with Mo or not. I'm not averse to making a facetiously funny interview but I don't think anyone is going to watch one with me and get a real laugh. That could be a good take on it though: "Normal, quite attractive, non-psycho non-old-ladyish woman, with a clean house, and a high-paying job, who also love cats! Whodathunk it would be possible?! And she dates too!!!"

Also, I live in Boston, not NYC. I have a feeling that puts me out of it. Perhaps my kitties are not meant to become vicariously famous through me. >^.^<

icouldbewrong: exactly; hoarding is the the same as having several and taking care of them. Not just thinking the person is taking care of them (hoarders commonly believe they are taking care of the animals properly), but REALLY and truly taking care of them. And yeah, women are mis-branded with this "disorder" far more than men. Like a guy who has two or three dogs and a cat is perfectly normal and in fact probably seen favorably that he puts all that time into his animals, but a woman with four cats is batshit insane. **rolleyes**

I find it a lot crazier to do a Jay Leno and buy 50 cars. What the hell for? Just to say you have them? Um okay.

Anyway, end of my cat-lady indignation! Harrumph!

 

[Mo Nose]

On the other hand, there were a LOT of movies about boys who loved animals (Old Yeller, The Yearling, etc.), but not girls who did. In fact, in the movie Cold Creek or Cross Creek, which was about the woman who wrote The Yearling, it turns out the true story was about a little girl and her pet deer but it was changed to a boy for the movie (and the book, I guess).

National Velvet! My Friend Flicka!

 

[icouldbewrong]

National Velvet! My Friend Flicka!

Was Flicka owned by a girl in the original? I can't remember. I thought it was Roddy MacDowell or something.

National Velvet, yes. Good point!!! I don't think I ever saw it when I was a kid, though, so I could just be extrapolating from my own experience.

Disney had very cool girl characters when I was a kid. Brave, active, (animal-lovin') etc.

 

[Mo Nose]

Was Flicka owned by a girl in the original? I can't remember. I thought it was Roddy MacDowell or something.

National Velvet, yes. Good point!!! I don't think I ever saw it when I was a kid, though, so I could just be extrapolating from my own experience.

Disney had very cool girl characters when I was a kid. Brave, active, (animal-lovin') etc.

flicka the book had a chick owner and then roddy was the owner in the movie, but the 2006 one had a chick owner again. full circle, just as a cat chases it's tail.