My wife heard about this on NPR (National Public Radio) this afternoon. Time for a dram in salute!!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2...distillery-cat

Chris Shepherd
BLHS209

I listened to that too. Very interesting. Pets humanize so many situations. I too was inspired to raise a dram to the changing of the guard.

As a lover of both whisky and cats, I enjoyed the article very much. We keep our cats indoors so they don`t end up like poor Peat.

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

~ Mark Twain

I took home a little she cat when I found her on the way back from school. She had impeccable manners and brought home mice in great numbers to help keep the family. She would arrange them neatly on the doormat, heads and feet all lined up and await the praise of the first person to open the door in the morning. My father earned her undying scorn for putting her gifts in the dustbin whilst she was looking. She could do disapproval like a Duchess.
Poor little Peat.

Mother cats teach their offspring about the world - taking the kittens away at a young age curtails their education. My father worked in a steel works in Sheffield and regularly saw a cat there taking her kittens, one by one all around that most dangerous place to teach them the safe ways and introduce them to the men she knew brought food for cats. Young kittens are sweet - but they are vulnerable with no one to teach them how to stay safe.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

Stuart Cassells -General Manager of Glenturret erstwhile founder of the Red Hot Chilli Pipers