LOLCats and HotDogs

A friend and I have a nightly battle of sorts on instant messenger. He’ll send me funny pictures of cats and I retaliate with funny pictures of dogs. We can (and do) go back and forth for quite some time! My favorite site for laugh-out-loud funny dog pictures is I Has a Hotdog, the sister site to the infamous I Can Has Cheezburger for kitty pics with hilarious captions. If you’ve never visited either site, I’ll wait. Go take a look. I actually sat down the other night (between rounds of the LOLcat/hotdog wars) and looked at the history of … Continue reading

Famous Cats and Famous Owners Or Vice Verse?

When speaking of the power of association in terms of non-living objects like books, for example, a volume of poems owned by a famous person is worth more than that very same book owned by a person with no claim to fame. But when it comes to animals, in this case, felines, some are just as famous in their own right, and were only impressed with their owner’s many achievements if he or she provided a warm place to sleep, food and companionship and some catnip to play with. For the sake of ease, some famous cats and their owners … Continue reading