NORA THE PIANO CAT From Shelter to Show Biz: A Meowmoir

[DainBramaged]

Well, I'll never forget the first day I saw Betsy and Burnell at the pet shelter in a place called Cherry Hill, New Jersey - my birth mother was a humble stray cat. Anyway, Betsy and Burnell were out shopping for cat food for their five cats, and Betsy always liked to look at the cats in the shelter who were waiting for new homes. And there were a lot of us scampering about that day. We were all out of our cages, playing with wild abandon. In the middle of this chaos, Betsy saw me playing all by myself. That was because I didn't like to play with the other kittens, but, fortunately, Betsy didn't realize this at the time. The next thing I knew, I was being scooped up in Betsy's arms. Immediately, I began playing with her long braid. It was love at first sight.

A few days later, after the shelter called her vet and some friends to make sure I would have a good home, Betsy and Burnell returned to pick me up. This time none of the kittens were out playing. We were all in our cages with cards on the front describing our personalities. The cards on the other kitten's cages said things like, "Get's along well with children," or "Like's other animals." You know, stuff like that, which made me a little nervous cause my card just said "BOSSY!" It didn't say anything about how smart I was, or how friendly I was to humans, or how cute I was, or how soft I was, and how pretty I was. Just "BOSSY!" It was humiliating. And I was pretty worried that Burnell and Betsy would change their minds about adopting me when they saw the card. Fortunately, they were was so completely in love with me they didn't care what the humans at the shelter thought. Betsy and Burnell were excited to take me home to meet my new siblings.

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If you love cats like I do, you will absolutely love this story, and Nora.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Awww.

:loveya: Nora :loveya:

[DainBramaged]

2. A nice story, but no one seems to care. It must be because of the cheese sandwiches.

[zanne]

3. What a great story!

I have a bossy cat just like Nora, but she has no musical talent. I enjoyed the story told by a cat for a change.

[blueraven95]

4. what a cool cat

Life imitating art, perhaps? "The Aristocats" is coming to mind.

[RandomThoughts]

5. The story has some meaning.

Look at the way the cats intent is explained. It is all about him. He wants to be bossy, just to be bossy, he wants to be noticed, he wants to be special.

Now if he was bossy so another bossy cat didn't take all the wet food in the cat dish (Years ago I had a cat that did this, we had to feed him separately so the other cats got some also.)

If he played the piano for inner joy, or to share something he liked or others liked, instead of to get some ego boost, again it would be different.

Of coarse this is not really the cat writing that story, it is someone putting there own thoughts of the motives onto the cat, by guessing at motives. A common thing, some times motivated by the feelings of the writer not the cat.

I think it is the motives, the intent, that define alot of what is done in life. I feel a bit sorry for the cat, it is possible he plays with his friend the lady, and she just thinks he is doing it for himself, not for her also. Then again that would be guessing at the cats motives :)

[DainBramaged]

6. Until cats learn to speak hoomanz, i will assume she is just a special cat

and that trying to analyze her motives is like trying to find Lush Limpball's anal cyst.

[DeepBlueC]

7. that was huge fun

I'll be sharing with friends and family. :D

[myrna minx]

8. Awww. A meow for Nora. n/t

[graywarrior]

9. I just spent the last 15 minutes watcching the vids....lol

[DainBramaged]

10. I love kitteh stories like this.

I hope she makes it onto 60 Minutes someday.

[DainBramaged]

11. Kick for the kitteh!

[DainBramaged]

12. A Daylight savings LOLcat kick for Nora