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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

3297.0. ""Ein Altersheim f�r Katzen"" by MOSAIC::TARBET () Wed Jan 31 1990 11:01

    From last week's issue of "Bild am Sonntag", a W.-German tabloid:
    
    An Old-Age Home For Cats
    
    300 cats live at the country house The Last Post in the US state of
    Connecticut.  Owner Todd Boibeaux (27) treats them as little kings. 
    Catfriend Todd:  "I love animals more than anything.  Many cats are
    killed by their owners simply because they're old.  I established an
    old-age home for them because of that".  The project was underwritten
    with DM 200,000 [at current rates that's around $80K, I think] by an
    animal-protection group.  Catfriends in America give DM 50,000 [$20K]
    every month for the care of the animals.  Todd Boibeaux:  "Here they
    can do whatever they want.  And when they [finally] die, they also
    receive [burial in] a pretty grave."
    
    The photo shows Todd sitting in an armchair in front of some glass
    doors, through which a porch and some simple play equipment for the
    cats can be seen.  He's surrounded by 33 of the cats.
    
    						=maggie
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3297.1millions of catsCSMADM::GILMOREWed Jan 31 1990 13:0220
    
    
    This reminds of a story book I had when I was a little kid of 3 or 4
    called Millions of Cats. It was my favorite book. 
    
      the only line I can remember from the book, although I can recall
    that it was yellow, and had colorful pictures, was
    
       'hundreds of cats, thousands of cats, milions and millions and
    millions of cats.'
    
     My parents said they used to read me that book until I had it
    memorized, and the pages were worn thin.
    
    stu
    
    
    
    
    
3297.2*MORE, MORE, MORE*AIMHI::OFFENThu Feb 01 1990 11:2012
    What a wonderful person this Todd person is.  I would love to be able
    to do the same.  Does Todd work or is he at the house full-time?  Does
    he have assistants to help care for all these wonderful kittys??  Any
    info on this *special* person would be greatly appreciated.  Where in
    CT is he located??  I am planning to go to CT this summer and might
    stop in.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Sandi, mom to Thunder, Lightning, Storm, DejaVu & Patches the Stray
    
    
3297.3CIRCUS::KOLLINGKaren/Sweetie/Holly/Little Bit Ca.Thu Feb 01 1990 19:173
    I think there is another note about this place in the file. If  If
    dir/title doesn't turn it up, I guess you will have to use search.
    
3297.4MOSAIC::TARBETFri Feb 02 1990 10:2419
    I'm afraid the article doesn't have much more information than that,
    Sandi, and nothing that would identify where he and the cats live.  
    
    There's a small photo of the sign at the side of the road, which looks
    to be black on white, roughly shaped like the body of an upside-down
    fiddle, with a silhouette of an upright cat with tail curled around and
    the words THE LAST above and POST below.  There is also a caption under
    the main photo that talks about both:  "At the sign of the cat:  the
    house-sign of "The Last Post" old-age home.  [and then in reference to
    the main photo] Owner Todd Boibeaux isn't even disturbed while reading
    the newspaper by his housemates"  (In point of fact he's reading The
    Book Of The Cat, not a newspaper. :-) The caption is apropos because of
    the two cats sitting atop the back of the easy chair and the third
    apparently trying to wedge itself under his right arm.
    
    
    Perhaps the note Karen mentions will have more information.
    
    						=maggie
3297.5CRUISE::NDCDTN: 297-2313Fri Feb 02 1990 11:563
    This MUST be "The last post".  There's another note about it here
    somewhere and we'd toyed with the idea of a field trip.
      Nancy DC
3297.6Wishing him long life and prosperity!CSC32::K_KINNEYFri Feb 02 1990 20:366
    
    
    	I think the whole thing is wonderful. I think I would like
    	to be a philanthropist when I grow up. *8^}
    
    					kim and "catnip_the_spoiled"
3297.7another "large collection"CLYPPR::FISHERPat PendingMon Feb 05 1990 11:309
    I remember passing a fenced in yard on the outskirts of Paris in '87.
    The yard had more than 100 cats in it.  There was an elderly lady in
    there feeding them.  Looking at the cats and their little groupings
    there seemed to be several that were related.
    
    They must have enjoyed it there, I cannot image that many cats staying
    there if they didn't.  It was only a 6' fence (perhaps 2m).
    
    ed