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<\/a>I\u2019m afraid I am not a cat lover, my favorite cat poem being the one by Ogden Nash:<\/p>\n
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The bad thing about a kitten is that<\/div>\n
Eventually it becomes a cat.\n
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Yes, you may now hurl your kitty litter at me\u2026\n
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Nevertheless, I allowed the children to have two kittens when we moved here. They were brothers (we didn\u2019t want lots of little kittens arriving) and were named Loki and Frodo. First Loki went missing, now Frodo. Were they catnapped? Did they sense my antipathy to their existence and run away? Did \u00a0they end up under the wheels of a car? Were they consumed by foxes or coyotes? We\u2019ll never know.<\/div>\n
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Fr Ray in England has two interesting stories<\/a> of priests and cats. The first scary, the second hilarious. Roving Medievalist also has regular posts on cats. Here\u2019s one<\/a>. It mentions the first named cat in history and pictures the patron saint of cats.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preests and Catz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I'm afraid I am not a cat lover, my favorite cat poem being the one by Ogden Nash:The bad thing about a kitten is thatEventually it becomes a cat.Yes, you\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/06\/preests-and-catz.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Preests and Catz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I'm afraid I am not a cat lover, my favorite cat poem being the one by Ogden Nash:The bad thing about a kitten is thatEventually it becomes a cat.Yes, you\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/06\/preests-and-catz.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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