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- From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Subject: Re: How many cats?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.165901.14999@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
- Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
- References: <1992Dec25.024655.3680@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 16:59:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.024655.3680@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> ccd@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Carol C Denehy) writes:
- >This may be common knowledge in the US from other sources, but I
- >just heard. An article in the 1993 Old Farmer's Almanac tells of
- >a family in Canada with 640 cats. Yes, 640.
-
- Hmmm ... quite frankly, I'd take anything you read in the Farmer's Almanac
- with a very large grain of salt.
-
- It does make for entertaining reading, though :-).
-
- >$300 a day to feed them. And they all know their names, it is claimed.
-
- Well, it isn't hard to believe that individual cats know their names; but
- can you see these people remembering 640 cats' names? I couldn't even come
- up with them in the first place, let alone remember them, unless some of them
- were repeats ...
-
- (But seriously, you'd have to use population estimation techniques; you
- couldn't count them directly. Does the article describe what the place is
- like, with supposedly 640 cats pooping in the nearby area and shedding in
- the house, and the occasional accident? Even if each cat only slipped up
- once a year, that's an average of about two a day. Our two haven't had any
- accidents in over a year, but they do on rare occasions "scootch" across the
- floor, which still has to be cleaned up. :-) )
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- Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
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