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- From: ccd@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Carol C Denehy)
- Subject: Re: How many cats?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.005846.19918@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
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- Organization: None, and I like it like that
- References: <1992Dec25.024655.3680@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <1992Dec28.165901.14999@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 00:58:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.165901.14999@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
- >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. :-) )
- >--
- >Ruth Milner NRAO/VLA Socorro NM
- >Computing Division Head rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
-
- There was a photo of the inside of the house which was carpeted in
- cats. The interviewer said it did smell. There are repeats in cat
- names, but the claim was made that when calling a particular cat
- onely that cat came forward.
-
- Carol Denehy
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