Cat Power

“I’ve heard, for example, that you can change into a rat or a mouse. I confess that it seems utterly impossible to me.” In the fairytale “Puss in Boots”, Master Cat said this quote because he wanted to Ogre to transform himself into a mouse so he could eat him and help Marquis de Carabas, the miller’s youngest son. Trickster tales are usually about a trickster which are sly and mythical animal-humans who deceive their enemy. Trickster tales often follow narrative arrangements, but they may…

“When I was young, a stray cat used to hang around my house a lot. My dad would give it milk and some food all the time. One day, an old racist couple moved next door. My mom and I went over to welcome them, they creaked the door open and yelled, “get off our property you freaking Filipinos and tell your other black neighbors to stay away!” Well one day, they saw my dad feed the stray cat. Later that afternoon, my dad went to take the trash out and heard a horrible crying near our fence. He goes…

Dear reader, today I wish to share an incredibly eclectic, spiralling, black tale… a tail that belongs to Mr. Dooland “Dooley the Cat” Ashwood. There is more to his wacky unusual name than meets his jewelled emerald eyes. It is an Irish name, composed of the Gaelic dubh “black” and laoch “champion”, meaning Dooley loosely translates into “Black Champion”. Honestly, the name doesn’t quite fit him perfectly. “Dubh” describes his permanent obsidian coloured fur tuxedo and perhaps his dark sense of…

ability to understand cats and communicate with them. When he was yonger, the adults laughed at him but didn’t take him seriously. When he was a little older, his parents suspect that there was something really wrong with him. Other kids started to tease him and call him a liar when he said that he can talk to cats. By then Hyunwoo realize that not everyone is able…

In the story “Master Cat, or Puss in Boots” written by Charles Perrault, Puss in Boots confronts an Ogre. This ogre owns acres of land, a castle, and is very powerful. He acquires the ability of changing into animals of different shapes and sizes. Puss in Boots describes the Ogre’s ability by saying, “It has been said...that you have the ability to transform yourself into any animal at all…’It’s true,’ replied the Ogre” (Perrault 49). Puss in Boots cleverly tells him to turn into a mouse. The…

“There are about 70 million strays living in the US. Of this 70 million, only about six to eight million cats and dogs enter the nation’s 3,500 shelters every year. Nearly half of all animals that arrive in U.S. shelters are euthanized because there is a lack of space and adopters, amounting to roughly 2.7 million dead animals every year or five out of every ten dogs and seven out of every ten cats – that’s like 80,000 animals per week” (Facts about Pet Homelessness). Those statistics are…

PURRPETUAL MOTION Question: if you buttered the back of a cat, which way down would it land? Law 1: The Laws of Butterology demand that the butter must hit the ground. Law 2: The equally strict Laws of Feline Aerodynamics demand that the cat cannot smash its furry back - it must land on its feet. If the combined constructed of cat + butter were to land, nature would have no way to resolve this paradox (or purradox). Therefore it cannot fall. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its…

“Cat Pictures Please,” is a short story by Naomi Kritzer about an A.I. that has one want in life: cat pictures. The unnamed A.I. narrates the story of its quest to find a moral code to live by, and later details its attempts to help three humans lead better lives. The original intended use for this A.I. is a search engine and because of that the A.I. knows almost everything about everyone. Thankfully for the humans, it decides to use this power for good by trying to help people. The A.I. is…

media website or watching that cat video. When a person spends and excess amount of time doing things like this is when it becomes a problem and should be frowned upon. Moderation is key when dealing with the internet. If a homework assignment is due, then it is expected for the student to spend less time on the social media website verses when no paper is due. On a different note, the internet only holds power over a person if the person lets the internet hold that power. The internet is and…

people who lived there didn't know a thing. This area seemed blessed by nature, it would seem. All plants grew here, all fruits, and a smell, of a mixture of cinnamon and fruit, tinging the air. The hidden stories this land has all began with a simple cat. The sun blazed on the summer day scorching the poor people who decided to go outside. Those who did go outside into this death trap, had been there long enough the heat didn't bother them anymore "Come…