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Photo by Stephen Michalowicz/Torontoist.
For the last two weeks, the area around Keele Street and Bloor Street West has been plastered with a bizarre leaflet about the life and legacy of the cat Feliche Paradisis-Zoetmulder. It seems that Feliche was a special cat. In July 2008, he was found starving near a cottage in Wasaga Beach by two roommates, Vicky Paradisis and Charissa Zoetmulder. He was then brought back to Toronto, where he lived for four months until he was tragically hit by a car in mid-November.
Feliche wasn't just a great cat, he was also an unneutered stud who in his short time in the neighbourhood might have done the wild thing with your cat. Yes, Vicky and Charissa are on a hunt for Feliche’s "legacy," and they’re willing to adopt all of his kittens, if they exist. "We're just praying it was genetic," explained Vicky when we asked her about the poster. "Maybe if we had his offspring they would be just as awesome." Unfortunately, Vicky and Charissa have been unsuccessful so far, but they're still hoping that Feliche's kittens are out there. As leaflets go, this one is pretty weird, but we have to admire Vicky and Charissa's tenacity.
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On a future episode of Maury, it will be revealed that this cat... IS NOT THE FATHER!!
Meredith's foster cat just gave birth to 3 kittens http://ohmistletoe.com
This is what happens when people lose all obligations to reality. They go around searching for illegitimate kittens.
This is really pathetic. They rescue an abandoned, starving animal, bring it home, and do nothing to prevent it from screwing the other cats in the neighbourhood, which quite possibly produced more abandoned, starving cats? VERY irresponsible.
Feliche was scheduled to be neutered on Friday the 21st, but was killed on Tuesday the 18th. We were told that he was too young to be fixed and had to wait. He was less likely to knock up spayed house cats in the city, than all those un-fixed, hoochie cats around Wasaga beach. Also, we apologize for the 'irresponsible' act of trying to save this cat, who happened to have the social development of your above average golden retriever, but this wasn't your typical sketch-bag tom cat. Irresponsible would have been leaving him to die. Irresponsible would have been NEVER planning on neutering him. And about taking responsibility and helping control the number of unwanted cats on the street, HOW MANY CATS ARE YOU FOSTERING???? Because since our cat died, we've fostered 3... Just throwin' that out there.
We appreciate the compassion Teraulay...STOP HATING!!!!!!!
One of the embarrassing things about being in school is that whenever I see weird news stories, I automatically think about how to use them as an introductory anecdote to a sociological scholarly paper. This one could be "Feliche's Kittens: Urban Canadian Conceptualizations of the Role of Genetics in Psychosocial Dynamics".
The particularly embarrassing thing is that I'm not even in sociology so what the hell.
I want to see an ad like:
IS YOUR WIFE PREGNANT?
HAS YOUR WIFE JUST HAD BABIES?
THE FOLLOWING STORY IS A SAD ONE.
Vicky,
You said "...we apologize for the 'irresponsible' act of trying to save this cat..." I never said you were irresponsible for trying to save the cat. I said you were irresponsible for letting the cat roam the neighbourhood without being neutered. You should have kept him indoors. The Toronto Cat Rescue agrees with me on that one. Check it out: http://www.torontocatrescue.ca/store/volunteer.asp (scroll down). If you had, it wouldn't have had the chance to reproduce, and it probably would still be alive.
P.S. I happen to be a responsible pet owner, who makes sure none of my pets create unwanted babies. Good for you for fostering 3 cats. That might make up for the unwanted kittens your old cat may have produced while roaming the streets.