Word: cat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...CAT'S EYE by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter is lured back to Toronto, where she grew up, by a retrospective showing of her works, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
Jeff Weber, beaming, holds up a calico cat in the palm of his hand. "It's almost done," he says. He hefts the cat a few times to show how light it is. The cat lies curled in a circle in Weber's hand, the way cats do when lounging. Its unblinking yellow eyes are fixed for eternity on its tail. Weber gestures with the cat toward a circular cat bed, hollowed out in the center like a large doughnut. "The owner wanted it the way he always remembered it," Weber says. He lowers the cat...
Jeff will freeze-dry just about anything. But most of his business is in freeze-drying the deceased pets of distraught owners. Cats. Dogs. Birds. Snakes. Lizards. Hamsters. Even alligators. Presently, he has about 30 such pets in his chamber, undergoing a freeze-dry process that will take from three to six months, depending on the size of the pet. Jeff charges about $400 to freeze-dry small pets and about $1,800 for large pets like the two Doberman pinschers sitting perfectly still in the softly humming chamber. The dogs are bathed in a mysterious yellow light and surrounded...
...front of the Ralphola Taylor Community Center in the tough Newfield district of Bridgeport, Conn., Bob Doss gazes down at a slashed cat somebody killed just for fun. Nearby, sullen men eye a fence hawking boom boxes. The Taylor Center is home court for Doss's Upward Bound Academy basketball team. "Not a pastoral setting," says the 6-ft. 6-in. Doss, 40, who grew up in a Bridgeport housing project. "But then, we're not a pastoral academy...
LitGaz not only stood by the story but also took its case directly to a jury of sausage savants at the Fauna Cat Lovers Club in Dzerzhinsky, where the editors conducted a random taste test with some finicky felines. Last week, in an article titled "May the Cats Judge Us," the paper reported the results of its poll: out of 30 cats, only a two-month-old kitten named Mura would deign to dine on the suspect sausage. Asked the Gazeta: "All kitties, like Mura, must loyally love sausage. That's the way it's always been since man thought...