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June 11, 2005

Our Cats Are Now Wikipedians

Okay, I admit that the title of this blog entry is a bit misleading, since it suggests that our cats Winston and Dizzy are now contributors to the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. (That's not to say they're not smart enough to contribute - they are - but like most cats they simply choose not to participate in such activities.) Nonetheless, Winston and Dizzy are now Wikipedians in the sense that they're contributing to the knowledge of the universe by contributing photos of themselves to the site.

I'd been browsing around Wikipedia and somehow found my way to the bicolor cat page. They showed a picture of Bill Clinton's former cat, Socks, but I was surprised by the general lack of comparison shots of other tuxedo cats, since tuxedoes are the best known bicolor cats. So I looked around on my laptop and found a good picture of Dizzy and added him to the page.

Meanwhile, over at the tabby cat page, I was surprised that they talked about the classic "M" pattern on some tabby foreheads yet they didn't show a good example of it. As it turns out, our tabby Winston has a wonderful M on his forehead. So after another quick search I found a cool picture of him in which the M shows up quite well.

Is this parental pride? Perhaps. Okay, sure it is. Nonetheless, it just so happens that our two cats are classics for their particular varieties. So what they heck? Might as well show them off in Wikipedia -- at least until some other proud parent puts their cats' pics in and tries to swap out our boys. That could get really ugly really fast.... -andy

Posted by acarvin at June 11, 2005 10:06 AM

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