Catnapping Has the following happened to you? You’re at home waiting anxiously for your Amazon package to arrive. Then you receive an alert on your phone that includes a photo showing you it has indeed landed. In a minute you open your front door, look down, and………. It’s there. Except your cat, who you justContinue reading “Porch Pirates”
Category Archives: Cats
Escape From New York
All Out Effort It’s been a very cold winter in the Northeast. So when one cat’s flight to Florida was canceled, she took matters into her own paws and made a dash for the next flight to the Sunshine State. At least that’s what The Chester Chronicles believes. Ellen Russell of Flushing, NY and herContinue reading “Escape From New York”
Eraserpaw
Auld Lang Syne “A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” – Oscar Wilde Congratulations. We’re halfway through January and some of you have stayed true to your New Year’s resolutions. But what happens if your goals are sabotaged by your cat? We’re not talking about your felineContinue reading “Eraserpaw”
Fat Cats
Oh Oh Oh Ozempic What do Amy Schumer, Oprah, Kelly Clarkson, Elon Musk and any number of other celebrities have in common with your overweight cat? Yes, they are all living the good life but your flabby furball may also join them soon in using a GLP-1 drug to lose weight. You might know GLP-1Continue reading “Fat Cats”
Three Sheets to the Wind
Breaking and Entering and Drinking “Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.” ― Oscar Wilde Whether a person considers themselves religious or not, there’s a decent chance that they have prayed to the “Porcelain God” at one time in their life. Apparently, it’s also a thing with raccoons. For you teetotalers,Continue reading “Three Sheets to the Wind”
No Soup For You
Catatouille A word of advice: if you’re a cat owner, never turn your back on what you have cooking on the stove. You might not like what you find in the pot. Then again, we all have different tastes, and you could just compliment your feline chef for the added ingredient. Such was the caseContinue reading “No Soup For You”
Unequal Justice
Size Matters “It’s not the size of the dog cat in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog cat.” Mark Twain (as edited by a cat) Law enforcement recently discovered that Mark Twain was correct, though it doesn’t hurt to be a large feline. In Thailand, a small cat named NubContinue reading “Unequal Justice”
Going Dutch
Shanghaied in Amsterdam We recently went on a vacation to the Netherlands. Just my wife, Genifer, our youngest daughter, Lily, and I. At least that’s what we thought. Our cat Chester had other ideas. I broke the news of our pending trip to him a few days before we left. Not one for liking change,Continue reading “Going Dutch”
Hijacking High Jinks: The Purrfect Story of Airline Chaos
I Want To Go to There Back in the 1960s and early 70s, it was a thing to hijack U.S. airliners and force the crews to fly them to Cuba. Now, one particular cat has turned hijacking on its head. A Ryanair flight was getting ready to take off from Rome for Germany when crewContinue reading “Hijacking High Jinks: The Purrfect Story of Airline Chaos”
Cats Know Stuff
Credit Fraud Great discoveries in virology include Doctor Jonas Salk, who created the first effective vaccine for polio; Doctors Drew Weissman and Katalin Karikó’s pioneering work on messenger RNA that helped find a quick vaccine for COVID-19; and Pepper the cat, who discovered the first-ever jeilongvirus to be found in the United States. Of course,Continue reading “Cats Know Stuff”
The Chester Chronicles 