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: Cat
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”
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”
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”
Catlateral Damage
Bombs Away If you see a cat strolling through the airport, don’t assume it’s lost. It might be doing the same thing you are, getting on a plane for vacation. This summer a cat named Harry, was found wandering Boston’s Logan International Airport. For three weeks his humans thought the 8-year-old cat went missing fromContinue reading “Catlateral Damage”
Natural Phenomena
Shake Rattle and Roll Recently we’ve experienced a couple of natural phenomena that we don’t usually get in Connecticut; neither of which impressed our cat, Chester. The first was a 4.8 earthquake that hit nearby New Jersey, the largest such event in that state in more than 200 years. I have my doubts about thatContinue reading “Natural Phenomena”
While I Was Hibernating
Fake News While our cat Chester and I were hibernating during the winter, there have been some big news events with two standing out. Vince Lombardi Would Be Proud Taylor Swift wins the Super Bowl: Kansas City Chiefs’ super fan, Swift, was clearly the biggest reason the Chiefs became the first team to repeat asContinue reading “While I Was Hibernating”
The Chester Chronicles 