Cats & rats go together like, well, soup and salad (rats playing the role of both courses :-). Cats have been prized as rat-catchers on farms for many centuries. And, it is widely believed that the persecution of cats that began in the Dark Ages allowed the rat population in Europe to grow uncontrolled and led to the Bubonic Plague, which killed 25,000,000 Europeans in just three years.
So, how effective are cats at reducing rat populations in urban envrionments? Scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Florida recently studied this question, coming to some surprising conclusions.
My brain almost exploded when attempting to come up with the title for this post. The number of ideas involving cats and Kentucky was higher than the national debt, so, ultimately, I just had to pick the one that tells the story.
If you should stroll into Cafe Adoption Room #2 and find that you’re not in the mood for a 
One of the things I love about cats is their complete, blissful obliviousness to any nonsense about “body image” or physical beauty.