Hunh!!??
Cat piercing?
That’s right, you heard right. A woman in Pennsylvania has been arrested for it. From Breitbart/AP.
A Pennsylvania dog groomer has been ordered to stand trial on animal cruelty charges for selling “gothic kittens” with ear, neck and tail piercings.
Holly Crawford’s home outside Wilkes-Barre was raided Dec. 17 after the county Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals got a tip.
A prosecutor says Crawford inflicted pain on the cats, which were listed for sale for hundreds of dollars on the Internet. Crawford’s attorney says state law says nothing about piercing cats or docking their tails.
At a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Wilkes-Barre District Judge Paul Hadzick called it a gray area that needs to be decided by a trial judge or jury.
Cat piercing. I did a little looking around and I don’t think there is a big bunch of people out there piercing cats. But it does happen. Found this at BME.
NOTE: BME does not condone the torture and abuse of animals in any way (although we urge you to consider whether these pictures are any worse than torturing, killing, and eating an animal, or worse than cutting a dog’s tail off for looks). These pictures are presented for documentary purposes only and WE DO NOT RECOMMEND OR SUGGEST PIERCING OR OTHERWISE MODIFYING ANIMALS IN ANY WAY!
See, I’m sure that people who do this kind of thing will say stuff like; “Trust me, the cat didn’t feel any pain. I used ice cubes and put a potato behind his ear and heated up the needle with a Bic lighter before I jabbed it through”.
But, what about the emotional distress? Won’t the other cats laugh at him?
Well, this is going to seem like piling on considering the inordinate amount of oddball cat posts on this blog.
A couple days ago, I was involved in a conversation and attempting to make a point, I invoked the cat/rat farm saying; “That’s like the cat/rat farm thing.” The guy said; “What’s that, what are ya talkin’ ’bout, whaddya mean?”
Now, at this point I don’t even remember the gist of the conversation, just how caught off guard I was that the guy had never heard of the cat/rat farm (also known as the cat/rat ranch) thing. And I couldn’t find a way to explain it.
I found out, at Triva-Library.com, that the origin of the cat-rat ranch was a piece that Lacon, Illinois editor, Willis B. Powell, released to the AP in 1875. Here is the original text.
Glorious Opportunity To Get Rich!!! We are starting a cat ranch in Lacon with 100,000 cats. Each cat will average 12 kittens a year. The cat skins will sell for 30 cents each. One hundred men can skin 5,000 cats a day. We figure a daily net profit of over $10,000. Now what shall we feed the cats? We will start a rat farm next door with 1,000,000 rats. The rats breed 12 times faster than the cats. So we will have four rats to feed each day to each cat. Now what shall we feed the rats? We will feed the rats the carcasses of the cats after they have been skinned. Now Get This! We feed the rats to the cats and the cats to the rats and get the cat skins for nothing!
Husker Du used the cat/rat article Mr. Kite style in this song “How To Skin A Cat”.
As always, think bottom line at the end of the day then, click pause on the music player located in the side bar before playing the YouTube.
A lot of times, in web correspondence, I sign off with “Rave On!” or “Rave On Children!”. I have been asked; “What is that, what do you mean by that?”
What I mean by that is, I like what you’re doing, keep doing it.
It comes from a Carl Perkins song, “Dixie Fried”, that has a great hook and also talks about a razor fight-two things that made me pay attention.
Now Dan got happy and he started ravin’
He jerked out his razor , but he wasn’t shavin’
And all the cats knew to jump and hop
‘Cause he was born an’ raised in a butcher shopChorus
He hollered, rave on children I’m with ya
Rave on cats, he cried
It’s almost dawn and the cops are gone
And let’s all get dixie fried
It’s funny that, with all of the guitarists I consort with, I don’t hear anybody talking about Carl Perkins these days. It seems like he’s the forgotten man. Here’s a partial list, off the top of my head, of legendary guitar players that have “borrowed” Carl Perkins’ licks, James Burton, Roy Nichols, Roy Buchanan, Albert Lee, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, J.J. Cale, Brian Setzer, Mark Knopfler,…pretty much everybody, even Jimi did a cover of “Blue Suede Shoes” (Hendrix In The West).
He was the first crossover artist. His version of “Blue Suede Shoes” went to #2 on the pop and R&B charts and topped the country chart.
This will give you an idea of how good a songwriter Perkins was; The Beatles recorded five of his songs, more than any other outside writer.
And, he was in Jonny Cash’s band for eight years, that’s pretty neat.
Here’s a link to a very nice NPR interview with Carl that was part of a series about Sam Phillips. Carl talks about how Phillips was trying to push Perkins as a country singer because, he already had a good rockabilly guy. When Phillips sold Elvis’ contract to RCA he told Carl; “Now you can rock”. I love that. You should go listen to the interview.
And give it up for Carl Perkins.
And…
Rave On Children!
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