A reader reports the following:
We found this beautiful cat, who had been living in the bushes at the 14th Street loop in Stuyvesant Town for quite some time. I personally saw him for about a month prior to getting him ...
We have taken him to the vet. He is healthy and sweet. Definitely was someone's pet. We would love to find his owner. If we don't find his owner soon we are looking for a forever home for him.
If the cat belongs to you ... let us know via the EV Grieve email ...
13 comments:
What a beautiful kitty. And how good are the people who are taking care of him now. I hope this story has a happy ending.
I agree with the first poster. The people who took in this cat and took him to the vet for a checkup are to be commended for caring about this kitty. It's nice to hear.
Is that Lady Ga-Ga ?
I'm going to risk the wrath of EVG regulars to say the Lady Gaga meme is stupid. At least contain it to posts about trash or stupid outfits or whatever. Someone may have lost a pet here. It's not the time or place for this bafflingly popular "joke" that ceased to be funny six months ago.
as a cat myself. what a damn sweet tale. i hope they adopt the kid. i suspect this is another lemur story. they obviously have money. score for kitty.tears
@LvV - AGREED! I posted months ago that the constant and totally irrelevant "Is that Lady Gaga" shite was boring and waaaay overdone, and got slammed for my audacity. Seriously, folks, it's been done to death. Think of something else, will you, please?
Smart kitty. Stuytown's where I'd slum it if I was a stray cat.
@LvV
YOU called it a meme, and that's the whole fucking point.
A meme (play /ˈmiːm/; meem)[1] is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture."[2] A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures.[3]
The word meme is a shortening (modeled on gene) of mimeme (from Ancient Greek μίμημα Greek pronunciation: [míːmɛːma] mīmēma, "something imitated", from μιμεῖσθαι mimeisthai, "to imitate", from μῖμος mimos "mime")[4] and it was coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976)[1][5] as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena. Examples of memes given in the book included melodies, catch-phrases, fashion and the technology of building arches.[6]
Proponents theorize that memes may evolve by natural selection in a manner analogous to that of biological evolution. Memes do this through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance, each of which influence a meme's reproductive success. Memes spread through the behaviors that they generate in their hosts. Memes that propagate less prolifically may become extinct, while others may survive, spread and (for better or for worse) mutate. Memes that replicate most effectively enjoy more success, and some may replicate effectively even when they prove to be detrimental to the welfare of their hosts.[7]
A field of study called memetics[8] arose in the 1990s to explore the concepts and transmission of memes in terms of an evolutionary model. Criticism from a variety of fronts has challenged the notion that academic study can examine memes empirically. However, developments in neuroimaging may make empirical study possible.[9] Some commentators[who?] question the idea that one can meaningfully categorize culture in terms of discrete units. Others, including Dawkins himself, have argued that this usage of the term is the result of a misunderstanding of the original proposal.[10]
And your extremely tediously presented point would be...?? Memes have always struck me as being a desperate attempt by the dull and unimaginative to come across as with-it and clever. So very, very wrong they are.
Wow, you can cut and paste from Wikipedia, impressive.
Memes grow stale. The Lady Gaga meme is played out. I'm not sure it was ever funny, but it sure isn't at this late stage, and it definitely isn't funny when applied to a lost cat.
It's only funny when that NOTORIOUS guy does it. Plus he got it Trademarked!
I'm 99% sure NOTORIOUS is a lady. And I do love her comments ... just not the Lady Gaga thing.
Sorry, I really don't mean to be a humorless bitch. I just tend to get touchy about lost animals. I never would have said anything about the meme if it didn't appear in a lost cat post. Lost cats are my kryptonite.
Lady Gaga is ridiculous so she's worthy of a ridiculous meme. And I'm a guy BTW. Or maybe I'M Lady Gaga!
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