Petition to save the Hemingway cats

springparrot · Post by **springparrot** » August 19, 2006 7:53 pm

This was sent to me by our Houston PH club.
It is an online petition to help save the Hemingway cats.
Please sign to save the cats!!

http://www.petitiononline.com/MCPI/petition.html

East Texas Parrothead · August 19, 2006 8:29 pm

Clicked and done.

I wrote my masters thesis on Hemingway .... and I think I've read just about everything written on his life and his works. I can't imagine the house in Key West without the cats.

EGADS. Get government out of the way!

Docktails at 5 · Post by **Docktails at 5** » August 19, 2006 8:42 pm

Anyone who has ever been to the Hemingway house knows that the cats aren't part of a display. They just hang around (it is their house after all). This is just another example of government b.s. at it's finest.

SchoolGirlHeart · Post by **SchoolGirlHeart** » August 19, 2006 8:42 pm

*click*

the USDA has NOTHING better to spend our tax dollars on?????

Docktails at 5 · Post by **Docktails at 5** » August 19, 2006 8:47 pm

On another note, my wife and I go to the Hemingway house everytime we're in Key West. We've heard the same stories so much that we could probably give the tour. However, one of the reasons we keep returning is the cats. We love the cats. They're well taken care of and lead a much better life than pretty much everwhere else on the island. The house never went without cats since Papa lived there and it shouldn't be that way now. I don't know if I'd go to the house if all of the cats were gone. It just wouldn't seem right.

SchoonerWharf · Post by **SchoonerWharf** » August 19, 2006 9:34 pm

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:*click*

the USDA has NOTHING better to spend our tax dollars on?????

Words fail me. Talk about really going after a serious problem. Darn those cats!!

Amazing. The stupidity of the government can never be underestimated.

flipflopgirl · Post by **flipflopgirl** » August 19, 2006 10:12 pm

I signed already and the won't let me sign it again!!!! They'd better leave the cats alone!!!!!

STOOOOOOOOOOPID!!!!!!!

magnus & Mr Moon · Post by **magnus & Mr Moon** » August 19, 2006 11:11 pm

I signed the petition twice (

) using two legit email addresses (aka try home and work). I hope this doesn't invalidate anything.

I truly don't understand this move - the cats have regular vet care, weekly vet visits, they control the population and it is 'history'. Is there another (local?) side we don't know about?

I have never been to Hemmingway's House in Key West but really enjoyed his Oak Park, IL birthplace and museum. The docents were so knowledgeable and "excited" about it all.

http://www.ehfop.org/birthplace/about.html

Sidew13 · Post by **Sidew13** » August 20, 2006 7:05 am

done

murPH · Post by **murPH** » August 20, 2006 8:22 am

Signed the petition. Hope the cats get a reprieve as they are part of the uniqueness of visiting Key West!

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » August 20, 2006 9:52 am

Mission Accomplished

comtnfish · Post by **comtnfish** » August 20, 2006 10:03 am

Signed.....

rum pirate · Post by **rum pirate** » August 20, 2006 10:32 am

signed up to save the cats

conch014 · Post by **conch014** » August 20, 2006 10:39 am

Signed with opinion voiced. Our cats gave us eight paws up for supporting their fellow felines.

Dezdmona · Post by **Dezdmona** » August 20, 2006 11:59 am

*click*, and passed on the address to interested friends.

nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » August 20, 2006 11:18 pm

signed

pirate at 50 · Post by **pirate at 50** » August 21, 2006 12:24 pm

One would hope that this is just another internet "legend" if not the government really needs to rethink(do they do that???) their priorities.

pair8head · Post by **pair8head** » August 21, 2006 12:29 pm

pirate at 50 wrote:One would hope that this is just another internet "legend" if not the government really needs to rethink(do they do that???) their priorities.

Not a legend, I read it in the news paper a few days back.

CapnK · Post by **CapnK** » August 21, 2006 12:54 pm

clicked. It's up to 1008 signatures now.

LivingOutMy2ndChance · August 21, 2006 12:58 pm

Signed the petition. This is ridiculous! To quote JB ... "our tax dollars at work!"

I agree with what was said earlier ... the Hemingway Home is nice to visit once, but the cats are the reason to go back!!