News people and felines are a lot alike...The four-legged and two-legged creatures are curious, mischievous, cautious, sleepy, sometimes crazy and, of course, predators...
Many of you know I am not a big fan of cats...The exceptions are kittens and extremely large, lazy cats...While I am a dog person by nature, cats are sometimes okay...Here comes the rest of the story...
A few weeks ago, I saw a facebook posting and photographs from Sue Madden-Gallion...She has four feral cats that hang around her Signs by Design shop on Wilmington Island...She asked what she should name the cats...So I indulged by news narcissism and chimed in with the suggestion 'how about Casey?'...One cat looked a lot like one we had as a family pet many years ago...A few other people posted suggestions about names, too...I didn't think much else about it...
After dropping by to see Lisa Scarbrough and the crew from Coastal Pet Rescue during an adoption drive at Ace Hardware on Wilmington Island, I decided to pop in and see Sue while I was in the neighborhood...This is what I saw when I pulled up in front of her store...
I was quite surprised...There's Casey (me), Frankie (Frank Sulkowski/The Big Guy), Fairbanks (Lynn Fairbanks/General Manager) and Jesse (Jesse Blanco/Fox 28 Anchor)...That certainly covers WJCL/Fox 28...You can see all the cats that now carry our names...
The cats are part of The Milton Project...It's a program operated through Coastal Pet Rescue...Volunteers trap, spay or neuter and then return the cats to their areas...Here's an interesting tidbit of information I saw on the flier for The Milton Project: left alone for seven years, two cats can produce 420,000 cats...The group also estimates there are 50,000 feral cats in Savannah...
I certainly hope curiosity doesn't lead our namesakes into trouble where they have to cash in one of their nine lives...We want to see Casey, Frankie, Fairbanks and Jesse stay safe...I guess that is also a good wish for the human news crew at Abercorn and Television Circle...So when you stop by to see Sue, look around, and you might have a chance to say hey to the furry news crew, too...
