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31 unusual facts about Cats


Ben Sankey

In 2004 he returned to the CFL, this time with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, however, again, he saw no playing time.

He dressed for 16 games and did not see any playing time until the final game of the season against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Bill Warrender

His public service included serving on the Boards of the Hamilton Automobile Club, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the Royal Hamilton Military Institute, and he was a member of the Presidents' Club at McMaster University.

Brandon Boudreaux

Brandon Alan Boudreaux (born June 26, 1989 in Auburn, Alabama) is a professional Canadian football defensive end for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.

Carl Kidd

In 2004, he recorded his 5th career touchdown, which was a 35-yard interception return versus the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Dave Raimey

He was a member of the Blue Bombers team that played in the 53rd Grey Cup game in 1965, the "Wind Bowl", which they lost to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

David Lofton

Lofton then signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League as a free agent on September 12 and dressed for four games (four starts) of the 2007 CFL season making 17 defensive tackles, 1 special teams tackle, and 1 quarterback sack.

Derrick Summers

He was signed by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the subsequently released on May 15 2013, prior to the beginning of the 2013 CFL season.

Dontrelle Inman

On June 28, 2013, Inman was pressed into punting duties after an injury to starting kicker Swayze Waters during a game against the visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Doyle Orange

He was named an all-star, and on August 13, against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, he rushed a league record 37 times (for 175 yards).

Garney Henley

Henley was drafted in 1960 by the NFL's Green Bay Packers in the 15th round (173rd overall), but chose to head to Canada, and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Hal Patterson

Patterson was a member of the Alouettes until being part of a controversial trade in 1960 that sent him to the last-place Hamilton Tiger-Cats with fellow Montreal star quarterback Sam Etcheverry.

Jeremy Ito

On October 10, 2009, Ito was added to the practice roster of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League.

Joe Paopao

He was a long-time coach in the Canadian Football League, who last served as a head coach in the CFL for the Ottawa Renegades from 2002–2005 and then offensive coordinator of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2006.

Paopao was then hired by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and named offensive co-ordinator for the 2006 season.

Joey Elliott

In his first start on Aug. 16, the Bombers defeated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats by a score of 32–25.

Keith Stokes

Stokes made the TSN CFL Play of The Year on his August 13, 2005, touchdown vs. the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Kendial Lawrence

Kendial Lawrence (born April 13, 1991) is an American football running back who is currently playing for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Canadian Football League.

Khalil Carter

Named player of the week on Sept 13 for a 7 tackle performance which included an 82 yard interception return for a touchdown against Hamilton.

Lovell Coleman

He holds the Stamps record for most rushing yards in one game, with 238 against the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on September 15, 1964.

Mark Nohra

He was drafted by the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 1997 (4th round, 28th overall) and signed by the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League in 1998.

Markeith Knowlton

Knowlton was traded on April 29, 2008 from BC Lions to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats along with kicker Ara Tchobanian in exchange for the 9th overall selection in the 2008 CFL Draft.

Mervyn Fernandez

Despite being injured and not playing in the game,following the Lions' 37-24 triumph over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the 73rd Grey Cup, Fernandez became the first Lion to win the CFL's Most Outstanding Player Award.

Mike Kerrigan

He was released after the 1984 season and signed with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL.

Nate Bussey

Nathan Lee Bussey (born February 20, 1989) is an American football linebacker who is currently a member of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League.

Obie Graves

Graves played in the Canadian Football League after he graduated from college, playing two seasons as a running back for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, from 1980 to 1982.

Orlondo Steinauer

As a player, he played professional football for 12 seasons with the Ottawa Rough Riders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts from 1996 to 2008.

In 1997, with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, he emerged as a defensive star, earning a spot on the East Division All-Star team.

Oski Yell

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League have version of the Oski Yell, originally created by Vince Wirtz in the early 1920s.

Roy Dewalt

However in 1985 the Lions came back with a 13-3-0 record, again first in the West, and a 37-24 Grey Cup victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

Zach Collaros

On January 30, 2014, Collaros announced his intention to sign with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.


Acoustic Kitty

Although it is not entirely clear on whether he is the originator of the concept, British author Len Deighton prefigured the concept of Acoustic Kitty in his novel, Billion Dollar Brain (1966), where the unnamed hero (Harry Palmer) notes that "Even the cats of East Berlin are wired" for sound recording.

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Never Sorry opens in his studio compound in Beijing, called 258 Fake, home to 40 cats, and follows him from the development of his piece where he researched and posted the names of student victims of the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan.

Amblimation

A project to adapt the 1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats was in the making, but was abandoned with the studio's closure.

Amnion

Cats and dogs are born inside of the amnion that is cut opened by their mothers and eaten.

Birds of New Zealand

The most damage however was caused by habitat destruction and the other animals humans brought with them, particularly rats (the Polynesian rat or kiore introduced by Māori and the Brown Rat and Black Rat subsequently introduced by Europeans), but also mice, dogs, cats, stoats, weasels, pigs, goats, deer, hedgehogs, and Australian possums.

Black-footed cat

Wuppertal Zoo acquired black-footed cats as long ago as 1957, and succeeded in breeding them in 1963.

C. felis

Chlamydophila felis, a bacterium species endemic among house cats worldwide, primarily causing inflammation of feline conjunctiva, rhinitis and respiratory problems

Cardiff Waterbus

The Cardiff Cats service has seen many celebrities as passengers such as Emma Watson, Michelle Collins, Alison Steadman and John Challis.

Carl Schmehl

Schmehl has assisted Broadway director and choreographer Gillian Lynne -- choreographer of Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang -- on new productions in New York, San Diego, London and Vienna.

Cat's whiskers

For whiskers found on cats and other animals, see Whiskers.

Cyprus cat

Many Cypriot cats can be found in the cities of Cyprus, including Limassol, Nicosia, Paphos, and Larnaca.

Debbie Downer

She is especially concerned about the rate of feline AIDS, a subject that she would bring up on more than one occasion saying it was the number one killer of cats.

Doug Haining

He has performed professionally since 1974, backing national artists such as Steve Allen, Don Rickles, Bob Hope, and others, and Broadway shows such as West Side Story, Cats, A Chorus Line and many others.

Gippsland phantom cat

Upon the end of the war, it is speculated that the pumas were released into the wild, somewhere in the Gippsland region (although some claim the cats were released in the Grampians National Park) where they subsequently bred.

Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts

In 2005 the Academy was selected by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization to be the first high school in the United States to perform the long-running Broadway Musical Cats.

Human equivalent

The ages of domestic cats and dogs are often referred to in terms of "cat years" or "dog years", representing a conversion to human-equivalent years.

Iselin Alme

Among the productions she has taken part in are Godspell, A Chorus Line, Cats and Oklahoma, as well as Ionesco's La Leçon at Riksteatret.

Jeff Koterba

The Prairie Cats have been featured at the South by Southwest music festival, the Hudson River Festival, have toured nationally, and appears in the motion picture Lucky featuring Ann-Margret, Colin Hanks, and Ari Graynor.

Jellicle cats

Jellicle cats, or simply the Jellicles, are a type of feline mentioned in T.S. Elliot's book Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, and in Cats, a stage musical written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and based on the book.

Jo Gibb

Jo Gibb (born JoAnn Gibb on 18 April 1976, in Bo'ness, Scotland, UK) is a Scottish theatre actress best known for her role of Rumpleteazer in the Cats video and as Pearl the Observation Car in Starlight Express.

John Bemelmans Marciano

The grandson of Ludwig Bemelmans, the creator of the children's book series Madeline, he has continued the series with two books written and illustrated in his grandfather's style: Madeline and the Cats of Rome and Madeline at the White House.

Kaboodle

"Secretly, Kitten Kaboodle wished she were a dog. She was aware of the natural superiority of a dog, and it bothered her." Linus to Snoopy: "I think your anti-cat stories show too much prejudice.... I think you're going to make a lot of enemies.... Not everybody hates cats, you know!"

Kate Bornstein

Bornstein and partner Barbara Carrellas live in New York City with three cats, two dogs and a turtle.

Katharine Mary Briggs

She lived the latter part of her life at Barn House in Burford, along with her sisters and her many cats, while working for the Folklore Society, which named an award in her honour.

Kelvis Ochoa

After having moved to Havana in 1992 and formed a rock band called Cuatro Gatos (Four Cats), Kelvis Ochoa’s big break came when he met two Cuban musicians : Gema Corredera and Pável Urkiza.

Major Boobage

Cartman hides Mr. Kitty in his attic and suggests that it "write a diary", and he also reluctantly hides many of the neighborhood cats (strangely, out of compassion for the cats, not out of his usual and initial greed.).

My Cat from Hell

Certain cats (whom he calls "tree-dwelling cats") behave better when they have access to above-ground perches, and he often instructs owners of such cats to install an above-the-floor walkway with no dead ends, in order to provide these cats with the psychological comfort of escape routes.

Neca Falk

She is well-known for her chansons and for her children's songs about cats, written by Kajetan Kovič.

Olivia Hallinan

In December 2011 Hallinan played the role of Justine in Lucinda Coxon's play "Herding Cats" at the Hampstead Theatre, London, a role she previously played at the Ustinov Studio, Bath in December 2010.

Patricia Telesco

Articles by Telesco have appeared in several mainstream publications such as Cosmo, Woman's World, and Cats' Magazine, and in such Neopagan publications such as Circle Network News and popular websites such as The Witches' Voice.

Polydactyl cat

Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was one of the more famous lovers of polydactyl cats, after being first given a six-toed cat by a ship's captain.

Ryan Noble

Coming on as a substitute in Sunderland's third place play-off with FC Groningen, Noble assisted Fraizer Campbell's 89th minute equaliser, and then scored a brilliant solo goal to give the Black Cats a 3–2 win in the last minute.

Sam Barone

Sam and his wife, Linda, and their cats, Minga and Norton, live in Prescott, Arizona.

Shoo Rayner

These series have very different themes: the "Dark Claw" books are a spoof of Star Wars and other such science-fiction stories, starring cats and rodents; the "Rex Files" (a take-off on the television series The X-Files) feature a duo of canine sleuths named Rex and Franky who investigate various terrifying paranormal events; and the "Ginger Ninja" books are about a pawball-mad kitten named Ginger who faces typical elementary-school problems such as bullies.

Sunderland A.F.C. Women

Lucy Bronze gave a superb display at right-back, earning herself the Player of the Match Award for the Black Cats.

Surviving the Times

It's crazy, because when I talk about people from a whole other rap era, I don't know if people understand how much that meant to me, just coming up around legends like Kool G Rap and Eric B and Large Professor and people like Akinyele who was around in the early stages that I met through Large Professor from a rap group named Main Source that most cats today never even heard of.

That Darn Katz!

The space cats' home planet, Thuban 9, began to lose its rotation, and they discovered that only Earth had the correct orientation and magnetic field with which to harness its rotational energy.

Thomas Platts-Mills

Platts-Mills has researched the immune response to a range of allergens including those from pollens, dust mites, the fungus Trichophyton, and domestic cats.

Tugger

Rum Tum Tugger, a character from a poem by T. S. Eliot and who appears in the musical Cats

Twacky Cats

Twacky Cats, released by Comfort Stand Records in 2004, is an EP by American electronic musician Dan Deacon.

Why Paint Cats

Why Paint Cats is a comedy book written by New Zealand author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch.

WNED-TV

The transmitters and towers belonged to the Chautauqua Board of Cooperative Educational Services, the experimental Appalachian Television Project, and Cattaraugus Area Television System (CATS) group and were scattered across numerous small towns in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany counties.