Texas cat leaps for the record
A high-flying Texas cat earned a Guinness World Record by leaping a distance of 8 feet and 5 inches. Oscar, a 7-year-old cat belonging to Theodore Shiells of Dallas, officially took the Guinness World Records title for the longest jump by a cat. Ted said Oscar started out with tricks like sitting, begging and fetching, and about two years ago the feline started to show an interest in jumping tricks. “Beginning with a jump of just a few inches, he soon progressed to a few feet, and then through a hoop. This was very cute, of course, but there was not the slightest thought at this of a world record,” Ted told Guinness World Records. He said it took two years of training and more than 1,000 practice jumps for Oscar to break the record. “It was not until Oscar’s jumps reached about five feet that it even occurred to us to look up whether there was a world record. When we found out it was 2.3 meters [about 7.5 feet], we first thought beating it would be impossible, but since Oscar liked ‘air time,’ we decided: ‘Let’s go for it!'”
Here is the link to Oscar’s flight:
Ella leaping for joy
Ella Bennett said Buddy, her indoor-outdoor cat, failed to come home one day in 2022. “We kept hoping he would be back, but then it was a couple days too much longer than usual, so that’s when we started to get worried,” Bennett told reporters. Ella said it wasn’t until three years later that she was scrolling Facebook and came across a post from the Lenawee County Humane Society. The post included photos of a cat the shelter had named “Snack Wrap” after being found with matted fur outside of a McDonald’s in Adrian, about 10 miles from Bennett’s home. “I immediately sent it to my grandma, I was like, ‘That looks just like Buddy,’ and I posted a picture of him on there, and I was like, ‘Do you think that could be him?'” Ella asked. The shelter was able to confirm Snack Wrap and Buddy were one and the same by reviewing veterinary records, old photos and the feline’s reaction to being reunited with Bennett. Ella said Buddy will likely still be allowed outside, but now he’s microchipped.
Leaping Laughs
If a leap year has 366 days, what do you call a year with 365 days?
A light year.
Late one night in the USSR there is a knock at the door.
Everyone leaps out of bed. Papa goes shakily to the door.
‘It’s all right,’ he says, coming back. ‘The building’s on fire.’
I told my daughter to be sensible before her eighteenth birthday party.
She said, “You are only eighteen once!”
I said, “No…you’re eighteen 365 times.”
Science is progressing in leaps and bounds. In 20 years…
…we’ll definitely have better smartphones.
May 8th Birthdays
1993 – Ana Mulvey-Ten, 1965 – Melissa Gilbert, 1961 – Janet McTeer, 1993 – Olivia Culpo
1982 – Stephen Amel, 1979 – Matthew Davis, 1975 – Enrique Iglesias, 1957 – Bill Cowher