Cat roams university campus for 4 years, gets doctoral degree

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Gift WaPo article here. As Annie Lennox sang, "Who am I to disagree?"

Max the cat has hitched rides on top of students’ backpacks, participated in campus tours and more than once has sauntered into a psychology lecture at Vermont State University’s Castleton campus.

The 5-year-old tabby is even listed on the staff roster at the university, where he has his own email address...

Max lives down the street from the main entrance to campus with Ashley Dow and her family, but he rarely hangs out at home, Dow said.

Ever since she started letting Max outside when he was 1, he’d head straight to the college campus and soak up the attention from students.

“He usually goes over in the morning about 8 when I go to work, and he’ll come home in time for dinner, or one of the students will come over and drop him off,” said Dow, a special-education teacher...​

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The wandering to other people must be a feature of cats that look like that. Where I lived with my dad a neighbor had the double of Max, but he was always up at our house.
 
The wandering to other people must be a feature of cats that look like that. Where I lived with my dad a neighbor had the double of Max, but he was always up at our house.
I was adopted by a grey tabby not unlike Max about 20 years ago. I think he had lived/got by at a house up the road and suddenly started turning up at my place, eventually announcing, "Hi. I'm Mr. Chumbles***. I'm a really nice pussycat. Do you have any tuna?" He got along with the other cats and human visitors alike. Unfortunately, he disappeared in 2015 and I still really miss him :(

***He had no name when he arrived. For some reason I decided to call him "Cholmondeley" (pron. "Chumley") but eventually he just became Mr. Chumbles.
 
Max, deserves his degree as much as I deserves my degree, but both of us have them..
You go max !!

Exactly....I have an Associates from 1987 from an accredited college.

I have never put it on a Resume`. The college closed sometime in the 90's and then merged with another college...Old records nowhere to be found. I have a diploma with no transcripts.

Calling them for a transcript is like beaming up a WW2 Sten parts kit on the Enterprise with half of the parts missing....They don't even know who I am.
 
Sorry, but I'm not that taken with this story. Sounds like an irresponsible pet owner to me...

Domestic cats shouldn't be allowed to roam free. They prey on small mammals, birds and reptiles. It's not uncommon for cats to be killed by a car, eaten by a coyote or fox, or infested with parasites. Would you want that to happen to your pet?

Was the cat neutered or declawed? Was it licensed??

I had a cat 45 years ago and never let it loose outside. We're on dog number 3 and never left them out unattended.
 
Exactly....I have an Associates from 1987 from an accredited college.

I have never put it on a Resume`. The college closed sometime in the 90's and then merged with another college...Old records nowhere to be found. I have a diploma with no transcripts.

Calling them for a transcript is like beaming up a WW2 Sten parts kit on the Enterprise with half of the parts missing....They don't even know who I am.

My degree is much the same, but we both got one, with NO student loans to be paid, or Not.
 
Sorry, but I'm not that taken with this story. Sounds like an irresponsible pet owner to me...

Domestic cats shouldn't be allowed to roam free. They prey on small mammals, birds and reptiles. It's not uncommon for cats to be killed by a car, eaten by a coyote or fox, or infested with parasites. Would you want that to happen to your pet?

Was the cat neutered or declawed? Was it licensed??

I had a cat 45 years ago and never let it loose outside. We're on dog number 3 and never left them out unattended.

A license for a cat ? Really ?
 

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