Update: Jerry Coyne’s health

February 13, 2014 • 7:38 am

Today is all about ME!!! (Not really, but there will be some solpsistic posts.) First is an important update on the health of my felid namesake in New Zealand. Five-week-old Jerry Coyne, a ginger tom who was abandoned by some cruel owner at a petrol station (along with four sisters), had contracted a respiratory illness. He was taken to the vet by foster mom Gayle Ferguson and given antibiotics. According to Gayle, Jerry Coyne is now recovering, thank Ceiling Cat.

Here are the latest photos of the little guy. In one of them he’s taking after his namesake by snogging a lovely female tabby.  And there’s a report from Gayle:

He’s much better.  I haven’t heard him sneeze today. He is back to his highly vocal and demanding self!

Also like his namesake! If some Kiwi needs a cat, please adopt Jerry Coyne (you must keep that name) or one of his four female littermates.  I will send an autographed copy of WEIT to any reader here who adopts one of those cats and covers the expenses of adoption (microchipping, shots, spaying, etc.)

Jerry Coyne 2
Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne

35 thoughts on “Update: Jerry Coyne’s health”

  1. We took in two abandoned cats at the shelter last month (no books included) was amazed how many were black cats! At least 50% were black which is down to them being ‘unlucky’ very depressing.

    2. Sadly, it’s a self-fulfulling prophecy. Too many black cats are so unlucky they never find the forever homes they deserve. On the other side of the coin (Coyne?), too many humans have the bad luck to not wind up with the black cats they themselves deserve.

      If you want to increase the world’s fortune, help find forever homes for all cats, regardless of coat pattern.

      And, yes: the black ones are amazingly beautiful and sweet and playful, just like all the others.

      Cheers,

      b&

  3. Did you take a black one?? Black cats have always been my favorites! What a dumb superstition ( but then I guess all superstitions are, but 13th floors don’t feel abandoned).

  5. Lookin’ good, Jerry!

    It seems to me that there are a lot of black cats among the readers here. Black cats are great, I’m still missing my black fellow who died last fall.

  7. My 13 year old, fat black cat demands belly rubs from just about anyone who comes in the house. I often remind him that people in the Middle Ages would have considered him a tool of Satan.

    1. I often remind him that people in the Middle Ages would have considered him a tool of Satan

      … and he half rolls upright and looks at you with that “just how insane ARE these hoomins?” look in your eye, and reminds you that cats are no-one’s tool.

  8. Sorry, but the picture of the two kittens cuddling is in the category of Way Too Cute (WTC).

  10. Very skweeworthy.

    “please adopt Jerry Coyne (you must keep that name) or one of his four female littermates.”

    Or a sibling pair. Pairs of kittehs are great to adopt, too. 🙂

  11. If Jerry Coyne were a christian kitty:

    A ping pong ball has escaped after I’ve captured it but a kitten won’t. CEILING CAT has given unto the ping pong ball free will but, not unto the kitten has free will been given.

    Thus saith the LORD and no evidence of any kind can ever refute it.

  13. O, this is .such. THE .good.good. news.

    Thanks ever, Mz Ferguson ! for your stewardship thereof all five waifish ones !

    And were I a wee bit proximal, I am thinking Jerry Coyne could take me and, as well, bring along one o’hiz zizzling zizterz … … as I, too as waifish hoomin, am at the present … … sans Felidae to own me and to ca – noodle and ca – snog me.

    Blue

  14. Just a note to say, Thanks for posting updates on cats. I grew up with cats, I love cats and I married a man who is allergic to cats..I miss having cats. I’d cheerfully adopt them from the local shelter if I could. So its nice to follow these cats..Thanks again.

  15. I hate to be rude,but what are all the pink bits in your namesake’s nether regions?? Is he balding there?

      1. Phew- that’s a relief. I thought the poor little guy had hemmorhoids to add insult to injury. Now I’ll just think cute pink paw pads:-)

        1. [self : disappears into the distance humming a tune by the estimable “Fartin’ Martin”, to the tune of “Heard it on the Grapevine” and on the topic of haemorrhoids. NOT family listening, even without my humming.]

  17. Why is it that we humans are wired to find kittens so unbearably cute?

    I think it may be proof of our creation by Ceiling Cat as the servants of cat kind.

    1. Humans like fluffy animals. I think reptiles and amphibians and birds are all cute too though. Insects too and some spiders (*some*).

        1. Yeah, some are okay like jumping spiders. If they were tarantuala size they may lose their cuteness but with them being small they look kind of cute.

    2. I’m pretty sure it’s an example of the selfish gene at work.

      It seems very, very likely that the same complex of genes that cause adult humans to feel protective towards young humans are shared by almost all other tetrapods, and that the visual cues we cue off of are of development traits also shared by the other tetrapods.

      So the genetic urge to want to cuddle a kitten is acting to protect those two sets of genes that the two of you share: the ones that foster care of the young, and that makes the young look like they do.

      b&

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