From yahoo!life, apparently originating at Fox News, we hear of a stray cat that interrupted a wedding. The outcome was inevitable; click on screenshot below to read:
An excerpt:
A stray kitten was adopted by an adoring couple after she interrupted their wedding last year.
Cat owner Cara racked up over 3 million likes after posting video of her meow-filled wedding ceremony on TikTok. The wedding was held at Curry Estate in Hopewell Junction, New York in September 2023.
Video shows the groom reading his vows to the bride when audience members suddenly hear a cat – now named Daisy – loudly meowing.
Cara told Fox News Digital that she originally didn’t hear the chatty cat.
Here’s what I think is that the Tik Tok video:
@gatsby.and.daisy The cat distrubtion system was working overtime for this one! #cat #weddingtok #catdistributionsystem
Besides the wedding, there is of course another happy ending: the stray kitten got adopted:
Cara’s sister, who served as the maid of honor, then called the couple’s attention to the matter.
“[She] kindly let us know that there was a cat right there meowing,” the wife explained. “She was so perfectly perched on a tree stump behind us demanding to be heard.”
According to Cara, she and her husband were already “huge cat people” before the ceremony – and the feline’s unexpected appearance was a highlight.
“We have a cat that we adopted together, Gatsby, [and] our friends have celebrity nicknamed us Catt (Cara + Matt), and we even had cat cake toppers,” she explained.
“It felt like this was all meant to be when she showed up.”
After the bride and groom fell in love with the kitten, the couple’s families and friends worked hard to look for her – but had no luck.
“All anyone could talk about was the cat. It was the highlight of the night… I knew we had to have her.”
All’s well that ends well:
Two weeks later, Cara and Matt were contacted by their wedding venue. After trying for days, staff were finally able to lure the stray with leftover shrimp from past weddings.
“We were on our honeymoon [when they said] they had gotten her and that she was headed to a shelter if we wanted to adopt her,” Cara explained.
Cara said Daisy perfectly integrated into her household. She was named after Daisy Buchanan from “The Great Gatsby” to match with her sibling, Gatsby.
“She is the most affectionate cat and loves nothing more than spending the day curled up inside our sweaters,” Cara said. “It got even better when our resident cat, Gatsby, befriended her so quickly.”
And a wonderful three-minute news video of the whole affair. Be sure to watch the whole thing showing Daisy finally adopted by the ailurophilic newlyweds. I love that the cats are named after characters from The Great Gatsby.
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Ginger, who sent this video of a New Age full-body cat massage, said, “You don’t have to watch/listen to the whole thing, but that is one HAPPY cat! Every cat should have such treatment a least a few times in their nine lives.”
The maker, itzblitzz, adds this note:
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Here are three cat films, each of which purports to be the first video ever of a cat. But only the third one seems to have precedence.
First, an old silent film from 1906, colorized, fixed up and, most important, showing a CAT. Reader Jon says the short film is “a good way to modernize history (and show cats haven’t changed much over the years).” This isn’t the earliest cat video, though; the two below it were made earlier.
The YouTube information (I didn’t alter caps or anhything):
We have learned so far that this film is “Le déjeuner des Minet” made in 1905, and released in 1906. This is a french movie, and many viewer lipread french words.
What we don’t know yet : The name of the director. The name of the young girl, and her grandmother,
Old film restoration with the following workflow : – Cleaning dust and scratches, degraining, stabilizing, sharpening, auto-levels and auto-white balance with AVISynth – Upscaled and Colorized using neural network to 4k – Frame interpolation up to 60 fps
And one from 1899 by Louis Lumière. It also claims to be the first cat video, but apparently it’s not.
This early silent film is the first cat video to be made in 1899 featuring a young girl feeding a rather energetic cat. The film was directed by Louis Lumière.
In fact, the REAL earliest video of a cat is this one released in 1894 by Thomas Edison Studios of two boxing cats. I don’t like it because of the pugnacious, fighting moggies. But the YouTube notes say this:
This film is the product of Thomas Edison’s (yes, that Thomas Edison!) Manufacturing Company. Why did the brilliant men – namely producer, W.K.L. Dickson – who worked for Thomas Edison feel that they needed to use this new technology to show the world “boxing cats” is a question that has boggled the minds of film historians for over 100 years.
h/t: Ginger K., Jon
Well SOMEBODY has to leave a comment!
The boxing cats left everyone speechless.
I do read the Caturday Felid Trifecta every week, usually later in the afternoon. I love this feature!
Thank you for the post, Jerry! Always a treat.
I wish the newlyweds well.
Thank you for Caturday! I always look forward to it and enjoy it. The kitten meowing at the wedding was super lucky, as was the couple who adopted her, along with Gatsby. May they have many wonderful years together.
I can’t imagine any of my cats being still long enough to get such a massage, though the touch of the woman’s hands may mesmerize the kitten or even cause it to go to sleep. Too bad I can’t relax like that! Maybe the Siamese featured later in the post need some of this treatment. Makes me glad I’ve never had any Siamese.
Massage is healthiest, most loving treat we can give our cats and dogs. Especially in their old age.
I use read late. The boxing cats were…. What were they?
Daisy is adorable. And what a wonderful wedding day. Clearly the happy couple are beloved of Ceiling Cat. May they have many years of happiness.
It is heartwarming to see stray kittens adopted, and it does make for a unique wedding story. We all need some cheer in our lives.
The cat massage was so relaxing: after five minutes I was ready to fall asleep. 🙂 It is always such as joy to indulge in various ways of inter-species communication. (My youngest d*g just melts under a massage.)