Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
. . . Jerry Coyne the cat, I mean. Reader Gayle Ferguson, who rescued Jerry and his Four Sisters, reports from Auckland: Little Jerry is back from the vet and is doing well. He is racing around as usual as if nothing ever happened! It looks as if I’ll leave no genetic legacy, either human or felid. … Continue reading Jerry Coyne has been neutered
As the time runs out before Jerry Coyne flies to his forever home (on Saturday), Kitten Whisperer Gayle Ferguson has sent a batch of pictures. There are also a few nuggets of information: Jerry is really aggressive about noms. When he’s tired of his own bowl he will push his head in front of another … Continue reading Still moar photos of Jerry Coyne the Cat
Well, we’ve seen Jerry grow up from a suckling to an 11-week-old adolescent, we’ve been with him when he lost his testicles, and today he was formally adopted. Yesterday Jerry Coyne the Cat flew to the south island of New Zealand, and this morning was transferred to his new home. Gayle Ferguson, his Rescuer (and Rescuer … Continue reading Jerry Coyne, on drugs, put in halfway house, and then released to forever home
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. … Continue reading Update: Jerry Coyne’s health
Would you like to look at all my baby pictures? Well, you’re gonna. Reader Gayle Ferguson of New Zealand is fostering an abandoned brood of five kittens: four females, including three tabbies and a ginger cat, and one male, whose name is Jerry Coyne. Here are some pictures of the brood, concentrating of course … Continue reading Jerry Coyne is growing
Gayle Ferguson, who is raising Jerry Coyne the Cat and his four female siblings, all abandoned at the tender age of three weeks, gives us photographs of Jerry and his littermates, as well as an update. The photos are in order at the bottom. Gayle’s notes: 1. Jerry after his bath last night. 2. Play-fighting … Continue reading Jerry Coyne gets a bath, and other updates
You might remember that reader Gayle Ferguson is fostering five tiny kittens abandoned at a gas station at the age of only three weeks. Reports are that they are all doing well. There are four females and a male, and the male is named Jerry Coyne. So of course I take a special interest in … Continue reading Caturday felids: Report on Jerry Coyne the ginger cat, and a rare appearance of Basement Cat
I’m both pleased and saddened to report that the ginger tomkitten Jerry Coyne, fostered by reader Gayle Ferguson in New Zealand, has been adopted. I can’t reveal the details except to say that his future parent is a cat-lover well known to Gayle, and lives in Christchuch. His adoptive parent already has one neutered male … Continue reading Jerry Coyne got adopted!
