Who loves cats?

I%26#39;m gonna go see this asap:

www.moscowcatstheatre.com

...performing cats at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Chambers Street, tix $49.50 but there seems to be a problem buying online.

Who loves cats?

Please post a review as soon as you see this - it looks to be quite a show. I would love to see it because I love cats, but they could leave the clowns out. I%26#39;m not so crazy about them!

Who loves cats?

I am also interested in hearing about it. I got an email from either playbill.com or theatermania.com offering a discount, and that was the first time I%26#39;d heard about them.

Does look good, just hope it%26#39;s humane!!!

This is a joke,isn%26#39;t it?

I would have thought that anyone who loved cats would, at the very least, be standing in a picket line outside this show holding a sign saying ';When are we going to stop abusing and degrading animals?';

Diva 78, surely there%26#39;s a better word than the word %26#39;humane%26#39; in this context. Shouldn%26#39;t there be a dedicated word applicable to animals as opposed to humans ? In any event, I did not check out the so called site mentioned above. If, however, it is genuine, perhaps the reference is to big cats (as in lions and tigers) as opposed to the smaller members of the feline community. Speaking of which, perhaps Diva 78, you could edit your remark so that it now reads as follows ';I just hope it%26#39;s feline.';

Maybe this will help answer your concerns. An excerpt form today%26#39;s New York Times. People should be treated this well!

There are 120 cats altogether in the company. The other 94 are back in Moscow at the theater on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, where 10 caretakers and four veterinarians look after them. There, they live in the theater in glass-fronted spaces - not cages, Mr. Kuklachev insists - where they each have a bed and a chair to play on. They are allowed to roam but must enter and exit their rooms on his command, he said.

';We have no mice,'; Mr. Kuklachev noted.

Mr. Kuklachev%26#39;s son Dmitri, 30, who is a member of the troupe, interjected: ';A cat cannot live in a cage. If it lives in a cage it becomes wild, aggressive.'; Although Dmitri performs with the cats, he is allergic to them, he said; he controls his asthma through breathing exercises.

The cats are accomplished travelers, Mr. Kuklachev said. He did not sedate them for the trip on a Boeing 767, and they are not nervous about the location change. Translation: They still use the litter box.

For their visit to New York, a hotel was not really an option, so Mr. Kuklachev rented two apartments in Brighton Beach, where Russian speakers and Russian food are plentiful. The cats and the two dogs share one apartment with two caretakers that is directly underneath where the Kuklachevs stay, and they have free rein. It takes 55 cans of cat food every other day to feed them, with dry food and meat on alternate days.

Mr. Kuklachev does not worry about damage. If the cats ruin the rug by scratching it, he will replace it. As for cleaning the litter, he said he and the other members of the troupe all pitch in.

The only cat not in the downstairs apartment is Marusa, who gets to sleep with Mr. Kuklachev. ';Marusa is like a guard dog,'; he said, adding that cats are jealous creatures. ';She won%26#39;t let anybody near me.';

One day, Mr. Kuklachev said, he would like to found what he calls a ';cat temple,'; where 1,000 cats would live and tourists could visit the ';living museum.';

Where does Mr. Kuklachev find new cats to replenish his, uh, stock? ';It%26#39;s a dynasty,'; Dmitri said, answering for his father.

The younger Mr. Kuklachev said his father trains the cats not by rewarding them with treats, as one might train a dog, but ';by long, good words, touching them.';

The elder Mr. Kuklachev bridled at the idea of rewarding cats with food. ';A cat is not a dog,'; he said. ';If a cat doesn%26#39;t want to do something, he will not do it.';

ty for that LTT, going today to catch 3pm show, wonder about the tix availability tho%26#39;.

';Mr. Kuklachev said his father trains the cats not by rewarding them with treats, as one might train a dog, but ';by long, good words, touching them.'; ';

You don%26#39;t think they missed a couple of words off that last sentence do you? Like ';with an electric prod';! I remain unconvinced.

to NOT-Insightful one:

per Merriam-Webster dictionary

humane:

marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals

don%26#39;t you think it is wise to have gone to the website before making an UNinformed comment??????

i hope they didn%26#39;t use an electric prod.