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“What sort of philosophers are we,
who know absolutely nothing
of the origin and destiny of cats?”
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
What sort of a cat mom am I who has absolutely no idea what goes through Fuqua's mind when he watches TV? One of my friends wondered if Fuqua availed himself of the healthy snack of pears, there within easy reach. Well, it's true, Fuqua loves to bite the stems off the pears if given the chance!

In addition to Fantasia, he has been known to watch all of the Charlie Brown holiday specials, as well as the magic of illusionists Penn and Teller. A little feline sleight-of-hand . . .

"A cat is more intelligent
than people believe,
and can be taught any crime"
[or magic trick].
~ Mark Twain ~

In his more limber days,
Fuqua enjoyed the Beach Body exercise videos.

When it comes to the origin and destiny of cats, Mark Twain had the right idea, and I'm sure that Fuqua and his little brother Lester would agree:

I urged that kings were dangerous.

Clarence said, then have cats. He was sure that a royal family of cats would answer every purpose. They would be as useful as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition to get up shindies with other royal cats, they would be laughably vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive, finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other royal house. ... The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it. (see p 515)

- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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