The Cat Who Wears Contacts

WEIRD.

The Isle of Wight is One Weird Joint.

“The Cat Who Wears Contacts … Ernest is a 15-year-old cat who lives at a shelter in Godshill on the Isle of Wight.”

Both in the title of this thread and in its first sentence, the pronoun, “who,” is used. [Look up and read again.] The pronoun, “that,” should have been used instead of “who” — for two reasons:

1. The context calls for the word that is used to start a “restrictive clause.” The proper word is “that.”

2. Even if the context had called for the kind of word that is used to start a “non-restrictive clause,” “who” would have been the wrong choice. The proper word would have been, “which.” The word, “who,” is used only to refer to PERSONS (i.e., divine, angelic, or human beings). The word, “who,” is NOT used to refer to impersonal things (such as cats).

Nowadays, some people with an ill-trained ability to perceive facts wrongly consider some things (such as plants and animals) to be persons, so they mistakenly use personal pronouns, such as “he” or “she” (instead of “it”) and “who” (instead of “which”).

I wonder how they get those contacts in without ending up with shredded hands.

Poor thing.. He spent majority of his life squinting and barely seeing at all… imagine how he feels now that he can open his eyes wide!

I had no idea that was even possible to do to a cat. Perhaps my dog should get contact lenses- he’s always bumping into stuff.