The Cat Who Wears Contacts

1. Gail Pink
   December 15th, 2008 at 9:35 am

   WEIRD.

2. CountryCritter
   December 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am

   Awwwwe!!!

3. Johnny Cat
   December 15th, 2008 at 11:40 am

   The Isle of Wight is One Weird Joint.

4. sise
   December 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

   That's so awesome!

5. AnUnSi
   December 15th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

   "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").

6. liphttam1
   December 15th, 2008 at 5:18 pm

   Nom nom nom, eye plastic.

7. Ali S.
   December 15th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

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

8. Miss Cellania
   December 15th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

   Hey, my ability to perceive facts wrongly is not ill-trained! I am a master at perceiving facts wrongly!

9. Miss Cellania
   December 15th, 2008 at 10:06 pm

   And here I was, waiting for someone to pick up on the fact that they spelled Earnest two different ways in the story.

10. SparkS
    December 16th, 2008 at 1:32 am

    I don't know about others but I come here to read story related comments. Not for a lengthy English lesson that should have been directed to the writers of the article. I was not impressed in the least.

    Miss Cellania

    "Hey, my ability to perceive facts wrongly is not ill-trained! I am a master at perceiving facts wrongly!"

    Bravo!

11. edhel_espyn
    December 17th, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    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!

12. SparkS
    December 17th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    I was wondering how they knew what prescription to use. Don't contacts use prescriptions like eyeglasses?
    I guess even a plain 2X or 3X could be a great improvement.

    BTW this story was really an AWH story. Once in a while mankind does something really nice.

13. Miss Cellania
    December 17th, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    SparkS, I don't think they are prescription lenses. I think they function only as a protective eye cover, to keep the cat's lashes from rubbing the eye surface.

14. ted
    December 18th, 2008 at 6:30 am

    Does he take them out every night?

    Don't mind AnUnSi; there just weren't any abortion stories to complain about this week.

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