Free Matilda!!

[Bruce Wayne]

I have successfully trained one cat to walk on a leash. (He was 15 and getting deaf, and was formally an indoor/outdoor cat. I trained him so I could take him out in the yard for walks the last three years of his life.) The other one I tried to train failed miserably and it seemed cruel to continue the training.

 

[Dan Rodemsky]

Maybe they have changed it, or maybe I'm just not tech savvy enough but I find no mention of a cat on their website. They put peanut warnings on foods that don't even contain peanuts.

 

[Miss Golightly]

Maybe they have changed it, or maybe I'm just not tech savvy enough but I find no mention of a cat on their website. They put peanut warnings on foods that don't even contain peanuts.

http://www.algonquinhotel.com/algonquin-cat

 

[HadleyH]

Mathilda III IS NOT HAPPY "yesterday about the nanny city keeping her leashed at The Algonquin."

What a disgrace!


baby has sad eyes

 

[W4ASZ]

Lord Chief Justice Coke must have had just this kind of excess in mind when he declared :

"…when an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such an Act to be void." (Bonham's Case, 1610.)

My cats are greatly offended, as am I.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Here's Mathilda back in happier times (just a few months ago)

[video=youtube;__i0KvJ3m0U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__i0KvJ3m0U[/video]

 

[Tomasso]

"Much to my surprise she doesn't mind [the leash]," said the cat's caretaker Alice Almeida. "Matilda is getting used to her new areas and was very happy posing this morning for the press. She is a quick learner and soon we will be able to take the leash off."

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Are you kidding me....:wacko:

 

[sheeplady]

The one who didn't take to the leash, it was much, much worse than that picture. I was afraid he was going to hurt himself; and I didn't think that cats really could contort themselves that way.

 

[Connery]

For those interested here is a video that was produced by The Algonquin Round Table Org or http://algonquinroundtable.org/

If you want to see Matilda in the smoke from Benchley's Pipe go to approx 3:05.

Algonquin Round Table (2007)A video tour of the Algonquin Hotel and the Round Table itself.
[video=youtube;aRqoYuxKfoc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRqoYuxKfoc&feature=player_embedded#![/video]



Meet Matilda, the Algonquin Hotel Cat - CatChannel.com ...
[video=youtube;60aucB3XW8Q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60aucB3XW8Q[/video]

 

[Tomasso]

I had no idea that the good people at the Algonquin had turned Matilda (or their feline history) into a marketing ploy. Kinda sad, really....

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Meet Matilda, the Algonquin Hotel Cat - CatChannel.com ...

That's Mathilda II. She was retired last year and was adopted by one of the hotel employees. The current Mathilda has only been there a few months.

 

[Connery]

That's Mathilda II. She was retired last year and was adopted by one of the hotel employees. The current Mathilda has only been there a few months.

Yes. The vids were provided for those who have never been to the hotel or were curious and wanted to know more about the Hotel's rich history as it relates to the Golden Age. Also, it represents yet another innocent tradition that will disappear at the hands of those who simply cannot appreciate the significance of preserving that which makes us who we are as a culture.

More importantly, they demonstrate the tradition of having Matilda, of any generation, who dates back to the 1930's as she is as important to the storied Algonquin Hotel as the "Round Table" is and why the decision seems so arbitrary.

Here is more history about Matilda.


The Algonquin Hotel's Feline Celebrity(2006)

Alice de Almeida, an administrative assistant at the hotel, says the cat tradition began with a general manager in the 1930s, Frank Case. "The story goes that a stray cat wandered in off the street," she says, "It was all raggly-taggly and everything. He felt sorry for the cat and he kept it."

That first cat reportedly drank milk out of a champagne glass. Actor John Barrymore insisted he have a theatrical name, so he was called Hamlet. The idea inaugurated a tradition: When the Algonquin cat is male, he's Hamlet; when female, she's called Matilda. No one knows why.

Over the years, the Algonquin cat has been memorialized in a children's book and a 24-karat gold pendant. Now, you can even send Matilda an e-mail. Hotel assistant De Almeida is Matilda's ghostwriter, and always closes Matilda's messages the same way: "Have a PURRfect day."

The reigning Matilda is an 11-year-old Ragdoll, an exotic breed that resembles a fluffy Siamese. She will be having a purrfect day in November, when she takes a limo to White Plains, N.Y. and is crowned cat of the year at the Westchester Cat Show.

 

[Formeruser012523]

That's Mathilda II. She was retired last year and was adopted by one of the hotel employees. The current Mathilda has only been there a few months.

Noticed there were two Matilda's. Thanks, V. C.

Where did they find their latest version?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The current Mathilda is a rescue animal.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think all the Algonquin cats have been either strays, shelter cats, or rescues. Another very noble part to the tradition.

 

[Connery]

I think all the Algonquin cats have been either strays, shelter cats, or rescues. Another very noble part to the tradition.

I beleive Matilda III is the ninth cat, but, Matilda II was purportedly a breeding cat whose breeder was Eileen Pickett.

 

[Feraud]

I think all the Algonquin cats have been either strays, shelter cats, or rescues. Another very noble part to the tradition.

Nobility and tradition are ideas Bloomie & cronies know nothing about.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

:eusa_clap:eusa_clap:eusa_clap

Nobility and tradition are ideas Bloomie & cronies know nothing about.