animals

Via probablywitchcraft.

According to sources close to the situation, a local cat named Bari was completely flabbergasted that she was found so quickly during a game of hide and seek last night.

“She was convinced she had a great hiding spot,” said Larissa Cuomo, a spectator who watched the finding unfold in person. “She was under a corner chair in the living room behind a basket of laundry.”

It would have been a good hiding spot, said Cuomo, if not for one thing.

“Bari forgot to account for her tail,” said Cuomo, who observed the cat’s tail peeking out from behind the basket. “It was like a beacon. She was found in minutes.”

The cat could, ironically, not be located for comment.

Via adventures_of_bari.

Labor activists say feline employment is declining at an accelerating rate due to outsourcing. A report out today from Cat Workers United tells the story of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, NY where over 40% of the cat labor force has been laid off over the past five years.

“This stretch of Brighton Beach,” said Tom Fouts, communications director for CWU on a recent walking tour of the neighborhood, “was a thriving area for cats. Almost every business was cat-owned.”

But that all changed in the mid-2000s, when the recession hit the area particularly hard.

“You had these big landlords from Manhattan come in and buy up a lot of the property for a pittance, push out the cats who’d been here for years,” he said. “Now look at this block. Only a few cats still work here, and the rest of the jobs are outsourced to companies that bring in these cheap cat facsimiles.”

The group is pushing for a legislative package that would give incentives to local businesses for hiring more cats.

Via breakno.