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With the holidays far behind us, the bitter emotional desert of winter stretches out to the horizon with no end in sight. That’s a cue for many local cats to head under the covers – and not come out for months.

“It’s a trend we see year after year right around this time,” says Raymond Cates, a feline psychologist at Boston University. “They just wrap themselves up and good luck getting them out of there, pal.”

Buttons, a cat from Providence, RI, has been wrapped in a blanket since November 3rd. “We call it the burrito defense,” says Marcy Eberlin, the cat’s roommate and friend. “You need to go at least two layers deep and don’t come out until at least mid-April. There’s no other way.”

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They laughed at Twizzle the cat when she spent her entire holiday vacation studying. “You’re on vacation!” they said. “Stop working and have some fun!” they said. “Chase a bug. Nap in a window. Feel how your claws just slice through the upholstery on the couch like butter.”

Now they’re not laughing.

No one was counting on a big pop quiz the day back from holiday vacation. No one, that is, except Twizzle, who thanks to all that studying is totally ready.

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Life-long Star Wars fan Albert the cat just got the call of a lifetime.

”It was a studio exec,” says Carl Lewis, the filmmaking feline’s agent. “They saw his remake on the Internet, and they want him to direct Episode IX.”

Lewis is referring, of course, to the shot-for-shot homage Ablert uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday. Since then, it has accrued more than 16 million views. In it, he painstakingly re-creates every scene from The Force Awakens, with himself in all the roles, including the roly-poly droid BB-8.

”Lucasfilm was so impressed, they’re putting the future of the entire franchise in Albert’s hands,” says Lewis, who could hardly believe the news himself. “Er, paws.”

The final installment of the new trilogy will begin filming in 2019.

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