Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / NYPD Officer Adopts Kitten He Saved
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Are you sure this is accurate, Christine? I thought we
- 0:02Speaker 1: just talked about cats.
- 0:04Speaker 2: We did. Monday was National Black Cat Day, and today
- 0:08Speaker 2: talked about how special they are and wonderful, and today's
- 0:11Speaker 2: just National Cat Day. It's all inclusive, Okay, every National
- 0:14Speaker 2: Cat Day. Tabby's calicos. You're all in.
- 0:18Speaker 1: Do you have cat stories to support?
- 0:19Speaker 2: I have cat stories?
- 0:20Speaker 1: National Cat Day?
- 0:21Speaker 2: First of all?
- 0:22Speaker 1: All right, let's do a string of cat stories.
- 0:24Speaker 2: Hey, yes, because we have great love for cats around here,
- 0:28Speaker 2: and I know that our friends and listeners love cats too,
- 0:31Speaker 2: because we get a lot of great comments. And there's
- 0:33Speaker 2: a really feel good story from right here in New
- 0:36Speaker 2: York where police officer Frank Squillante, he's with the NYPD,
- 0:41Speaker 2: had rescued a little kitten and he said this was
- 0:44Speaker 2: a sign that we were meant to be together. So
- 0:47Speaker 2: what happened was there was a food truck near Central
- 0:50Speaker 2: Park and people heard the little me yeah, and they
- 0:54Speaker 2: thought something's going on, And so many people gathered around
- 0:57Speaker 2: the truck and the guys who were working in the
- 0:58Speaker 2: trunk were like, okay, hold what's going on and they
- 1:01Speaker 2: couldn't see this kitten. And then Officer Frank came over
- 1:04Speaker 2: and he got on the ground and went under and
- 1:06Speaker 2: still couldn't see the kitten, but heard them heard it again,
- 1:10Speaker 2: and he said he put his hand up in the
- 1:11Speaker 2: wheel well, and this little kitty licked his hand, and
- 1:16Speaker 2: he pulled the cat out in that moment, just five
- 1:19Speaker 2: weeks old, like a tender little kitten, just five weeks old.
- 1:23Speaker 2: The people around the truck were all like, oh, plodding, yay,
- 1:26Speaker 2: you saved him. He took them right to the vet.
- 1:28Speaker 2: They said, this is a perfectly healthy little kitten, about
- 1:30Speaker 2: five weeks old. And the officer said that he's never
- 1:33Speaker 2: had a cat in his life, but he felt like
- 1:36Speaker 2: this was a sign and that they were meant to
- 1:38Speaker 2: be together. And he's named him Cheech, and he says
- 1:41Speaker 2: he's the cutest little guy. And now they're living happily.
- 1:44Speaker 1: Ever after Christ.
- 1:45Speaker 2: That's funny. It's just Cheech is like a nickname for
- 1:48Speaker 2: frank My dad's name is Franken. They call him Cheech.
- 1:51Speaker 1: So it's cute.
- 1:52Speaker 2: He bonded with the kitten. Yeah, oh, how sweet. He's great,
- 1:57Speaker 2: that's what I think. So he's now a family member.
- 1:59Speaker 2: And speaking of cats as family members, I have one more.
- 2:03Speaker 2: This is a story of a couple who's getting divorced
- 2:05Speaker 2: and they have two cats and no kids, and the
- 2:09Speaker 2: wife wants custody of the cats, and she won custody
- 2:13Speaker 2: of the cat's husband agreed that she can have the cats.
- 2:16Speaker 2: He has to pay catimony. What did we tats support
- 2:23Speaker 2: at two forty dollars every three months?
- 2:26Speaker 1: Proud support me ten.
- 2:27Speaker 2: Years to help cover the cat's expenses.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Wow, that's funny, he said.
- 2:31Speaker 2: He felt like his wife should have the cats. He
- 2:33Speaker 2: agreed they will be very well cared for, but he's
- 2:36Speaker 2: going to miss them now.
- 2:38Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of text in your favorite jokes
- 2:40Speaker 1: on this at four four six three. You know, if
- 2:42Speaker 1: you call child support child support and this is just
- 2:45Speaker 1: about cats, is it meal support? Is it literate support?
- 2:48Speaker 1: I don't know?
- 2:49Speaker 2: Is it U cat support?
- 2:50Speaker 1: Cat? There's got to be a joke there somewhere we're
- 2:53Speaker 1: missing it. You got a text. It's right in front
- 2:56Speaker 1: of us, Christie, right there. You can't quite grasp it.