Dear Catnabbit!

I wanted to write to you about a terrible thing that is happening on a website called Myspace. Hopefully if you can get the word out, cats everywhere will be safe from the growing menace of humans masquerading as cats!

It all started about a month ago when I first signed up to Myspace. My friends had told me about this great site where I could meet other cats to make friends and maybe even find a nice young Tomcat to have a fling with! I made a page with my own profile and I found out that I could even write my own blog! I quickly found some groups for other cats who are on Myspace and they all wanted to be my friend!

Before long, I had close to a hundred “friends” who all purported themselves to be cats. I thought I was the luckiest cat in the world when Oliver asked me on a date! He was the hottest tom on myspace, and he wanted to see me in real life! Of course I wanted to meet with him! So we arranged to meet in the alley behind Target, and he promised to bring the fish and catnip for a nice romantic dinner date.

Oh Catnabbit, if I had only listened to the rumors I had heard! Oliver was no cat! He didn’t even look anything like the picture in his Myspace profile! He wasn’t a cat, a dog, or even a ferret. He was a man! A fat, hairy man who looked like he was in his 40’s. Of course, as soon as he introduced himself as Oliver and said, “Here, kitty” I took off in the other direction!

When I told my friends about this, I found out that I was not the first to be duped by this sinister man. In fact, this guy apparently has several Myspace profiles he uses, to lure cats into meeting him. Some cats have gone to meet him and no one ever saw them again! We think that maybe he is taking them home and restricting their internet access, and we have no idea what he might be doing to them!

Please, Catnabbit, get the word out! The cats on Myspace need to know that a human can very easily present himself as a cat, so everyone needs to be careful when planning to meet another feline online! I was fortunate enough to get away, but someone else might not be so lucky!

Sincerely,

Dobbie (a real live cat)

Hi Dobbie,

Thanks for letting us know! Catnabbit has had a small presence on Myspace for quite some time, but we have been careful not to meet any cats that we talk to online. You just can’t be too careful these days.

One thing we’ve noticed is that the most suspicious cats on Myspace use premade Myspace layouts. Usually if a cat is genuine, he’s smart enough and has enough time to make a Myspace layout of his own. Humans are more lazy than we are (believe it or not) and are more likely to use a premade layout to quickly “get down to business” of luring people or cats under false pretenses. Be on guard!

One advantage cats have over humans is that a large percentage of us are spayed or neutered and therefore don’t have an absolute need to meet in “real life” in order to communicate with other cats. In fact, almost all cats would prefer to never meet another cat except for reasons of procreation.

So, keep your feline friends far and your enemies further!

If you are still interested in Myspace, we have uncovered several links to Cat Groups on Myspace (you have been warned):

smitten kittens of myspace
*Cat Lovers*
Cats Kittens and Felines
Cats Rock!
We Hate the Vet!
The Catnip Party Network
Cats Rule! Dogs Drool!

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