Guests at Minnesota’s oldest hotel could request a cuddly cat for the night
My husband and I stayed at the famous Anderson House Hotel in Wabasha, Minnesota a few years ago. The female tabby we chose spent most of the night cuddling with my husband. But I didn’t mind. The room was picturesque and the food at the restaurant was good.
Petside.com blog post from November 29, 2007:
Wanted: Friendly, Warm, Affectionate Ambassador for Minnesota Cat House
Arnold…How may I help you?
Okay…I know it’s a family website. But it’s not what you think. So shame on you!
Actually, The Historic Anderson House in Wabasha, Minnesota is, according to innkeeper Teresa Smith, the state’s only legal “cat house.” And for a very good reason. The staff of the 151 year-old bed-and-breakfast includes five friendly felines who, upon request, will come to your room evenings, warm your bed, and keep you company. What’s more, the hotel provides a litter box, toys, and food with each “kitty-to-go.” Most guests reserve a cat with their room, Smith says, and many put their dibs in early to ensure their favorite will be available. Poor souls with allergies can request a no-cat room.
A casualty of the Obamaconomy
I recently looked up the hotel’s website and was disappointed to find that the domain name was being “parked.” It turns out that the famous landmark hotel that had been established in 1856, had failed to survive the Obama administration. At least all of the cats who once provided companship for the guests still have homes.
Anderson House, Minnesota’s oldest hotel, closes
Last Update: March 23, 2009 – 7:19 PM
By: Kerry WestenbergA voice-mail message at the storied hotel in Wabasha starts out with a promising welcome.
Then comes a sigh, and these words, “We are sad to say that due to the bad economics that are going on, the Historic Anderson House has had to close its doors.”
Until it stopped operating Thursday, the Anderson House had been the longest running inn in the state. It was built in 1856 when Wabasha was a bustling Mississippi River town.
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The building is on the National Register of Historic Places, but may be more famous for its collection of cats that guests could bring into their rooms for the night.
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Fancher said that the more than dozen cats that resided at the hotel have been adopted by friends and former employees.
Also see:
- Strange Travels: Get a Cat with Your Room at Minnesota’s Anderson House
- Visit Americanaville: The Historic Anderson House in Wabasha, Minnesota
- Wikipedia: Historic Anderson House Hotel
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Leave it up to leftard assmonkeys and Obutthead to curtail all the fun.
Awww,how adorable,sorry they had to close and glad the kittehs found new homes.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Exactly…seems hardly anything can survive the Obamaconomy…
@ 1389AD:
1369 did you hear about Hussein flip flopping on his GZ mosk love?
@ vagabond trader:
1389. sorry.
vagabond trader wrote:
Oooh! Can we have a linky? Sounds fun!
@ PrincessNatasha:
Muzz in chief back pedals
@ vagabond trader:
LOL, typical Obama backpedal. Must have seen new polls or something. Not surprising to me in the least. Didn’t he do something similar after his AIPAC speech? He is the waffle in chief.
@ snowcrash:
If this guy went into a 3 hole outhouse he’s wet himself.
@ vagabond trader:
LOL. To the muslims at dinner Obama said they had the right to build. To the rest of us the next day, he said that doesnt mean he supports the project. ROFL there is more of that “change” stuff. In CJ’s world Obama is a BIGOT. Everytime Obama clarify’s his remarks he gives us a gift. Dem’s have to be going INSANE!!
@ snowcrash:
These feckless commie wannabes have given the Rs an arsenal to use. Lets hope the equally dumb Rs don’t blow themselves up.
Because I am violently-allergic to cats, this story gave me a chill. I just hope all those cats were humanely euthanized, so they don’t add to the world’s climbing dander-count.
@ vagabond trader:
I’m checking the other threads now.
garycooper wrote:
The cats were all adopted out and have new homes.
AFAIK, you can’t get cat allergies just from READING a Caturday thread.
Cat allergy shots are a lot more effective than they used to be. You might consider desensitization if you are worried about serious consequences from accidental exposure to cat allergens.
And please be nice. After all, kitties aren’t exchanging messages about doing any harm to YOU.
@ 1389AD:
I apologize fro the scheduling error! Your post was supposed to be up until 8.
My bad on this.
THAT’S BETTER!
Party on!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rodan wrote:
Not a problem!!!
So, are teh kittehs on teh unemployment since the hotel closed?
Oh wow, civilization.
*rubs eyes. . . . . squints*
I lost the flowers. They blew out of the rag top cadillac.
Nice to be here.
@ Rodan:
Rodan– Check yer emailage.
Admins
Please see #107 down thread.
The Osprey wrote:
No, they’re providing pest control and emotional support for private clients.
@ chickadee:
ditto!
If I ever get stuck on a thread to nowhere again, I’ll be lucky to have you along!
Raising a glass of rum, cola, and lime to all kittehs everywhere!
Oh crap. . . . . I lost a shoe.
I loved those heels.
I’m going back. I think I lost it on the dirt road.
chickadee wrote:
Where are you??
@ chickadee:
LOL!
You really liked that red head didn’t you!
1389AD wrote:
Kittehs are more productive than Dem-voting welfare leeches and other communist swine. So… More kittehs, less commies! Now, there’s change I can believe in!
@ 1389AD:
The last thing we need around here is another cat! I love having ‘em around, but we’ve got a houseful.
chickadee wrote:
How do you lose a shoe and not notice it, like, right away?
Lost wrote:
Oh yeah. We can navigate the backroads.
btw, how did you know I was wearing a pink bandana today? (Pepto Bismol pink.) I love that one .
It did stop that car of lib metrosexual fops.
Ahhh, Ludwigged Out, Dork Foul, and Chuckie the dole troll are all on a wingnut attack just now, one of my socks is with them , should be fun….
chickadee wrote:
intuition!
mfhorn wrote:
The proper number of kittehs is the number that you can comfortably provide adequate care and attention to. I have just one kitteh. We won’t get another one unless and until financial circumstances improve considerably.
Bob in Breckenridge wrote:
The excitement dude. And the drinks at the Crystal Palace.
I dropped it some where. I think it fell out of my purse.
lgf’s .0001
1. Islamic support group.
2. Commie nut case loon support group.
3. Crazed earth first global warming support group.
4. Cato the Elder rude thug support group.
5. Sock Heven for me.
@ chickadee:
Must say that was fun!
Off to buy shoes for the kiddies. bbi an hour or 2.
@ Lost:
That’s what I thought.
@ 1389AD:
Cuba Libre!
Mine right now
2 oz. 10 Cane rum
Splash Pineapple Juice
1 0z. 7-Up
Turn in shaker of large ice and pour
@ taxfreekiller:
Good Luck!
It is a good thing, lgf’s .0001 is not prejudiced aginst conservitives and/or bans them all or Chuckie, Dork Foul, Ludwigged Out, Gus 802, Icewicked, etal wouold be subjecto to scorn for their bull shit…
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
Bob,
I’m half way out the door (not copping out, really) but I feel it’s only right to let you know that some of us were not comfortable with your sentiments in the thread below.
They were stereotypical at best and racist at worst.
Charles is dinging my IP thingey….
vagabond trader wrote:
That guy lies so much he has no soul. There’s a reason why one of the Ten Commandments forbids bearing false witness. Aside from the damage it does to one’s fellow human beings, constant lying eventually obliterates the liar’s identity. Some day he will look in the mirror and nothing will be looking back at him.
Make my cat orange
@ Grimcargo:
http://gothamist.com/2010/08/12/cat_fashion_show.php
1389AD wrote:
Even with my crappy financial situation I will be caring for Her Imperious Majesty until the day she dies from old age. Then I hope I can find another furred beast at a price I can afford to take her place.
That should throw them off, I gave him a nice response. Then gave one word answers to his questions.
developing
Lost wrote:
We have some great conservatives running in Nov.
Black Conservatives.
Col. Allen West is incredible. Brilliant, a soldier, a patriot, a Constitutionalist.
I heard him on Levin’s show.
Too bad he didn’t come along in a Jeep when we were lost in the wilderness.
I would vote for him for POTUS in a heartbeat.
@ taxfreekiller:
What a joke of a site they’ve become.
@ 1389AD:
Lying and particularly back biting is spiritual murder.
@ 1389AD:
When Obama looks in a mirror, he sees the loving gaze of the most precious thing in the world to him. He is totally in love with that person, to the exclusion of everything else in the universe.
1389AD wrote:
Remember that lying is one of the top Mooslum commandments when dealing with others.
Notice how all of them follow in lock step with Heir Leader.
chickadee wrote:
Alan West? Me to
@ 1389AD:
7 here. The oldest 3 are 10 or more, the rest are 4 or under.
Did everyone go to the beach this weekend?
taxfreekiller wrote:
ROFLMAO
The more I mess with them the more sure I am that it is a bunch of PHD’s in physchology running a long term study of mass psyco.
taxfreekiller wrote:
Ponytail in German is Pferdeschwanz. Heil der Pferdeschwanz!
@ Lost:
Thanks, Lost. I commented on that as well, but it looked like the thread pretty well died out after my reply.
1389AD wrote:
Take a look at that photo of zero on Drudge right now. He is going to see that face looking back at him for the rest of his life.
An asshat looking so arrogant and condescending but still like a confused defensive idiot.
How does he do it? What a skill.
@ taxfreekiller:
It’s crazy over there.
@ F:
All of ours were either from the shelter or ones we rescued from the streets. Or catnapped from a neglectful neighbor.
@ PrincessNatasha:
I would add Dogs and Ferrets to that list as well. Animals have good souls. Progressives have evil souls.
upthread,someone mentioned how the dems reacted to obama’s mosque mistake
well sorta like this (grin)
Democrats were frustrated today with Barack Obama’s radical stance on the Ground Zero Mosque. Obama supports a mosque at Ground Zero along with only 20% of voters. A vast majority of Americans do not want a victory mosque built near the former World Trade buildings.
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bwahahahahahahahaha……hahahahahahaha
hahahahahaa
*wipes tear from eye*
bwahahahahahahah
giggle,snort,chuckle
ya think!
So, should I tell marjoriemoon of Harry Reids 1993 “anti immigrant” immigrations bill, that had “end anchor baby stuff in it”???
My, My, My, how the do march to CJ’s looney tunes.
I thought Ludwank never posted on during the Sabbath?
Dumb ass Luddwigg,
It is a sock puppet, not a dam troll……….
You rock TFK!
mfhorn wrote:
Her Imperious Majesty was a roof kitteh.
During a typical Fresno, CA rainstorm she was on the roof of the two story sheer sided apartment building I lived in on the 2nd floor.
Almost 16 years later she’s still with me.
ms tfk is falling out of her chair laughing….
taxfreekiller wrote:
Yes
Charles, stop dinging my IP thingey, ms tfk is watching….
@ rain of lead:
See how fundamentally dishonest they are?
They aren’t even going to run on all their obama achievements in congress. They aren’t going to mention Hell Care or the many Porkulus bills they rammed through or any of the rest of it.
These bastards are going to run on a conservative platform and not even be seen with the zero.
fck these charlatans. Pure evil. They are using our philosophy to get elected and then they vote like fcking communists.
Dam, Dork Foul thinks Ludwigged can read……poor fool.
You know, it’s ironic Charles takes himself so seriously. No one else does.
@ F:
Awe. . . that is so sweet.
@ F:
Lucky kitty!
I lost one 3 years ago this month that I’d had 18 years- got him from the shelter. One of ours was a near-feral cat that’s missing her left rear foot. Karen took her in, got her fixed, and got her tamed to where she’s one of the most affectionate of all of ‘em. 2 of the others are her grandkitties, from different litters. Another one just wandered up & kept hanging around her house until she took her in.
Mullah Charles Run with it.
Dark Falcon, when are you going to wake up? You are hanging out with fools and idiots dude.
@ taxfreekiller:
My ding a ling
My ding a ling…
@ chickadee:
That’s because they ARE Dirty Fuckin’ Communists!
MrPaulRevere wrote:
His butt cult minions take him serious, really.
They take advantage of him, but they take him serious.
Pinheads following a pinhead, for sure.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
“Mullah Charles”
rofl
There are some real leftist jerks over there these days who would by right at home on “indymedia” which Charles used to slam or with the KookyKosKids. Look at this gem from “WindUpBird”
Can you just think of being married to Ludwigged out.
He will not even allow her to breath hard during sex, to much CO2 .
chickadee wrote:
No need to give me attribution, just run with it, lol
@ taxfreekiller:
There could be a Mrs QuackQuack? Oh dear God.
Now they pull out the strawman of Lawrence Auster to beat up for a while…what a joke.
mfhorn wrote:
@ taxfreekiller:
What is all this, then?
Lost wrote:
First of all, NOTHING I said was racist. Considering Blacks are about 14% of Americans, yet they make up about 40% of Americans collecting welfare, as compared to about 6% of the white Americans, who make up about 60% of the population.
And furthermore, my point about the fact that I have very little respect for most of them, is, as I stated, because of the
peoplecrooks they continually re-elect year after year to represent them- Rangel, Waters, Jackson-Lee, etc., and the fact that 95% of them vote for one party, decade after decade, even though that party uses them and had made most of their lives worse than the average black family’s was before LBJ’s Great Society almost 50 years ago. Sorry, I’m not going to apologize, because nothing I said was untrue.Lawrence Auster doesn’t like the 9-11 mosque, ergo everyone else who doesn’t like it is a fan of Lawrence Auster. This is what passes for serious dialogue at LGF.
@ rain of lead:
mfhorn wrote:
God forbid they begat a whole flock of doom mongering ducklings.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
You do lay it on a little thick at times.
So, is it that the lgf’s main brains think that 70% of America are racist, as it is that 70% of Americans do not want the mosque that close to the twin towers location.
In fact the polls now say a majority of Democrats do not like the location, have Democrats too gone all racist now?
mfhorn wrote:
Supposedly he has proposed to a woman, over the phone.
Romeo, Romeo…Can You Hear Me Now?
He is talking about getting an engagement ring now on the thread I’m on.@ The Osprey:
Who is Lawrence Auster and why does Chuckles dislike him so?
MrPaulRevere wrote:
He is not going to ‘wake up,’
He turned and followed chunkie’s lead so early on. Way before he had to. Just to get in on the ground level shift from conservatism to lib insanity and be one of the first ones over the cliff.
How do grown men lose all sense of themselves and crawl in next to flipflopping losers like chunck.
That is sad. Getting up under the apron of a derelict like Hen.
@ mfhorn:
*blink**blink*
…………
bwahahahahahahah!
you win!
I’m not worthy
Haven’t been to the swamp for several weeks. SFG is giving CJ tons of shit.
544 Charles
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re: #535 SeafoodGumbo
Your blog has noted in the past that 85% of mosques in this country are funded by the Saudis and the Ground Zero mosque is not divulging where their funds are coming from, but it’s wrong to have a problem with that?
That’s right, I did post that entry — quoting a claim that eventually traced back to Stephen Schwartz. Obviously I can’t go back and fact check every one of about 37,000 posts, but this one I did look into — and there appears to be no valid source for this claim.
Prop Kat
/P51
He is more obscure than Chuckie, and he is not going to let a nobody right wing person be more obscure than him. IMHO
Like that, most looser too.@ The Osprey:
taxfreekiller wrote:
He probably has sex quietly and quickly so she doesn’t wake up and catch him doing it.
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Lay what on thick? I tell the truth, as I see it. Can I be mean sometimes? Yep, but I’m mean for all the right reasons, and those I’m mean to, they deserve it. I don’t sugarcoat anything. If you have a problem with that, oh well. I won’t lose any sleep over it.
@ chickadee:
Dark Falcon says he has a degree in Poli Sci, which I doubt seriously. Anyone who follows a person regardless of their whacky twists and turns has no principles, obviously.
taxfreekiller wrote:
Oh noes,
That’s not going to work.
Of course she is probably not breathing hard while having sex with him. She is looking at the clock.
@ chickadee:
I’m amazed at those who know they really don’t belong there anymore but stay. I guess the longevity with whatever prestige that affords, and the sense of belonging to something special keeps them in line. What they fail to realize is it is no longer a special place as it was in the hey day-circa 04 to 06.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
I don’t have a problem with it. You say things that are not necessary to say, capiche?
Opps, KT is on line, I have to be careful, I might hurt his feelings.
@ chickadee:
“Are you done yet? I don’t feel a thing….”
Lotsa Kitty Animations
@ Jorline:
I call BS to Foster. Fact check your ass was a ground rule even though it wasn’t officially stated; but was a common and well accepted theme.
Possum wrote:
“Lie back, and think of Gaia.”
F wrote:
Or…Is this thing on?
@ F:
Nah it’s ….are you in yet? In?? Hell I’m DONE LOL.
So boring sock work now.
No fun any longer.
typicalwhitey wrote:
I was considering saying that, but thought it might be a wee bit too crass for a male to say it.
@ rain of lead:
I heard that years ago on Dr. Demento. Has to be the single dirtiest song I’ve ever heard, just from the innuendo.
@ F:
Gotcha covered!
Hey wait a minute….does that make me crass?? LOL
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Thanks for the advice. Now go piss up a rope.
/Channeling MM
Loonwigg’s girlfriend/fiance is obviously a blow up doll, she got her name the first time he nicked her ‘skin’, Miss Sssssssssssssssss.
mfhorn wrote:
Ted Nugents Wango Tango is in the same category. Highly suggestive of sex.
I’m enjoying watching CJ squirm. Didn’t he right off Robert and Pamela for linking to people he didn’t agree with?
typicalwhitey wrote:
I wouldn’t know, are you crass?
Me vulgar and lecherous, yuppers.
taxfreekiller wrote:
Save it for Nov. 2nd.
@ Jorline:
Oh, so his 180 degree flip-flop is because he all of a sudden learned about being a Mooslum.
Yeah, riiiiiight, and I’m the Queen of America.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
I think you’re awesome. I agree with you 100 % of the time. I do think that the comment in question though, was a bit harsh, especially since we have some great Conservatives running in Nov. who are kick ass and happen to be Black Americans.
That’s all. Let’s not lose anyone on our team because we are frustrated.
@ Bob in Breckenridge:
No hard feelings man, I share your frustrations. I try to keep a strong filter between what I think and what I say.
song_and_dance_man wrote:
Yep…if you didn’t fact check and got caught with your pants down, you were called out for it.
Just for Caturday.
OH! MY! GOD!
I understand now
ya’ll really got to check this out
here is just a small part
THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY
by Carlo M. Cipolla
THE POWER OF STUPIDITY
It is not difficult to understand how social, political and institutional power enhances the damaging potential of a stupid person. But one still has to explain and understand what essentially it is that makes a stupid person dangerous to other people – in other words what constitutes the power of stupidity.
Essentially stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour. An intelligent person may understand the logic of a bandit. The bandit’s actions follow a pattern of rationality: nasty rationality, if you like, but still rationality. The bandit wants a plus on his account. Since he is not intelligent enough to devise ways of obtaining the plus as well as providing you with a plus, he will produce his plus by causing a minus to appear on your account. All this is bad, but it is rational and if you are rational you can predict it. You can foresee a bandit’s actions, his nasty manoeuvres and ugly aspirations and often can build up your defenses.
With a stupid person all this is absolutely impossible as explained by the Third Basic Law. A stupid creature will harass you for no reason, for no advantage, without any plan or scheme and at the most improbable times and places. You have no rational way of telling if and when and how and why the stupid creature attacks. When confronted with a stupid individual you are completely at his mercy. Because the stupid person’s actions do not conform to the rules of rationality, it follows that:
a) one is generally caught by surprise by the attack; b) even when one becomes aware of the attack, one cannot organize a rational defense, because the attack itself lacks any rational structure.
The fact that the activity and movements of a stupid creature are absolutely erratic and irrational not only makes defense problematic but it also makes any counter-attack extremely difficult – like trying to shoot at an object which is capable of the most improbable and unimaginable movements. This is what both Dickens and Schiller had in mind when the former stated that “with stupidity and sound digestion man may front much” and the latter wrote that “against stupidity the very Gods fight in vain.”
illustrations by James Donnelly
We need more presidents like Calvin Coolidge:
“I think the American people want a solemn ass as a President,” he once told Ethel Barrymore, “and I think I will go along with them.”
We really, really do need more presidents like “Silent Cal”:
Coolidge often seemed uncomfortable among fashionable Washington society; when asked why he continued to attend so many of their dinner parties, he replied, “Got to eat somewhere.”
@ Scott Madsen:
Way cool…thanks
MrPaulRevere wrote:
Showed up at quarter to 9 EDT. Technically, that’s right under the wire. The more interesting question is, why does he immediately head for LGF the minute the sun goes down?