The Current25:32New research suggests cats are more social, and less aloof, than we thought
Combing through more than a century’s worth of news stories about cats, New York Times archivist Jennifer Parrucci started to notice a theme: cats as “agents of chaos.”
“They’re constantly interrupting things or just causing problems,” she told The Current’s Matt Galloway.
Parrucci is co-author of Cats: From the Archives of The New York Times, a compendium of articles about cat shenanigans from 1854 to 1964. She explained that a quirk of newspaper layouts meant there were plenty to choose from.
“You’d have these kind of strange holes or spots you need to fill — so a lot of these stories are pretty short … these kind of tidbit, entertaining stories,” she said.
