Yankee the giant St Bernard lets stray cats snuggle up to him every night

Daily Mail ^ | 11-27-13 | Simon Tomlinson

[Dysart]

They were originally bred to rescue mountaineers trapped in snow storms.

So it is perhaps no surprise this giant St Bernard also wants to help the needy, albeit of a rather different kind.

For nine-year-old Yankee has been letting dozens of stray cats cuddle up to him when he goes to sleep every night to shelter them from the cold.

[DJ MacWoW]

I found that online and HAD to use it! :-)

[MUDDOG]

My Webster's 7th New Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam) doesn't have moggie or moggy.

My Webster's 2nd edition (unabridged) of Webster's New International Dictionary (that's the famous edition that was replaced around 1960) has moggy ("Dial. eng. a. A cow or a calf; sometimes, a cat; -- a pet name. b. A scarecrow c. A slattern."), but no moggie.

Google has the cat definition of moggie.

I never saw moggie or moggy before today.

[Lady Jag]

They figure if they can make friends with us
they can make friends of other species.

[Dysart]

"moggy" or "moggie": In sense “mongrel cat”, 1911, of Unknown origin, possibly Cockney. Possibly derived from maggie, margie or mog, all short forms of the female name Margaret. Original sense, early 19th century, is a term of affection for a calf or cow, which may have been transfered to cats under urbanization. Later 19th century meaning of “untidy woman, slattern”. Alternatively, in Wigan, moggy traditionally applied to mice, not cats, and a cat was hence a moggy catcher, which may have been abbreviated to moggy.[1][2] Apparently not an abbreviation of similar-seeming mongrel, though perhaps from similar Old English/Proto-Germanic source; see mongrel for details.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moggy

[publius911]

New word for me.

Limey-isms are an endless source of linguistic education.

[TheOldLady]

“Moggie” is the Queen’s English for “cat.”

[MUDDOG]

Thanks!

I love words. "Moggie" seems like it's pretty common in England. But I never came across it in all those Agatha Christie books.

[Monkey Face]

The best of both worlds! Fangs!

[Slings and Arrows]

De nada, chica.

[Monkey Face]

*hug*

[TheOldLady]

You’re welcome. :)

[jocon307]

LOL, Ok, I was worried there for a bit.

[DJ MacWoW]

Well I do take in strays. Had a tom cat chase one in through my torn screen. Poor tom cat panicked when he realized he was in my house. LOL

[9YearLurker]

Looks like the barn cats are doing the good deed—coming out in the cold to keep the lonely pooch warm at night!

[Hot Tabasco]

Poor dog, what the heck could he do, he was outnumbered?

I can just imagine the ridiculing email and letters he's probably receiving from fellow canines around the world....The internet is not your friend!

[Hot Tabasco]

Cats have staff...

I'm not being critical but that picture is disturbing. While they have a thick coat of hair, it's difficult for any dog to lie on the frozen ground without being affected by the cold as this one might be.

That's why outdoor housed dogs are provided with an abundant layer of straw in their houses........

It is a cute photo tho.........

[Hot Tabasco]

See tagline. Totally different definition from "moggy"

Since we're jumpin' for TAGLINE attention, SEE MINE!

[jocon307]

“Poor tom cat panicked when he realized he was in my house.”

LOL! I’m inside! I’m inside!

[Mogger]

Since we're jumpin' for TAGLINE attention, SEE MINE!

Moggy, Mogger, Muffit... Next?

[Mogger]

BTW, “Mogger” is someone who has a Unimog, thus, Mogs, and is a “Mogger”.