March 13th 1979 Dear Gentlemen: The Purina Cat Care Center Checkerboard Square I know that you ’re specialty is with nutrition for felines and learning about their behaviour. But I was wondering if you could comment at least on a particularly disturbing manner concerning my cat? He is a Tomcat and has a weight of over Twelve Pounds! His name is Tzara — that’s right! — t and z and then ara. Tzara. I t ’s after a great Teacher of mine back in the Twenties. He is not fixed and I understand he is big enough to not get hurt on his own outside. He is about twenty years old to or more and I ’ve loved him since my wife passed on to Glory. It is hard to believe how Smart he seems and that’s where I bring you my problem. Just these past few weeks he is speaking almost. He has always meowed and meowed and meowed. But now he says some things that are almost words but not quite. I live in a secure building so that some Young Folk are not making fun of me so it is not like that. But Tzara is trying to say some Words! Just like we say Mr. Purina! It is difficult for me to say exactly how he says things — because he is not yet saying things I fully understand — but he isn ’t meowing and meowing and meowing any more. No! He is saying a bit of a word like ours. He is saying Okay Now? sometimes and other times I hear him saying things with even more almost-words like What Do We Do? or I Am Not Hearing the Birds and this hurts. And then when I answer it is back to the old meow meow like every cat we know. I love cats very much but I have never heard something no where near this! Is it Diet? I feed him only MEOW MIX now and have even entered the Sweepstakes. But I ’m sorry that I am so old to not know what he is saying or trying to say anymore and I would like you to suggest what is going on? My friends say I ’m batty and that my hearing aid is playing tricks but I have my Check-Ups and everything is oaky in those departments. Maybe it ’s that Tzara is so old that His voice is doing funny things that fool me? Can this happen in an old cat? I don’t believe in any of this possession nonsense or spirits and I don’t hear anything else unusual. So the Voice is different and maybe not talking but sounding a lot like ta lking. Thank You for Years of Fine Products! Bob Desnos 2324 Northwest Johnson #2 Portland, OR 97210 Dear Mr. Desnos: ^ a rch 22, 197 9 Thank you for your detailed letter concerning your tomcat which you feel is almost to the point of speaking. In answer to your question as to whether a cat can communicate, I feel that this is impossible, because cats do not have a nervous system for interpreting meanings or else to communicate verbally. On the other hand, I am sure that your cat is vocal in some way, which is probably for his own comfort. It sounds like you have a very good pet and I hope that you have many more happy years with him. Thank you for feeding our products. Since^ly, 44 Sincerely Bob Desnos K . ir 'KeS ty 'TQ S Research Associate Pet Nutrition and Research -*o61 ^ o s । t foroQmuatlhiteyDPieesk o f Mister ' March 16th 1979 Dear Management, I am a Senior Citizen who still works Fulltime a t Fred Meyer’s! WhenI ’m notworking — mostly SalesManagingand Consulting since I was for years a successful printer back East — and I writing on my book about, my life some eighty Plus years o f i t or writing letters to Neighbors in the Community! I am lucky next to other OldPeople. I have my fixed income and Savings and o f course my work which includes a movie onp on on my book! I am a parltime adviser to Profes- si<-- 'clans since I was once Quite Gooda t Piano and an > ’s Volunteer Consultant a t Good Samaritan \ ' t across the road fromyou. Plus there is my hi-fi \ *mature.-oxfohugahbuiIt s.afSl emowmo msetnoaimlgwheantystssI Iegagetetaot ttf ofEwbv eeo’rsAklBoaunnfedf!evtiIsiatmYonuontga \. People a t the nightclub or take a new way home and stop in a t a Quality Piel Such a GoodName! andWhat a Menu! The help is ® So Go '-' smiles and asking i f I need something else and ighing by my table! These employees were Well they speakto eachother likepoolhallBuddies! m ’t tell Them they always make my foodJust jod be, cda suosme eI wamates ro oor ldso —meI saomft ionvgerredE ii egnhtt tyoaMndr. those table-cleaners who work so careful to you. n ’t have to do this for me because like I say I can Chew_goreavI ylobvul ei tktteh!oesSr eo padrooetannt’to etCNs hweacniet ghseswayreoytu! sSriudPceohs lGaicnoydo fdtohFreomoEdaydsosyaetskoe ggssgsga notknow aboutYoungn” " ButYour Employeestry to be so k ind and helpful dare say a word. Well yo1’ ' ne with Quality. Maybe Best Qu^1" he Action and Drmas in your Valueevse! r b.u^toIk!mSO eaKlneettetope sir tatUoypTM!hIoaKrnenkaoYbwotuhtwaythoyeuonruI a Satisfied Customer,
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