# R.I.P. Colonel Meow **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250 "2014-02-13T15:20:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/1 "2014-02-13T15:20:30Z")
[Colonel Meow has died](http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/tech/social-media/apparently-this-matters-rip-colonel-meow/). . ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/2 "2014-02-13T15:22:54Z")
RIP Colonel Meow. That is (was) one furry cat! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/3 "2014-02-13T15:33:56Z")
Shouldn’t he have been Chairman Meow? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/4 "2014-02-15T05:07:19Z")
What happened to him? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/5 "2014-02-15T06:51:59Z")
I wasn’t attuned to this particular meme, but I think it bears mentioning why a cat has died at 2 years. “Ill”? At least Keyboard Cat is okay? Right!? :)… ☹ Also, _ **averaged** _ to 9 inches? What was the maximum? Whole body or just his trunk? While I type this one of the cats jumped on my lap. He looks less evil, but I bet that in actual evilness wise, Meow is like a mere Khrushchev to my cat’s Stalin or Pol Pot. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/6 "2014-02-15T06:59:40Z")
Damn—that was one seriously butt-ugly cat. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/7 "2014-02-15T11:04:37Z")
Was it murder? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/8 "2014-02-15T16:04:12Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > What happened to him? ☹ [From Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Meow): ‘In November of 2013, Colonel Meow was hospitalized due to heart problems and underwent a difficult surgery and blood transfusion. On January 30, 2014 his owners announced on Facebook that Colonel Meow had died.’ > [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I wasn’t attuned to this particular meme, but I think it bears mentioning why a cat has died at 2 years. “Ill”? From the same link: ‘According to the owners, the 11th October of 2011 is not the actual birth date of Colonel Meow, but the date of his adoption. His real birth date remains unknown.’ ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/9 "2014-02-15T19:01:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > From the same link: ‘According to the owners, the 11th October of 2011 is not the actual birth date of Colonel Meow, but the date of his adoption. His real birth date remains unknown.’ Right, that’s typical for DSH/DLH cats, but he was probably _about_ 2 years old. It’s not like they could saw him in half and count the rings. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/10 "2014-02-15T19:30:30Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > [From Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Meow): ‘In November of 2013, Colonel Meow was hospitalized due to heart problems and underwent a difficult surgery and blood transfusion. On January 30, 2014 his owners announced on Facebook that Colonel Meow had died.’ > > From the same link: ‘According to the owners, the 11th October of 2011 is not the actual birth date of Colonel Meow, but the date of his adoption. His real birth date remains unknown.’ It’s not unusual for persians to develop heart and lung problems. Because they are so in-bred, they can be born with malformed hearts. They have respiratory problems because they are bred for flat faces. Like bull dogs they can’t breathe normally and they’re lungs don’t develop properly. They also often are born with cleft palates, since they are bred for the flat faces that make them appear angry. They can also develop bowel obstructions from massive bezoars from self grooming. I raised persians for a while, but found having to choose between euthanizing new-born kits or watching them die was too much. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/11 "2014-02-15T19:32:59Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > It’s not like they could saw him in half and count the rings. They can _now!_😛 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/12 "2014-02-15T23:53:26Z")
You just try to do that in front of his humans. I dare you. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/r-i-p-colonel-meow/681250/13 "2014-02-16T06:43:56Z")
Would some wild-eyed radical please start un-doing the damage done to the Persian breed over the last 40 years? When your cat’s eyeballs pop out of their sockets, and queens get chewed up because thesire can’t grip her neck, why do you continue an already disasters breeding program? Congratulations - you now have cats which die before adulthood! Here’s a dollar - buy a clue