# When you're a cat, you're a cat all the way **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436 "2014-03-11T14:57:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **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:** [March 11, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/1 "2014-03-11T14:57:37Z")
Didn’t Frank Sinatra sing a song with those lyrics? I can’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/2 "2014-03-11T15:04:19Z")
Wasn’t it “When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way” from West Side Story? ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/3 "2014-03-11T15:19:46Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wasn’t it “When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way” from West Side Story? This is what I thought of when I read the title. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/4 "2014-03-11T15:21:09Z")
Was it about felines? Or about “cats” in the Dennis Miller sense of just a groovy dude? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/5 "2014-03-11T15:26:18Z")
When you’re a cat, You’re a cat all the way From your first taste of milk To your ninth dyin’ day. ---
**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:** [March 11, 2014, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/6 "2014-03-11T15:31:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Wasn’t it “When you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way” from West Side Story? That’s got to be it. I haven’t seen WSS in decades, and Sinatra used the word ‘cat’. Obviously I conflated them. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/7 "2014-03-11T15:55:06Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > When you’re a cat, > You’re a cat all the way > From your first taste of milk > To your ninth dyin’ day. When you’re a cat, You’re a family man; You’ve got thousands of kits And you eat from a can. You never sit still, You’re always out there prowlin’ (bumbum) Chasin’ the birds, Or on the fence a-howlin’ (bumbumbum). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/8 "2014-03-11T16:07:31Z")
Your cat is probably sneaking in to your room at night and slowly replacing words in your memories with the word “cat.” ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/9 "2014-03-11T16:09:12Z")
[Obligatory cat photo.](http://cheezburger.com/1788219136) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/10 "2014-03-11T16:11:49Z")
Gee, Officer Krupke, I’m down on my knees My father had heartworms My mother had fleas… ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/11 "2014-03-11T16:22:50Z")
Meowria, I just pet a cat named Meowria… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/12 "2014-03-11T16:40:04Z")
“I feel kitty, oh so kitty. I feel kitty, and witty, and bright. And I pity any cat who isn’t me tonight.” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/13 "2014-03-11T16:53:58Z")
I think you’re thinking of the Ted Nugent song. “Boogie Fever.” ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/14 "2014-03-11T17:06:23Z")
[When You’re a Goat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz4tnbzgnDQ) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/15 "2014-03-11T17:07:22Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Your cat is probably sneaking in to your room at night and slowly replacing words in your memories with the word “cat.” I’m thinking of naming a cat John Malkovich. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/16 "2014-03-11T17:57:17Z")
Make of our lives…nine…lives… ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/17 "2014-03-11T18:02:28Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > Make of our lives…nine…lives… Hahahahahahaha! ---
**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:** [March 11, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/18 "2014-03-11T18:51:55Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Your cat is probably sneaking in to your room at night and slowly replacing words in your memories with the word “cat.” That sounds like one who was the quintessential CAT–our tomcat Archie. 🙂 Beating up his rivals? Siring kittens? Fending off dogs? Keeping up his image of scorn-the-human? Terrorizing the local mouse community? Arch did all that and more. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/19 "2014-03-11T19:02:39Z")
Sylvester - say it loud and it’s very stirring Say it soft and it’s almost like purring Sylvester, Sylvester, Sylvester, Sylvester! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-youre-a-cat-youre-a-cat-all-the-way/683436/20 "2014-03-11T23:26:32Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > That’s got to be it. I haven’t seen WSS in decades, and Sinatra used the word ‘cat’. Obviously I conflated them. > > Thanks. The scary thing is, I’ve never seen West Side Story. Don’t ask me where I pulled that one out of.