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Taylor Swift is in a sad mood as experts reveal that her cats have a condition causing them constant pain.
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To any devoted Taylor Swift fan, the musician’s cats are almost as well known as she is, frequently appearing in her TikTok postings and with hundreds of millions of posts devoted to them across social media.
But as Swift’s planet-conquering Eras tour prepares to land in the UK next month, animal welfare experts have urged her fans not to copy Swift’s cats, saying the same characteristics that make the breed cute also condemn them to a life of constant pain.
Swift has three cats, two of which, Olivia Benson and Meredith Grey, are Scottish folds, a breed distinguished by a genetic mutation that makes their ears fold flat and gives them an “owl-like” appearance. But the same gene that causes floppy cartilage in their ears also causes osteochondrodysplasia, which leads to abnormal bone growth, arthritis and severe pain.
Ironically, in Scotland, where the breed originated and where Swift plays her first UK date in Edinburgh on 7 June, the breeding of Scottish folds is in effect banned, while other countries, including the Netherlands, Australia and Norway, have also placed restrictions on them on animal welfare grounds.
That has not stopped their numbers surging in recent years, according to Cats Protection, a UK cat welfare charity. Its most recent large-scale survey of cat owners suggests 1% of the UK’s 10.6 million cats may now be Scottish Folds, or about 100,000 in total, and that 3% of cats acquired last year were from the breed
We are not saying that Taylor herself is at fault for owning them,” said Sarah Elliott, the organisation’s central veterinary officer, adding that for most owners, “the breeders are not really giving them the information that they need.
This is something owners find out later, and often it’s quite devastating to find out that your cat has this condition that can’t be cured, and that they’re going to be in pain for life.”
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“Serena Williams’ husband opened up about how fatherhood has changed him as a man. He explained that it eliminated his selfishness by making him prioritize his children above anyone else in the world, noting that his daughter instantly transformed his life.”
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Serena Williams husband opened up on how fatherhood changed him as a man, killing off his selfishness by putting his children before anyone else in the world as his daughter changed his life instantly.
Alexis Ohanian, who is famous and wealthy for founding the popular social media website, Reddit, began a relationship with the tennis ace back in 2015 before they married in 2017, but it wasn’t until they had kids in September that year that Ohanian began to change.
can’t tell you how many decisions I made in my twenties and my thirties pre-fatherhood that were so selfish,” Ohanian said to Business Dad. “And it was so geared around, ‘I’ve got look out for me, this is it.’
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And like yeah I might be with someone whatever but I’m still at the end of the day it’s still me above all. It’s a liberating thing to now know, ‘Actually it’s not that important, Alexis.’ These humans, like this is your charge, this is your responsibility now. This is your legacy.
“And all the other s**t doesn’t actually matter. There’s two humans now whose opinion I really care about and they’re my kids.”
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Travis Kelce finally breaks his silence on THAT Eras Tour appearance… as he teases New Heights ep
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Less than two weeks after he appeared on stage during Taylor Swift’s third show at London’s Wembley Stadium, the Chiefs player will address the viral moment on his New Heights podcast.
‘We gotta talk about it,’ his co-host, brother Jason, said in a teaser for their season two finale episode, which was posted Tuesda
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“Tammy has supported Andy through his entire professional coaching career, starting with his stint with the Green Bay Packers in 1992, all the way through his current role as the Chiefs’ head coach.”
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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is all about football, family, faith — and his wife, Tammy.Andy’s relationship with Tammy traces back to the early days of his career when he was a football player at Brigham Young University. After meeting on campus, the couple began dating. By that summer, things were serious between the pair, and at the suggestion of Tammy’s father, Andy converted to Mormonism. A year later, Andy and Tammy were married in 1981.
I’ve been … with her for about 40 years now,” he said in February 2020 after winning the Super Bowl with the Chiefs. “Every day is a special day, I’m telling ya. I call her my girlfriend for that reason. You never lose interest if you do that, right, you guys out there? Call them your girlfriend and you always do special things for them.”
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