R.I.P. Socks

[tazber]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:00am

From stray to first cat - slumcat millionaire passes

[Q]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:08am

This just isn't what I wanted it to be about.

I thought 'they' were dead.

Oh, well.

Updated On: 2/21/09 at 01:08 AM

[Tom's Cat]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:12am

It's very sad whenever a cat passes away.

I'm quite sure he left his mark - in fact, many of them - on the White House during his stay.

Updated On: 2/21/09 at 01:12 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:13am

Oh, I didn't even think of that.

ETA: this was to Q.

I didn't even see you pop in there TC

Updated On: 2/21/09 at 01:13 AM

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:19am

They gave her away the day they moved out of the White House?

[tazber]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:22am

I know JG.
I guess he was Chelsea's and neither one of them had time to care for him after they left.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:26am

And Buddy was hit by a car.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:28am

My little sister had a friend whose cat was similarly colored and also named Socks. She wrote to President Clinton and sent him a picture of her cat Socks. He sent her back a picture of Socks that he had signed. I was about 9 years old at the time and thought that was so cool.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:33am

Great story!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:41am

We had a black and white cat named Socks in my family, too. I never got a personalized letter from the president, though. But I did get one from Jason Priestley once. It was back in my 90210-obsessed days. I mailed him a fan letter and he sent back an autographed postcard. Though my siblings still insist it was a stamped autograph. But I think they were just jealous that Brandon wrote to me. Haters!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 8:03am

Sad. I got a photo of him as well. I don't have it anymore though.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 9:03am

I met Socks once.

A group of us were waiting for the President with diver Greg Louganis, who was on the book tour for the memoir in which he revealed he was HIV positive.

They told us the president would be another hour, and it ended up being almost two. Mrs Clinton stopped by to meet Greg, then Mrs Gore, then they took us on a tour of the West Wing. The rest of us were fascinated just to be there, but it was 1995 and the CDC had put Greg on a blind protocol for what turned out to be the new protease inhibitors, and the massive doses exhausted him.

Mrs Currie said that the President was still detained with some Japanese businessmen, but he really wanted to meet Greg, who was getting tired and cranky. Mrs Currie knew that Greg was an animal person--he raised and trained show dogs--so she said, "Well, Greg, I think there's one more member of the White House staff who'd like to meet you," and she brought Socks in--on a leash! Apparently they couldn't let him wander around the White House unleashed because he would hide. Socks immediately took to Greg and jumped in Greg's arms like a dog would, and the two of them were purring until the President was ushered in, with staff arranging who should stand where and photographers clicking.

And that's how I came to have a picture of myself in the Oval Office with Greg Louganis holding Socks. It's framed on the wall of my office.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 9:32am

I love that story, PJ - for many reasons.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 10:59am

I wonder if THAT pus$y ever smoked a cigar in the Oval Office.

[blueroses]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 11:00am

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:07pm

Poor Socks! I'm such a ridiculous cat person.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:13pm

I did not realize that Socks was a Kitler...
other Kitlers

[StockardFan]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 1:14pm

PJ, that's a great story!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 4:16pm

He was kind of included in the obituaries in the newspaper today. Just a little thing telling that he died and what he has done in his life. I just love animals.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/21/09 at 4:50pm

I want that Clinton-Gore hat!