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The other Crazy Cat Lady

Most people would consider the strange, non sociable lady with excessive amounts of cats to be the ‘crazy cat lady.’ A sophomore here at Wittenberg may seem strange when it comes to cats, but she has her own way of being different from the other predictable cat ladies.

Alex Pammer seems like the ordinary college girl, but once you get her started on cats there’s no turning back from there. When communicating with one of her many kitties she owns, named Jinglekit, she made up her own special language. English wasn’t enough for Alex, so she developed a language she believes jinglekit can understand and responds to.

Being away from her cats while she’s at school puts an emotional damper on Alex’s life. Instead of just missing her cats, Alex will try and play with the cats that are all over Witt’s campus. Going out of her away after a night of drinking, Alex thought it would be a good idea to steal and house one of the stray cats. After capturing the kitty and feeding it lasagna for dinner, she realized it wasn’t just a stray cat. It in fact had a collar around its neck and turned out to be someone else’s cat.

After the cat got sick in the middle of the night and Alex’s roommate woke up to a terrible stench in the room, she returned the cat back to outside. When Alex awoke to find the cat missing, she went searching for it, but it was nowhere to be found.

Having pictures of all her cats in her phone and a bumper sticker on the back of her car saying, “ I love my cats,” isn’t enough. Alex recently made a special trip home to attend a pet expo, which included events such as acro- kitties and rock cats. Alex admitted, “The pet expo was the highlight of my week, and I look forward to going to it each year.” One of the first times she attended the pet expo she saw her dream cat, the mainecoon breed. Alex hopes to fulfill her dream of buying one some day, which the sale prices start around $800.

Cats are a big part of Alex’s life and she most likely knows more about them than most people on this campus. Any odd questions about cats that need answered, just ask her. So the next time you see a person chasing after cats using a weird language, don’t be alarmed, it’s probably just Alex.