American Museum of the House Cat - Open to the Public At Last! - Rescue Possums

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  • @tapchoke2363
    @tapchoke2363 Жыл бұрын

    The cats bursting into the walls as a play on the whole “cats following you to the bathroom no matter what” trope 😂😂 I love it

  • @Heatherofscots
    @Heatherofscots Жыл бұрын

    As a crazy cat lady, I approve of this video ! It is nice to see people who care about animals, warms my heart.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Жыл бұрын

    The vet was totally awesome taking care of al those medically challenged cats n possums!! He is a living angel, as us Horace Sims, who made this cat museum n free run shelter possible.!!!! Superb video, Attaboy Carpetbagger!!!

  • @robylove9190
    @robylove9190 Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad the house cat museum is finally open in it's permanent home ❤ Thanks, Jacob ❤

  • @ninerlives
    @ninerlives Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Carpetbagger! We are going next week!

  • @ninerlives

    @ninerlives

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks Carpetbagger! We went yesterday! Kaleb is awesome!

  • @nearandfarexplorers5125
    @nearandfarexplorers5125 Жыл бұрын

    I love the fact that a place like this exists! Love my kitties!!

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 Жыл бұрын

    Love cats 🐈‍⬛😻💜🐱 A very wonderful museum🐈🥰 One of my cats is watching this episode with me 🐈‍⬛😻

  • @agerven

    @agerven

    Жыл бұрын

    We also have a cat watching television with us. He prefers local nature movies with birds and small animals in them, or ball games, especially soccer and snooker.

  • @horseplop9

    @horseplop9

    Жыл бұрын

    I have 3 cats

  • @MsRedsphere
    @MsRedsphere Жыл бұрын

    What an amazing museum for us cat lovers. Thanks for sharing the rescue also.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Жыл бұрын

    I am also a cat person n this was a superb collection of cat memorabilia!!! What a varied n eclectic collection of cats!!! Wonderful find, Jacob!!!

  • @Dear_Lola
    @Dear_Lola Жыл бұрын

    My grandparents collect cat clocks of all kinds. When I was young I would love to join them in the hunt for antique cat clocks.

  • @CherylM1959
    @CherylM1959 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely loved this episode! Thank you for giving the cat shelter attention. I will be sending a donation to them.

  • @kellyburnett1833
    @kellyburnett1833 Жыл бұрын

    I have loved cats my whole life...I have a nice little collection of cat stuff ..I would like to donate it to the museum when I die. Many thanks to Mr. Sims for helping all the well deserving felines.

  • @tapchoke2363

    @tapchoke2363

    Жыл бұрын

    I loved cats growing up so much my teachers in kindergarten had a conference with my parents because of my “concerning cat obsession” 😂😂 they were like “everything she does is cats. She draws cats. She talks about cats. She’s obsessed!”

  • @kellyburnett1833

    @kellyburnett1833

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tapchoke2363 That is hilarious. Thank you for sharing. Cats are so great 😃

  • @kimberlylyerly2207
    @kimberlylyerly2207 Жыл бұрын

    Oh my goodness...the baby kitties with the bad eyes. ❤️ Sending healing thoughts and prayers for them. ❤️🙏❤️

  • @bg199083
    @bg199083 Жыл бұрын

    My best friend Val is obsessed with cats! She works in a shelter with cats and absolutely loves it. Hope you have a great day Jacob!

  • @maureenb1109
    @maureenb1109 Жыл бұрын

    Aww so sweet to see the shelter cats I hope they all find wonderful homes thank you Jacob such a great video 😊❤️

  • @warmlantern0000
    @warmlantern0000 Жыл бұрын

    THECARPETBAGGER 🚗💨💨💨💨 Thank you Jacob for putting CATS on THE MAP of your Adventures. Cats get a bad rap. Thank you from us cat lovers. 💗

  • @crosswired9
    @crosswired9 Жыл бұрын

    I just got a new kitty!! Two months ago his name is pepper and he is a tuxedo cat, he's four months old as of the second. Long story short this video couldn't have been come cheekier! Thanks man🐱🐱🐱

  • @XxMaJoRxX77
    @XxMaJoRxX77 Жыл бұрын

    Gilbert seems absolutely adorable

  • @silverghostcat1924
    @silverghostcat1924 Жыл бұрын

    I love the cat framing the front door 😸

  • @eskieguy9355
    @eskieguy9355 Жыл бұрын

    The Corpse Grinders (trigger warning) is about cats getting a taste for human flesh, when the local cat food factory starts using corpses from the cemetery to make cat food, because they were short on money. So that really was a catsplytation movie. Excellent video, thanks.

  • @tapchoke2363
    @tapchoke2363 Жыл бұрын

    When I was in kindergarten my teachers had a conference with my parents because of my “cat obsession” 😂 I had a subscription to Cat Fancy all through elementary school!! They brought me so much joy and comfort during a time where I didn’t have much stability ❤ I love my cats 😻

  • @sethhuff8185
    @sethhuff8185 Жыл бұрын

    This is butifull I have cats and I love them

  • @matthewfarmer2520
    @matthewfarmer2520 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Jacob ☺️👋 good morning 🌞 good to see a place that can be a cat lovers dream lol. 🐅🐈

  • @hattiem.7966
    @hattiem.7966 Жыл бұрын

    The antique mall was an old school house.I saw the bldg in the 1960's and didn't go back until a few years before it closed.Dr Sims took me on a small tour of the museum,he was so nice and gracious!!!

  • @agerven
    @agerven Жыл бұрын

    Our cats are part of the family. We talk to them, play with them, care for them, and they also care for us. So obviously a museum right to my heart. Dr. Harold Sims has created a beautiful location, inside and out, cramped with our beloved felines. Respect Mr. Sims, and very great of you to start the museum and rebuild it when it should be moved. i really do appreciate a quiet environment, filled with the soft meows of our friends. Could'nt enter a museum of the house dog, with constant drooling and barking all over the place (Ok, i do know lots of people and kids like and love dogs, just saying that for me and lots of other people that energy goes into cats). Oh Jacob, your remark about the movie "Corpse Grinders" triggered my curiosity of course. i found it in Imbd and i think you'll like it. i'll be watching it tonight! Since you ask about Felix: Yes, i've seen those cartoons in my youth. In spite Felix being a very, very naughty cat, i loved those cartoons and quickly wanted to find out what Felix was up to now. Today lots of those can easily be found on youtube.

  • @lizlocher3612
    @lizlocher3612 Жыл бұрын

    Yes, you are a little bit young to remember Felix The Cat, the wonderful wonderful cat!! That was the opening song. I am 66 n I totally remember the cartoon of Felix the Cat!!!

  • @Sassyjass2012

    @Sassyjass2012

    Жыл бұрын

    The original Felix the Cat was a popular animated cartoon created by Otto Mesmer for Pat Sullivan, in the 1920s. It was redesigned by Joe Oriolo for the series of television cartoons, that was introduction to the character for many of us of a certain age.

  • @karentarr8930
    @karentarr8930 Жыл бұрын

    Oh Jacob I’m so happy to hear that you are a cat lover, I kinda thought so because I’ve seen you with Cammy. I’m a HUGE CAT LOVER, the first word I spoke was “MEOW” so my dear Mother said, I also have an incredible collection that I’ve been collecting all my life and I’m 71. Can’t wait to see this Ty Ty Ty Jacob. I saw so much of what I have, loved the carousel cat, there was one at Riverside Park in Agwam MA my sister and I would fight over who would get to ride it lol. The cabbage Patch Cats are called Koosas. Oh wow Calo cat food, we feed our cats that in the 60’s, Felix was way before your time 50’s or 60’s I watched him all the time. I have a Morris for president and wear it at every election. OMG the gift shop, where’s the Uhaul? This was always my dream to have a cat shelter, I rescue to this day, also have a colony of 14, we spay neuter and give shots, they love my backyard, also provide shelters from the storm so to speak, my oldest cat was 21 when she passed, loved that little Amber. My husband heard a kitten in the wall a week and a half ago, he got him out, took him to the Vet, Memorial Cat Hospital, a feline exclusive in Houston. Unfortunately we lost Prof Stokes last Friday my heart is breaking, I bottle feed him every 4 hours for a week😿💔😿 when I was a sophomore my biology teacher dissected a live pregnant cat, then killed the kittens and the mother, I threw up all over the biology lab, my Mother came to pick me up and asked to see the Principal and the evil biology teacher and reamed them out, my Mother was the Hero of the town, the kids were so proud of her, so was I, very special woman🥰🤗🐈‍⬛🐾🐕Thus was your best video ever, now a pin with a cat and opossum please 🙏 n your shop that would be wonderful, you must take Jen💜✔️

  • @Staindjunkie2000
    @Staindjunkie2000 Жыл бұрын

    My daughter goes to western carolina and everytime we have rode by there it was closed. I'm glad to see it finally. Thank you so much for showing this!

  • @kimberlyshalaby1134
    @kimberlyshalaby1134 Жыл бұрын

    Purrfect Jacob! I had no idea there was a cat museum. I loved it! My favorite cat was Kliben Kat. I didn't see anything of him. (I had twin bedding sheet sets.) What a treat to see the Opossums too! Just loved it! Thank you Jacob!

  • @ShelleeGraham

    @ShelleeGraham

    Жыл бұрын

    I had those Kliban cat 🐱 sheets on my bed too! 😹 I’m glad you mentioned that, Kimberly! 👍

  • @mikehughes4969
    @mikehughes4969 Жыл бұрын

    I saw an excellent documentary about cats here on KZread called Follow That Cat. It details the comings and goings of house cats in Germany. Pretty interesting.

  • @whispersoftheafterlife1017
    @whispersoftheafterlife1017 Жыл бұрын

    My cat Marlee Patsy Cline was feral. We had to live trap her and now she’s my shadow. She is my baby. You’d never know she was feral.

  • @dannymartin1114
    @dannymartin1114 Жыл бұрын

    I was recently up there myself. I also went to the original location. Harold is such a cool guy. So glad the museum is back open, its a real treasure

  • @GLI1346101
    @GLI1346101 Жыл бұрын

    22:52 Felix the Cat has been around since 1919, famous for silent cartoons era, one of Pat Sullivan characters. Around 1936, Felix the Cat had a famous cartoon The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg" in Technicolor. He did have a famous TV Show in the 1950s and a feature film by 1988. Many of his cartoons are now in public domain.

  • @paulfuryes203
    @paulfuryes203 Жыл бұрын

    Anyone who loves cats his number one with me great video jacob take care of my friend.

  • @alliekuma4234
    @alliekuma4234 Жыл бұрын

    You can tell a lot of love went into this place. He did good. ❤ Thanks for bringing us with you!

  • @johnbryan5608
    @johnbryan5608 Жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 🐾💕

  • @juliusgibson928
    @juliusgibson928 Жыл бұрын

    Heathcliff debuted in 1973. Garfield was actually titled Jon after his owner in local papers starting in 1976 and then national in 1978.

  • @lauriemathon7074
    @lauriemathon7074 Жыл бұрын

    Hi Jacob. Wishing you safe travels! Tell Jen hi! Thank you for everything

  • @tommyboy2076
    @tommyboy2076 Жыл бұрын

    Another great video Jacob! I love how you are always positive about everything. Congrats on finally getting your car back. Happy Trails, I will be watching. I love all your content

  • @shellyyeary4060
    @shellyyeary4060 Жыл бұрын

    Cats are my favorites. I love all the cat novelties there.

  • @sgtsharon4336
    @sgtsharon4336 Жыл бұрын

    I had a medical doctor that also treated Mennonite people with natural remedies. For my extreme stress he told me to drink a cup of catnip tea every morning. After a couple days you can actually feel the relaxation in your body. When I transferred there was a guy that... really needed it for agitation. My boss would tell me to take a break and bring him a cup. It really helps.

  • @adaeverleigh9584
    @adaeverleigh9584 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the wonderful tour! I'd go crazy in the gift shop!

  • @loboandthedog
    @loboandthedog Жыл бұрын

    I remember watching your other video about the Callaway cat shelter when it came out. So glad that they were finally able to open the museum. I have a request, if you are New York there's a museum for dogs. I think it would be neat to see. As someone who can't travel, I really appreciate all these places you get to visit.

  • @2_thumbs_up_baby
    @2_thumbs_up_baby Жыл бұрын

    These type of museums need something unexpected and exciting other than just shelf ornaments i reckon. Draw the punters in who might not normally go in

  • @mcwatersd
    @mcwatersd Жыл бұрын

    What an interesting Museum. Until you showed us I could not imagine what you would put in a Museum like that. Was very surprised to see the diversity. Great tour Keep Safe ❤Keep Well❤

  • @jenniferthrasher3058
    @jenniferthrasher3058 Жыл бұрын

    I just loved the reacue trip! So cute!

  • @lisaknox7722
    @lisaknox7722 Жыл бұрын

    I love cats so this museum would be interesting to me. Sinse I raised a few housecats at my old 🏠. And this sounds like a good one.🐈🐈🐈🐈🐱🐱

  • @LoisCandler
    @LoisCandler11 ай бұрын

    Great to see that awesome museum and even better to see those rescue cats & awesome shelter & angels to care for them❤😻

  • @bisexualmess3153
    @bisexualmess3153 Жыл бұрын

    It was funny noticing the strawberry shortcake lunch box in the background, because I have the same one. Sadly it’s very rusty and bent up so I can’t really keep anything in it, but it’s still very cute.

  • @lydiapurple
    @lydiapurple Жыл бұрын

    Oh man I definitely have to make a trip here! What an awesome collection 😻😻

  • @unicorn063
    @unicorn063 Жыл бұрын

    Love ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ great vid as I’m a cat person with two cats . Love that museum and shelter how fun to go see. Thankyou Jacob for taking me there was so fun to see . Your the best Carpet Bagger 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤

  • @amyandtony
    @amyandtony10 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing this. I’ve heard about the Catman for years since moving to Bryson City in 2001. Saw the museum many times from the road but never stopped. I love that the gift shop has a variety of kitty items.

  • @cinamarkCAT
    @cinamarkCAT Жыл бұрын

    Now this is my video!! I love everything that they're doing! It's amazing! Love all of your videos Jacob!

  • @SmokyMountainBlessed
    @SmokyMountainBlessed Жыл бұрын

    interesting museum and love the rescue hope they all do well

  • @elsiegon7118
    @elsiegon711811 ай бұрын

    Ooooh!! I love the cat museum and I love the cat shelter and the people taking care of the cats and possums! Thank u Jacob, fir sharing this awesome video ❤❤❤

  • @yumek06
    @yumek06 Жыл бұрын

    I really hope you'll be able to visit the Palm City/Stuart area in Florida. I know I've commented about it before, but there there are two attractions there that I think you'd enjoy. They're the Florida Oceanographic Center of Florida and the Elliot Car Museum. They are right across the street from each other. Also there's a cheese steak sandwich food truck right outside the Elliot that's pretty good too. As for this video, omg, I want to adopt Gilbert so bad!! He looks so sweet and lovable! Plus that belly!

  • @macavitymacavity
    @macavitymacavity Жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting for this follow-up forever!!!! I hope you will visit there again in the future!!!

  • @Thecorgially
    @Thecorgially Жыл бұрын

    Love both the Cat Museum and the Cat Adoption Center. Great vlog.

  • @geralyndeatherage540
    @geralyndeatherage540 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the tour!

  • @alanlough638
    @alanlough638 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a cat lover, as I really enjoyed this video, Jacob. I have a cat, a GrayTabby. Her name is Skeeter and she's 2 years old. Skeeter is really sweet!

  • @cziemba1
    @cziemba1 Жыл бұрын

    We were there about a month ago. Very strange place, but a cool little 30-minute stop

  • @fiercearmadillo6850
    @fiercearmadillo6850 Жыл бұрын

    Finally open again! So glad!

  • @TerryFedora
    @TerryFedora Жыл бұрын

    This is so charming and cool. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @orb938gmail.
    @orb938gmail. Жыл бұрын

    😂 That was no 😺 CAT, that was GARFIELD!

  • @kittylover7
    @kittylover7 Жыл бұрын

    Don't get the zoomies from drinking that cat nip tea, LOL! ;)

  • @scottfreeman3748
    @scottfreeman3748 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting Jacob 😁 thanks for the update have a great week in north Carolina

  • @user-lh4zi3ig2b
    @user-lh4zi3ig2b Жыл бұрын

    hope you had a good time with family Me i love cats

  • @dianadelahaye7660
    @dianadelahaye76606 ай бұрын

    Possums are so cute❤

  • @Dear_Lola
    @Dear_Lola Жыл бұрын

    6:50 lol the man in the back 🫣

  • @lonewolf31337
    @lonewolf31337 Жыл бұрын

    Always enjoy your videos. Thank for another great one

  • @luckyotter623
    @luckyotter6233 ай бұрын

    OMG! I don't live far from there at all, and I had no idea there was a cat museum there! I want to go!

  • @vincentschmitt7597
    @vincentschmitt7597 Жыл бұрын

    Bright Eyes cat food looks familiar as well as 9 Lives and Tender Vittles. Often, though, my cat got whatever was around the house like table scraps or even raw yolks. My parents did not accept that I had made a stray my pet. It was only allowed in the basement and got tossed outside in the winter. I would sneak it back in when she would paw at the window. It gets worse from there. My poor Mildred.

  • @ProgramCatDE
    @ProgramCatDE Жыл бұрын

    Sweety cats and possum. ❤😊

  • @sheenabaker3202
    @sheenabaker3202 Жыл бұрын

    I have been watching your videos for years and this is the first time I've got to comment I don't know how to from the tv but you are great I live about 20 minutes away from Knoblesgrove maybe catch up with you there sometime 😅

  • @michellek8553
    @michellek8553 Жыл бұрын

    This was a super cool video loved it, and I love cats thank you

  • @notthesmartestguyintheroom3753
    @notthesmartestguyintheroom3753 Жыл бұрын

    No TOONSES!!!? Sure they have a cupie, but no CAT that can DRIVE!!!! hahahaha

  • @user-lh4zi3ig2b
    @user-lh4zi3ig2b Жыл бұрын

    thank you jacob for the heart

  • @dylanbooth4018
    @dylanbooth4018 Жыл бұрын

    This museum would be right up my sister’s alley 👍

  • @thehertzman
    @thehertzman Жыл бұрын

    I had a cat named Morris one time, named it because it looked like the 9 lives spokes cat, only difference is it was no way a bit finicky, it had a sweet disposition. Unfortunately he died of liver cancer.

  • @rocklove1977
    @rocklove1977 Жыл бұрын

    Wow beautiful cat's ❤😻❤😻

  • @gdave53925_
    @gdave53925_Ай бұрын

    Thank you for doing this video. I want all those kitties, especially Gilbert. His big belly needs lots of rubs.

  • @jennielauber8308
    @jennielauber8308 Жыл бұрын

    I have friends who give cat nip tea to their kitties

  • @otisjr3341
    @otisjr3341 Жыл бұрын

    Hey Jacob let that older gentleman know that I have 3 cats made from ceramic if he wants them.

  • @silverghostcat1924
    @silverghostcat1924 Жыл бұрын

    The cat in the box in the temple may have been a pet that passed.

  • @ShelleeGraham
    @ShelleeGraham Жыл бұрын

    Felix the cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat 🐱. Whenever he gets in a fix, he reaches into his bag of tricks. Felix the cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat 🐈. You’ll laugh 😹 so much, your sides will ache. Your heart 💜 will go pitter-pat. Watching Felix, the wonderful cat 🐈! (Theme song to the cartoon “FELIX THE CAT.”

  • @allensherrill850
    @allensherrill850 Жыл бұрын

    Jacob, you are talking faster after drinking that catnip tea! 😮

  • @kimberlylyerly2207
    @kimberlylyerly2207 Жыл бұрын

    Okie dokie Mr. CarpetBagger, this video warms the cockles of my heart! ❤️🐈❤️🐈‍⬛❤️ I am a HUGE Cat Lover! 🤗

  • @tealandsilver
    @tealandsilver Жыл бұрын

    I found a post card that was printed in Belgium. It has cat that are dressed in clothes and walking upright acting like people on a family picnic. It was probably created in the 60s or 50s. Are you interested in adding this post card to the cat museum? Let me know.

  • @warmlantern0000
    @warmlantern0000 Жыл бұрын

    🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱💕💞💕💞💗 Catnip helps digestion.

  • @jockandtrusty
    @jockandtrusty Жыл бұрын

    We're still waiting on you to go back to Knobel's. It's the 50th of the Haunted Mansion, and we're hopeful the Flying Curves will finally be open so you can ride. 😊

  • @nikitatro5508
    @nikitatro5508 Жыл бұрын

    Ameowzing video Jacob 🌟😻🙌🙏💝 I love cats ❣️😻 My son lives in Sylva and I hope to visit the American Cat Museum myself someday 🤞🙏😺 I loved the visit with the cats and possums at the shelter too 🐈🐈‍⬛🥰 As always, Thank You for Your videos Jacob 🙏💝😻

  • @bryanyoung4016
    @bryanyoung4016 Жыл бұрын

    That cat pood in my garden

  • @lisabaca6793
    @lisabaca6793 Жыл бұрын

    Thought you would like this information on the grave robbers. Necrolestes patagonensis, whose name translates in part to "grave robber," was among the mammals that lived through the dinosaur mass extinction. The new study finds that the creature lived 45 million years longer than paleontologists realized. I have a vhs tape with felix the cat my dad use to by me the old time cartoons on vhs when i was younger and we would watch them together

  • @swampspire
    @swampspire Жыл бұрын

    i have the sweetest realistic 5"x5" cat painting i found at a yard sale for a buck. i wanna get it on the walls of this place!

  • @nathanhaas3891
    @nathanhaas3891 Жыл бұрын

    Jacob, please come to sarasota florida and do jungle gardens. You would love it. Or the everglades skunkape museum.

  • @BlackburnBigdragon
    @BlackburnBigdragon Жыл бұрын

    As soon as I saw that pinball machine, I knew it had to be "Bad Cats" and I was right. There'a pinball club that has open house nights once a week near where I live, and they have the Bad Cats pinball machine. I always found it amusing to hit the ramp in the center over and over again, because it sings, "MEOW meow meow MEOW!" along with the music. On a side note, the guy who designed it absolutely half fasted it. He hated working on it. He hated designing it. And he hated the company he worked for and was just designing it so he could fulfill his contract and get out the door. He wasn't a happy camper at the time.

  • @jenniferthrasher3058
    @jenniferthrasher3058 Жыл бұрын

    Beauty!

  • @MrBanana808
    @MrBanana808 Жыл бұрын

    "Pussy Brand Cigars" cracked me up.

  • @allensherrill850

    @allensherrill850

    Жыл бұрын

    Sparks the imagination doesn’t it? 🤣

  • @peggylittledragon7734
    @peggylittledragon7734 Жыл бұрын

    The heavy cat at the end reminded me of Garfield

  • @rngwrm
    @rngwrm11 ай бұрын

    we could all say we're too young for felix the cat, but then 'the twisted tales of felix the cat' came out in the mid-90s. there is no excuse

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