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Keith Kehrer has finished work on a full length motion picture for Three Day Dawn called Standalone.

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Part 5 - Red cat butts or Gatos Rojo

The Plungis family had 20 or 30 cats, a boa constrictor, a horse, a golden retriever and god knows what else. They also had two wild boys my brother's age. When I used to go over and visit the place had an Addam's Family vibe. I remember seeing cats sleeping in bowls, draped over the armor in the hall (or was that the sword on the wall?).

With that many cats some were bound to make the trek through the neighborhood in search of tasty bird tartar. Guess where they came to feed? You guessed it; our house, land of many birds.

My dad really hated those cats and they seemed to be in a perpetual battle kind of like a mini war of 1812. We also had two great dogs, Ginger and Frosty who had their own way of dealing with the cats, but, that is another story. Dad when faced with a feline foe would use whatever weapon he had available (see the breakfast nook bench incident), but, one weapon seemed to have an extra flair and even an artistic bent. One of the cats was up in a tree on the very same day as the day my dad was painting our house with a spray gun. Cussing, he aimed the spray gun and marked the creature on the posterior with bright red paint thereby becoming the first artist to use a cat as a canvas. I can just see him now selling a living work of art under the banner, "Erwin Kehrer, The Jackson Pollack of the cat world". Soon other artists are copying his style on other animals; Day glo sheep, Abstract jackal, Cows tilted into pools of oil colors, Erwin. You're a genius.