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发信人: meditate (meditate), 信区: pets
标 题: The cat video that won the $15,000 award.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 16 10:41:01 2012, 美东)
The first-ever cat video awards were held in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with
thousands of proud cat owners competing for the coveted grand prize.More
than 1,400 videos were submitted to the Friskies awards this year. A panel
of judges and online voters narrowed the selection to 12 finalists in four
categories.
And the winner of the first-ever Friskies award was Mick Szydlowski for his
video, "Oskar's First Toys." Oskar is a cat born without eyes, and Mick and
his girlfriend, Bethany, captured video of the newborn cat playing with a
toy ball.
Szydlowski received a year's supply of cat food and a check for $15,000,
which he says will be used to buy toys for Oskar and to help pay for their
upcoming move from Omaha, Neb., to Seattle.
"It's an incredible feeling," Szydlowski told Yahoo News. "Cats deserve a
show like this. And Oskar deserves some of the winnings, maybe all of the
winnings.
"Oskar is completely blind, but he doesn't let that slow him down one bit,"
Szydlowski said. "He's healthy, he's happy, he does everything a regular cat
would do."
Szydlowski says he hopes all the attention his Oskar videos have received
will help convince people that cats with disabilities can still make great
pets. "A lot of people assume it's a death sentence, which is not the case,"
he said.
发信人: meditate (meditate), 信区: pets
标 题: The cat video that won the $15,000 award.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Nov 16 10:41:01 2012, 美东)
The first-ever cat video awards were held in Los Angeles on Wednesday, with
thousands of proud cat owners competing for the coveted grand prize.More
than 1,400 videos were submitted to the Friskies awards this year. A panel
of judges and online voters narrowed the selection to 12 finalists in four
categories.
And the winner of the first-ever Friskies award was Mick Szydlowski for his
video, "Oskar's First Toys." Oskar is a cat born without eyes, and Mick and
his girlfriend, Bethany, captured video of the newborn cat playing with a
toy ball.
Szydlowski received a year's supply of cat food and a check for $15,000,
which he says will be used to buy toys for Oskar and to help pay for their
upcoming move from Omaha, Neb., to Seattle.
"It's an incredible feeling," Szydlowski told Yahoo News. "Cats deserve a
show like this. And Oskar deserves some of the winnings, maybe all of the
winnings.
"Oskar is completely blind, but he doesn't let that slow him down one bit,"
Szydlowski said. "He's healthy, he's happy, he does everything a regular cat
would do."
Szydlowski says he hopes all the attention his Oskar videos have received
will help convince people that cats with disabilities can still make great
pets. "A lot of people assume it's a death sentence, which is not the case,"
he said.
