My best cat ever - out of many rescues - was a large male tuxedo/16 lbs. - whom I fed outdoors for over a year, through a Pennsylvania winter. In addition to dry food, I roasted a whole chicken a week for him and mixed it in w/dry food to keep him nourished. Finally tempted him through the kitchen door (more roast chicken), swept him up in a big beach towel, took him to the vet's where he required just over a thousand dollars of treatment/3 broken eye teeth; torn and bleeding tear duct; v-shaped wound in his back (maybe from the neighborhood hawk); plus testing for feline HIV, neutering & inoculations - all the while not knowing whether he'd accept being an indoor cat or I'd have to release him back into the woods. He never struggled with the vet or me - just froze when we touched him. Took him home & the 3rd day I put him in my lap to put medicine on his back, he started out frozen immobile, then gave a huge sigh, relaxed, started purring like a motor boat, and snuggling - first under one arm, then my other arm, then up under my chin. He enjoyed napping and sunning on my 2nd floor deck, from which he could watch the woods, but never made any effort to leave my house. He'd sleep in various comfy spots around the house, but at some point every night, he'd jump up onto my bed, crawl under my arm and sleep until morning. He was my Best Boy for 10 very good years. I have two newer rescues, but I still miss him.
In popular culture
In the United Kingdom, the tuxedo cat became depicted as the "Jellicle cat" in the fictional tribe of nocturnal black and white cats described by T. S. Eliot in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was first published in 1939.[10] In its derivative musical, Cats, the tuxedo cat is exemplified by the character of the magical Mr. Mistoffelees, who is portrayed as a stage magician wearing a lacy ruff and bow tie. The musical differed from the book in that the characters included cats with many different coat colors, rather than just bicolor cats, but it retains the repeated assertion that "Jellicle cats are black and white." Cats with these markings also played a starring role in the drawings illustrating The Unadulterated Cat, a book written by Terry Pratchett, with cartoons by Gray Jolliffe.[11]
Other well known cartoon bicolor cats include Krazy Kat, Felix the Cat, Tom Cat from Tom and Jerry, Jess from Postman Pat, Kitty Softpaws from the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots, Figaro, Beans, Sebastian the cat from Josie and the Pussycats and Sylvester. A bicolor cat named Mittens is one of the main characters in the 2008 Disney animated film Bolt. Aldwyn from The Familiars is a tuxedo cat, while Meowrice (voiced by Paul Frees) from Gay Purr-ee is a bicolor. A tuxedo cat is also the protagonist of the popular children's book Tip-Top Cat.
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