National Pet Week: “Si” and “Am” from Lady and the Tramp
Monday, May 4, 2020 at 12:00PM Team Experience will be celebrating pets at the movies this week. Here's Lynn Lee...
My cats!
Last fall, my husband and I adopted a pair of Siamese kittens from a local rescue organization. It was my husband’s idea – I was hesitant at first, despite the extreme cuteness of their pictures and videos. Not because I don’t like cats; to the contrary, my husband had already converted me into a cat lover with our previous, gone but still-missed pair. No, the real if silly reason, as I explained sheepishly, was that every time I thought of Siamese cats – especially in twos – all I could think of was the devilish duo from Lady and the Tramp (1955). While I hadn’t seen the movie in years, I vividly remembered two blue-eyed hellions who teamed up to torment poor innocent Lady and frame her as the “bad dog” she assuredly was not. I also remembered a sibilant signature song that I was pretty sure had not aged well after a half century, even if the movie itself remained one of my Disney favorites...
Disney, Lady & the Tramp, Peggy Lee, animated films, cats, dogs, musicals, zoology 
