{"id":32453,"date":"2020-10-22T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=32453"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:17:48","slug":"cat-with-three-3-hearts-in-fur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/10\/22\/cat-with-three-3-hearts-in-fur\/","title":{"rendered":"Is This &#8220;Love Cat&#8221; with 3 Furry Hearts Trying to Tell Us Something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think you and I would agree that 2020 has been brutal.\u00a0 First, a pandemic.\u00a0 Then, economic fall-out.\u00a0 Riots. Fires. A chaotic presidential election here in America.\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t seem to stop.<\/p>\n<p>During these difficult times, I look for just about anything to conjure good feelings for my wife (who lost her job), my son (who spends 7 hours a days on Zoom), our family, friends, and the patients in our community (who are fighting a war against heart valve disease).<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; When I saw the picture below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/cat-with-hearts-in-fur-gray-white.jpg\" alt=\"Cat with Three Hearts In Fur\" width=\"550\" height=\"494\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I immediately smiled when I saw the first heart on the cat&#8217;s nose.<\/p>\n<p>Then, as my pupils moved down the photo and I saw the heart on the cat&#8217;s chest, I thought, &#8220;Whoa!\u00a0 That is amazing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then&#8230; When I saw the third heart in the cat&#8217;s side-by-side arms, I scratched my head and wondered, &#8220;Is it possible that this cat&#8230; Or, is nature telling us something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I realize that might be a BIG stretch.<\/p>\n<p>I completely understand this is probably a wonderful, genetic fluke that expressed multiple hearts inside the gray and white fur of a cat.<\/p>\n<p>But, in these times, I&#8217;m okay milking this photo for all its worth.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of love around us &#8212; if we choose to see it.<\/p>\n<p>As John Lennon wrote about and sang alongside Paul McCartney and George Harrison in the Beatles&#8217; 1967 hit, &#8220;All You Need Is Love&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I love our patient community.\u00a0 I am constantly amazed by your support, your care and your love for one another.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the &#8220;Love Cat&#8221; with three hearts for the quick reminder that we&#8217;re all in this together.<\/p>\n<p>Related Link:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2019\/03\/28\/dog-heart-disease-prevention\/\">True or False: Dogs Reduce the Deadly Risks of Heart Disease<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; and meow&#8217;ing!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42134,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32453\/revisions\/42134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}