ONE COOL CAT RADIO `EXEC' SNICKERS DIES.Byline: BRENT HOPKINS Staff Writer EAGLE ROCK -- Snickers
Snickers is a sweet bar made by Mars, Incorporated. , a mixed-breed cat whose love of '80s music inspired a worldwide craze, has died of natural causes. She was 6. Snickers died Thursday, expiring peacefully next to a couch inside her Eagle Rock home, unaware of her celebrity. Two years ago, the grayish-brown feline's reaction to the musical stylings of Eddie Money inspired record company executive Adrian Martinez to experiment with playing tunes for his cats and dogs Cats and Dogs A slang term referring to speculative stocks that have short or suspicious histories for sales, earnings, dividends, etc. Notes: In a bull market analysts will often mention that everything is going up, even the cats and dogs. . They seemed to relax when he cranked crank 1 n. 1. A device for transmitting rotary motion, consisting of a handle or arm attached at right angles to a shaft. 2. A clever turn of speech; a verbal conceit: quips and cranks. up disco and pop music, so he created the online radio station DogCatRadio.com. What began as something of a joke between friends grew to an online community of several hundred fans. A little media attention followed and within weeks, hundreds of thousands of listeners were tuning in tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune worldwide. The Web site now gets more than 3 million visitors each week. ``How do you thank a cat that launched a phenomenon?'' Martinez said. ``When I was burying her, I just said, `I hope I didn't let you down.''' The cat, affectionately known as ``Snickie'' to Martinez, began life on the streets, coming to live with him around the age of 6 months and developing a rapport with him described more like two friends than the traditional owner-pet bond. She enjoyed Money's ``Take Me Home Tonight,'' the Dionne Warwick ballad ``That's What Friends Are For,'' and, oddly enough, ``Who Let the Dogs Out?'' by Baha Men Baha Men is the name of a pop group that plays a modernized style of Bahamian folk music called Junkanoo. The group's debut, Junkanoo, was released in 1992, and was very traditional in its sound. . Snickers hadn't shown any signs of illness prior to her death, but Edward Rivera, DogCatRadio's advertising and promotions manager, said he suspects she might have eaten a final meal of a poisonous Christmas poinsettia poinsettia: see spurge. poinsettia Popular flowering plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima), best-known member of the diverse spurge family. Native to Mexico and Central America, it grows in moist, wet, wooded ravines and on rocky hillsides. plant. Friends recommended a necropsy necropsy /nec·rop·sy/ (nek´rop-se) examination of a body after death; autopsy. nec·rop·sy n. See autopsy. necropsy examination of a body after death. See also autopsy. , but Martinez said it would have been too painful to bear. The cat was buried in the yard with friends in attendance. ``(She) was very, very friendly, very, very lovable,'' Rivera said. ``Lots of cats are aloof, but (she) wasn't that way at all. ... There won't be another Snickers.'' brent.hopkins(at)dailynews.com (818) 713-3738 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Snickers seated in her Eagle Rock home. Her reaction to music led to the creation of a Web-based music site for pets. |
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