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It might be hard to believe right now, but we’re just gonna go ahead and lay it out there: not everything in the world is terrible. Don’t buy it? Well, how about this little piece of fluffy goodness: Dennis Quaid found out there was a shelter cat also named Dennis Quaid in need of adoption in Lynchburg, Virginia, so he went out and adopted the damn thing.
“It was really off the wall, but I just couldn’t resist. I had to,” Dennis Quaid (the man) told a local news channel. “…I’m out to save all the Dennis Quaids of the world,” said Quaid (again, the man, not the cat).
Quaid, as it turns out, helps host a podcast called The Pet Show, which is something we legitimately didn’t know until just this morning but is also incredibly adorable. Apparently, he and his co-host, Jimmy Jellinek, had to convince the Lynchburg Humane Society staff that this wasn’t a cruel trolling attempt, but an actual, honest-to-god Good Thing.
“I was like there is no way this is real, like, someone is pranking us,” recounted shelter manager, Danielle Ulmer, which is also pretty cute.
Watch the news report below.
Jellinek is reportedly traveling from Los Angeles to pick up Dennis Quaid (the cat, not the man) this weekend. This has been a semi-regular reminder that not everything is awful, especially Dennis Quaid (the man and the cat).
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The resemblance is uncanny.
uncatty?
Any takers yet on their cat ‘Kevin Spacey’?
After what that cat did to all the others? No thank you, sir.
Ans that video of him meowing in a fake Southern drawl was just weird.
No, but I’ll take their cat Christopher Plummer off their hands.
*Dennises Quaid
Denis Quaidiae.
“Cat Dennis Quaid adopts human with same name”
Thank you. This correction needed to be made.
Whenever someone says “I want to pet Dennis Quaid” it’s going to be very confusing now.
“Aw gross. Dennis Quaid threw up all over the back of the sofa and took a shit in my shoes. Where is he now? Curled up on the windowsill, licking his crotch for the past 20 minutes.”
And while we’re on the subject, has anyone seen his black cat? It ran off when Dennis started puking on the sofa.
Goddammit, that’s RANDY Quaid, not Dennis! Get out now, quick!
Did you just Quaidsplain to me?
Maybe for you.
I will be very explicit in my desire to pet Dennis Quaid the actor.
[Googling what it would take to change my name to Dennis Quaid…]
This is a sweet story. Thanks. Now I want to watch Innerspace for the millionth time.
“You know, when things are at their darkest it’s a brave man that can kick back and party…”
I’m Dennis Quaid and so is my wife!
This isn’t even the top Quaid news of the day! Please do your research and post the “Randy Quaid ingests inhuman amount of quaalude marketed as ‘Randy Quaaidludes’” news story that I 110% believe happened.
“oh so if i were a cat you’d let me live with you,” grumbled randy quaid, somewhere.
This is brilliant! Shelters need to start naming all of their animals after celebrities, and then sit back and wait for the calls to come in!
“Well, boss, I just posted on social media that we have a new dog available named Michael Vick.”
Being a Lynchburg native, I’m just glad that we’re in the news for something positive instead of more Falwell/Liberty garbage.
Unlrelated: I like his baseball cap. Tried reverse-image searching on the crest but nothin’. Anyone have a clue about that cap?
Several tears ago, when I worked evenings, I volunteered in the mornings as a cat comforter at my local shelter. I spent two hours a day playing with and petting the hard luck cats that needed to learn proper socialization and it was one of the best experiences of my life. I also watched a lot of people leaving with their newly adopted cats and dogs. The look on these people’s faces, a mixture of love/compassion/joy/protectiveness was something I’ve never seen outside of a shelter and it, at that moment at least, redeemed my faith in humanity. I actually choked up more than a few times.Ona side note, black cats are the least adopted cats because of ignorance and superstition but I’ve rescued several over the years and have to say they were the best, smartest and most affectionate pets I’ve ever had and I will continue to rescue or adopt them for as long as I live. They are the best.
The real question is why that actor’s parents gave their son a cat’s name.
If Dennis Quaid the cat had been in the Intruder we’re talking about a totally different movie, not better or worse but definitely different
I wanna adopt Randy Quaid (the cat).
Could be worse. They coulda named the cat Randy.
Both are so handsome. It’s like I’m seeing double.