nora s performances are posted all over the internet. she s so successful, her videos have received more than 20 million hits. i don t know when the cat party got elected, but the internet has embraced cats like nothing i ve ever seen. it all begins in 2004. it begins when artist betsy alexander and her husband go to petsmart to buy food. all the cats were out playing, and nora was playing by herself. she was a kitten, and i immediately fell in love with her. betsy got very excited about her, wanted me to come see her, come and hold her, and i was very resistant to doing that. burnell doesn t want to add another cat to the family. i didn t want to get like really attached. but betsy is so smitten with the kitten they decide to adopt her. a few days later when betsy and burnell came back to the shelter
or six notes, a little riff, and look over at us like, you know, how was that. we totally lost it. we were like, oh, my god, oh, my god. look at this. nora, what are you doing? betsy believes this is just an isolated incident, but for nora, this is just the beginning. she started playing every day and started doing it during the piano students lessons. nora becomes a neighborhood hit. betsy also wants to show the performances to her niece in wyoming. some of her students suggest youtube. i said youtube, what s that? that s how out of it burnell and i are. the first day it has 71 hits. then it started. we didn t know what the term viral video meant. the next thing you know, it s a million. nora s videos are so popular they come to the attention of a
all over the internet. she s so successful, her videos have received more than 20 million hits. i don t know when the cat party got elected, but the internet has embraced cats like nothing i ve ever seen. it all begins in 2004. it begins when artist betsy alexander and her husband go to petsmart to buy food. all the cats were out playing, and nora was playing by herself. she was a kitten, and i immediately fell in love with her. betsy got very excited about her, wanted me to come see her, come and hold her, and i was very resistant to doing that. burnell doesn t want to add another cat to the family. i didn t want to get like really attached. but betsy is so smitten with the kitten they decide to adopt her. a few days later when betsy and burnell came back to the shelter to collect her, they noticed
they ve basically learned to stay clear of her. she s a diva. she likes to just do her own thing and be left alone to do it. nora often retreats to the piano studio and watches betsy give piano lessons to her piano students. very obsessive from day one. she would go underneath the piano, dance on top of the circles, look over their sheet music while they were playing. and one night the passionate puss decides to take music-making into her own hands or paws. burnell and i were upstairs, and we heard this plink, plink, plink, plink. repeated notes like two together. to their shocking delight, nora s playing. we saw nora sitting at the piano in perfect posture with both paws on the keys, alternating, reaching for black notes. she would play, you know, five