CFA Says Tiger Is Most Popular Cat Password
By Chip Hilton

MANASQUAN, N.J. - According to The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA), the world's largest registry of pedigreed cats, the cat name used most frequently as a computer password among its members is Tiger.

People who believe that registering and showing cats is even more futile that herding them predict that CFA will wind up with litter on its face as a result.

"I disagree," said CFA president, Missy "Bam-Bam" Delapert (pronounced deal-a-pair). "After all, our survey was completed before we learned about Mr. Woods and his penchant for, ahem, catting around, so to speak."

More than five hundred CFA members who use their cats' names as passwords responded to CFA's First Annual Cat Password survey, which was sponsored by Kitty Kondoms, the world's first prophylactic for cats. CFA is the exclusive distributor of Kitty Kondoms in "the tri-state New Jersey area," added Ms. Delapert.

CFA decided to launch its survey despite the fact that computer safety experts call it "a dumb-ass idea" to use your cat's name as a password, especially when your cat's name is something as pedestrian as Tiger--or Tigger, which finished second in CFA's poll.

"It doesn't take much imagination for some pot-smoking hacker in Amsterdam to try commonly used cat names such as Whiskers, Baby, Oreo, and Mr. Puddles when trying to break into a computer system," said Arjun Patel of Symantec, a computer security firm.

Coincidentally Baby, Oreo, and Mr. Puddles ranked third through sixth in CFA's survey.

CFA secretary-treasurer, Kathy Anger, called Mr. Patel's comments an "insult to cat lovers" everywhere.

"Why should people whose cats are named Shadow, Princess Kitty, Cuddles, or Boots be penalized just because they didn't choose some snooty name like Copernicus or something?"

Coincidentally Shadow, Princess Kitty, Cuddles, and Boots came in sixth through tenth in CFA's survey.