Two cat cartoons

March 14, 2014 • 5:01 am

Basically, I got nothing today, which is good because I have cat stuff to do, i.e., writing a recalcitrant book.  I do have a recipe (next post) and maybe some other stuff will crop up. In the meantime, here are two cat cartoons sent to me by readers. This first post apparently relates to the mysterious 16th-century “rocket cats” that appeared in a German manuscript; I posted about these last Caturday, and I suppose they were an internet meme.

Ruben Bolling takes the rocket cat and runs with it in this cartoon, from The Daily Kos, called “Percival Dunwoody: Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909”.  The middle frame is supposedly the origin of the “rocket cats” in the manuscript (below). Note the somewhat muddled reference to evolution:

Daily Kos Steve Percival DunwoodyThe original rocket cat from about 1530:

Rocket cats 2

This strip, from Wednesday’s The Far Left Side by Mike Stanfill (a strip I’ve never heard of), memorializes his beloved cat Poozy, who had died two days before. There’s a touching story about Poozie below the cartoon and several pictures and a video of him. It’s the saddest cat cartoon I’ve seen:

3-12-14-my-poozyh/t: Steve

24 thoughts on “Two cat cartoons”

  2. The second one is superb(ly sad).

    Reminds my of my late beasts — they were good friends for many years. One lived to be 22!!

  5. Not a “rocket cat,” but a weaponized cat, who would carry a firebomb into the midst of the enemy and be incinerated when they were.

    1. The Soviets trained anti-tank dogs in WWII. As one might expect, karma bit down hard:

      “Another serious training mistake was revealed later; the Soviets used their own diesel-engine tanks to train the dogs rather than German tanks which had gasoline engines.[5] As the dogs relied on their acute sense of smell, the dogs sought out familiar Soviet tanks instead of strange-smelling German tanks.”

      from:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tank_dog

  7. The second one was sad, but also comforting in a way. We must take care of them and love them when they’re here. And love as many as possible in our short time here.

  9. This expresses my sentiments exactly on the loss of my black cat last fall. Much loved and sadly missed.

    As for Rocket Cat, I now have a certain Elton John song swimming around in my head, dang those ear worms! Lyrics may require adjustment…

  10. Losing a cat is the Sorrow that is Like No Other…but the love is worth it, whether for 20 years or 20 days. And if the cat is a rescue (as most are, one way or another) there is the comfort that you saved a precious life and made each other happy.

    Many times we look at one of our cats and say “You were a GOOD IDEA!”

  11. Loved the tip of the hat to Planet of the Apes in the last frame of the 1st one.

    I should think to have such a profound effect on cat evolution, Percival would have had to go back to at least Egypt, where a Rocket Cat could have easily inspired the whole cat worship thing.(*)

    But I suppose even an idiot time traveler wouldn’t be that far off.

    (*) Not that this cult requires much explanation. A grain-based society worshiping rat killers par excellence is one of the most rational religious ideas in human history.

  12. As if the cartoon wasn’t sad enough, I had to go to the write-up.

    It wasn’t hard to dig her grave but it sure was hard to fill it in.

    Been there, far too many times! So…final.

  13. Thanks for posting the “Poozy” cartoon … Just this evening I returned from our vet with the ashes of our cat “Mizzie” who was with us for more than 19 years (she was nearly 20 years old and seriously ill).

    Our vet arranged the cremation after she had euthanized Mizzie last Saturday.
    Mizzie’s ashes will have a nice place in our garden.
    We’re still so sad to having lost her!

      1. Thank you – so that’s what it is! Just talking with my wife about the teip to Loch Sunnart on the west coast of Scotland where I photographed this specimen,

        1. Supposedly the name dates back to the Doctrine of Signatures; the thallus is reminiscent of lung (lobe) tissue…

          Lichens are criminally unappreciated.

Comments are closed.