Caturday felid trifecta: Social justice kitten calendar, autistic man builds world’s most elaborate cat-friendly home, and a cat decision tree (and a bonus)

January 10, 2015 • 8:56 am

The American Digest has the illustrations for a 2015 Social Justice Kittens Calendar. I may get in trouble for posting this, but I find the captions hilarious. Here are the first six months:

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From Awesome Inventions, we learn of Minnesotan Greg Krueger, who took advantage of his obsessiveness to spend 15 years transforming his house into . . . well, see for yourself in this video:

A few photos of his Moggie Paradise:

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Finally, many of you will recognize this cat decision tree from Bored Panda:

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And some lagniappe, provided by Matthew Cobb. This apparently old newspaper article was tw**ted by someone and sent to me by Matthew. Nobody knows the year or the newspaper, but it’s news because DECAPITATED TURTLE BITES CAT. I expect Greg to weigh in below.

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h/t: dano1843, robin

 

 

34 thoughts on “Caturday felid trifecta: Social justice kitten calendar, autistic man builds world’s most elaborate cat-friendly home, and a cat decision tree (and a bonus)”

  2. I feel micro-somethinged.

    The cat-friendly home reminded me of the Habitrail products for hamsters and similar critters – clear plastic tubes and living spaces. I’m surprised some company hasn’t made something similar for cats (and d*gs).

  3. Not sure about the feline association with autism spectrum disorders, but I have witnessed OCPD, catnip-induced psychosis, histrionic traits, misplaced aggression, and hypersomnia.

  4. Believe the June commentary is the appropriate one for our mission. Said well to the believers in any faith.

  5. The comments at the SJ kittens site are also enlightening, as many are negative — Parody of SJ is not tolerated!

  6. How can a turtle be “bothersome”?

    The house is cool – I wonder if he’ll have to get another house if he runs out of things he can do to this one? Maybe he’ll just build onto it with new house sections.

    The cat calendar is hilarious! March is the funniest.

  7. The Social Justice Kittens Calendar is actually from LiarTownUSA:
    http://liartownusa.tumblr.com/
    For Christmas, I bought the calendar for my wife to hang up in her office. Liartown certainly has a unique sense of humor, (and I don’t know what this says about me) but I find it hilarious.

  8. First the Mohammed cartoon, now the calendar – you sure like to live dangerously, professor!

  11. Many years ago we came across a large, headless snapping turtle. There are assholes out there, what can I say?
    Anyway, I brought it home and kept in in our garage for I think about a week. The body would walk around, and sometimes react to being touched.

    1. That just sounds ghoulish. You’re a couple more body parts from being the Dr. Frankenstein of turtles.

      😀

      1. The things I did with live insects and fresh road kill in my bedroom/lab…
        **shudder**.

          3. Anyone read the hilarious books by Carl Hiaasen, in which the former Florida Governor, nicknamed Skink, goes walkabout in a sarong and showercap, and eats roadkill?

          4. No, but I’ve always wondered what it tastes like. It depends on the animal and cooking method and perhaps tyre model.

            Honey-roasted raccoon, anyone?

        2. As long as the roadkill’s fresh and not too large, and the insects are keen enough, what could go wrong?

    2. Too bad that decapitated snapper didn’t bite the *farmer*, preferably where it don’t grow back.

      As for Mark’s headless snapper, it must have been a situation similar to that of Mike the Headless Chicken, where the back of the head, containing the brainstem, was still intact. Better to put it out of its misery immediately since there was no chance of survival.

      1. “Better to put it out of its misery immediately…”

        Wouldn’t you first have to find the bit containing the ‘misery organ’? – or would that actually be in the brainstem?

        Interesting question (and from your nym I assume you have relevant technical knowledge of the group), but… Eurgh. I prefer animals either alive or properly dead; not comfortable with zombie critters. One of my lecturers characterised physiology as ‘the study of dying animals’, and it’s not my favourite branch of zoology. Everything that isn’t behaviour, morphology or environment belongs in a tasteful black box.

  12. That calendar is awesome!

    So is Mr. Krueger’s home. I imagine Baihu would appreciate something like that, but, alas, I’m sure I’ll never have the dedication to transform my home the way he has.

    b&

  15. I think this might just be my favourite Caturday yet. Love the calendar, love the house, love the decision tree, not too sure about the turtle! 🙂

  16. The effort claimed to free kitty sounds like one of Twain’s exaggerations – it is either that or the party working on freeing kitty were extraordinarily stupid. Without further evidence it’s impossible to tell what the case was.

    1. If, as I suspect, it was a snapping turtle responsible for the bite, it probably was relatively difficult to dislodge it from the cat but it does sound like a serious exaggeration.

  17. I, too, bought Social Justice Kittehs for holiday presents . . . found out about them through another post by PCC here about a Kickstarter Campaign for the Guardians of Recolata movie project (a Liartown publication promoted by Reading Frenzy in Portland, who sent me the calendars). Love these small numbers of separation on the web – thanks Prof CC.

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