Cat lists are usually tedious, but this one, from i iz cat, is adorable. It shows adult cats with their kitten replicates. There are 15 of them, but I’ll show six (they’re all good, though, so go over to see the rest):
As far as I know, all kittens are born with blue eyes, so this mini-me will undoubtedly soon look more like his role model:
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This nasty person got exactly the karma he deserved, and I can’t imagine this was set up or faked:
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Finally, the Guardian reports the depredations of a ginger Tom named Louis, who hangs around a cathedral and attacks d*gs:
Whether he’s padding through the magnificent nave, warming himself next to a cosy radiator or curling up in his favourite basket in the gift shop, Louis the cat has become a beloved feature of Wells cathedral.
But Louis has found himself in a bit of bother after a ginger tom answering his description was accused of a series of rather nasty attacks on dogs in the peaceful Somerset city.
The owner of one alleged canine victim, Mandie Stone-Outten, said her springer spaniel Millie was targeted in Market Place close to the cathedral. “This dangerous, semi-feral cat pounced like a wild lion in the jungle on to my dog Millie’s head,” she said.
“It all happened really quickly. I pulled the lead backwards and went flying down the kerb, into the gutter and ended up in a heap in muddy rainwater, in the gulley in the market place. That cat has serious issues.
“Be aware – this ball of fluff is not as cute and cuddly as he looks. I’ve got a battered elbow, battered knee and a sore wrist,” added Stone-Outten, from Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
She added: “I think that cat has got history; it was far too good for that to have been his first attack – he knows what he’s doing.
I haven’t followed the Jeremy Clarkson affair, but I’m sure a reader will fill us in.
Louis began living at the great 12th century church a decade ago to keep any mice at bay. He has become so popular he has even starred in a children’s book called Louis the Cathedral Cat and features in a range of merchandise including clocks, coasters and wine-stoppers available in the gift shop.
A spokesperson for the Cathedral suggests that it was not Louis who was the malefactor, but perhaps one of several other ginger toms who live in the area:
A spokesperson for Wells Cathedral said Louis could be a little distant but had not been known to be aggressive.
She said: “It’s difficult to say whether it was Louis, unfortunately. While he can be rather aloof with our visitors, we know of at least two other ginger cats in the area who also enjoy strolling through the streets of Wells.
Here’s a video of Louis in the cathedral. Notice his resemblance to Ceiling Cat:
Ceiling Cat:
Given this remarkable resemblance, and Louis’s penchant for living in a church, I tentatively suggest that he is Ceiling Cat, perhaps an earthly incarnation sent down to save us from our sins. If he is attacking d*gs, that would then be a sign that d*gs, afflicted with original sin (subservience, tendency to defecate publicly, odiferous) are headed for perdition.
Info on Clarkson. As some/most readers will know he is the presenter of the popular BBC show “Top Gear”. A couple of weeks back he is alleged ( full details not yet released ) to have punched one of his producers following a row over the availability of food at the hotel that they were staying at. The result of the investigation will be released next week. As I said, at present these are serious allegation only.
I can only add my impression that the guitarist has not deliberately set it up. It looks like he was planning to put up a nice Youtube vid of himself playing Ring of Fire. Plus the off screen dog yelps are too good to have been staged.
Wouldn’t want my cat compared to an obnoxious character like Clarkson. I’m sure Louis is doing whatever is necessary regarding the local mutts.
My opinion too. Clarkson is a git, and there’s no excuse for what he (allegedly) did.
The first picture almost looks too good, as if it was photoshopped. My very limited understanding of cat coloring patterns is that they are not inherited to that level of detail. We are seeing a picture that was selected for the appearance of an inherited pattern, while we don’t see the millions of mom-and-child cat photos that don’t share a common coloring pattern.
Yes, but nobody implied it was a random photograph, or that patterns are precisely inherited (I am a geneticist, after all), making kitten always look just like mom. I doubt that the first picture was photoshopped.
These photos were clearly selected BECAUSE they showed a remarkable resemblance, and that is sometimes going to happen. So what’s the problem?
The last sentence of my comment above should confirm that we are on the same page, as I made the same point you did. An improbable picture can have the appearance of being photoshopped, until we realize that it was selected for being improbable. I said “as if” it were photoshopped.
Yes, but your wording ‘as if it was photoshopped’ strongly implies that it was photoshopped. Obviously from your subsequent comment that was not your intention.
I do agree that the prevalence of Photoshop is a real pest, in that the more striking a genuine photo is, the more likely it is that someone will say “Oh that’s Photoshopped”. All the photoshop fakes both take away some of the impact from a genuinely striking picture _and_ expose it to suspicion of fakery.
Hey guitar guy – we don’t cotton to folks who are mean to cats ’round these parts!
Louis is the Meowdi, and his return is a sign.
Jeremy Clarkson’s definitely a dog person anyway.
He probably thinks men who own cats are ‘friends of Dorothy’ or something. This is the man who recently questioned a politician’s sexuality after noting that the guy in question wore a pink tie in his Twitter photo.
I used to get involved in back and forths like that when I was twelve, but, as an Indy columnist wrote last week, the guy’s flaws are inextricably bound up with his appeal. There was a petition for his immediate reinstatement that got a million votes in the space of less than a week – a lot of people genuinely like him(I occasionally like him), and he’s definitely a hero of the anti-PC brigade. The Daily Mail and the Torygraph got a lot of mileage out of this whole thing, using it as futher fuel for their venomous campaign against the ‘left-wing’ BBC.
I’ve always wondered though – how famous is Clarkson in America/Canada, really? The BBC’s always claiming Top Gear’s the most popular programme in the world after all.
I live in the US, and I don’t watch Top Gear, not much of a car person, but I know him from appearances on QI, 8 out of 10 Cats, and the like. He can be charmingly annoying, or annoyingly charming, like a salty old racist uncle, but I enjoy seeing the other guests on those shows, whether he’s there or not, taking pot shots at him. Laughing AT him is different than with him though. He’s kinda like the Nigel Farage of TV I suppose; an easily and enjoyable despicable buffoon.
Interesting – although you sound like you like British comedy already.
I think you’re right about him. As right-wingers go he’s easily one of the more likeable. And maybe I’m just soft, but I don’t think he’s genuinely racist. Nationalistic, at least in a slightly tongue-in-cheek way, but not racist.
I hear he is endering, prone to make racist comments, and a climate science denier to boot?
He is, possibly surprising, an atheist.
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Asshole guitarist needs to be evicted from the cat’s home and prohibited from ever coming within 50 feet of a cat again.
b&
I _occasionally_ have to nudge a kitty out of my way, but I do it gently, with kind words and light shove on the hindquarters.
That the plant fell on the guy’s head definitely doesn’t seem staged–even if there had been a wire attached and someone else in the room to pull it, the danger of real injury wouldn’t have been worth the yuks.
All that aside, how is a set of stair sans a bannister code?
Oh, cats are frequently in an inconvenient-for-humans location. But that’s when you scoop them up, into your lap or on your shoulders or some other variation on the theme. If the cat’s on a chair you want to sit in, just consider the chair pre-warmed for you, and express your appreciation for that service with some quality lap time.
b&
I usually scruff my kitties and stretch them by holding them under their arms,which they love. My new 10 month old Booker T is so lonnnnng that I’m almost not tall enough to lift him off the chair or couch seat when he’s all stretttccched out. He’s a scaredy cat bruiser who looks like the first parental mini-me, with white stripe on nose.
Oh, yeah…I’ve been known to bite Baihu’s scruff just so I can still have both hands free for, say, belly and back….
b&
I wouldn’t mess with Louis – he looks like he means business! Cats are scary when they attack and it is smart to steer clear of one if it is pissed off or a bit crazy.
Sadly, some cats seem to suffer from neurological conditions. Once there was a cat that wasn’t walking right and started wandering on a busy country road. I stopped my car because he/she was right in front of it (stupid people honked at me – what was I supposed to do, run the cat over?) and a guy in a truck opposite me said “I think something’s wrong with the cat”.
Poor kitty. I got out and picked up the kitty and placed him/her on the side of the road where he/she was safe. I would have done more but I had my dog in the car & it would have been a CATastrophe in there!
I like the cats with two different colored eyes, but mirrored, nicely embodying the randomness of X chromosome inactivation.
I watch Top Gear on BBC America–not to be confused with the inferior copy on the History Channel. Clarkson is most definitely an asshole but he is a charming one. He frequently plays sadistic tricks on his co-hosts They recently did a segment in Argentina and they were attacked and run out of the country by angry mobs still pissed off about the Falklands war
That incident sounds like it was incited by a stupid Internet conspiracy theory. Jezza’s Porsche had a registration of H982FKL which some pea-brained blogger interpreted to be a taunting reference to “1982 Falklands”. According to Top Gear it was the plate that was on the car when they bought it and no-one at Top Gear made the connection.
I think much of Jezza’s non-PC-ishness is done for effect. He also punctures many sacred cows that badly need to be punctured.
“Odiferous”? Did you intend “Odoriferous”,Jerry?