by Grania
But first a VERY important notice from The Oatmeal.
From LoveMeow, a kitten that decided to “help” a photographer at work, more photos at the link.
Then we have the crazy story of the cat who traveled the world. This brave adventurer appears to have journeyed from Australia to Northern Ireland. They’re still not sure how. He was found hungry and stray and is now being cared for by Cats Protection until they find his family.
And here is a wild cougar visiting someone’s house and getting teased by the possibly brave, possibly foolhardy resident felid.
And to ensure your weekly dose of Awwww is kept up to suitable levels, here is a tiny African wildcat (I’m afraid I don’t know the species – can someone Identify it?) Source: Imgur
And last, from Country Life, your house is not complete without a catio. Some of them are pretty impressive (there are more at the link). It’s only right and proper to give your felids a warm, safe outdoor place where they can snooze or survey their domain and do other important Cat Stuff.
Hat-tip: @OrAroundTen; @TychaBrahe; Matt; Marella
Haha! I like that he said the kids were out back.
That is such a typical dad! I cackled at that part.
At least one cat knows how windows work.
Re the tagged cat, while I don’t know how the chip works, the extraordinary claims (travel distance, age, already been found once but not returned to owner) has the simplest explanation in an erroneously coded tag.
The mystery cats are, unquestionably, Felis silvestris awwwlookcutekittens.
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I concur! 🙂
This third judge on the panel makes it unequivocally certain! 😀
Black-footed cats (Felis nigripes), maybe?
It is the Black-Footed cat, and these two have been here before. https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/caturday-felid-the-black-footed-cat/
Regarding the mountain lion, my first thought about such things is often “but a big cat wouldn’t hurt a fellow cat, would it?” before realizing how ridiculous that is.
I like to muse about how the Finding Nemo story would roll if they were correct on the biology of clown fishes. You see, this species practices protandrous hermaphoditism which means that a female dominates one more males, and through aggression keeps the males from changing their sex into female.
So, when Nemos’ mom dies early in the movie, guess what shoulda happened?
That would’ve seen it banned from every theater in the Bible Belt, with complaints about the rating in many other places. Which would’ve been fun to watch actually. I can just imagine the Family Research Council getting their knickers in a twist over that one!
Hmm, this was supposed to appear in the next posting, with the sea turtle and Nemo, etc.
I am thinking wormhole…
Transgender fish? That would have been AWESOME! Can you just imagine the Rebiblicans and Teanut Brains coming out [pardon the pun] of such a movie?!
I saw Independence Day in Houston they day it opened. Everyone cheered when Houston got nuked when they tried to blow up the alien ship. I think this is because the only ground views of Houston were from a very realistic model of the 59 Split, the most hated freeway interchange in Houston. The art crew must have been from h-town.
The town I was living in at the time had no theatre, so a group of us drove to another town to see it. We really enjoyed it, but on the way home we had great fun mocking all the examples of extreme nationalism. We love our own country, and are proud of it too, but the way it’s done in the US is very different to our own culture. (Don’t hate me for it!)
From, not to!
I had wondered how those aspects of many of our movies play out overseas. I cringe a little on your behalf.
Well, at least in ID it was an alcoholic crop duster pilot who used to fly F4’s in Vietnam who made a suicide attack in a National Air Guard F4 to show how the ships could be defeated. There were scenes from Africa and Asia that showed other people had copied this attack.
Still, it might have been better if a Ugandan in an aging Mig-21 had taken down the first ship.
love the catio!
Me, too. And that fantastic cat-shaped cloud in the first picture.
OMG, I’m slow! It’s not a cloud: It’s Ceiling Cat, firing a ginormous bolt of lightning at the Capital Building, which houses the Congress and Senate, right?
There you go, always seeing the silver lining! 😄
I’m envisioning that lightening bolt branching to fire individual tentacles at every holier-than-thou, bible-thumping, fundamentalist/Dominionist in the legislature. Ahhh… That should, at the very least, shock some sense into them! 🙂
I can’t help but feel an urge to feed that mountain lion by sneaking some dry cat food out the nearest window for him.