I can’t believe I forgot to schedule this post, but I will NOT allow a Saturday to go by without Caturday felids. So, without further ado,
From Bored Panda we get pictures of ten cats with unusual markings. I’ll show just a few, some of which we’ve seen before:
Sam, the Cat with Eyebrows:
Cat Being Hugged by a Monkey:
Venus, the famous Bifurcated Cat:
Valentine Kitten:
And a Kitler:
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As I write this I am covered with white fur from my host’s cat, Russell (named for the philosopher). This problem could be avoided for all cats if they could just tolerate being vacuumed. Well, some cats can, and here’s a compilation of them:
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Finally, click on the screenshot below to watch a short but lovely Guardian video of how a refugee family from Iraq was reunited in Norway with their cat who had gone missing in Greece. The second video explains how; it involved herculean effort by Amy Shrodes, an American who went to Greece to help refugees.
Kunkush the cat was a beloved member of a family who became refugees when they fled Iraq for the safety of Europe. Travelling through Greece, family and cat became separated. Kunkush was found and fostered in Berlin, where an international online search was co-ordinated in the hope of reuniting him with his family, who wish to remain anonymous.
Oh, I found out more on a BBC interview below. Click on the screenshot below to see additional video on Kunkush, and click here to see the Facebook page, “Runite Dias”, that led to the cat’s rejoining his family.
h/t: Blue, Matt B.
Need a LOVE button for this one!
I bet vacuuming cats works better if you have a central vacuum system, so no loud motor noise near the cat.
Central vacs are loud enough to send Booker T. under the couch. Other cats of mine have enjoyed being vaccuumed, complete with tail up the hose.
I too noted that a lot of the cats had trained their staff to use a hand-held/ battery vacuum, which is probably quieter.
The last time I hosted a cat (who had to do the one – way trip while her permanent staff was at work), she would go ballistic at the Roomba robotic vacuum puck. Terrified of it. The robot experiments stopped.
Long-time reader here, first time commenting. My mom used to have a beautiful Manx kitty, a big boy with blue eyes (possible Siamese cross?)and he loved the vacuum. Come to think of it, she also had central vac, so maybe there is a correlation. The Manx was a stray who ended up at my brother’s house at around 8 months old, can’t imagine anyone not searching high & low for him, but no one did.
Poor Kitler
I guess Venus must be a tortoiseshell, but that still is an unusual pattern.
Amazing story that refugee cat. One in a million.
I was wondering if the cat was ‘chipped’. No mention in the links though.
Wonderful story though. By presenting refugees as humans, it would have certain sections of European (and British) society spitting feathers.
Is there Trump-baiting potential? I gather he still hasn’t rocket-jumped the shark.
Great idea….get Hilary to run that 2 minute one on the campaign. Then at the end she says, eat that Trump.
So touching! Hooray for all involved in Kunkush’s odyssey!
(Imagine a woman setting off to migrate from Iraq to Norway with 5 kids and a cat. I’ll bet she doesn’t spend much time worrying about microaggressions.)
Lovely story about Kunkush, very moving.
I read years ago that research showed that people who were allergic to cats weren’t allergic to their hair, or skin particles; they were allergic to their saliva, which is deposited on the hair and skin when the cat grooms itself.
this is a video of me with my childhood cat from back in 1988, so it;s from VHS to digital
you should be able to see me go though all the brushes, including the power head.
he would come in from outside when he heard the vacuum and would lay in the middle of the room and not move until you did him too.,
Unbelievable! Sure with I’d started my cats off with vacuum-cleaner habituation.
That’s an adorable cat, BTW! 🙂
I am glad I had the foresight to film it and transfer it. he lived to 19.
In other words, he was there for a big chunk of your life! Sounds like you both were lucky to find each other.
Yeah, sometimes I reflect on the fact that half my life is lost in missing slides and faded photos…
from when I was 3, so yes. I had a pair of sister cats for another 14 and 16 years and am unsure if I have another in me.
Because of the emotional toll of losing them? I finally decided that getting a new pet after losing a dear one was a sort of tribute to the departed. There are so many cats and d*gs in dire need of homes. 🙂
Totes agreed
Yes, intellectually I agree with you. I am bipetual, having had dog and cat furbabies. I don’t have another dog in me, but I do have one more cat. I had a pair of sister cats for 14 and 17 years and I am still grieving them. It is also too soon since I lost my dogs to divorce custody, and one had passed.
“…lost my dogs to divorce custody.”
Oh, that happened to the guy across the street from us, many years ago. He was completely distraught about it! So sad.
yeah, I think we spend more on pets than babies now, and it’s been the new divorce frontier for a while. such is life.
OMCC – even
The carpet beater attachment !!! Toooo much🐾🐾
yes. even that one 🙂
Grrrrrrreat video! Made my day.
He was one of those cats that adult humans were scared of. We had one vet actually fire us as clients, he was so scared of that cat. 🙂
Ha Ha! Though not the easiest sort of pet to deal with. 😉
Just like my Catzilla, whom I wrote about somewhere here recently. Our vets didn’t fire us, but they did decide that maybe he didn’t need his vaccines quite so frequently…
The vet poked the cat with a needle and the cat opened up the vet from his shoulder to wrist. when I was a child, my teenager cousins were afraid of him. he was very clear about his boundaries in a way that cats are
Kudos for you for accepting him the way he was! Lots of people wouldn’t put up with a cat like that!
I picked him when he was 6 weeks old and I was three, he was more a furry sibling 🙂
Aww, so sweet! 🙂