First, and most important, the Halloween Black Cat parade, featuring 72—count them 72—black cats, almost all belonging to readers, has now been posted. You can see it on the left sidebar, or go here to to access it. I urge cat-loving readers to have a look, as there are some great pictures and stories, and if you contributed you’ll want to see your moggie.
Here’s a cat dressed as a pirate, and you can see how much he likes it:
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I don’t think this fearsome adornment is a PhotoShop job, but perhaps I’m wrong. Anyway, if it isn’t, someone went to a lot of trouble to do this:
#Halloween cat. The countdown begins! pic.twitter.com/WJJrPTJ4nS
— Grave Matters (@Grave_Matters) October 19, 2015
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Finally, I found this on Facebook (source unknown), but it’s good advice. Do not appropriate the Lived Experience of Cats for your Halloween amusement. It’s an offensive theft of Cat Culture!
h/t: Barry
Semi-feral cats hard at work in Chicago, protecting a brewery:
http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151030/ravenswood/cats-patrol-north-side-brewery-protect-precious-beer-grain-from-rats
Ha ha! I love the last one. There are some gorgeous cat tights I want to get but the store that has them is often out of stock. The look like this.
I’m glad so many people like the black fur!!
I’d say, ironically, the last one is probably the only one that doesn’t involve inflicting some inconvenience or indignity on some unwilling kitteh.
cr
That would be nice.
Reblogged this on perfectlyfadeddelusions.
From the linked article:
I think that just might be the saddest thing I’ve read in ages. We need to be teaching the next generation to push boundaries, not to run away from them light terrified children.
And, since when is it a bad thing to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes? If some kid has just dressed up as sexy Pocahontas, is she going to be more or less likely to stand up for the Powhatan?
b&
I just read that article. Horrendous. Excuse me while I do the technicolor yawn.
Oh! So sorry! That could be taken as appropriating the persona of drunken Australian yobboes. I humbly apologise.
Oh. I didn’t mean to imply that all Australians are drunk, or even that drunk Australians are yobboes. I’m sure there are many drunk Australians who are very pleasant people to be with. Just as the sober ones are.
No, I wasn’t trying to patronise drunk Australians, why?
No, I don’t think being drunk is a suitable topic to make fun of. Alcoholism is a very serious complaint that should not be made light of.
Yes I know I’m in deep shit.
What? Yes I also apologise to all sanitation workers for inadvertently casting slurs on their situation.
I hereby apologise to all Australians, alcoholics, yobboes, and sanitation workers, and also to any people not in those groups who may feel my remarks have excluded them. Please can I crawl away and die now? (Apologies in advance to any terminally injured non-ambulant accident victims).
cr
Apparently there are many these days who can be offended by nearly anything and everything. I can only suggest they lock themselves in the house, turn off the television and computer; never go out. I cannot suggest any reading material because it might be offensive.
Downloading glitches made the pirate video play in something like slow motion, which was especially comical.
The video of how they got the first victim into the “costume” would have been an appropriate Halloween gore-fest. Unless strong anaesthetics were used, which would take it down to a far lower level.
zackly what I thought. Would be a great video for connoisseurs of spectator-blood-sports.
cr
well known photoshopped series from
“Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics” in 2002
which was a follow-up to
“Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics” in 1994
both written as if real documentaries.
Maybe it’s just me, but based on the picture above I am finding it very difficult to come up with an argument against the cat costume.
It attracts a lot of tom cats?
Let’s not forget this wonderful cat wearing a shark costume and riding the Roomba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt5rBfNucc