The cat owners at iizcat published a video of what their cat, Minnie, does at night. She’s quite active —
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Friday Catblogging: Can You Spot the Spotted Leopard?
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Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Acoustic Kitty
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Andrew Daniels writes in Popular Mechanics about the Acoustic Kitty project, a Failed Government Feline Mission: In the 1960s, the CIA allegedly spent $20 million to implant microphones in cats’ ear canals so the animals could inconspicuously eavesdrop on the Soviets. The disastrous first mission, in which a cat would mosey around the Soviet embassy…
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Friday Catblogging: Wildcat
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Rob Thomas reports Melissa Lesh goes from Madison to the Amazon with ‘Wildcat’ movie: “Growing up in Madison was a huge part of my early love of nature,” Lesh said in a recent Zoom interview. “It definitely helped form my appreciation and love of wildlife and wild places.” For the last decade, Lesh and her…
Cats, Twitter
Friday Catblogging: Cats of Yore
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“A hand-colored portrait of the Trimpey family cat, Fluffy, sitting in a basket.” https://t.co/BRhMwkCVLx pic.twitter.com/D3OfneCyZa — Cats of Yore (@CatsOfYore) December 26, 2022 Hillary Frey praises Cats of Yore as the The Best Cat Account on the Internet: My Twitter feed is kind of a mess lately. Whatever changes Elon Musk has made to the algorithm…
Cats, Legendary
Friday Catblogging: An Elegy for P-22
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P-22, a puma known and beloved to residents of Los Angeles, died last week after a life of adventure. He wore a tracking collar, and his travels and appearances in Griffith Park captivated people in California and beyond. Well, done, feline, well done. David Olin writes Elegy for a big, beautiful L.A. cat: On the…
Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cathenge
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Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: The Legend of the U.S. Capitol’s Demon Cat
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Erin Blakemore writes of The legend of the ‘demon cat’ that roams the U.S. Capitol: Since its first rumored appearance in the 1890s, the so-called Demon Cat (known as “D.C”.) has left a trail of terrified people in its wake. Some say it has appeared before tragic events, like the stock market crash of 1929…
Cats, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Waukesha County Cat Brings Home… an Alligator Head
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Friday Catblogging: World’s Oldest Living Cat – Guinness World Records
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Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: The Slow Blink
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Embed from Getty Images Michelle Starr writes Scientists Confirm You Can Communicate With Your Cat by Blinking Very Slowly: In a study published in 2020, scientists observed cat-human interactions, and were able to confirm that this act of blinking slowly makes cats – both familiar and unfamiliar animals – approach and be receptive to humans. ….…