Jackie Mead writes of 6 Heroic Military Cats. Among those admirable felines was the U.S. Navy tabby Princess Papule: Striped tabby Princess Papule was born on July 4, 1944, at the Pearl Harbor Navy Base in Hawaii. Pooli, as she was known to the sailors, was brought aboard the attack transport USS Fremont by crewman James Lynch.…
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Cats, Music
Friday Catblogging: Kitten Cam Translates Meows into Saxophone Sounds
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David Pescovitz writes Live kitten cam with meows transformed into saxophone sounds: Jazz Cats is a live kitten cam in which the meows are changed into saxophone sounds. The software behind the sound is Imitone, pitch-to-MIDI software that translates the notes that you (or the cats) sing into the sound of any digital instrument. When…
America, Cats, Good Ideas
Friday Catblogging: A Cat in the White House
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Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: How Lions See & Hunt at Night
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Cats, Technology, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: An App to Translate Cats’ Meows
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Big Cat with a Tiny Meow
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Mikey Denies It All
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Friday Catblogging: Cat Successfully Leaps from Burning Building
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In New York, a cat leapt from a burning second-story apartment, a bit singed but now recovering — Amazing video of a cat jumping out of a second floor window in East Harlem Saturday. Police responded to a domestic dispute at Lincoln Houses where they say man locked himself inside apartment & set it on…
Archaeology, Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat Geoglyph Found Among Nazca Lines
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: A Cougar in Utah
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Anastasia Tsioulcas reports Man Escapes Cougar: ‘Dude, I Don’t Feel Like Dying Today’: Twenty-six-year-old Kyle Burgess was on a 10-mile run on Saturday up Slate Canyon in Provo, Utah. He told the Deseret News that when he saw four cougar cubs on the trail, he took out his phone and started filming. But when Burgess…
Accidents, Cats
Friday Catblogging: A Bike-Touring Cat
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Jessica Coulton of Bicycling writes of An Internet-Famous Bike-Touring Cat? Read All About Her in ‘Nala’s World’: Even over video chat, it was clear to see the depth of the bond between Nala the cat and her owner, Dean Nicholson. Nala’s tail flicked in and out of the video-chat window, and every time she walked in…
Cats, Good Ideas
Friday Catblogging: Mealtime for Stray Cats Near a Japanese Beach
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Books, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cat Guru Explains What Cats Mean When They Meow
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Kenji Hall writes What does your cat mean by ‘miaow’? Let Japan’s pet guru Yuki Hattori explain: In Japan – where they take their cats very seriously – they call Yuki Hattori the Cat Saviour. He is so popular that he saw 16,000 patients last year, and crowds regularly queue up to hear him talk about…