Maddy Shaw Roberts, at classicfm, writes that Mozart apparently liked to imitate cats. Here’s the tail as we know it: This lovely little anecdote has been floating around since the 19th century. Karoline von Greiner Pichler, an Austrian novelist and former student of Mozart, describes her teacher in her 1843 memoirs, quoted in Otto Deutsch’s Mozart:…
Cats
Cats, Natural Disasters, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cat feared dead in 2018 California mudslide found alive
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Rare Scottish Wildcats
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Cats, Plants, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: ‘Nip
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[Leonora Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.] Inverse has an article on The science behind catnip’s potent powers: Catnip’s pungent odor comes from a chemical called nepetalactone. It helps the plant repel insects. But this research takes us further into the evolution of nepetalactone using genetic analysis. According to study co-author Benjamin Lichman, a…
Cats, Holiday
Friday Catblogging: Jingle Cats, We Wish You a Merry Christmas
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America, Cats, History, Military
Friday Catblogging: Heroic Military Cats
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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.…
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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Cats
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…