Cats

Karin Bruillard reports Catcam videos reveal cats don’t sleep all day. (Just some of it.): What does a cat do when nobody’s looking? One way to find out is to set up a pet cam to spy on kitty at home. Another way is to put little video cameras on cats’ collars, set the animals…

Cats, Good Ideas

Friday Catblogging: High-Fiving Cats

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/21/2019

Cats, History, Music

Hep the Hepcat (December 1946)

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/14/2019

From the Library of Congress: Caption from Down Beat: Probably no dance band ever has played to so many empty tables consistently as the Sam Donahue ork [orchestra] during the recent double booking with Lionel Hampton at the Aquarium. The operators decreed that Sam should play afternoons, and the place isn’t open in the afternoon!…

Cats, Conservation, Nature

Friday Catblogging: Lion Relocation

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/07/2019

John Adams on Twitter How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off https://t.co/5KvE5wiUMz via @NatGeo Paul Steyn reports How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off: When he [Jorge Thozo, chief of the Thozo community] was a child, numerous prides of lions roamed the game-rich wetlands of the Zambezi Delta. But their numbers…

Cats

Friday Catblogging: How Cats Use Their Whiskers

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/31/2019

Cats, History, Military

Friday Catblogging: ‘Treat ’em rough – Join the tanks – United States Tank Corps’

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/24/2019

From the Library of Congress, a First World War American recruiting poster shows a black cat with prominent fangs and claws leaping above a battlefield with tanks.