Amanda Erickson reports Archaeologists have discovered dozens of cat mummies in an ancient Egyptian tomb: On Saturday, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities announced that a team of archaeologists had uncovered dozens of mummified cats, along with 100 wooden cat statues and a bronze bust of Bastet, the ancient Egyptian goddess of cats. The artifacts, found in a tomb…
Cats
Cats, Fashion
Friday Catblogging: Cat on Catwalk
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Cats, Nature, Television
Friday Catblogging: Super Cats on PBS
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Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Cougar on Wildlife Camera in Upper Peninsula
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Photo: Michigan Department of Natural Resources
Via Cougar spotted on [Michigan] DNR camera in the Upper Peninsula.
Cats
Friday Catblogging: Cat at a Cat Café
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Cats, Good Ideas
Friday Catblogging: 75-year-old Wisconsin man naps with cats while volunteering at animal shelter
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If anyone’s looking for a little inspiration for their post-retirement career, you could do a lot worse than taking a cue from Wisconsin’s Terry Lauerman. The 75-year-old man is a volunteer at the Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary in Green Bay. His primary job, as it seems, is to take naps with the various cats. Save Haven’s founder, Elizabeth…
Cats
Friday Catblogging: A Cat’s Unique Look
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Cats, Science/Nature
Friday Catblogging: What Cats Think
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Felicity Muth writes What We Understand about Cats and What They Understand about Us: One way in which we frequently attempt to interact with the animals that live with us is by pointing at things. It is possible that this shows our limitations rather than our animal friends since this is a particularly human means…
Cats, Nature, Weird Tales
Friday Catblogging: Not Humans After All
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A years-long search for a serial cat killer has found unexpected culprits. Amy Held reports London Police Outfoxed, Abandon 3-Year Search For Serial Cat Killer: It was a damp and dreary November nearly three years ago, when the London Metropolitan Police decided it was time to act. People kept calling with reports of grisly findings:…
Cats, Science/Nature
That Time a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper
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Eric Grundhauser writes In 1975, a Cat Co-Authored a Physics Paper: Jack H. Hetherington was a professor of physics at Michigan State University in 1975, when he finished what would become an influential and often-cited physics paper. The academic writing, entitled Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc 3He, was an in-depth exploration of…
Art, Cats
Friday Catblogging: Fluffy ‘Ball of Fur’ Cat Illustrations by Kamwei Fong
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Stella’s Nap
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Flatbush Bodega Cat
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Animals, Cats, Nature
Friday Catblogging: Lynx
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The trial reintroduction of six Eurasian lynx in the Kielder Forest in Northumberland has become more likely as 100% of the landowners approached so far have given their approval. Read the full story: https://t.co/AdtJONrThM ? Neville Buck pic.twitter.com/5avhPHXpCr — BBC Wildlife (@WildlifeMag) August 14, 2018