Carolina Miranda of the LA Times reports that Hello Kitty’s not a cat, and even worse, she’s British: Hello Kitty is not a cat. You read that right. When Yano was preparing her written texts for the exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, she says she described Hello Kitty as a cat. “I was corrected — very…
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Friday Catblogging: Cat Gets a Hug
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Friday Catblogging: Synchronized Cats
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Friday Poll: Hysterical humans or furious felines?
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Alleged Cat Attacks: Hysteria or Fury? There have been two stories this year about cats that have allegedly trapped their owners in a room, forcing those people to call the police for assistance. Most recently, to my knowledge, is a call for assistance in Chula Vista, CA (“California women call police over cat’s furry fury”):…
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Friday Catblogging: Cats in Zero Gravity
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Friday Catblogging: Mapping a Million Cats
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Megan Garber reports on a cartography project: I Know Where Your Cat Lives from Owen Mundy on Vimeo. There are a lot of cats in the world, and there are a lot of cats on the Internet. These two facts—one a longstanding reality, the other a longstanding cliche—often collide with each other in predictable ways.…
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Friday Catblogging: One Fast Cat Exercise Wheel
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Friday Catblogging: High-Tech Cat Feeder
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Bistro has designed and will market a cat feeder that uses facial recognition, among other technologies, to monitor a cat’s feeding habits: Our four-legged friends have a habit of not eating when something ails them. However, if you’re at work all day, you may not pick up on the lack of appetite until it’s too late. Well, there’s…
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Friday Catblogging: Online, Are Goats Replacing Cats?
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It seems improbable, but at the Washington Post, Caitlin Dewey contends that Online, goats are the new cats. (No kidding!): Let’s recap the sheer number of goats who have gone viral in recent months. There was Frostie, the sickly Australian snow goat who learned to walk with the help of a wheelchair. Then there was…
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Friday Catblogging: Cat Walk
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Dear Kitten…
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Friday Catblogging: The Cabbit
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Among the many mythological creatures of history, alongside unicorns, sea monsters, and abominable snowmen sits the legendary cat-rabbit hybrid, the cabbit. One can find photographs of the supposed animal across the Internet: Over at Messy Beast, Sarah Hartwell has the definitive guide to cabbits, entitled, Cabbits – A History of the Myth. Hartwell traces the…