Near this Spotare deposited the Remains of onewho possessed Beauty without Vanity,Strength without Insolence,Courage without Ferocity,and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
This praise, which would be unmeaning Flatteryif inscribed over human Ashes,is but a just tribute to the Memory ofBoatswain, a Dogwho was born in Newfoundland May 1803and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
Ancient carved wooden dog discovered in Monck’s Cave, Banks Peninsula, New Zealandhttps://teara.govt.nz/files/p16221cmu.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
derrida with his cat logos* http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9sp5xbqb3ok/UfX-Q1wRqJI/AAAAAAAAAHo/LvgUnvjPp-Q/s1600/derridas-cat.jpg
*lol
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
pinterest resource in this general area
(elsewhere the internet is claiming that foucault called his cat INSANITY and sartre called his NOTHING)
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
hmm
https://piximus.net/media2/44613/medieval-cat-paintings-that-will-crack-you-up-7.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link
leo x's pet elephant hanno (1510-16)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Hanno2.png
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
http://www.dogster.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/guinefort-medieval-saint.jpg
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
There is also the story of Guinefort, the saint dog – in the 13th century Stephen de Bourbon explains that the peasants near the French city of Lyons were saying prayers at the grave of a dog named Guinefort and reporting that he was doing miracles, especially for infants. He inquired with the peasants and learned this story:There was a certain castle whose lord had a baby son from his wife. But when the lord and lady and the nurse too had left the house, leaving the child alone in his cradle, a very large snake entered the house and made for the child’s cradle. The greyhound, who had remained there, saw this, dashed swiftly under the cradle in pursuit, knocking it over, and attacked the snake with its fangs and answering bite with bite. In the end the dog killed it and threw it far away from the child’s cradle which he left all bloodied as was his mouth and head, with the snake’s blood, and stood there by the cradle all beaten about by the snake. When the nurse came back and saw this, she thought the child had been killed and eaten by the dog and so gave out an almighty scream. The child’s mother heard this, rushed in, saw and thought the same and she too screamed. Then the knight similarly once he got there believed the same, and drawing his sword killed the dog. Only then did they approach the child and find him unharmed, sleeping sweetly in fact. On further investigation, they discovered the snake torn up by the dog’s bites and dead. Now that they had learned the truth of the matter, they were embarrassed that they had so unjustly killed a dog so useful to them and threw his body into a well in front of the castle gate, and placing over it a very large heap of stones they planted trees nearby as a memorial of the deed.
There was a certain castle whose lord had a baby son from his wife. But when the lord and lady and the nurse too had left the house, leaving the child alone in his cradle, a very large snake entered the house and made for the child’s cradle. The greyhound, who had remained there, saw this, dashed swiftly under the cradle in pursuit, knocking it over, and attacked the snake with its fangs and answering bite with bite. In the end the dog killed it and threw it far away from the child’s cradle which he left all bloodied as was his mouth and head, with the snake’s blood, and stood there by the cradle all beaten about by the snake. When the nurse came back and saw this, she thought the child had been killed and eaten by the dog and so gave out an almighty scream. The child’s mother heard this, rushed in, saw and thought the same and she too screamed. Then the knight similarly once he got there believed the same, and drawing his sword killed the dog. Only then did they approach the child and find him unharmed, sleeping sweetly in fact. On further investigation, they discovered the snake torn up by the dog’s bites and dead. Now that they had learned the truth of the matter, they were embarrassed that they had so unjustly killed a dog so useful to them and threw his body into a well in front of the castle gate, and placing over it a very large heap of stones they planted trees nearby as a memorial of the deed.
I think Frederick the Great is an interesting story of a dog lover and had free-roaming greyhounds and whippets in his castle and was buried with some of them. His dad was a brutal thug + more the type to set fire to a dog (or the unfortunate von Gundling who was treated lower than a dog) for a laugh. Frederick had a greyhound called Biche that was a gift from his executed lover Lieutenant von Katte, that when it died - sent him into a black hole of depression. Some of this might be mixed up, it's half from memory of the Chris Clark book and some wiki bollox.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 22:36 (six years ago) link
Holt, Pyewacket, Jarmara, Vinegar Tom, Sacke and Sugar, Newes, Elemanzer, Peck in the Crown and Grizzel Greedigut
https://mysticcauldron.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/familiars.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 22:48 (six years ago) link
This oddly looks like an advert for some BBC show.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
imps win prizes
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
I'm guessing this Matthew Hopkins chap might not be the congenial host type...
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
(not really relevant to the thread, but i always liked that witch-hunting began to fizzle out in england in 1712, when the judge, sir john powell, ensured the reprieve of the accused jane wenham by crossly pointing that that there is in fact "no law against flying”, and setting aside her conviction)
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.mimimatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/tom-and-jerry-sporting-their-blunt-on-the-phenomenon-monkey-jacco-macacco-at-the-westminster-pit-by-george-and-isaac-cruikshank-1821.jpg
In some settings, the aggression of the monkey was actually encouraged. Jacco Macacco was a famous fighting monkey during the early 19th century. A small monkey, weighing in at only 10 – 12 pounds, he was matched against dogs of similar weight in the fighting pits of Westminster. Toward the end of his career in the 1820’s, he was forced to fight against dogs who were double his weight. According to some accounts, it was in such a match that he was ultimately killed. His death prompted a petition against animal cruelty in the House of Commons. The May 1822 issue of The Monthly Magazine reports:“In the House of Commons, Mr. Martin, of Galway, presented a petition from a number of respectable inhabitants of Camberwell, in support of the Bill now pending to prevent cruelty to animals. The Hon. Member detailed the conduct of the man who keeps a place in Westminster, where Jacco Macacco, a monkey, has exhibited his prowess; ‘this unfortunate animal, (said Mr. M.) after having fought many pitched battles, was pitted against a dog of double its weight; Jacco, fought the dog for half an hour, and the battle terminated by the dog tearing away the whole of the monkey’s lower jaw, and the monkey’s ripping up the dog’s stomach. Both animals died in a few minutes.’ Even the carcass butchers of Whitechapel, aware of the atrocious cruelties committed, have united in a petition for a Bill to restrain the unfeeling practices of mankind.”
“In the House of Commons, Mr. Martin, of Galway, presented a petition from a number of respectable inhabitants of Camberwell, in support of the Bill now pending to prevent cruelty to animals. The Hon. Member detailed the conduct of the man who keeps a place in Westminster, where Jacco Macacco, a monkey, has exhibited his prowess; ‘this unfortunate animal, (said Mr. M.) after having fought many pitched battles, was pitted against a dog of double its weight; Jacco, fought the dog for half an hour, and the battle terminated by the dog tearing away the whole of the monkey’s lower jaw, and the monkey’s ripping up the dog’s stomach. Both animals died in a few minutes.’ Even the carcass butchers of Whitechapel, aware of the atrocious cruelties committed, have united in a petition for a Bill to restrain the unfeeling practices of mankind.”
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
"Even the carcass butchers of Whitechapel"
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
Mention must be made of Jeremy Bentham's pet cat, The Reverend John Langhorne (possible link to that Good Names For Cats thread that's been doing the rounds).
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:27 (six years ago) link
are the "carcass butchers of whitechapel" just, like, actual normal butchers (all of whom work with carcasses) except they live in whitechapel?
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
they exclusively work with human carcasses I think, but they have hearts of gold.
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
Would a tragically mismatched bout to the death between The Reverend John Langhorne vs Jacco Macacco have really troubled these fucking milquetoast carcass butchers of whitechapel?
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
sorry I'm losing the plot here and will retire!
― calzino, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:53 (six years ago) link
the only other internet reference i can find to them under this particular title is in cobbett's commentaries, where they are petitioning parliament for a bill to punish the ill-treatment of cattle
(cobbett thinks the bill is silly: he says the carcass-butchers should pay more and hire less brutal cattledrivers)
― mark s, Sunday, 18 February 2018 23:55 (six years ago) link
these bloody centrists never change!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
oops, missed the pay more bit there!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler, with Hitler holding Blondi on a leash.Species Canis lupus familiarisBreed German ShepherdSex FemaleBorn 1941Died Circa April 4, 1945Nation from GermanyOccupation Propaganda dogEmployer Adolf HitlerNotable role Avatar of German animalhoodKnown for Germanischer UrhundOwner Adolf Hitler and familyOffspring Wulf
― sarahell, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
Blondi's offspring lasted about as long as Goebbels kids by the sound of it!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
thx 4 new screen name
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
this is byron's dog boatswain (the poem to him is apparently not by byron but by his close friend john hobhouse)
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/11/29/1385740481027/Lord-Byrons-dog-Boatswain-002.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
http://barkpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dog-byron-612x287-copy.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:26 (six years ago) link
https://silverbirchpress.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/white_cat_buk1.jpg
THE HISTORY OF ONE TOUGH MFby Charles Bukowski
he came to the door one night wet thin beaten andterrorizeda white cross-eyed tailless catI took him in and fed him and he stayedgrew to trust me until a friend drove up the drivewayand ran him overI took what was left to a vet who said,”not muchchance…give him these pills…his backboneis crushed, but is was crushed before and somehowmended, if he lives he’ll never walk, look atthese x-rays, he’s been shot, look here, the pelletsare still there…also, he once had a tail, somebodycut it off…”I took the cat back, it was a hot summer, one of thehottest in decades, I put him on the bathroomfloor, gave him water and pills, he wouldn’t eat, hewouldn’t touch the water, I dipped my finger into itand wet his mouth and I talked to him, I didn’t go any-where, I put in a lot of bathroom time and talked tohim and gently touched him and he looked back atme with those pale blue crossed eyes and as the days wentby he made his first movedragging himself forward by his front legs(the rear ones wouldn’t work)he made it to the litter boxcrawled over and in,it was like the trumpet of possible victoryblowing in that bathroom and into the city, Irelated to that cat-I’d had it bad, not thatbad but bad enoughone morning he got up, stood up, fell back down andjust looked at me.“you can make it,” I said to him.he kept trying, getting up falling down, finallyhe walked a few steps, he was like a drunk, therear legs just didn’t want to do it and he fell again, rested,then got up.you know the rest: now he’s better than ever, cross-eyedalmost toothless, but the grace is back, and that look inhis eyes never left…and now sometimes I’m interviewed, they want to hear aboutlife and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,”look, lookat this!”but they don’t understand, they say something like,”yousay you’ve been influenced by Celine?”“no,” I hold the cat up,”by what happens, bythings like this, by this, by this!”I shake the cat, hold him up inthe smoky and drunken light, he’s relaxed he knows…it’s then that the interviews endalthough I am proud sometimes when I see the pictureslater and there I am and there is the cat and we are photo-graphed together.he too knows it’s bullshit but that somehow it all helps.
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:28 (six years ago) link
would def hang out with bukowskicat
maybe not so much with bukowski
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 11:33 (six years ago) link
when he dialled down the boorishness and machismo he could be an awesome writer of prose and poetry.
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:42 (six years ago) link
more macho softies that liked cats (the one that didn't write the sun also rises is called snowball and was *squints* a pterodactyl) http://cms.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/hemingway_cats.jpg
(actually if colour is anything to go by this isn't snowball)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link
inevitably: http://cms.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/burroughs.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
tremendous stuff: http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/mf_image_3x2/public/twain_cats.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
He only had the friggin' dog for 5 years, the, er, big girl's blouse.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
tough crowd
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
The poem on Boatswain not being by Byron - where's that from? I can only find the introductory lines being reattributed.
(Curious, because I fondly remember staring at Boatswain's tomb on an acid day out to Newstead Abbey.)
― woof, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaph_to_a_Dog
but reading more carefully i see that it's saying (or i think it;s saying) that the lines clazino q
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
wtf try again:
from wikipedia but reading more carefully i see that it's saying (or i think it's saying) that the lines that calzino quoted are by hobhouse, and the lines below it (on the inscription) are byron's viz: When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth,Unknown to Glory, but upheld by Birth,The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe,And storied urns record who rests below.When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen,Not what he was, but what he should have been.But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend,Whose honest heart is still his Master’s own,Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,Unhonoured falls, unnoticed all his worth,Denied in heaven the Soul he held on earth –While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven,And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Oh man! thou feeble tenant of an hour,Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power –Who knows thee well, must quit thee with disgust,Degraded mass of animated dust!Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,Thy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit!By nature vile, ennobled but by name,Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame.Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn,Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn.To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise;I never knew but one -- and here he lies.
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:33 (six years ago) link
Consider the Brownings' dog Flush
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/FlushBiography.jpg
and of course Samuel Johnson's cat Hodge
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Hodgecat_flickr.jpg
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 12:40 (six years ago) link
Boswell: "I never shall forget the indulgence with which he treated Hodge, his cat: for whom he himself used to go out and buy oysters, lest the servants having that trouble should take a dislike to the poor creature. I am, unluckily, one of those who have an antipathy to a cat, so that I am uneasy when in the room with one; and I own, I frequently suffered a good deal from the presence of this same Hodge. I recollect him one day scrambling up Dr. Johnson's breast, apparently with much satisfaction, while my friend smiling and half-whistling, rubbed down his back, and pulled him by the tail; and when I observed he was a fine cat, saying, "Why yes, Sir, but I have had cats whom I liked better than this;" and then as if perceiving Hodge to be out of countenance, adding, "but he is a very fine cat, a very fine cat indeed."
This reminds me of the ludicrous account which he gave Mr. Langton, of the despicable state of a young Gentleman of good family. "Sir, when I heard of him last, he was running about town shooting cats." And then in a sort of kindly reverie, he bethought himself of his own favourite cat, and said, "But Hodge shan't be shot; no, no, Hodge shall not be shot."
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
dunno if this one counts as a pet per se but here is félicette the astrocat, who was sent into space by the french space agency in 1963 and remains (iirc) the only spacefaring feline
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e0/Felicette%2C_spacecat.jpg/220px-Felicette%2C_spacecat.jpg
she survived her 15-minute journey to the heavens and on her return she was uh promptly put down so scientists could study the effects of space travel on her li'l kitty body
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link
here she is catloafin', admittedly a bit uncomfortably, before making her trip
http://www.collectspace.com/images/news-111717a-lg.jpg
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
disappointed to find out because of this thread that Isaac Newton's pyromaniac dog Diamond is possibly apocryphal
― Big Ched aka The Cheesedriver (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
i give u stubbs the cat, honorary mayor of talkeetna, alaska from 1997 until his death last year
https://mediaassets.abc2news.com/photo/2017/07/24/poster_0654595f21fa4f53a8c38997953db8df_63308082_ver1.0_640_480.jpg
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link
Culann the smith invites Conchobar to a feast at his house. Before going, Conchobar goes to the playing field to watch the boys play hurling. He is so impressed by Sétanta's performance that he asks him to join him at the feast. Sétanta has a game to finish, but promises to follow the king later. But Conchobar forgets, and Culann lets loose his ferocious hound to protect his house. When Sétanta arrives, the enormous hound attacks him, but he kills it in self-defence, in one version by smashing it against a standing stone, and in another by driving a sliotar (hurling ball) down its throat with his hurley. Culann is devastated by the loss of his hound, so Sétanta promises he will rear him a replacement, and until it is old enough to do the job, he himself will guard Culann's house. The druid Cathbad announces that his name henceforth will be Cú Chulainn—"Culann's Hound".[16]
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:11 (six years ago) link
years later setanta, using his given name, recorded mega-smash 'smooth' with rob thomas of matchbox 20
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
Wow that's an ancient heritage of a proud people you're mocking there man
― rum dmc (darraghmac), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
you're right, i apologise if any matchbox 20 fans were offended by my previous post itt
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:33 (six years ago) link
such classic traditional Pakistani names of course!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
https://s13.postimg.org/v80e8scpj/892_FAD2_F-508_B-4243-_AB20-_D11_CFE6_B7_D29.jpg
Jim Jones and Mr Muggs ^
It sounds completely ludicrous but Jones did a lot of recruiting work for the first incarnation of the People’s Temple while working as a door-to-door spider monkey salesman.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
The Munich Mouser in downing st c. 1940http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey/black-cat1-wartime.jpgfromhttp://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey.html
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7136/7553199418_926bd44490_z.jpg
USC mascot George Tirebiter
"George Tirebiter was a shaggy mutt who – for a few glorious years in the ’40s and ’50s – became a beloved Trojan mascot.
No one is quite sure when George wandered onto campus, but his feisty personality made him a student favorite as he chased cars and bit tires along University Avenue, not far from where you stand.
He was taken to football games in a limousine where he led the Trojan marching band onto the field, often wearing sweaters and odd little hats. He once drew the cheers of thousands when he bit the mask of UCLA mascot, Joe Bruin, on the nose.
Rumor has it there is a transcript on file showing George with a GPA of 3.2 in such courses as Chasing Cats 101 and Biting Tires 270.
Of all the great USC mascots, none had the bite of George Tirebiter."
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
aww i love that
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/06/15/glasgows-cover-girl-cat/26bb4135-71a1-4e5a-8346-c42ea810234b/?utm_term=.959a46c93cf4
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
http://messybeast.com/images/thai-breed-chart.jpg
― mick signals, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
I believe Colette's cat was named Minnalouche.
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
some great photos and film of colette with (and without) her cats and dog -- also some annoying music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUiS5vCWucU
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
love this thread
btw i have a friend whose cat is named Grendel
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:06 (six years ago) link
https://mythofsyph.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/lenin-and-cat.jpg https://c300221.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/c-1920s-lenins-cat-in-the-retronaut-1363634472_org.jpg
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
in ancient Egypt cats (called "Mau") were quite highly esteemed, to the point of mummification and deification. this cultural tradition lasted thousands of years:
So deeply implanted also in the hearts of the common (Egyptian) people is their superstitious regard for these animals and so unalterable are the emotions cherished by every man regarding the honour due to them that once… one of the Romans killed a cat and the multitude rushed in a crowd to his house, neither the officials sent by the king to beg the man off nor the fear of Rome which all the people felt were enough to save the man from punishment, even though his act had been an accident.Diodorus emphasis that the Egyptians were actually at that time trying to court the Romans: we are in the last generation of Egyptian independence. Ptolemy wanted proper recognition from the Senate and certainly didn’t want to give the Romans any reason to raise the eagles: ‘at this time when Ptolemy their king had not as yet been given by the Romans the appellation of ‘friend’ and the people were exercising all zeal in courting the favour of the embassy from Italy which was then visiting Egypt and, in their fear, were intent upon giving no cause for complaint or war’. Diodorus’ point was that the normal rules of war and peace are suspended when cats were involved.http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/04/18/when-cats-killed-men/
Diodorus emphasis that the Egyptians were actually at that time trying to court the Romans: we are in the last generation of Egyptian independence. Ptolemy wanted proper recognition from the Senate and certainly didn’t want to give the Romans any reason to raise the eagles: ‘at this time when Ptolemy their king had not as yet been given by the Romans the appellation of ‘friend’ and the people were exercising all zeal in courting the favour of the embassy from Italy which was then visiting Egypt and, in their fear, were intent upon giving no cause for complaint or war’. Diodorus’ point was that the normal rules of war and peace are suspended when cats were involved.
http://www.strangehistory.net/2013/04/18/when-cats-killed-men/
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
http://www.strangehistory.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/mummified-egyptian-cats.jpg
i remember watching a tv documentary abt animal mummies where they dug up a long-buried hopper full of mummified kittens which basically looked exactly like potatoes
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 20:47 (six years ago) link
lenin also mummified iirc
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-9L3uBUQAASnn1.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
Chekhov with Bromin and Quinine:https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1d/d3/ba/1dd3ba8eb41e3b19ff49eda31dad38fe.jpg
He also had a mongoose.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2018 05:28 (six years ago) link
Twain with a big dog: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/05/42/8a/05428a2de572ca8080f4d9f24ffb5d7f.jpg
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2018 05:29 (six years ago) link
And of course, Edith Wharton:http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/6a00d8341c192953ef0168e6033739970c.jpg
These are her dogs Mitou, Miza and Nicette :https://static1.squarespace.com/static/507dba43c4aabcfd2216a447/t/544e6adce4b0d70e824a56cb/1414425309258/Wharton%E2%80%99s+dogs+Mitou%2C+Miza+and+Nicette
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 23 February 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
great dogs
― nxd, Friday, 23 February 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
speaking of glasgow cats, the university of glasgow had a longstanding feline visitor named miller who caused a minor media sensation when he died at age 18 a few years ago
BUILDING could be named after Glasgow University’s famous ‘Adam Smith’ cat following his death.The feline, real name Miller, died this week after 18 years as a much loved fixture around the campus that gave him his nickname.And university sources say upcoming expansion of its main Gilmorehill campus could provide the opportunity for the legendary cat to be commemorated.A source said: “We know he was much loved by students and the wider community.“The redevelopment of the campus could provide us with a chance to name a building after him, or erect a statue.James Harrison wrote: “I’ll always remember Miller poking in to my tutorials when I was in first year. He was a lovely cat and really cheered up a lot of students on campus.”Owner Laura Kerr, 33, said the beloved moggy deteriorated quickly over the past few days.The hairdresser said: “It’s been a very sad week but the overwhelming amount of love and support have helped the grief.“It’s hard to believe he’s gone, I kind of thought he was invincible.“It’d be fair to say that over his 18 years he used up all of his nine lives between squaring up to big dogs, run ins with cars and vanishing for weeks on end.””
The feline, real name Miller, died this week after 18 years as a much loved fixture around the campus that gave him his nickname.
And university sources say upcoming expansion of its main Gilmorehill campus could provide the opportunity for the legendary cat to be commemorated.
A source said: “We know he was much loved by students and the wider community.
“The redevelopment of the campus could provide us with a chance to name a building after him, or erect a statue.
James Harrison wrote: “I’ll always remember Miller poking in to my tutorials when I was in first year. He was a lovely cat and really cheered up a lot of students on campus.”
Owner Laura Kerr, 33, said the beloved moggy deteriorated quickly over the past few days.
The hairdresser said: “It’s been a very sad week but the overwhelming amount of love and support have helped the grief.
“It’s hard to believe he’s gone, I kind of thought he was invincible.
“It’d be fair to say that over his 18 years he used up all of his nine lives between squaring up to big dogs, run ins with cars and vanishing for weeks on end.””
he was a very regal boy
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― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2018 10:06 (six years ago) link
Pangur Bán, 9th-century Irish poem as translated by Auden:
Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we areAlone together, scholar and catEach has his own work to do daily;For you it is hunting, for me study.Your shining eye watches the wall;My feeble eye is fixed on a book.You rejoice, when your claws entrap a mouse;I rejoice when my mind fathoms a problem.Pleased with his own art, neither hinders the other;Thus we live ever without tedium and envy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangur_B%C3%A1n
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 23 February 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
oldest cat recorded, NUTMEG, died last year aged 32 RIP: nutmeg, pictured, was never here for yr shit
https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/31-year-old-cat-nutmeg-7.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 23 February 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
me irl
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
nutmeg reminded me of this thread and the venerable COCKY BENNETT (below): the very very very old parrot
http://images.smh.com.au/2011/08/31/2593473/cockybennett2729-420x0.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 23 February 2018 11:35 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgVkb1TWQAEqPGF.jpg:large
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
XP Millions of Cats is a hellish tale
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:15 (six years ago) link
trim the cat discovered australia
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Trim%2C_the_cat%2C_in_Donington%2C_Lincs_-_geograph.org.uk_-_218735.jpg/220px-Trim%2C_the_cat%2C_in_Donington%2C_Lincs_-_geograph.org.uk_-_218735.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
despite that tho i'm sure he was a good kitty
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 10:56 (six years ago) link
Firefighters rescue dog from #Telford house roof https://t.co/E6LS78evs7 #Shropshire pic.twitter.com/YzDdFSqcPJ— SHROPSHIRE (@DailySHROPSHIRE) February 26, 2018
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 11:01 (six years ago) link
"Scorpion mating is highly stylized with a sequence of behaviors and mating is indirect, with themale producing an external spermatophore that he guides the female to pick up. In the commonstriped bark scorpion the female initiates the mating, making abrupt advances and retreats to apotential mate that it encounters. A receptive male then responds with a back and forth rockingmoving known as “juddering”. This is followed by “clubbing”, striking the other scorpion withthe tip of the abdomen, but without stinging. The scorpions then clasp each other with theirpedipalp claws and draw near enough to engage in a “cheliceral massage” - a scorpion version ofa kiss."
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
i’ll be in my bunk
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
scorpion erotic fiction
― Rabbit Control (Latham Green), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:43 (six years ago) link
"Like his spiritual hero, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robespierre retained an enduring affection for dogs. He delighted in their companionship, and after long days spent toiling in the National Convention, was often seen walking his beloved hound, Brount, through the Champs-Élysées in Paris. "
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
the day that (the seal's whiskers in the aquarium in) hel (in poland) froze over
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXIQAraXUAAeYq_.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
There’s a ‘famous’ cat in St. Andrews you used to see in the pubs all the time - there’s a statue to him now, but it looks so unlike him I wonder if I’m remembering the same cat.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Saturday, 28 April 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Iannis Xenakis riding in a kayak with his dog. pic.twitter.com/t53RTJhFMR— composers doing normal shit (@NormalComposers) June 1, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 13 June 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link