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
https://goo.gl/images/ZxUt1e
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link
https://s10.postimg.org/c8ow8xdkp/slon2.jpg
The Romanovs had a pet elephant, which doesn't appear to have been named. The rest of St Petersburg society apparently thought it was a huge waste of money and made the royal family look frivolous.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
The elephant was shot with the rest of the family.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
steady on lads that's taking revolution a bit too far imo
― Occupation Propaganda dog (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Quite a task getting the elephant down to the basement.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:01 (six years ago) link
credit where credit's due tho, it takes an especially brave revolutionary fighter to enclose himself in a basement with an angry elephant and try to shoot it enough times to kill it before it kills you
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
http://www.estherbubley.com/images/large/life_moore_bird.jpg
To a Prize Birdby Marianne Moore
You suit me well, for you can make me laugh,nor are you blinded by the chaffthat every wind sends spinning from the rick.You know to think, and what you think you speakwith much of Samson's pride and bleakfinality, and none dare bid you stop.Pride sits you well, so strut, colossal bird.No barnyard makes you look absurd;your brazen claws are staunch against defeat.
(i think the cockatoo in the picture is actually from a zoo, rather than MM's: many of her poems are about animals)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 15:07 (six years ago) link
félicette the astrocat, who was sent into space by the french space agency in 1963 and remains (iirc) the only spacefaring feline
Au contraire
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0839/5903/products/978163106361.jpg?v=1492119402
― persona non gratin (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
vanilla ice and his pet kangaroo bucky buckaroo https://www.trend-chaser.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2016/12/012-vanilla-ice-has-a-real-life-kangaroo-768661.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
http://20.theladbiblegroup.com/s3/content/e542f2c65872d6e3c48cce5e62aab923.jpg
I was trying my best to resist posting the pic of Edmundo getting a monkey drunk, till now....
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:18 (six years ago) link
is that from this excellent account?
Neymar having a nap with his dog pic.twitter.com/2d8mA3zb5a— Footballers with animals (@ftbllrswanimals) February 18, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
that’s an ape u savage xp
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
Faustino Asprilla teaching his horse how to play football whilst dressed as a Tyrannosaurus rex pic.twitter.com/ldkRrPGtfe— Footballers with animals (@ftbllrswanimals) February 10, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
lol you just xped me!
No, but I saw that priceless one of Asprilla teaching a horse football, dressed as a dinosaur from that account, lol!
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
braziian composer alberto ginastera: cat has just heard ELP's version of his piano concertohttps://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Ginastera.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
what a scene-stealer
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
(AG once said the reason he stayed in buenos aires to compose was to be near the cat)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
https://www.meisterdrucke.com/kunstwerke/500px/John%20Doyle%20-%20Le%20Mort%20George%20IV%20(1762-1830)%20caricature%20of%20the%20King%20grieving%20the%20death%20of%20the%20giraffe%20at%20London%20Zoo%20printed%20by%20J%20Netherclift%20and%20pub%20by%20McLean%201829%20London%20(hand-coloured%20engraving)%20-%20(MeisterDrucke-46248).jpg
In 1827 the then-viceroy of Egypt gave away three live specimens: one to King George IV of Britain, a second to Charles X of France and a third to Franz II, Emperor of Austria.
The giraffe that George IV was gifted suffered terrible leg injuries during transit and had a wretched 2 years in England and was barely mobile by the time she died. French caricature ripping into him above.
― calzino, Monday, 19 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Gérard de Nerval shown up in this thread yet?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
https://strangeflowers.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/simpsons_pinchy.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/W0h1xUR.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
wanda gag, the author of millions of catshttp://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gQLBbVM-5.jpg
http://millionsofcats.weebly.com/uploads/9/2/7/1/9271119/1102127.png?1319741888
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
Walter Rothschild, interesting guy...
https://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/0GsJDWCXy3C_DfELY.jpg https://www.theawl.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/0znELEwwJpxxcHhqK.jpg
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
dali and gág via this resource (this is edward gorey)
Famous Artists and Their Cats (30 photos) https://t.co/H5kJrmutAa pic.twitter.com/14fIEMEK4z— Kengarex (@kengarex) February 18, 2018
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
Just hit the first mention of Anthony Powell's cats in the Spuring bio:
"The Powells moved in with Tony's sofa, accumulated books, a refrigerator that had been a wedding present (still a relatively unusual acquisition in the 1930s), and whatever furniture they could scrounge, borrow or buy from junk shops and auction sales. They also brought their first cat with them, an intelligent and observant Siamese called Bosola after the multiple murderer in John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi."
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:13 (six years ago) link
millions of wanda gág: https://louisesanfacon.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wanda-gag-1893-19461.jpg
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
(who also designed her own clothes)
― mark s, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:18 (six years ago) link
A famous one but JFK’s dog Pushinka was the daughter of legendary Soviet cosmonaut Strelka.
https://s13.postimg.org/a9pmwn2t3/9_F910_AB5-_B0_EE-467_B-_A0_D4-_C9_DB62_A1_B19_F.jpg
I’ve always liked this pic of Musharraf and his Pekes taken shortly after he became leader and a signal that he wanted to follow a secular path. Jinnah also loved his dogs.
https://s13.postimg.org/60kwuwf3r/80876_C1_E-_BBD7-44_E6-9_EE3-9_D30657_EF157.jpg
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link
^ Dot and Buddy.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 19 February 2018 20:46 (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