itt: historical pets named and unnamed

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

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]

years later setanta, using his given name, recorded mega-smash 'smooth' with rob thomas of matchbox 20

Wow that's an ancient heritage of a proud people you're mocking there man

you're right, i apologise if any matchbox 20 fans were offended by my previous post itt

https://goo.gl/images/ZxUt1e

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.

The elephant was shot with the rest of the family.

steady on lads that's taking revolution a bit too far imo

Quite a task getting the elephant down to the basement.

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

http://www.estherbubley.com/images/large/life_moore_bird.jpg

To a Prize Bird
by Marianne Moore

You suit me well, for you can make me laugh,
nor are you blinded by the chaff
that every wind sends spinning from the rick.
You know to think, and what you think you speak
with much of Samson's pride and bleak
finality, 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)

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

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

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....

is that from this excellent account?

Neymar having a nap with his dog pic.twitter.com/2d8mA3zb5a

— Footballers with animals (@ftbllrswanimals) February 18, 2018

that’s an ape u savage xp

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

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!

braziian composer alberto ginastera: cat has just heard ELP's version of his piano concerto
https://www.ludwig-van.com/toronto/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/Ginastera.jpg

what a scene-stealer

(AG once said the reason he stayed in buenos aires to compose was to be near the cat)

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.

Gérard de Nerval shown up in this thread yet?

https://strangeflowers.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/simpsons_pinchy.jpg

http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/W0h1xUR.jpg

wanda gag, the author of millions of cats
http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/gQLBbVM-5.jpg

http://millionsofcats.weebly.com/uploads/9/2/7/1/9271119/1102127.png?1319741888

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

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

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."

millions of wanda gág:
https://louisesanfacon.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wanda-gag-1893-19461.jpg

(who also designed her own clothes)

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

^ Dot and Buddy.

such classic traditional Pakistani names of course!

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.

The Munich Mouser in downing st c. 1940
http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey/black-cat1-wartime.jpg
from
http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/humphrey.html

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."

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

http://messybeast.com/images/thai-breed-chart.jpg

I believe Colette's cat was named Minnalouche.

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

love this thread

btw i have a friend whose cat is named Grendel

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

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/

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

lenin also mummified iirc

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-9L3uBUQAASnn1.jpg

Chekhov with Bromin and Quinine:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/1d/d3/ba/1dd3ba8eb41e3b19ff49eda31dad38fe.jpg

He also had a mongoose.

Twain with a big dog: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/05/42/8a/05428a2de572ca8080f4d9f24ffb5d7f.jpg