itt: historical pets named and unnamed

(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

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

great dogs

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.””

he was a very regal boy

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article5025460.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/1782045_980833121936403_5762892326494290964_n.jpg

Pangur Bán, 9th-century Irish poem as translated by Auden:

Pangur, white Pangur, How happy we are
Alone together, scholar and cat
Each 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

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

me irl

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgVkb1TWQAEqPGF.jpg:large

XP Millions of Cats is a hellish tale

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

despite that tho i'm sure he was a good kitty

Firefighters rescue dog from #Telford house roof https://t.co/E6LS78evs7 #Shropshire pic.twitter.com/YzDdFSqcPJ

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"Scorpion mating is highly stylized with a sequence of behaviors and mating is indirect, with the
male producing an external spermatophore that he guides the female to pick up. In the common
striped bark scorpion the female initiates the mating, making abrupt advances and retreats to a
potential mate that it encounters. A receptive male then responds with a back and forth rocking
moving known as “juddering”. This is followed by “clubbing”, striking the other scorpion with
the tip of the abdomen, but without stinging. The scorpions then clasp each other with their
pedipalp claws and draw near enough to engage in a “cheliceral massage” - a scorpion version of
a kiss."

i’ll be in my bunk

scorpion erotic fiction

"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. "

the day that (the seal's whiskers in the aquarium in) hel (in poland) froze over

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXIQAraXUAAeYq_.jpg

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.

Iannis Xenakis riding in a kayak with his dog. pic.twitter.com/t53RTJhFMR

— composers doing normal shit (@NormalComposers) June 1, 2022