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pandaflavouredcookies:

davvic321:

My cat Bishop sits outside my door every morning once she hears the alarm clock go off.

The morning murps

This is the cat equivalent of that vine where they film their professor walking into class every morning.

shegs:

Her tail went from ? to !

biophonies:

I had to immortalize the magical encounter I had yesterday

moonlandingwasfaked:

eatsleepcrap:

queerstatic:

eatsleepcrap:

queerstatic:

eatsleepcrap:

queerstatic:

tell me something nice, hit me with those positive vibess

the earliest recorded named cat lived over 3000 years ago in egypt and was called ‘nedjem’ which means sweetie

the pet cat of prince thutmose was called ‘tai miuwette’ which means ‘little mewer’

in medieval england so many cats were given the name ‘gilbert’ that the word ‘gyb’ came to mean ‘pet cat’

leolomir:

Bleeeeugh om niom niomniom blereegh

blueelectricangels:

pervocracy:

are you ready for my favorite fact?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

that is my favorite fact

Bobcats and lynx will sit in cardboard boxes abandoned in the middle of the forest.

I asked the lynx researcher who told me this why, and he said “Cats, man” and shrugged.

slowlymychaos:

peep-toe-shoes:

saulof-tarsus:

catholic-aviator:

mademoisellesarcasme:

petermorwood:

surprisekitty:

wizardmoon:

skypig357:

giflounge:

1944 – Snowball the cat tries to take over a machine gun in Normandy so she can shoot some Nazis herself.

Blessed post. Good kitty

i want someone to read that headline in an old timey reporter voice

Okay fun fact: cats were actively deployed to trenches and ships to help deal with rodent infestations in both world wars, and they had the curb cutter effect of keeping the men’s spirits high.

One cat, Simon, was given the rank “Able Seacat Simon” after dutifully killing rats and mice that were destroying the HMS Amethyst’s food supplies. The ship had come under fire during the Chinese civil war and many of its crewmen had died. The cat had been gravely injured, too, but he picked out the shrapnel himself – seriously – and went straight to killing the rodents that were overrunning the ship. He unfortunately passed from his injuries two weeks before he was scheduled to receive the Dickin Medal. To this day, he is the only cat to receive this award.

Here’s another WW1 trenchcat, who would have been ratter, mouser, companion and gas warning – not AFAIK by dying, like a canary, but since cats reacted to the smell of gas long before it was strong enough for humans to notice, the troops had a bit more time to get their masks on, and the cats went into gasproof boxes.

Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of No Man’s Land…

Meet Percy, mascot of HMLS (D20) “Daphne” with Lt Drader. Both survived the War, and Percy retired to live out his peacetime life in the Drader family home.

(Here’s a video clip; given how noisy, hot and smelly early tanks were, Percy seems remarkably unfazed.)

A US Army tank cat, Mustard of the 321st, with a Renault FT light tank and its driver Sgt Postal…

A Royal Artillery kitten (the battery mascot)…

Pincher of HMS Vindex on what looks like a Sopwith Pup scout…

Togo, ship’s cat of HMS Dreadnought (though I’ve also seen “HMS Irresistible”)…

Ship’s cat of HMS Queen Elizabeth atop 15″ main battery…

And speaking of big ships and big guns…

“Make nice all you like, Human. I despise you. I wanted a billet on a battleship, not this tinpot destroyer…” (Ching, of HMAS Swan.)

@catholic-aviator this entire post looks 150% up your alley(cat)

very much so, and God bless you for showing me this glory.

@pipplesthepenguin

Cats are so magnificent.

I want to cry. Look at them. So brave. So cute.

@tatzelwyrm