A cat named Intrepid, no doubt.
Bonus Cat – His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh; Commander Sir Samuel Vimes
Posts Tagged ‘cats’
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December 6, 2013
“The Monastery of Saint Nicholas of the Cats is regarded as a sacred cat haven in Cyprus, as it’s name has been linked to felines for almost 2,000 years.
The original monastery was built in 327 AD, by Kalokeros, the first Byzantine governor of Cyprus, and patronised by Saint Helena, the mother of Constantine the Great. At that time, a terrible drought affected the whole of Cypus, and the entire island was overrun with poisonous snakes which made building the monastery a dangerous affair. Many of the inhabitants left their homes and moved off the island, for fear of the snakes, but Saint Helena came up with a solution to the plague – she ordered 1,000 cats to be shipped in from Egypt and Palestine to fight the reptiles.”
The monastery endures and today is run by six nuns and about seventy cats.
December 6 is also St. Nicholas’ Day
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November 29, 2013
In honor of National Chocolate Day, sappy cat blogging features the York Chocolate Cat.
The York Chocolate (or simply York) is an uncommon and relatively recent American breed of show cat, with a long, fluffy coat and a tapered tail and most of them are mostly or entirely chocolate-brown. The breed was named after New York state, where it was established in 1983. This breed was created by color-selecting domestic long-haired cats of mixed ancestry.
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November 22, 2013
Cougars are the topic – the four-legged variety.
Here is a map from the Cougar Network showing the expansion of cougars across the U.S.
The solid green areas depict established populations. The red and blue dots indicate sightings.
Long ago the Inca called them puma, but today — though they belong to only one species — they have many names. In Arizona they are known as mountain lions; in Florida they are panthers, and elsewhere in the South they are called painters. When they roamed New England, they were called catamounts. In much of the Midwest they are known as cougars, and that is the name everyone understands.
From Wikipedia:
An adaptable, generalist species, the cougar is found in most American habitat types. It is the second heaviest cat in the Western Hemisphere, after the jaguar. Solitary by nature and nocturnal, the cougar is most closely related to smaller felines and is nearer genetically to the domestic cat than true lions. [How about that?]
I consider this expansion a natural way to manage the deer population.
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November 15, 2013
Bonus Sappy Cat Photo – Cmdr. Samuel Vimes has eschewed his chapeaux in favor of a black lace jabot . . .
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November 8, 2013
This is from didyouknowblog.com – thanks HMS Defiant.
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November 1, 2013
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October 25, 2013There is a plethora of cats on Sappy Cat Blogging this Friday . . .
Found in Down East magazine, this tabby named Slim commutes from Badger’s Island, Maine to Portsmouth, NH over the Memorial Bridge. Click here for his story.
Thanks to my friend, Cindy for these racing cats.
And to HMS Defiant for this little cat clip from Moonrise Kingdom. Click on the image for the video. If you have not seen the film, look it up on Netflix.
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October 11, 2013
This story appeared in the Daily Mail about an intrepid Norwegian Forest Cat defending his yard from this red fox. The fox appears not to be taking any chances. There’s more to the story here.
My Sammy (Cmdr. Samuel Vimes) is a Maine Coon and he has a more outgoing personality. I found in once him in the backyard trying to play with an opossum. Not smart – no damage, however. For this reason (and others), Sammy now dominates the house, but not the yard or the neighborhood.
Bonus Sappy Cat -Jill appears to know that her owner is going away for the weekend – and has plans to tag along.
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October 4, 2013
And from my own collection – the most photogenic Cmdr. Samuel Vimes . . .
Finally, from the funny papers:
Gunsmoke and Knitting 