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2019-10-26 09:53 am
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[CAT] Five #caturday links: Taylor Swift, Matsumoto, art, disease, Newfoundland


  • io9 notes that Taylor Swift is co-writing a song for the new Cats movie.

  • Japan Times looks at a newly translated work by Taiyu Matusomoto, Cats of the Louvre.

  • CTV News reports that Vancouver cat cafe Catfe offers life drawing classes featuring its cats as models.

  • D-Brief shares a list of diseases that cats can pass on to humans, and of prevention measures.

  • Global News looks at the feral cats of Little Bay Islands, a Newfoundland outport community about to be abandoned. What will happen to them?

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2019-10-26 09:51 am
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2019-10-19 11:42 pm
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2019-10-12 08:41 am
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2019-10-08 09:23 pm
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2019-10-05 09:51 am
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2019-09-28 07:23 am
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2019-09-21 10:45 am
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2019-09-14 10:53 am
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[CAT] Five #caturday links: strays, Winnipeg, scent, Instagram, paper


  • This letter to the Windsor Star makes the point that city needs to tend to its stray cats. (So do all cities, I bet.)

  • A cat café in Winnipeg has reopened. CBC reports.

  • Phys.org reports on a paper noting that the scent of male cats is made by microbes inhabiting cat bodies.

  • Apparently Instagram accounts of fat cats on diets are a thing. The Guardian reports.

  • Why do cats so love cardboard and paper? MNN reports.

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2019-09-14 10:24 am
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2019-09-14 10:21 am
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[CAT] Three photos of Shakespeare, after Pavel

While away in Québec last weekend, my friend Pavel came by my place to take care of Shakespeare. He even caught some fetchin
Shakespeare, after Pavel (1) #toronto #dovercourtvillage #shakespeare #caturday #catsofinstagram #catstagram #catsitter


Shakespeare, after Pavel (2) #toronto #dovercourtvillage #shakespeare #caturday #catsofinstagram #catstagram #catsitter


Shakespeare, after Pavel (3) #toronto #dovercourtvillage #shakespeare #caturday #catsofinstagram #catstagram #latergram
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2019-08-31 01:20 pm
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[CAT] Five links about cats: Peter Watts and Minion, Toronto, Alberta, sea lions, Marrakech


  • Author Peter Watts bids farewell to his noble companion cat, Minion.

  • Narcity notes that Toronto Animal Services is offering cats (and dogs) at a discount.

  • An Alberta organization aiming to rehouse cats from older owners has found itself overwhelmed. CBC reports.

  • A parasite spread by housecats, Smithsonian reports, is responsible for mass deaths in sea lion colonies in California.

  • The suffering of the stray cats of Marrakech, Morocco, prone to all sorts of illness and cruelty, sounds terrible. Morocco World News has it.

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2019-08-31 11:50 am
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2019-08-24 07:29 am
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2019-08-03 11:42 pm
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2019-07-27 12:12 pm
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2019-06-22 09:29 am
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2019-06-15 07:32 am
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2019-06-08 11:42 am
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[CAT] Five #caturday links: maps, Grumpy Cat, Bangladesh, Swiss cat ladders, video


  • I have no idea how accurate this r/mapporn map charting the changing ratio of cats to dogs across the United States is, but I love it anyway.

  • This Wired obituary for Grumpy Cat, tracing in that feline's death not only the death of a cute cat but the death of hope for the Internet as a source of fun, rings true to me.

  • Atlas Obscura notes how Bangladesh has successfully reduced the poaching of tigers.

  • Atlas Obscura takes a look at the many cat ladders of the Swiss city of Bern.

  • David Grimm at Science Magazine reports on an innovative research project that attached video cameras to cats to see what they actually did.

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2019-06-08 09:37 am
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