#domestic cats

[spinus-pinus]

Domestic Cat Felis catus

2/16/2023 Disney's California Adventure Park, California

One of the more well-known Disney cats, because she can frequently be seen hanging out near Grizzly River Run and being admired by parkgoers. Her name is Francisco! The Disneyland Resort actively encourages these feral cats to hang around, as they help with rodent control, but will remove any that become aggressive towards people.

[jadeseadragon]

Lila Schwarzkopf Carlsen (American, 1925-2008), Delilah, c. 1958, pastel (maybe oil pastel).

Lila Carlsen was my maternal aunt. She was not a professional artist. Delilah was my childhood cat. We got her as a kitten when I was about 6. This is an early portrait. (She was seal point Siamese and became much darker with age.) She passed away about 1970. I don't know if my aunt drew this from life or a photo. It's not in good shape and needs restoration and reframing. You can see the rip and discoloration of the paper.

[katesemeniuk]

The fourth one tried to join them, but they stopped it with their paws 😃

[katiajewelbox]

A anthropomorphic cat from ancient Peru. There is archeological evidence that ancient Peruvians independently domesticated cats and kept them as treasured companions. Cats featured prominently in ancient Peruvian art, such as this textile from the northern coast of Peru dated to 900 - 1100 CE.

There is not much cultural context for this fragment of a long vanished civilisation, but I hypothesise that it could be a cat shape shifting into a human or a human becoming cat like. In Indigenous American cultures, the theme of blurring the line between human and animal in spiritual life and ritual is a reoccurring theme. What happened to the ancient domestic cats of Peru? It's unknown whether modern day pet cats in Peru are their descendants or if the ancient moggies died out. Perhaps this art tells us that those clever cats learned to take on human forms and they still exist as werecats among the indigenous Peruvian population.... This is the exact premise of one of my folk horror fiction story ideas!

[grrlscientist]

Genetic Mutation Underlying Finland’s ‘Salty Liquorice’ Cats Identified, out of University of Helsinki🇫🇮 + Wisdom Panel, published by Animal Genetics

by @GrrlScientist

🐈‍⬛ 🐾 🧬 #color🎨 🇫🇮 🧪

[petsincollections]

Domestic cats in Tel Aviv. 1978.

National Library of Israel - 318_Ag_JHN_NationalLibraryIsrael

Jewish Heritage Network

europeana.eu

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

Orange cats are idiots. No, I won't elaborate.

[caffeinatedkris]

(via "Color Sketch of a Cat and Lion" Pet Mat for Sale by kristalcurt)

[soy-koi]

This bastard stole my fucking spot <3

[demi-shoggoth]

2023 Reading Log, pt 6

I have read a lot less this year than in the last couple of years. I'm not going to beat my previous record of 129 books, that's for sure. But I feel like I've hit a decent stride of quality over quantity with this batch (also, one of them is over 600 pages long)

26. The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters, edited by Jeffery Andrew Weinstock. For anyone who is remotely interested in either monsters or literature, this book is a must-read. Yes, I know it’s an A-Z encyclopedia format and is more than 600 pages long. You can skip around, or read it in chunks. This book is the perfect tool for thinking with monsters, and is an excellent reference tool for using monsters intelligently in a project, or just as a collection of “oh, I should check that out”. It’s not perfect. All kaiju are lumped together under “Godzilla”, which barely gets two pages. Pokemon gets a single, very dismissive, paragraph. On the other hand, the entry for Harry Potter is ridiculously long and very fannish, and the “HP Lovecraft, Monsters in” article ignores Lovecraft’s racism entirely (because it’s written by ST Joshi, who else?). My biggest complaint is the lack of a general Mad Scientist entry—mad scientists are the monster of the 20th century, and both psychopaths and witches get generic entries as well as specific examples. My two biggest highlights are “Women, Monstrous”, which is a college level course in institutional misogyny and how it has been celebrated by some authors and subverted by others; and "Nick of the Woods", which is possibly the most influential American novel that has been almost entirely forgotten in the modern era. You can draw a direct line from Nick of the Woods to everything from Marvel movies to Wounded Knee.

27. Tasting History by Max Miller, with Ann Volkwein. “Tasting History with Max Miller” is one of my favorite YouTube series, and the book of the show doesn’t disappoint. It’s beautiful, with color photos of the food and images of historical characters and events. Most of the recipes come from existing episodes, and so the stories therein are familiar, but not told identically, and there are some that have new lore to go with old recipes. Or lore covered in the show, but a different recipe because the one that was made for the video wasn’t very good. Also, my copy is signed! Max Miller came to a local book fair, so I got to hear a book talk and then get my copy signed afterwards. And that was… two months ago? My reading really has slowed down!

28. Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend by Rachel Warren Chadd and Marianne Taylor. This book collects legendry about birds from around the world, and compares the stories that different cultures tell about the same animal with the animal’s actual ecology and behavior. A fair amount of the stories were new to me, which I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting the science to be as well! For example, the book talks about a paper that suggests that lyrebird foraging is important for reducing wildfires, as they help to break up mats of eucalyptus leaves and encourage decomposition. Also, as can probably be expected in a book about birds, there’s a lot of very nice photography.

29. The Cat’s Meow by Jonathan Losos. Losos is an evolutionary biologist (he’s the guy doing all of the studies with convergent evolution in Caribbean lizards) who got the domestic cat bug, and this is his book about the evolution of domestic cats. It’s written in a very readable style and goes into quite a bit of depth on how we know what we know. So individual scientists and breeders are profiled for topics like, which population of wildcats do domestic cats descend from? How does the behavior of feral cats in the Australian Outback differ from feral cats in rural Georgia? How is a new breed developed from a single individual? Losos also shares plenty of anecdotes about his own cats, as any loving cat owner would, and shares his “million dollar idea” with the reader. Saber toothed housecats, bred for both long canine teeth and a calm, indoor-friendly disposition.

30. Iberian Monsters by Javier Prado. This was a birthday present from my girlfriend @abominationimperatrix. The book is an illustrated collection of Iberian bogeys specifically—monsters designed to scare children into doing X or avoiding Y. At least half of the monsters in here are altogether new to me, and each entry often discusses multiple related monsters, with the “headliner” getting a full page illustration. Three things that jumped out to me. 1) How many parallels there are between the monsters of Spain and the monsters in Spanish colonies, like Latin America and the Philippines. I mean, that’s logical, but since I knew less about Spain’s monsters, I didn’t see the connections. 2) The large number of monsters that are based on historical individuals. Mostly soldiers and bandits, but also a watchmaker and an anti-fascist writer. 3) The story that scared me the most as a little kid was “Tailypo”… and there’s a variant in here that’s even worse. You know, for kids!

[636jeffco71]

Pretty sure she finds shit on floor that makes her lose her mind, cause she's in a world of her own today

[jadeseadragon]

Eugenio Zampighi (Italian, 1859-1944). The Knitting Lesson, oil on canvas, 23 × 18 inches.

[rjalker]

this happens so often I made a meme

[ID: A photo of a feral cat that has white on its face and chest, and orange-brown mottled fur on the top of its head and back. It is looking up at the camera with its eyes narrowed slightly from the sunlight, with orange eyes and a pink nose. White text above and below on black borders reads, "What part of 'this is a feral cat' did you not understand?". End ID.]

[ID: The same image, now cropped to show only he cat's narrowed eyes, with the text now reading, "A feral cat is not captive". End ID.]

why do I even bother adding notes to observations if people aren't going to read them? Lol???

Please stop marking observations of domestic cats captive just because it's a domestic cat. Especially if the observer leaves a note saying it's feral. And even if they don't -- you can ask.

Yes, even cats who are wearing collars can be feral! I've known a fucking TNR group that literally just caught the cats and then released them again with reflective collars so they wouldn't get hit by cars (instead of doing the responsible thing and bringing them to a fucking shelter, but if people were responsible with cats we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place, now would we?)

Do not just go around marking every observation of a domestic cat you see captive. Feral cats are not captive. They're not pets. It is in fact extremely important to keep track of their locations and numbers. They are an invasive species.

If in doubt, ask the observer. Unless they last posted in 2015, they'll probably be happy to answer for you.

No, outdoor cat people, you are not allowed to fucking reblog this post. Fuck off.

[meowdle]

Cat Doodles 1

Some cat expression doodles from my sketchbook :3

Posted using PostyBirb

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[monakisss]

falin holding cat!izutsumi like jesus holding a lamb