Furry avatars of doom

This is “Die Katzensymphonie” (The Cat Symphony), by Austrian painter, Moritz von Schwind (01/21/1804 - 02/08/1871).

It is an unplayable violin melody, with the cats representing notes. Some have theorized that it is supposed to be poking fun at Wagner, whose music Schwind was not a fan of.

The drawing was made in 1868, using the mediums of pencil, pen, and brush. It was gifted to violinist, Joseph Joachim, in honor of his appointment as director of the Berlin University of Music. It now is part of a collection at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe in Germany.

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number two: yellow Alert
YELLOW ALERT - YELLOW ALERT - YELLOW ALERT
Number two to Number three: Capturer that Cat ! we need Information...
Number three: Sir but..
Number Two: DO WHAT I ORDER !

Day later Number two was removed from Village
Number three re-designated number two
on order of Number one...
 
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Harking back to that acrylic screen-riser over lap-top's keyboard: if you hunt around on-line, there's a wider version which will bridge a full Qwerty + arrows etc + NumPad.

As I'm using, and for exactly same reason...

Also, I've found cats have no problem persecuting mice or 'mice', wired or otherwise, but generally shun (*) wired track-balls...

*) Until you pop out ball to clean away accumulated cat-hair etc. Then, they pounce...
 
Fun fact: he's the one with the nuclear codes.

Britain's true ruler? Larry, the Downing Street cat | AFP​

There has been one figure of stability in the last 14 years of political turmoil in the UK -- Larry, the Downing Street cat and Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. The ageing tabby could be in line for his sixth prime minister after the UK votes in a general election on July 4, with opinion polls suggesting that he will oversee his first from the Labour Party.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLYdZHRwPmo
 
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Michel Van said:
only mice ?
nothing bigger ?

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Bites to the back of the head are a tactic of cats.

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Why cats meow at humans more than each other

This is a story that goes back thousands of years.
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sound cute
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbBCxeSdhQA

translation however...

The Situation In Argentina are proven less convenient as predicted
We have to re-destabilise there economy again, we focus on labour class outrage from upper to middle class
foster a coup d'état and install a comply regime...
...I propose Javier Gerardo Milei as new leader
 
Is there anything in the US constitution that would *explicitly* (because, based on a quarter century of lived experience in combination with witnessing the whims of the current *supreme* court it sure seems like a somewhat "flexible/interpretable" document to me, especially with that weird 3/5 human arithmetic going on in the early days) preclude a cat from running for office, including the presidency? Because since coming to these shores, I've seen plenty of human politicians acting stupider on local/regional/statewide/national stages/news than any cat I've ever had the pleasure to know/serve in my life. But attention mods, if this post violates forum rules in any way, shape, or form, by all means have at it.
 
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"I am amazed at how Servals can de-escalate things:"

Note Puss was minimally tail-fluffed, and delivering umpteen slow eye-blinks. Such is feline diplomacy.

Also, being a Serval, could probably jump straight up, bounce off ceiling and wall(s), descend in full feline-fu fury upon opponent...
 
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Note Puss was minimally tail-fluffed, and delivering umpteen slow eye-blinks. Such is feline diplomacy.
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At one stage a steep path I take to the local shops crossed through the territories of about four or more cats. I'd often be made aware that an elaborate and continual game of 'cat chess' was going on, including a drawn out encounter I stayed to watch for nearly half an hour filled with poses, manoeuvring, 'I'm ignoring you even though you're a metre away and staring at me', and a strategic retreat by a mother cat to watch her son carry on the mock battle. Said mother cat, a siamese, would often use me as her bodyguard when exploring outside her territory. It's fascinating to see how cats carry on quite complex lives of their own and even make use of us in their politics.
 
martinbayer said:
Is there anything in the US constitution that would *explicitly* (because, based on a quarter century of lived experience in combination with witnessing the whims of the current *supreme* court it sure seems like a somewhat "flexible/interpretable" document to me, especially with that weird 3/5 human arithmetic going on in the early days) preclude a cat from running for office,
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Cats *have* run for office, and won. Stubbs the cat was (honorary) mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, for about 20 (yep, twenty) years.

More dogs than cats, though, win office in the US.

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I'm starting to wonder whether cats ever consider the lives, circumstances, and conditions that their human pets exist in, but to be honest, I doubt it...
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Considering that few enough *humans* have a "theory of mind" when it comes to other humans, it'd hardly be surprising if cats or dogs or parrots or dolphins see the world as just filled with NPCs. Likely domesticated cats see their humans as just really big, really shouty weird cats.
 
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