Jyothsnay, whom I first met through a heated debate about cats and dogs, points me to a perfect crime. But she suggested and I agree, that the animal roles are reversed. Download PerfectCrime.zip (hope the file opens)
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Ah, but a human director could not have gotten a cat to act out this sequence for him. A canine actor was probably far easier to train and please with doggie treats!
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:)
thank you!
Mark Twain Notebook says “A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime’…but what to do, blame the association. Dogs, those foolish heartbeats at our feet, are gathering some sharper brain cells from non-humans…Jyo
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Ruchira
if you’d seen the Polaroid ad (a classic), the one where the cat used to pillage the waste basket and dog used to get beatings..then the dog uses a polaroid to catch the cat
gues, advertisers seemed to reposition dogs as….
J
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I have refrained (with considerable effort) so far from writing about cats on this blog. I read somewhere that modern blogging has its roots in a group of cat lovers posting pictures and snippets about their cats on the web. The only time I posted a picture of my cats on the blog was an artist’s rendition (my own) of my two cats.
As I told Jyo, most people are not exclusionary in their like or dislike for cats and dogs. But some are.
Some famous cat lovers:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Lord Byron, Tagore, Charles Dickens, T.S Eliot, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe, Hemingway and many more of the creative types.
Notorious feline haters:
Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Ghenghis Khan, Napoleon, Benito Mussolini and no surprise, Adolf Hitler.
I have noticed that cat lovers tend to spread their affection more liberally towards other species. Fervent dog lovers on the other hand are more likely to be “dogmatic” about withholding their kindness towards animals with a greater sense of their own autonomy. (In other words, some tend to be control freaks.)
As a life long cat lover (I love dogs too), I find all feline activities and non-activities charming.
More Mark Twain on cats (from the opening page of The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson):
The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson’s Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day’s journey, per steamboat, below St. Louis.
In 1830 it was a snug collection of modest one- and two- story frame dwellings, whose whitewashed exteriors were almost concealed from sight by climbing tangles of rose vines, honeysuckles, and morning glories. Each of these pretty homes had a garden in front fenced with white palings and opulently stocked with hollyhocks, marigolds, touch-me-nots, prince’s-feathers, and other old-fashioned flowers; while on the windowsills of the houses stood wooden boxes containing moss rose plants and terra-cotta pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there– in sunny weather–stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. Then that house was complete, and its contentment and peace were made manifest to the world by this symbol, whose testimony is infallible. A home without a cat–and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat– may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?
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Dear Ruchira,
the historical story and legacy aforementioned does sound familiar
:) yup, it was part of our discussion when battle-lines were drawn some time ago.
I came across this charming poem on …thought I should sgare this with you so that it goes down the records on your space
Thing
by Rae Armantrout
We love our cat
for her self
regard is assiduous
and bland,
for she sits in the small
patch of sun on our rug
and licks her claws
from all angles
and it is far
superior
to “balanced reporting”
though, of course,
it is also
the very same thing.
===== isnt it a lovely thought? -Jyo
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