Cat appreciation thread

[JohnnyB]

[Shkembe Chorba]

Perfect. Will use it in a thread of mine.

[Marusya]

My favorite cat after my own (the lovely Zelda): Henri, Le French Existentialist Cat, has started writing poetry. Haiku, precisely. He posted this one today.

I like to eat grass
though it makes me sick each time
like you and vodka







And, last but not least, Henri's critically-acclaimed video: Paw de Deux. Bravo, Henri. Not that you are moved by such platitudes.


In Other Cat-Related News...

MEOW! The fourth annual Internet Cat Video Festival, hosted by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis concluded on August 12, 2015, with the presentation of the Golden Kitty: The People’s Choice Award. The golden statuette, designed to resemble the feline Monopoly game piece, honors a cat-themed internet video chosen by online voters.

This year’s winners were Alana Grelyak and Michael Gabriele for their film Cat Behavior Finally Explained, which follows a pair of orange cat paws through daily activities, from pestering humans to chasing lasers, earning points along the way for each task.

The film doesn’t do a great job of explaining cat behaviors, nor does it feature a real live cat as the protagonist—its real message is to spread awareness about cat adoption.

“We focus on … spreading the message that adopting saves lives. Our goal is to use humor to draw an audience that might have otherwise overlooked the topic,” said Ms. Grelyak and Mr. Gabriele in a statement.

The filmmakers have donated money raised from the web series to feeding homeless cats.

Festival curator WiIl Braden presented the award. Mr. Braden previously won the Golden Kitty for his viral Henri, Le Chat Noir series. The second film in the series, Paw de Deux, according to the Walker, was dubbed by film critic Roger Ebert as the “the best Internet cat video ever made.”

The Walker’s Internet Cat Video Festival debuted in 2012, where an estimated 10,000 gathered to celebrate the thriving internet subculture, according to The New York Times. This year’s event was the first held at the new CHS Field in St. Paul’s Lowertown. CBS Minnesota, and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman report that nearly 13,000 visitors turned out for the festivities.

The winning video


All the nominees may be seen here: http://blogs.walkerart.org/ecp/2015/...oting-is-open/

[Dzihadovic]

Is this Veneda's cat?

[microrobert]

Japan has a Google Street View for cats

Google Street View is an incredibly useful tool that allows users to view maps from the perspective of being within the environment. You can examine what the buildings look like and what is nearby, making it significantly easier to navigate once getting there in real life.

But Google Street View for cats, which has been developed and put online by the tourism board of Hiroshima, doesn’t serve quite the same practical purposes.

http://www.avclub.com/article/japan-...ew-cats-224939

[Linet]

brave cat mom

[Linet]

brave cat mom

[al-Bosni]

I have some nice footage here.

[Armand_Duval]

brave cat mom

Looks like a Tosa Inu, that tiny old geezzer wouldnt ba able to handle that dog!.

[♥ Lily ♥]