Hap Hap Happy Caturday!

Today we celebrate fancy cats

because it is

CATURDAY!

My Wife’s Lovers by Carl Kahler, 1891

Le Chat Blanc, Pierre Bonnard, 1894

 

Happppy Caaatturrrday

For this Caturday I say we remember Mr Murderbritches and all of those murderous Murder Britches who have come before him because it’s

CCCCATTTTURDDDDAY

Taken in part from: The Power of Death by WILLIAM HOLBROOK BEARD c. 1889-1890

MR MURDERBRITCHES!

Artist Unknown

Hap Hap Happy Caturday!

Today we celebrate Cats who don’t give a flying fluff about- well they are cats, do they don’t really care about anything, do they?

cats so- ANYTHING.

It’s A Prehistoric Caturday!

https://youtu.be/uq7noaMwLfg

“Lions hunting Bison, Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, France. Upper Paleolithic, c.35000 BCE …

 

Simbakubwa Kutoaafrike is not related to cats or any living carnivore.

The are Hyaenodonts.

Hyaenodonts are thought to have evolved in Africa during the Paleocene era immediately after the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, before spreading into Europe and Asia. I think of of them as cats with lizard brains. I know. That’s a pretty terrifying thought.

Scary, but incredibly cool.

Simbakubwa kutoaafrika was twice the size of a polar bear (Image: MAURICIO ANTON)