LatestThe Grumpy Cat business empire started with one Reddit photo in 2012 and grew into eight trademarks, a $710,001 jury verdict, and lawsuits that outlived her.
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Film & TVThe Aristocats was the last film Walt Disney approved. Inside the xerography look, a jazz song written in…
Books & ReadingPoe's The Black Cat, published 19 August 1843, turned a house pet into a witness. The real history…
LifestyleKuching city of cats: how Malaysia's Sarawak capital turned a disputed name into statues, a museum with 4,000…
CuriositiesUnsinkable Sam, the cat said to survive three WWII sinkings, has a great story and thin evidence. What…
CuriositiesMedieval cats were never exterminated by the Church. Here is what Vox in Rama, the Ypres cat throwing…
LifestyleThe cats of the Colosseum are protected by Italian law and a 2001 Rome decree. Inside the feral…
Science & SpaceDo cats know their names? A Japanese study tested 77 cats and found they can tell their own…
CuriositiesShip's cats sailed with Vikings, Flinders and the Royal Navy until 1975. The real naval history of felines…
Internet CultureCat blogs ruled the web before social feeds arrived. From Usenet to Carnival of the Cats, Cute Overload…
Film & TVCat People (1942) cost RKO $135,000 and 18 shooting days, then redefined horror by never showing the monster.…
Books & ReadingCats in Japanese literature run from Soseki's nameless narrator to Murakami's missing strays. Here is the history, the…
LifestyleLibrary cats have been on the public payroll since 1868, from British Post Office mousers at a shilling…
Science & SpaceFélicette was the first cat in space, launched by France in 1963 on a Véronique rocket. Her 13-minute…
CuriositiesManeki-neko history: Japan's beckoning cat first appears in Edo records from 1852, not ancient myth. Paw meanings, colors,…
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