The Hermitage Cats: A Museum Tradition Beneath the Galleries
Explore the Hermitage’s cat tradition, its service spaces and animal care, without confusing old headcounts or charming job titles with current facts.
Author: Pudgy Cat
Why Cats Sleep So Much: Look Beyond the 16-Hour Rule
Understand typical feline sleep ranges, the importance of comfortable resting places and why changes in an individual cat matter more than a quota.
Cat Whiskers: Sensory Hairs and the Evidence About Bowls
How cat whiskers work, what a study of feeding bowls actually found, and why bowl preference is not a diagnosis of whisker fatigue.
Tilcayo: What We Know About Bolivia’s Newly Described Wild Cat
Meet Leopardus tilcayo, the small wild cat from Bolivia’s Yungas forests, and discover what the new genetic study does and does not establish.
Cat Power, Cat Stevens and Stray Cats: Three Musical Identities
A listening route through Cat Power, Cat Stevens and Stray Cats, exploring three distinct musical identities connected by a feline name.
Nintendo’s Cats: How Feline Ideas Become Game Mechanics
Nintendo’s developers explain Cat Mario and Nintendogs + Cats: how movement, behaviour and relationships become playable ideas.
Woman Yelling at a Cat: Two Images, Two Different Stories
Meet Smudge and understand Taylor Armstrong’s account of the television scene behind Woman Yelling at a Cat, and how the edit creates its joke.
Remembering Maru: The Cat Who Made a Box Worth Watching
Remember Maru’s life, his dated Guinness record and the household behind his videos, with a careful look at what research says about cats and boxes.
Puss in Boots: From Perrault’s Trickster to Toei’s Mascot
Follow Puss in Boots from earlier Italian tales and Perrault’s manuscript to Toei’s Pero, separating documented versions from claims about origins.
The Cheshire Cat: An Older Saying, a New Character and an Uncertain Origin
The Cheshire Cat’s grin predates Wonderland. The manuscript and the novel show how Carroll transformed an expression into a disappearing character.