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A Cat-Friendly Halloween Starts at Home
Prepare a quiet retreat, check decorations and keep treats secure so your cat can spend Halloween comfortably.
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Science & SpaceFélicette, the Cat Who Went to Space: The Forgotten 1963 Flight
Félicette’s 1963 suborbital flight, the research behind it, the Félix myth and the crowdfunded statue remembering the first…
CuriositiesManeki-neko: The History and Legends of Japan’s Beckoning Cat
Explore the maneki-neko’s nineteenth-century records, temple legends, regional pottery styles, and the varied meanings of its raised paw…
MusicSongs About Cats: From Nina Simone to Radiohead
Explore feline pop history, from Nina Simone’s animated video and Japan’s Black Cat Tango to the Stray Cats,…
GamingCat Simulator Games: The Design Problem of Playing as an Animal With No Hands
How cat games turn paws, movement, and mischief into design: Stray’s contextual jumps, Catlateral Damage’s chaos, and Little…
Internet CultureCeiling Cat, Basement Cat, and the Imageboard Religion of Lolcats
How Ceiling Cat, Basement Cat, Caturday, and lolspeak became shared internet folklore, a collaborative Bible parody, and a…
Internet CultureThe Cat Distribution System: How a Joke Became Internet Folklore
Explore the Cat Distribution System meme, its 2022 popularization, real cat behavior, and why an unexpected feline may…
Film & TVStudio Ghibli’s Cats: Catbus, Jiji, and the Baron Explained
Meet Studio Ghibli’s cats, explore their roles in the stories, and discover the directors behind Jiji, the Catbus,…
Books & ReadingT.S. Eliot’s Practical Cats: How a Poetry Side Project Became Broadway
How Eliot’s cat poems grew from letters into a book, a radio programme, and Cats: the musical, with…
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