Someone sent me this link about cats with wings in China. If one really cared, and had some amount of drawing and storytelling talent, here’s a new Marvel Comics hero idea: ordinary, fluffy cat in Sechuan province gets overheated from warm summer temperatures and is subjected to toxic factory fumes, sprouts wings and flies around, saving the day. Not sure what it’s saving the day from, but if the comic’s written in the US we could just say Communism. Or from underage gymnasts, if we want to keep it current.
Between the wings and the extra toes cats seem to be growing these days, it’s just a matter of time before world domination, really. For some of the polydactyl cats the extra toe combines with the one beside it to act like an opposable thumb, so eventually there’ll be this feline army reminiscent of the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz, and you remember how they treated Toto.
A workmate turned me on to the Meow Mix Think Like a Cat Game Show (warning: flash site that shows you why flash sites are wrong), which seems utterly horrid and pointless, but no more than anything else I suppose. Since I am still somewhat embarrassed by how much I like cats and adore mine, there’s no way in hell I’d ever allow myself to be filmed admitting to any of that, let alone competing on my ability to understand what my cat’s thinking. I wouldn’t presume to have a clue about that, anyways.
I stopped saving up cat links for these Friday posts, so I’ll just mention rahen z‘s Nyanko set of cats in Japan. I wonder if cats really are that common on the streets as these photos suggest.