We’re back again with the Caturday felids, though I’m not sure how many people want this feature to remain. Weigh in below if you do.
First up is an article from BoredPanda with a compendium of funny cat photos. There are at least fifty, but I’ll show six; go see the rest as they’re all good.
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The Great Cat, an inexhaustible source of feline art, has an article about Bessie Bamber (1870-?), one of the most famous cat painters of our era (of course who knows cat painters?). Here’s what they say about her and some photos of her paintings:
Would you pay thousands of pounds for one of these?
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Speaking of cat paintings, we have a better one from a reader. Greg Geisler sent what he describes this way:
The cat was a friend’s beloved pet. She was very upset at his passing so I made this portrait for her. His name was Able. The portrait is woodburning and mixed media on reclaimed wood.
h/t: Tom, Su, Michael
Leave Caturday felids as a regular post.
OR ELSE!!
Agree.
The internet has a well known dearth of cats. Plz don’t remove this feature!
“Feature” as in weekly post, that is.
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Caturday Felids is something I look forward to all week. Please don’t drop it.
Same here! I love this weekly respite from the real world.
Don’t judge a posts popularity by clicks. Comments ups the clicks a lot and often there’s not that much to say on Caturday posts apart from how cute/funny/gorgeous/sweet/etc the cats are. Often I don’t say it because everyone has already said what I feel many times so only one click is registered from me. Perhaps I’ll make a point of clicking on the post multiple times and if others do the same, it will get the numbers up.
I would not want to say you are obligated to continue with Caturday but you should continue to cover cats at the site from time to time. Cats are a main function here just like science or religion so it is kind of foundation.
T r u e this, Randall / Boss.
With m’weekend java, I gotta.gotta. wakey me up
to thus of W E I T’s Felidae !
And I am so grateful and awed, Dr Coyne, that
a Saturday has not, within a decade’s time !
been missed ! W o w Z a h ! That is MIGHTY COOL !
Blue
I’d be very happy to see Caturday Felids continue. Very impressed by Greg Geisler’s portrait of Abel (RIP).
Ditto to that, nice style!
I may not always comment on this feature, but I read it every time and it brings me a lot of joy! I always look forward to this post.
Plus, I feel like your website wouldn’t be the same without a weekly post that’s exclusively about cats 🙂 If you’re asking whether we think you should continue with these posts, my answer is an emphatic “YES!”; but if you don’t feel like doing them anymore, that’s a different story, and I would understand if you stopped. Cat posts should bring you, our fine host, as much joy as they bring me.
Amen!!!
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What BJ said!
I look forward to this all week.
Plus, I would like to see a weekly duck feature as well, maybe not on Saturday, but some other day.
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George would take it as an insult to felidkind if Caturday felids were to cease (I am paraphrasing here, no-one would thank me for posting that kind of language).
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“You think a cat can swear. Well, a cat can…” – Mark Twain.
Damn straight!
The Caturday posts are welcome weekly landmarks for me. It is always a pleasure to see how many different, often crazy things that cats can get up to.
Me loves me cats.
Generates lots of smiles. Very worthwhile, that.
I love Caturday felids!
Oh, I love the cats. Every morning I dash to my computer to see the cats.
PLEASE, please, please: continue Caturday! I look forward to it all week. Those of us who love cats would really miss it.
Two thumbs up for Caturday Felids! I hope they stay.
I like the cat art, and wouldn’t be averse to a weekly duck feature when your ducks aren’t in residence. Of course we expect daily updates on Honey when she’s there.
Caturday is my only reason for living. Well, okay, not really, but I’d miss it if it were gone.
When there’s a link to something really outstanding or unexpected, I share it with various friends who like that sort of thing. Thus, your efforts are appreciated by more people than you might actually see commenting here.
Reading Caturday felids is the best part of my Saturday morning coffee shop ritual, so I hope it continues (and thank you!)
Caturday Felids on Caturday, that makes the weekend. And Hili daily, first thing.
Yes, please keep Caturday Felids. It’s a great way to cleanse the palate after a week of news like this past one. Thank you for including my portrait. ;^)
Great portrait it is too 🙂
Please continue this feature.
I enjoy the weekly dose of kitties and would miss it if it were to go the way of the Smilodon. These posts were undoubtedly a contributing factor in taking in a rescue cat my son had bonded with (my ex fosters them), so these posts have increased my happiness levels immensely. Of course they’ve also increased the amount of hair on my floor, bedspread, clothing, food…win some/lose some.
We love Caterday Felids.
Please continue. Can’t speak for others, but comment-wise I think they are a “Res ipsa loquitur” kind of thing, but much appreciated.
Please keep this feature! brings so much joy!! 🙂
Here is my vote to keep Caturday Felids. I try never to miss it.
Until I get my own kitty, please continue it
I wouldn’t buy a Bessie Bamber cat picture, not for £1.
I must need stronger glasses .I thought the caption with the cats on the See Saw was ,
“Three Kittens on a Teetotaller”
I do the same sort of sharing with friends that reader Andy Laury does.
Even though there are numerous posts about cats throughout the week, Caturday Felids is special, and I look forward to it, even though I don’t post comments very often. One reason is because I run out of descriptors of my responses – Wow! Very cool! What on earth! Fabulous! Crazy! Wild and crazy! Far out! Funny! Interesting! Love it! Terribly sad. Moving. Touching… Sometimes I just like to savor the item, and I’d spend more time trying to think up fresh responses that I spend reading the post.
I wonder if other readers have a similar problem, because everybody seems to love Caturday Felids, yet it is true that few people respond. Please don’t take the paucity of responses as an indication that your readers aren’t interested.
“One reason is because I run out of descriptors of my responses – Wow! Very cool! What on earth! Fabulous! Crazy! Wild and crazy! Far out! Funny! Interesting! Love it! Terribly sad. Moving. Touching…”
Haha. Exactly this. I usually don’t have much more to say, but those are my general reactions and I’ve started to feel silly posting them at this point.
I don’t know how many emails you get a week with titles amounting to “something for Caturday”, but you never seem to have to post reminders about “the tank running low” in the way you do about Readers Wildlife Photos/ Videos. It has become an institution, and you’re doomed to continue it.
Would I pay large valuta for a Bessy Bamber? No. But I know people who would. However the “Two Kittens and Spilled Ink” is missing a sub-title – “It was da Puppez that Did It, not Uz, We Iz Innuzent!”
Please keep Caturday felids.
I read almost all your posts, but never miss a “Caturday felids”.
Cats on Saturday, WE LOVE THEM
Caturday! Yes!
We love the caturday felids! I look forward to them each week. It would be sad if they were to go, but if compiling them is becoming a burden, then you should do what you need to do.
I am in the “only if you enjoy it too” camp.
+1 for continuing Caturday Felid Trifecta. I look forward to the feature every week, and often send links to the feature to friends and family.
Jerry,
I know you’ve got plenty of things to do but our entire family would appreciate it if you are able to continue with the Caturday Felids feature articles. At least once a week we all sit down in our living room (55″ HD monitor) and together go through all of the weeks Hili Dialogues and the Caturday Felids. Sometimes even Coco Chanel herself deigns to watch with us.
I like the idea about making a fake laptop so that my cat stops fucking with me, but suspect she is too smart to fall for it!
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If you could somehow keep it just a tad warm, that might fool her.
My cat would never go for it because he only wants to sit on my computer when I’m using it. It’s not that he wants to sit on the computer, but that he wants to stop me from using it and pay attention to him. Same with newspapers/magazines. He’ll pull down my magazine with his paw if I’m not petting him when he wants.
Such is the life of a servant. Very rarely do we have time for ourselves. I imagine the unspoken conversation we’re having is something like the first 30 seconds of this:
Caturday posts are what led me to this site in the beginning, and what I use to try to recruit followers to your other posts!
Professor Ceiling Cat, be praised! Let his good works continue!
I love Caturday Felids, as well as Hili every day. But only if it’s pleasant and not too much trouble to post them.
I love Saturday posts. I hope you don’t stop doing them.
On weekdays, Hili is the first thing that I read while ingesting my morning caffeine, but on Sunday (it’s the dateline thing) my first read is the Felid Trifecta. Please do keep it! As for Bessie’s kittens, they are a bit too twee for my taste, but Abel is wonderful. (Did he have a brother called Cain?)
Nuff said, really, but . . . please, please keep!
Please don’t cancel caterday! It’s how I found you, and now I actually learn about science. Yay science!
… and another – please please keep.
‘Precious’…must have its…please don’t take away ‘Precious’…Caturday.
Yip. I love Caturday posts.
Please keep doing the Caturday felids. I love them!
Not having a cat in residence at the moment I would sorely miss Caturday Felids. I appreciate it must be extra work for you, PCC(E), but I think cats around the world would probably take a pretty dim view if this section of WEIT ceased.