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Cats: Distracting you from your morning routine since [at least] the 18th century.
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Young Lady at Her Toilette (detail) | Niclas Lafrensen (attr.) | 18th century
Cats: Distracting you from your morning routine since [at least] the 18th century.
Roman Cats Turn A Historic Site Into Cat Haven
In Rome, many stray and feral cats have found a haven amid the ruins at Torre Argentina. The Julius Caesar’s assassination site has been turned into a cat sanctuary for many homeless cats.
The Torre Argentina Roman Cat Sanctuary spay and neuter these cats and keep them healthy and fed. “People are interested more in the cats than in monuments,” says Lia Dequel, one of the shelter’s founders. “The two together are fantastic… because monuments come alive if you see a cat lying on it, or jumping from one pillar to another.” (npr)
Torre Argentina is home to about 250 feline friends, sheltered amongst the oldest temples in Rome (400-300 BC). Seven days a week volunteers from different countries, feed, clean and look after them.
In 2012 alone, they spayed and neutered 3013 cats as well as 125 cats placed in homes.Via Love Meow
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Raising Kittens
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dsfklsajflsjfdlk that’s the german word for kittens?
katzenkinder?
literally: “cat children”
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ;w;
ISN’T GERMAN A CUTE LANGUAGE
DO YOU KNOW THE GERMAN WORD FOR BAT
IT’S FLEDERMAUS
FLUTTER-MOUSE
HOW IS THAT NOT JUST KAWAII AS HECKMy favorite is their word for bagpipes.
DUDELSACK
doodle sack
seriously
But then their word for skull is Totenkopf, as in Death’s Head.
So German basically has two settings, kawaii and metal, and there is no in between.
I love German.
Reblogging for the German lesson.
*ahem* “arschgeweih” means tramp-stamp, but translates as “ass-antlers”
This post
Kummerspekt. To emotionally over eat. Literally translates to grief-bacon.
I’d like to amend that last one. It does indeed translate as grief-bacon, but it’s spelled “Kummerspeck” and refers to the weight you put on when you emotionally over-eat, not the eating itself.
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A note on labels
As I am sure any cat owner will be able to tell you, someone else putting you in a box is entirely different from getting into a box yourself.
This is the most brilliant, concise, cute, and disarming response to the “but laaaaaaaabels are baaaaaaad” argument that gets used against people trying to self-identify as something as a way of making sure their boundaries are understood and respected.
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this is the rudest cat
This is the best
#nothing better illustrates what it is like to have a cat imo
ok this cat is amazing but are we all really going to ignore that she’s jamming out a perfect medley of Mega Man 2
and doing an excellent job of it considering that a) there’s a weight on her arm and b) her cat is ridiculous
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I made these as a present for my sister: Hijinks from the cats we adopted years ago. Some of them are a little in-jokey but I bet any cat owner has seen at least a few of these!
Happy holidays!
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