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Tag: Cats

Posted on April 27, 2021

Cats are, of course, wonderful

A classic example of the behaviour of a “shoulder cat”, a great favourite of mine.

Posted on February 4, 2020

Quel bonheur!

Un chat pucé retrouvé quatre ans après sa disparition à La Valette-du-Var

https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/insolite/a-la-valette-du-var-un-chat-puce-retrouve-quatre-ans-apres-sa-disparition-1580831123 via France Bleu

Posted on February 26, 2019

Why We Think Cats Are Psychopaths – The Atlantic

It’s just “resting cat face.”
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/cat-psychopaths/583192/

Posted on September 9, 2018

Cats waking their companions

Posted on August 31, 2018

Pourquoi notre époque aime-t-elle autant les chats

www.franceinter.fr/emissions/grand-bien-vous-fasse/grand-bien-vous-fasse-31-aout-2018

“I like cats and I don’t like people who don’t!” (Roger Moore in “North Sea Hijack”, a film rendered memorable by this line alone, indeed by only this line.)

How true those words are, even to-day!

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