Category: Cat Stuff

Ra The Cat

Okay, so like over a thousand years ago B.C. there was this Egyptian sun god named Ra, and he was pretty powerful. You’ve probably heard of him.

There was also a god named Apep or Apophis or something. He was a snake, the god of the underworld in charge of the forces of chaos and evil. The sun god had had enough of Apep‘s assholery and decided to take him out. Ra heard that Apep liked hanging out around a certain sacred sycamore tree.

Ra thought about it for a while, and instead of burning Apep to cinders with his sun god eyes, he decided to turn himself into a cat with a beard and a knife, find the sacred sycamore tree, and kill him. (He forgot that cats don’t have hands, but he ignored that part.)

Apparently Ra cut Apep pretty good, but he didn’t kill him, so he dropped the cat costume, went back to being the sun god and pretended it never happened. I think he was embarrassed.

Under a sacred sycamore the sun god Ra, in the form of a cat, slays the snake Apep (or Apophis), god of the underworld and symbol of the forces of chaos and evil. Detail of a wall painting from the tomb of Inherkhau (TT359).

New Kingdom, 20th Dynasty, ca. 1189-1077 BC. Deir el-Medina, West Thebes.

[Image & caption found here, via here.]

Woman Attacked For Taking A Selfie In A Zoo.

She entered the zoo enclosure illegally, turned her back on a predator to take a selfie and fortunately survived the attack. The jaguar was held for questioning and released on its own recognizance. Authorities are trying to determine if this was a hate crime as the jaguar is black.

[Image found here. Related vid here.]

Bill The Cat *Ack* *Phhht*

Don’t know Bill The Cat? Click here.

[h/t Octopus]

The Soul of a Cat

No, really. That’s the soul of a cat sitting on a throw rug.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 540 – Powering an Escalator, Gorilla Rinse Cycle & Cat Pursuit

[Found here, here and here. 2nd one came from this vid.]

I just realized that I’d mis-numbered some of our previous .Gif Friday Posts. The numbering errors and permalinks have been updated and we’re now over 1,600 .gif animations in the archive. Collect ’em all!. – Bunk

Still Life With Dove

Saw a young dove outside our garage late this afternoon. I think it knows how to fly, it just doesn’t seem to see the importance of it yet.

He/she didn’t seem too bothered by my presence, so I went back inside for my camera. Somehow it managed to make an arrangement of river rocks, a plastic colander and a rubber football in an inverted Rubbermaid trash can lid. I decided to take a pic from another angle, and when I downloaded it I found this:

I pity the cats that mess with this bird.

 

How To Serve A Cat.

Cat’s up.

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 536 – Scary Scaffold, Diving Cat, Kitty WTF, & Whipped Cream Noodling.

[Found here, here, here, and here. Last one cropped, mirrored, reversed and reflected just for fun. Didn’t turn out like I wanted, but so what. It was an experiment.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 534- Scratchbird, Hooverbird & Catbomb

[Found here here, and here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 531 – Kitty Lizard Tizzy, Dog Wars & Beach Ball Chumping

[Found here, here and here.]