Cat Pictures Throughout History

[Pioneer]

Cat pictures from history.

https://www.lomography.com/magazine/334963-the-best-dressed-cats-of-the-epoch-times

It is quite likely that Joseph Niepce was actually trying to get a picture of his cat sleeping on the window sill.

😀

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

See, cat pictures are historically and artistically significant! Never apologize for photographing felines; you're working in a revered artistic tradition!

 

[peterm1]

I have it on good authority that this photo was taken personally by Johannes Vermeer. He called it the Cat with a Pearl Earring.

Classic cat by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

But some cats think its all a bit of a yawn.

A cat's life by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[Steve M.]

I love cats. They're the most human like animal I have ever encountered (much more so than my ex mother in law). Children are for people who can't have cats :]

 

[Richard G]

I am absorbed by my cat and his behaviour. My comfort in harbouring a cat was not eroded by seeing Lenin with a cat so often in his lap. We saw Hitler ruffling the hair of young children and other Nazis listening to Mozart. But when I saw a formal family portrait in which Lenin’s father standing in the rear was also cradling a cat, that did unsettle me a bit. Was a love of cats a pathway to despotism? Was that despotism on a national and international scale a pushback against the covert despotism of the cat on the domestic front? Montaigne would have been right onto the Lenin’s seeing them thinking they’re cradling cats, oblivious of the deeper truth.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I am absorbed by my cat and his behaviour. My comfort in harbouring a cat was not eroded by seeing Lenin with a cat so often in his lap. We saw Hitler ruffling the hair of young children and other Nazis listening to Mozart. But when I saw a formal family portrait in which Lenin’s father standing in the rear was also cradling a cat, that did unsettle me a bit. Was a love of cats a pathway to despotism? Was that despotism on a national and international scale a pushback against the covert despotism of the cat on the domestic front? Montaigne would have been right onto the Lenin’s seeing them thinking they’re cradling cats, oblivious of the deeper truth.

Cats That Look Like Hitler

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

I don't like cats, don't understand the widespread obsession with them.
Here's ours, she's gone missing, and I don't miss her.
(edited to express my true feelings )

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

I don't like cats, don't understand the widespread obsession with them.
Here's ours, I'm glad he's gone missing.

You're terrible. Cats are awesome. Mine used to keep vermin (mice, bugs, small dogs) under control. Was great!

 

[Richard G]

Our cat has enriched the lives of each of us in the family, and deepened our appreciation of each other. Their innate behaviours are ancient and survive domestication. Like the birds and the stars they have, at times, a prehistoric indifference. This alone is a rich addition to life indoors. Mine is called Felix, chosen by my children, almost adults. Had I named him he would be Cato after Imspector Clouseau’s murderous manservant. As soon as he sees me it’s game on. He invents new games and adapts the ones we play often. He asks to look in my camera cupboard. When he’s very good I let him sweep a film canister onto the floor. Being good especially includes not whining. I’ve taught him to talk and he reserves this very considered short syllable modulated pitch entreaty for his most pressing desires. He only talks to me in this way.

In the hierarchy of the family, which in most ways he’s careful not to draw, we think that it is our son who he holds in highest esteem. Many times Felix sneaks into his room, only to be banished soon after. The look on the cat’s face if he ever gets to lie on my son’s bed, and with him there too: there can have been few cats ever happier.

It’s true he is jealous of my relationship with my wife and if a conversation keeps me too long from play he’ll sweep the Christmas cards to the floor.

We had a cat growing up but clearly I understood nothing. Cat cartoons held little amusement because they were incomprehensible.

It’s wonderful you started this thread and I love your opening photo. On a serious photographic forum - not too serious fortunately - it seems that a cat photo is indeed usually welcome. It’s with good reason.

 

[presspass]

David, many of us who like cats feel the same way about those who don't.

 

[peterm1]

I love cats. They're the most human like animal I have ever encountered (much more so than my ex mother in law). Children are for people who can't have cats :]

+1 🙂

I agree. Mine is like a damn child- she knows just how to work me to get what she wants. And I adore her for it. They are remarkable creatures. And despite the stories told by cat haters, immensely loving and affectionate......though I realize that if I drop dead mine will no doubt eat my face. 🙂

My cat is a Tonkinese - a breed crossed between a Siamese and a Burmese and of which it is often said, that they have the best attributes of both parent breeds - and few of their faults. Handsome, intelligent and sociable they are also affectionate, playful and funny. The best thing about the cat is that she has the Siamese tendency to be talkative. She natters at me constantly, especially when she wants something but also it seems to me, just to make conversation. This communication builds relationships. So on days when I am at home alone with her we will frequently have long discussions about life, the universe and everything. I have to say she makes much more sense to me than any politician I used to have to work with when I worked in a government role. More trustworthy too. The difference I surmise between an ally cat (the politicians) and a domestic cat. In any event she just has a way of insinuating herself into our hearts.

Besides if I did not have a cat when I was at home and feeling bored I would have nothing to photograph. Well there is the wife but..............

 

[JoeV]

The best evidence that cats are an advanced alien life form is how their images have saturated the internet.

 

[seany65]

Cats That Look Like Hitler

If we're going down that road, let's see the real adolf kitler:



Edit: Sorry, forgot to say credit goes to unkown photographer.

 

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[robert blu]

Time for an "Imposible" cat 🙂

[/url]coast to coast, the mediterranean sea.jpg by robert, su Flickr[/IMG]

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Yes, many! I get that a lot from cat-people.

David, many of us who like cats feel the same way about those who don't.

 

[Jack Conrad]

Cats are cool...but cats and bokeh? 😱... Not ok.
DSCF3497 by jackcb, on Flickr

 

[B-9]

I don't like cats, don't understand the widespread obsession with them.
Here's ours, I'm glad he's gone missing.

David, couldn't agree more...

Not a cat person really but we do have two of them. A wild-type outdoorsy cat that is really tolerable seeing he is outside most of the time. Recently the girlfriend lured in another Manecoon type kitty? Long hair looks like a bobcat But is otherwise a housecat.

The coon is named Scout and he's more fond of the two dogs than us humans. Possibly his best attribute.

I've never considered either the dogs or the cats to have "human characteristics" other than maybe scratching their ass and eating. But I love my dogs and they get good kibble and a warm bed.

The only benefit I see in a cat is the ability to leave it home while on vacation something the dogs will not tolerate.