Cats have been walking on your paper since at least the 15th century

pdunderhill · February 22, 2013, 3:55pm

My last Cat Basil managed to destroy my nice widescree ntv by knocking a vase of flowers, with water, down the back of the set.
Reminds me of this site: simonscat.com , any feliophiles will recognize the behaviour!
Peter

pdunderhill · February 22, 2013, 4:11pm

Should have added check out the films tab at the top of the simons cat page,
meow for now.
P

dougie_monty · February 26, 2013, 7:21am

ALL YOU BAD KITTIES!!!:eek:

FlyingRat · February 26, 2013, 3:07pm

It gets better: manuscripts have been peed on by cats since the 15th century.

A Deventer scribe, writing around 1420, found his manuscript ruined by a urine stain left there by a cat the night before. He was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words:

Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.

“Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.”

CalMeacham · February 26, 2013, 3:28pm

It was undoubtedly an editorial comment.
Or maybe he neglected to scoop the litter box.

Infovore · February 26, 2013, 7:34pm

Catlike typing detected!

Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus · March 16, 2013, 11:08pm

More specifically, the linked article provides positive proof that cats have been walking on. the. exact. damn. papers. with which their human underlings are trying to work.