very cute, I wonder how easy saluting is to teach a cat. moral boosting fluff blob
My cat is now eating his medicine out of my hand, because he knows he will get a treat afterwards. You just need to have something they really crave.
I’ve been trying to teach my cat to give me a fist bump for a few weeks now. He’s very dumb, and he’s not quite there, but I think with another week or two I can add it to his repertoire.
The propaganda machine was pretty strong back then. I’m guessing this involved a staple gun or taxidermy and didn’t take long.
Plenty of propaganda, but Smoky was a real cat – was rescued from a bombed-out building after an air raid by the woman in the picture - Miss Ann Twynam of Paddington (a district of London). While I’m sure his saluting trick didn’t involve taxidermy, I’m sure it involved bribery. Cats basically owned the black market in tuna during the war when pretty much everything was strictly rationed.
Kind of weird to look at a picture like this and realize that cat is probably dead now
“Only you can create forest fires!” -Smokey the Cat,
OH NO HES SEIG HEILING
“Sergeant Whiskers reporting for duty!”
