4Channers are forever coming up with new and exciting ways to be antisemitic. Here’s an Anon on 4Chan’s /pol/ board who has managed to work his hatred of cats into the equation:
I like that even this guy’s defense of dogs is based on a creepy utilitarianism; he misses the point of having dogs as completely as he misses the point of having cats.
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The various kitties and puppies in this thread are adorable! We had 4 cats for the longest time (though one recently died, of old age). They are lovable furballs.
Moon Custafer, I couldn’t get your image to load, and I really wanna see it! Do you have a url for it?
@ Naglfar
My condolences for your allergies.
As a side note, it now makes sense that there’s so many stray cats here in Israel- they are, after all, the real Jews. I guess all of the humans living in Israel are just here to be cat slaves.
I’ve got two thesaurus apps running. One on judaism and one on cat stuff; and the best I can come up with is Meowzel Tov!
@Bookworm in hijab:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/fpocxf/dad_cant_go_to_the_mosque_due_to_the_pandemic_so/
Yom Kippurrrr
Chanukat
Meowtza Ball (of yarn) Soup
Purrrim
Sukkat
That’s what I’ve got.
Brillant.
Tu b’shevcat?
@ moon custafer
Look at his little prayer mat!
@ Moon Custafer
OMG it’s the cutest ever!
Simchat Torah
@Alan Robertshaw:
Yeah, this is the second post Iāve seen in which a cat has their own prayer mat so they donāt block the humans.
Oh, come on …
Hannukkat!
Can I ask where this useless piece of crap gets off calling Jews (& cats) “parasites”.
What the fuck has HE ever done for society? Why does he think that everyone but him has to justify their existence? Where does he get off assigning to them their roles in life, solely based on his needs being met?
@ Alan, I love it! My cats do the same (well, that, and also wander in front of me right where my knees are going to land, and also climb into my lap at the end. I just say they are really really involved, mashallah…?
My sister-in-law is Jewish and has to beloved cats; I’ll pass these jokes on to her.
@ bookworm
Do be sure to tell her that she’s not a REAL Jew, but her cats definitely are.
(I joke)
Like the cat jokes. š
What do you guys think cats would change in other religions? Like, what would be the rituals in the Catholic Church? Would they be inclined to chase the Cardinals for the pleasure of the Purrrrope? Teach the use of catnip incense as part of the Catechism? Something else?
(I donāt know Islam well enough to make any suggestions there, sorry. š )
That reminds me of this comic about semicolons – the example for two sentences that you wouldn’t join with a semicolon is “I fought the bear and won. Also, I never kiss plague rats on the mouth.”
(I mean, you could grammatically. Logically, yes so. And now I’m thinking philosophical thoughts about where grammar ends and meaning begins, when I just meant to link to the silly Oatmeal comic.)
But as for rats and dogs/cats, those photos are adooooorrrrrrable. And the cat with the prayer mat!!
@Alan Robertshaw : to be fair with the cat on your meme, a rodent of that size border on “too big to hunt” for a relatively small cat like that.
One of the reason for which cat domestication was probably much less dangerous than dog domestication is that cats, in addition to generally being smaller, also are tooled up to kill prey smaller than themselves, while dogs are tooled to be able to kill prey much bigger than themselves.
In other words, I believe that the people responsible for domesticating dogs were fearless, the one responsible for domesticating cats were good at diplomacy, and the one responsible for domesticating goats good at climbing :p
@ Ohlmann,
Also ridiculously sarcastic and possessed of a sly sense of humour. Goats clearly have those traits embedded deep in the genes. ?
What about Rosh Hachatnah ?
Speaking of Jewish holidays though, shana tovah umetukah to everyone!
(Rosh Hashanah starts tonight)
Iāve only rarely in my life not had a cat. I usually had dogs too, once I could afford to live in a house instead of an apartment. People who donāt have pets when they could start off with a down check with me. Of course many such people are fine once I get to know them. But in my experience, many such people are not very nice.
The whole idea that cats are aloof is ridiculous. Cats who live with you treat you the way you treat them. If you treat them like a pretty piece of furniture, they treat you like furniture. If you treat them like a beloved companion they treat you like a beloved companion.
i had a pair of rats once. My big old orange and white cat Mike would lean up against their cage and they would groom him enthusiastically. I always carefully supervised their interactions with him outside the cage because I was worried they might trigger a prey response. Mike always treated them with affection.
i was just on tumblr and saw a whole thread of Muslim cats, so I thought I’d put the link here: https://oldshrewsburyian.tumblr.com/post/629616330693279744/muslim-cats-more-to-add-perhaps-more-properly
Threp – That is so sweet! Cats are individuals and thrive when allowed to be who they are.
Our dear, departed Catbeast was never one to like being held. He got better, but only because I insisted he be able to tolerate it (treats helped) in case we had to stuff him in a carrier to evacuate if there was a vet emergency or fire. But if he sat with you on the couch, you were very highly favored, indeed!
@Redsilkphoenix:
There actually is already a ritual in the Catholic Church dealing with cats. Well, not just cats. The feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi in October usually includes a blessing of the animals. Many Catholic churches actively encourage parishioners bringing their pets in to be blessed on that day.
(Saint Francis is actually one of the rare saints to be honoured by multiple non-Catholic churches as well. He was also the founder of the Franciscan Order of monks, and the one who the current Pope named himself after.)
@Hambeast:
That’s certainly true. My family’s first cat, Missy, was a silver tabby who was very much the huntress. Caring but aloof, she got along well with everybody in the family except my grandfather, who was more of a dog person. Her favourite spot on the house was on top of the refrigerator.
Chloe was a calico/tabby patterned longhair who was the clever one who lead my sister’s beagle into missing a turn while chasing her.
C’fer was a thin and rather quiet shorthair tortoiseshell who was the one most likely to hide under the bed when things got loud, but was also quite happy to be a lapcat even if she did tend to try to climb people with claws out. She was also pretty much immune to catnip. (Apparently a significant percentage of cats are.)
@ Redsilkphoenix,
I think we’d see some changes. Probably no fasting, for starters, given the way they scream if I’m late to feed them. And I can’t see my lazy kitties interrupting their naps to pray five times a day. A million times more wudhu, though. Hmm…
I asked my family this and now they’re all trying to think of suggestions. ?
@Redsilkphoenix
Have you seen the LOLCat Bible?
@Bookworm
Are your cats talkative? Maybe they could take up the post of the muezzin (or should that be, meowzin).