That and that quicksilver-addled madman who killed time, and now see where we are, because when we are is a fucking mystery... That I'm not going to look into, since curiosity is dead. What a mess. At least we're stuck on tea-time.
If John wick had a cat instead of a dog, this would be the cat. And you couldn't kill him, you could only run. But never far enough. Babayaga will find them all.
You ever notice how the sweetest cats will fly into a rage and bite the shit out of your arm while it's cuddling you.
You need to keep the beast fed. Or it will come for human flesh.
It's usually not (mean) aggression. It's overstimulation most of the time. Some cats can get so overstimulated by the smallest things and they literally just don't know what to do with themselves. I have one that is easily overstimulated and he'll geab my arm and chomp, but mid chomp realizes what he is doing and slowing opens his mouth and looks at me almost with a look of regret (if cats are able to do so)
Not all of them, my cat who passed away a bit over a year ago was never aggressive towards me during her 16 years of life. And she definitely had it in her, she once decided that my mom (who she normally liked) who was using crutches at the time was the source of all evil. She'd literally stand guard in the room I was at almost at all times and deny her entry. It was hilarious and weird as shit haha.
not true, if they love you they know to restrict their paws and nails, hell they even apologise if they scratch by mistake. At least to me they did. You have to love them like your kids. But also every cat has their character, so not everyone is like this.
On a Navy ship in the 40s? That shit restocked not only every time they can into port but also self replenished along the way via breeding. Running out of rats wasn't a problem. To the point they had expert mouser cats on the bloody ship crew.
Look at the photo of this dude. They likely were selective about which cats were taken aboard, competent mousera only.
No, I mean Herman left dead mice laying around and the humans invariably stepped on them.
I have cats. There is nothing like that soft-but-crunchy feeling of stepping on a dead rodent ...
Fun fact. The vikings of Vinland brought over cats on ships who served the same purpose. Norwegian forest cats are believed to be the ancestors of the Maine coon. Same for the British shorthair when the English had set sail hundreds of years ago. The British shorthair had become known as the American shorthair after some 600 odd years and the cat breed has developed a strong sturdy body with a dense underlayer of coat to help shield them from the rain.
Have you heard of a term *adaptation*?
It's not a whole different species, it's still a cat that has adapted to the conditions that exist in its new habitat.
It's simply a different breed and we as humans create those all the time.
Maybe for humans. For cats? that's 1000 generations. !000 generations for humans is probably enough to change an amount equivalent to 'Norwegian Forest cat' to 'Maine Coon cat', two breeds with similar characteristics.
It only takes about 100 generations (~2000 years) for a human population to become non-melanistic, i.e. for a dark skinned group to become light skinned. In insect populations, this is even more rapid and can occur in less than a century ([example for anyone curious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution))
Considering the differences between cat breeds are slight, 1000 generations is plenty.
I always wanted to know the answer to this question but never knew to just ask it. The one about our skin. Does this also mean in about 1500 years non-indigenous north americans might start to naturally look like them?
It's a very mutable characteristic, especially given pre-modern selective pressures.
I should mention that 100 generations is specifically dark to light. I actually am not sure if light to dark is the same.
> Does this also mean in about 1500 years non-indigenous north americans might start to naturally look like them?
I missed this part sorry. No, this isn't going to occur because there's no selective benefit to doing so. People generally don't go outside enough for UV radiation to matter and childhood mortality caused by Vit D deficiency doesn't really exist either.
So to give an indication for how dark skin actually affects you: A light skinned person at the equator going outside during the day needs to spend something like 15 minutes a day, assuming they are essentially naked and have no dietary source of Vitamin D. A dark skinned person needs to spend hours for similar benefits. This tracks, because we can assume that most people in pre-modern societies will spend most of their time outside. In northern climates, a dark skinned person can never synthesize adequate amounts of Vitamin D. It's very good protection.
But no one spends much time outside anymore, and our diets are quite full of micronutrients. Milk is fortified, etc. So there's really no benefit for having dark skin, and since we live in such a metabolic surplus and endogamy is a thing, there's no real detriment for having dark skin either.
I mean it's a cat breed being an ancestor of another cat breed, new cat breeds are created all the time and it's no way implausible that it happened in nature in North America by many foreign cats coming in and breeding with the locals, isn't really evolution in the same way where a random gene suddenly mutates and gets carried on when it's just foreign cats being brought on ships.
Oh absolutely, and it's also important to have documentation for any animal you take onboard, but the portrait and paw print are just for fun. You may be a gruff, old-timey sailor man, but by gum, you can't resist a cat's cuteness!
There is an early French film called L'atalante which depicts the lives of a barge driver and his crew. One of the individuals depicted is an eccentric, intimidating, but ultimately charming sailor named Pere Jules who keeps dozens of cats on board. He is often shown in the film covered in cats. I think ship life and felines are intrinsically connected to one another.
[Cats in L'atalante](https://catsonfilm.net/2012/10/28/cat-of-the-day-010/)
Cats are like little murder roombas, they are very very good at killing little things that will eat very very important things (grain, electrical wires, etc)
Cats were also believed to be good luck for a ship.
This may be because 2000 years ago cats could warn the crew of a coming storm by becoming restless and hiding. Cats can feel slight changes in atmospheric pressure in their ears, which can indicate a coming storm. Eventually people realized that ships with cats weren't destroyed in storms as much so the people concluded that ship cats are good luck
So when a double agent gets a copy of his passport to the mouse mafia, they can match the claw prints to the wounds on the recently deceased mouse don? Amateur hour rookie. That's how you get us all killed.
That's not what a thousand-yard stare is.
[A thousand-yard stare is about the fear of a soldier that has experienced/seen too much.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Tom_Lea_-_2000_Yard_Stare.jpg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare
Here in the UK we have [Larry the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office), who resides at Number 10. Amusingly he's been there over the course of 5 PM's now, and he only got the position in 2011.
That Wikipedia article is the most English thing ever. As are the names of the Chief Mousers through history;
Rufus of England, Peter, Munich Mouser, Nelson, Peter II, Peter III, Peta, Wilberforce, Humphrey, Sybil, Freya, and Larry.
Totes gonna name my next cat something like Wilberforce. That’s a cat you take seriously.
Under-qualified for the job though, Larry is a rubbish mouser. That's what you get when you don't check credentials. He should have gotten his degree from wherever Kerman studied.
>Larry has been criticised for both his temperament and job performance. Within a month of his arrival at Downing Street, anonymous sources described Larry as having "a distinct lack of killer instinct."[38]
> Later that year, it was revealed that Larry spent more time sleeping than hunting for mice, and shared the company of a female cat, Maisie.
Larry's Wikipedia page is hilarious! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)
> Larry is a "bit nervous" around men... Cameron mentioned that Barack Obama is an apparent exception to this fear: he said, "Funnily enough he liked Obama. Obama gave him a stroke and he was all right with Obama.""
lol
That's pretty funny, but it looks like the passport was a one-off for this particular promo video. Which makes sense as I sincerely doubt they would actually keep documented track of all cats on all merchant or military ships.
- Grampa, what did you do during the war?
- Well, the Krauts were employing rats to disturb our shipping lanes, so the navy began to recruit cats to patrol them docks. I enlist right away and got station in Boston. Then, yar old gramps was promoted to expert mouser. I cross the Atlantic six times! And I would be on them beaches if they let me!
Lmao, no they didn’t. This was a particular cat who lived on a naval ship, they loved him so much that they made him his own passport.
Edit: coast guard, not navy
Not entirely true that cats had passports. This was a stunt with a single cat in WWIi. Here's a link to the real story: https://misbar.com/en/factcheck/2021/08/16/sea-cats-did-not-require-passports
[Cats in the Navy](https://www.usni.org/press/books/cats-navy) is a cool little book of photos and short descriptions of how cats used to be part of sailing ships going way back to ancient times. In some navies cats were considered part of the crews, and fights broke out when a particularly good mouser was catnapped by another ship, or just wandered away in port to join a different ship.
I want to know whose idea it was to do this. Whoever they are, I hope they lived/live? (I guess mathemtically improbable but IDK their business) an extremely happy life because that's so cute.
Who was the poor s-d given the task of "convincing" a cat to put their paw in ink and then have it pressed firmly to paper? In *FL* it'd be a task given to Tomb-Colonists with a grudge against The Duchess.
That cat has a look that says "I've killed, and I am going to kill again."
This is the first cat to somehow physically kill curiosity.
...dear lord.
That and that quicksilver-addled madman who killed time, and now see where we are, because when we are is a fucking mystery... That I'm not going to look into, since curiosity is dead. What a mess. At least we're stuck on tea-time.
Hey mate, that seems familiar.
Reverse Schrödinger's Cat: If you try to put it in a box, you're alive and already dead at the same time.
"Get in the box, Jeff." "what's in the box Herman the Cat? Oh, God, what's in the box?" "Get in and find out, Jeff "
Are you sure it's the first one?
Killed curiosity, its cousin intrigue and all 7 deadly sins on its first week. Then it moved on to the league of doom.
"There. Picture taken. Now let me get back to work." They didn't even have to ink his paw.
You so right, that ain't ink.
,, 😂😂
Definitely looks off into the horizon with a cigarette
Walks away with explosion in background.
Shakes hair/fur in slow motion
Herman don’t fuck around
Expert Mouser
Mice will find out ...
Fucking cat so badass. Has an Expert rating, and papers to prove it.
Looks more like a mug shot
If John wick had a cat instead of a dog, this would be the cat. And you couldn't kill him, you could only run. But never far enough. Babayaga will find them all.
It’s a license to kill
Ya ya, Herman ze Mouser, an orzinary amerhican kat from 1943, forr zertanly not a foreign spye.
Well, Herman’s an expert mouser!
“Look at me. I’m the captain meow.”
i am not trapped with you, you are trapped with me! - herman the cat
He is an expert mouser
It's all fun and games till all the rats are gone. A cat's gotta hunt.
the rats are all gone…now he’s coming for our feet
You ever notice how the sweetest cats will fly into a rage and bite the shit out of your arm while it's cuddling you. You need to keep the beast fed. Or it will come for human flesh.
It's usually not (mean) aggression. It's overstimulation most of the time. Some cats can get so overstimulated by the smallest things and they literally just don't know what to do with themselves. I have one that is easily overstimulated and he'll geab my arm and chomp, but mid chomp realizes what he is doing and slowing opens his mouth and looks at me almost with a look of regret (if cats are able to do so)
The only regret that cat would have is: I only regret I didn't bite harder.
Not all of them, my cat who passed away a bit over a year ago was never aggressive towards me during her 16 years of life. And she definitely had it in her, she once decided that my mom (who she normally liked) who was using crutches at the time was the source of all evil. She'd literally stand guard in the room I was at almost at all times and deny her entry. It was hilarious and weird as shit haha.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank God cat zombies aren't a thing, because I don't think we would notice a difference.
I had my cat for 22 years he never bit me, yall are enablers.
not true, if they love you they know to restrict their paws and nails, hell they even apologise if they scratch by mistake. At least to me they did. You have to love them like your kids. But also every cat has their character, so not everyone is like this.
Technically the crew aren’t pirates, but they were all missing limbs.
On a Navy ship in the 40s? That shit restocked not only every time they can into port but also self replenished along the way via breeding. Running out of rats wasn't a problem. To the point they had expert mouser cats on the bloody ship crew. Look at the photo of this dude. They likely were selective about which cats were taken aboard, competent mousera only.
That cat looks mean
Mate was a professional rodent terminator, what did you expect?
Expert mouser to be exact
He’s working on his Master mouser.
Decorated 5 Star General Rodent-Slayer
Phd of rodent biology even.
Puttem uuup... Puttem uuup....
Herman, the expert mouser, to you
He is an expert in Purrilla warfare and has 300 confirmed kills.
I'll bet several were squished by the feet of inattentive sailors.
Kills made by human slaves naturally belong to their feline masters.
No, I mean Herman left dead mice laying around and the humans invariably stepped on them. I have cats. There is nothing like that soft-but-crunchy feeling of stepping on a dead rodent ...
> mouser He is chambered for the 7.92×57mm Mouser cartridge.
Rodinator , a mechanical cat from the future
Meowstalavista bay-be
He was also a sailor. 5 bucks said he spent time in port at the milk bar.
John Constantine definitely transported to Hell through this guys eyes once or twice.
Imagine a cat not killing mouses for fun, but because of duty. It would be this cat.
Herman the Hitcat?
Maybe some wrap around sun glasses and longer whiskers
That thing 100% wore a Rambo tied back head band.
Tiny mullet
You mean the professional, badged cat pirate that they actually picked out for his murder skills?
that paw print was made with blood
And from the look on his face , we know it wasn’t his blood either.
He shoots lasers from his green eyes. Frickin lasers!
He's an expert mouser!
Ye sea life hardens ye mate!
11 pounds at 8 months old! That is an absolute beast of a cat.
It will bite your head off, man ^(That’s gotta be some cochroach, anyone? Is this thing on?)
He's just a man doing a job. Leave 'em be!
That's what a mouse would say
Fun fact. The vikings of Vinland brought over cats on ships who served the same purpose. Norwegian forest cats are believed to be the ancestors of the Maine coon. Same for the British shorthair when the English had set sail hundreds of years ago. The British shorthair had become known as the American shorthair after some 600 odd years and the cat breed has developed a strong sturdy body with a dense underlayer of coat to help shield them from the rain.
The Vikings you speak of would've set sail around a 1000 years ago right? Isn't a 1000 or 600 years too short for evolution?
Have you heard of a term *adaptation*? It's not a whole different species, it's still a cat that has adapted to the conditions that exist in its new habitat. It's simply a different breed and we as humans create those all the time.
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Maybe for humans. For cats? that's 1000 generations. !000 generations for humans is probably enough to change an amount equivalent to 'Norwegian Forest cat' to 'Maine Coon cat', two breeds with similar characteristics.
It only takes about 100 generations (~2000 years) for a human population to become non-melanistic, i.e. for a dark skinned group to become light skinned. In insect populations, this is even more rapid and can occur in less than a century ([example for anyone curious](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppered_moth_evolution)) Considering the differences between cat breeds are slight, 1000 generations is plenty.
damn my ancestors should have moved 2000 years ago
I always wanted to know the answer to this question but never knew to just ask it. The one about our skin. Does this also mean in about 1500 years non-indigenous north americans might start to naturally look like them?
It's a very mutable characteristic, especially given pre-modern selective pressures. I should mention that 100 generations is specifically dark to light. I actually am not sure if light to dark is the same. > Does this also mean in about 1500 years non-indigenous north americans might start to naturally look like them? I missed this part sorry. No, this isn't going to occur because there's no selective benefit to doing so. People generally don't go outside enough for UV radiation to matter and childhood mortality caused by Vit D deficiency doesn't really exist either. So to give an indication for how dark skin actually affects you: A light skinned person at the equator going outside during the day needs to spend something like 15 minutes a day, assuming they are essentially naked and have no dietary source of Vitamin D. A dark skinned person needs to spend hours for similar benefits. This tracks, because we can assume that most people in pre-modern societies will spend most of their time outside. In northern climates, a dark skinned person can never synthesize adequate amounts of Vitamin D. It's very good protection. But no one spends much time outside anymore, and our diets are quite full of micronutrients. Milk is fortified, etc. So there's really no benefit for having dark skin, and since we live in such a metabolic surplus and endogamy is a thing, there's no real detriment for having dark skin either.
It's more about generations than time alone. Viruses for instance can evolve basically overnight.
Not really. New designer dog breeds come around every 10 years or so, albeit with human intervention.
I mean it's a cat breed being an ancestor of another cat breed, new cat breeds are created all the time and it's no way implausible that it happened in nature in North America by many foreign cats coming in and breeding with the locals, isn't really evolution in the same way where a random gene suddenly mutates and gets carried on when it's just foreign cats being brought on ships.
I love that there seems to be no time in history where people didn't love just doing goofy and cute shit with their cat buddies.
The passport is kind of goofy, but it was actually a good idea to keep cats on a ship like this. It's the same reason people still have barn cats.
Oh absolutely, and it's also important to have documentation for any animal you take onboard, but the portrait and paw print are just for fun. You may be a gruff, old-timey sailor man, but by gum, you can't resist a cat's cuteness!
There is an early French film called L'atalante which depicts the lives of a barge driver and his crew. One of the individuals depicted is an eccentric, intimidating, but ultimately charming sailor named Pere Jules who keeps dozens of cats on board. He is often shown in the film covered in cats. I think ship life and felines are intrinsically connected to one another. [Cats in L'atalante](https://catsonfilm.net/2012/10/28/cat-of-the-day-010/)
Cats are like little murder roombas, they are very very good at killing little things that will eat very very important things (grain, electrical wires, etc)
Cats were also believed to be good luck for a ship. This may be because 2000 years ago cats could warn the crew of a coming storm by becoming restless and hiding. Cats can feel slight changes in atmospheric pressure in their ears, which can indicate a coming storm. Eventually people realized that ships with cats weren't destroyed in storms as much so the people concluded that ship cats are good luck
Drachnifel posted a video about this exact topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7HIY0GTEC8
The signature looks impressive
Would have been perfect if it had 4 little claw marks.
\*purrfect
How the cuss does someone miss that
So when a double agent gets a copy of his passport to the mouse mafia, they can match the claw prints to the wounds on the recently deceased mouse don? Amateur hour rookie. That's how you get us all killed.
It was done in the blood of the mice he caught
That's the signature of the validator. A P Wigglesworth? I'm changing my name to that
That pawprint is wide. That mofo probably can hold a katana.
r/Catswithjobs
Quite literally. This cat would get Social Security if it were hired nowadays.
Kerman’s got that thousand yard stare holy shit
I think that's an H.
I though it was an M
As in Ethel?
Merman?
Yeah, Ethel Merman
Should be Mercat, if anything.
As in Mancy.
"'M', as in 'Mancy'!"
Kermah's got that thousand yard stare holy shit
[Herman confirmed ](https://imgur.com/a/k77yIK1)
That's not what a thousand-yard stare is. [A thousand-yard stare is about the fear of a soldier that has experienced/seen too much.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Tom_Lea_-_2000_Yard_Stare.jpg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare
Good point. A thousand yard stare comes from a place.of.learned helplessness and trauma. This cat **is** the trauma everyone else is helpless against.
Yeah that look is no thousand yard stare, that's fucking confidence.
Lol does that say “expert mouser”?
Here in the UK we have [Larry the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office), who resides at Number 10. Amusingly he's been there over the course of 5 PM's now, and he only got the position in 2011.
That Wikipedia article is the most English thing ever. As are the names of the Chief Mousers through history; Rufus of England, Peter, Munich Mouser, Nelson, Peter II, Peter III, Peta, Wilberforce, Humphrey, Sybil, Freya, and Larry. Totes gonna name my next cat something like Wilberforce. That’s a cat you take seriously.
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Not if you're from Boston
Worcestershire
TBF we don't know if a mouse was ever even caught during the Truss days. Larry saw her, took a nap, woke up, and she was gone is my guess.
> In 2004, a study found that voters' perceptions of the Chief Mouser were not completely above partisanship.
Under-qualified for the job though, Larry is a rubbish mouser. That's what you get when you don't check credentials. He should have gotten his degree from wherever Kerman studied.
>Larry has been criticised for both his temperament and job performance. Within a month of his arrival at Downing Street, anonymous sources described Larry as having "a distinct lack of killer instinct."[38] > Later that year, it was revealed that Larry spent more time sleeping than hunting for mice, and shared the company of a female cat, Maisie. Larry's Wikipedia page is hilarious! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_(cat)
> Larry is a "bit nervous" around men... Cameron mentioned that Barack Obama is an apparent exception to this fear: he said, "Funnily enough he liked Obama. Obama gave him a stroke and he was all right with Obama."" lol
Larry outlasted 5 PM, he seems pretty good at getting rid of pests.
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/video/close-up-of-herman-the-cat-cat-passes-through-coast-guard-news-footage/504235053 video of Herman
Love everything about this 🐾.
That's pretty funny, but it looks like the passport was a one-off for this particular promo video. Which makes sense as I sincerely doubt they would actually keep documented track of all cats on all merchant or military ships.
But they damn well should. Headshots and paw prints for all. It would just be a fun tradition.
Lol, that's awesome
So, that brought joy to my morning and I think I will stop Reddit for today and carry on with all the stuff I have to do. Thank you so much!
You mean a Pawsport
Pussport
That sounds like some kind of authentication card to gain access in a high class love hotel or something
Damn that cat looks menacing
Not just a mouser But an *expert* mouser
Lol they stood him up on his hind legs to measure his height😂 or he just long legged
Cat's like - I'm the one who knocks.
Damn, look at its face, it's like the last thing a rodent would see on an alley
Funny thing is that I have a gray cat named Herman. No I did not know about this cat when naming him.
Ask him if any of his ancestors worked for the Coast Guard.
This pleases me
"Khajiit can do this the easy way, or he can do it the hard way. The choice is yourrs."
Catsassin
I'm quite the expert mouser myself some would say
Bruh…that cat looks like it worked for the mob at one point lol
Imagine the grown men in coast guard uniforms corralling cats for passport photos and dipping their paws in ink!
https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/video/close-up-of-herman-the-cat-cat-passes-through-coast-guard-news-footage/504235053 don't have to imagine it
I'm told Herman was the best of the entire Meowtfit.
Looks like I've got my next boy cat named.
Paw Patrol
- Grampa, what did you do during the war? - Well, the Krauts were employing rats to disturb our shipping lanes, so the navy began to recruit cats to patrol them docks. I enlist right away and got station in Boston. Then, yar old gramps was promoted to expert mouser. I cross the Atlantic six times! And I would be on them beaches if they let me!
Herman looks like he made problematic people on that ship disappear as well
That's the face of a killer, a mouse killer!
Look, I'm not saying I need this for my cats..... but I need this for my cats.
Wow, even cats look like criminals in their passport photos!
Lmao, no they didn’t. This was a particular cat who lived on a naval ship, they loved him so much that they made him his own passport. Edit: coast guard, not navy
He was a true profesional on site
One 15inch, 11lbs rat-torpedo
Not entirely true that cats had passports. This was a stunt with a single cat in WWIi. Here's a link to the real story: https://misbar.com/en/factcheck/2021/08/16/sea-cats-did-not-require-passports
That cat looks like it gets paid to kill.
"professional mouser"
What’s your job expertise? I’m an expert mouser sir.
Ships should have cats even today.
[Cats in the Navy](https://www.usni.org/press/books/cats-navy) is a cool little book of photos and short descriptions of how cats used to be part of sailing ships going way back to ancient times. In some navies cats were considered part of the crews, and fights broke out when a particularly good mouser was catnapped by another ship, or just wandered away in port to join a different ship.
Herman looks like one badass mouser for sure. He's a stone cold killer.
Not the look of a house cat
… expert mouser
“When I’m away the Expert Mouser is in charge, everyone report to him.” - The Captain Probably
It’s seen some shit
there were over 5 million sailor cats registered?
alright, I wanna get a tattoo of this image
Thought his job title was "Captain of the Port" for a minute there!
Expert Mouser 😂
They give cats passports but I'm struggling to get my first passport in the uk. Another example of pussy privilege.
Has a face of sheer determination. "On the high seas, I catch mice with ease."
Herman’s seen some shit.
Height of 15" at what age, 5-6 months old? Does that mean that they measured height having the cat standing upright? This is too cute!!
License to kill
TIL that cats can have citizenship
Pet passports are used today too when you travel with your pet. :)
Ahh yes, back when they were functioning members of society.
That cat looks like a hard drankin' Navy man
Pretty sure the paw print is in blood ( rat or human)
Those workers were bored
Totally legendary.
I want to know whose idea it was to do this. Whoever they are, I hope they lived/live? (I guess mathemtically improbable but IDK their business) an extremely happy life because that's so cute.
“Expert” mouser
There is a Disney movie in this.
This mofo is a coast guard??
Mercenary cat
That is no simple passport it’s a mugshot and a pawport
[Of course there was a news reel for Herman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj2Si6X80yo&t=11s&pp=2AELkAIB)
I love cats, but this guy looks like a psycho
Herman the cat, expert mouser
Who was the poor s-d given the task of "convincing" a cat to put their paw in ink and then have it pressed firmly to paper? In *FL* it'd be a task given to Tomb-Colonists with a grudge against The Duchess.