Today is Respect Your Cat Day

[meow2u3]

It seems as if there’s always some kind of feline holiday crouched around the corner, wriggling its bottom, ready to pounce. National Cat Day, National Feral Cat Day, National Hairball Awareness Day, Happy Mew Year — even the dog days of August are filled with feline jubilees.

A celebration on Tuesday stands out from the pride, however, because it promises to deliver our cats what they most deserve, which is not a Meowjito. It’s Respect Your Cat Day, an opportunity to pay homage to that mysterious silken life form beside you, which can hear the height of sounds and has beaten the evolutionary odds to occupy your lap.

Sadly, as cat lovers we don’t always fully grasp the formidable feline qualities we should be honoring. Respect Your Cat Day’s literature (mostly a news release put out by the folks at a website called National Today, who claim the source of the holiday dates back to an 1384 edict by Richard II of England forbidding the consumption of cats) highlights some impressive statistics about our “feline besties,” including the revelation from a survey that “64 percent of Americans” allegedly prefer their cat’s company to their significant other’s. (No comment, dear.)

But when it comes to how, exactly, people go about respecting their cats, the survey’s findings seem a little misguided, if not downright disrespectful:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/respect-your-cat-not-that-it-cares.html?ref=opinion

Respect Your Cat Day – March 28
Pets, U.S.

Did you know today is Respect Your Cat Day? Today is the day to celebrate you and your feline bestie. Your kitty pal has been there when you were happy, your kitty pal has been there when you were sad, your kitty has, and always will be there for you. March 28 is the day that you can get to acknowledge all the hard work your cat does being your loyal companion.

(more at link)

http://nationaltoday.com/us/respect-your-cat-day/

Translation: Bow and scrape to His or Her Meowjesty and give them what they want.

[yallerdawg]

1. "Bow and scrape to His or Her Meowjesty and give them what they want."

How is this not like every other freakin' day?

[meow2u3]

2. Personally, every day should be Respect Your Cat Day

[rsdsharp]

4. In ancient Egypt, cats were worshiped as gods.

Cats have never forgotten this.

[yallerdawg]

5. Not as delicacies?

Boy, did I get something wrong...

[rsdsharp]

7. No, that's China.

I actually saw a live cat -- among other things -- in a cage at an outdoor food market in Guangzhou (Canton).

[procon]

3. With two kittehs snoozing on my chest and cat hair tickling my nose,

I can barely breathe, but I still can't bring myself to disturb their nap. Does that count at respect?

[3catwoman3]

8. It most certainly does, even tho...

...it is no less than they deserve, and I'm sure they know it. And they know that you know it, too.

[crazycatlady]

6. Could you kitty owners respect feline less crazycatlady by posting pics of yours?