Secrets of the Mummy Cat Revealed! from On the Fence
Say what you will about Kate, but she has really revolutionized 'posting the cat' in her latest post, in which she posts a picture of a mummified cat a friend found during renovations. Now that's catblogging I cat get behind. Woof! [Read More]

Tracked on October 19, 2005 1:04 AM

Kate Has Her Own Style from Little Miss Attila
of catblogging. It's not for the weak.... [Read More]

Tracked on October 22, 2005 5:29 AM

Cool! Just needs a little shellac and up on the wall it goes..

Hmmm... Too big to be a dust bunny. Could be a sabertooth.

I don't like to mention this, but the missing part of the cat's skull, and the bulletholes in it's pelt, suggest that kitty came to an untimely end. She,(!?!) was obviously MURDERED! Has the RCMP, CSIS, the SPCA, and PETA been notified yet? (You don't wanna be charged as an 'accessory', do Ya?

Give it chicken soup.

Isn't that precious,...
Who's a pretty kitty ,....
Yes you are !!!

I'm going to put it up in my cubicle.

Also
"bulletholes in it's pelt"
Those are obvious mule bite marks!
I've seen this kind of thing before.

Now there's a small DEAD animal for ya. Kate, have you considered giving it a place next to the gopher?

The poor thing. So many of them come to bad ends and so many have horrible short lives.

They are among the most beautiful animals on Earth. They are identical in nearly every way to their larger cousins in Africa and India.

I am providing a fabulous life for one cat.

Cats are also very objectivist and Ayn would agree. Cats are not liberals.

I can't help but think that there was a period of at least a month, probably several, when the smell of putrefaction from this little carcass must have been overwhelming. Whoever lived in this house at the time must have had a strong stomach - or no nose.

Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.

Oh what a relief to know that cats are not Liberals since I live with three of them! What about dogs, they just blindly follow the leader no matter what?

This would be ideal to put next to the gopher, I like it!

Ten years ago found something similar in a wall of an old house we were renovating. It was a large bird, we believe it was a sea gull. Still had all the feathers and beak but a dried out husk. I really don't understand how people could not hear something in a wall/floor or notice the stench, disturbing images come to mind.

During a renovation to the Capital Hotel in Whitehorse, Yukon, a few years ago, a very impresive specimen of mummified cat was found. It is on display under glass in the Hotel pub and inspired a new drink known as the "Petrified Pussy".

I'm sure the smell isn't that bad.

Small animal, dies of dehydration, then rots way quietly the liquids being easily absorbed by the wood/ evaporate away behind drywall, or under plywood/floorboards. where's the smell gonna go? (or it's winter in Sask and the damn thing gets freeze dried.)

And so you get a slight foul odour, people open a window in summer, wash their laundry, take out the garbage...by the time its annoying and you are getting curious it stops.

Had a cat when I was a kid, turned out to be a Liberal. We shot him.

Not to harp on this putrefaction thing, but...

I've had a couple of mice die in inaccessible areas in some apartments I've lived in, at least one crawling there after my cat injured it terminally after toying cruelly with the poor thing. It's a tiny carcass, but it had a real pong for a week or so - I can only imagine what a cat carcass would produce. Granted, that was in a Toronto apartment building, which might have a different microclimate than a Sask. house, especially one out on the open pray-rie.

The smell!!! I remember at work when we had a dead mouse in an enclosed room 10'x20' I wanted to puke when I went in after the weekend.

If those are bullet holes they are of Lilliputian proportions.

When I put my cat down after 19 years I used exhaust from the car. Some pesky law about shooting in the city.

As a conservative I took personal responsibility. Not taking him to some vet.

Never thought of sticking him between the floor boards.....

If those are bullet holes, the poor thing was shot several months after expiring...

Naw! Check out that skull cavity- I'll bet the CIA has the missing chunk. (Is there a 'grassy knoll in that backyard?)

I hate to "shoot a hole" in everyone's theory, but the holes are probably from hungry insects of some sort.

The dead cat is a good analogy for the plight of Canada. Once it was a feisty kitten, the spawn of an Imperial lion, growing up in an Empire where the sun never sat. Like every cat, it had its day, and the sun shone warmly on its butt. Then it suddenly began to age quickly, no doubt ailing from parasites within. It died one day; few noticed its passing. The parasites propped it up and told people that it was still alive. Those that noticed the stench of decay were told that they must be imagining it.

Unchecked, the process continued. The parasites had a field day and ran riot in their own little empire, and people believed because all the stench was gone they believed it was as the parasites told them.

And so it happened one day that the floor boards were pried up one day and the cat was shown as it really was; a dry, decayed ruin.

The "skull cavity" is for the ear canal. All cats, evgen live ones, have that -- you just can't see it because if you try to look into a cat's ear it will gnaw your nose off.

...or so I've been told.