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@Historical_Pics
I have no other info. Just the pic.
hlthe2b
(102,099 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,570 posts)Cats don't like to eat wet rats.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)petronius
(26,595 posts)It would be interesting to know how long it took between the invention of the camera, and the snapping of the first LOLcat image...
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Many great pics at this site: http://io9.com/vintage-photos-reveal-century-long-obession-with-dressi-1468852263
From 1914:
1927, there was Pete:
petronius
(26,595 posts)TexasTowelie
(111,890 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)?6
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)...so bad hunters could bring them home and pass them off as their own catch.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)including this pup, who was sentenced to life
in prison for murdering a cat:
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Warpy
(111,116 posts)Novelty photographs like this were very big in the late Victorian era through the 1920s.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,570 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)mucifer
(23,466 posts)on the first kitty youtube type film:
As a nation we haven't changed much.
NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)All I know is that Thomas Edison had a history of being rather cruel to animals.
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)NCarolinawoman
(2,825 posts)..and who knows what else.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)Smokehouse recipe
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)That was the explanation on twitter.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)frwrfpos
(517 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)On web page http://io9.com/vintage-photos-reveal-century-long-obession-with-dressi-1468852263
Label: A cat hangs a row of tame rats on the washing line to dry, 1933
I guess the cat just washed them!
wandy
(3,539 posts)You mean these aren't sheets and pillow cases?