{"id":1765,"date":"2025-06-30T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:15:16","slug":"cats-are-still-muses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"Cats are still muses\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Previously, I\u2019ve written how cats have inspired creatives across multiple mediums over the years. This months blogs continue to show that\u2019s very much the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A perfect example is the Netflix series, Love, Death & Robots. Fans will have noticed that each series features at least one episode with a feline star, and the most recent was no exception. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were two episodes in this  series, \u201cThe Other Large Thing\u201d whose feline protagonist is a cat called Dingleberry Jones and \u201cFor He Can Creep\u201d featuring Joffrey, a savvy cat who had a poet as his chosen human. While the first episode was entertaining the latter, to me, was more immersive. It had a feel of influences from a short story I\u2019ve mentioned in a previous blog, \u201cThe Price.\u201d It also conveyed interactions between feline characters a little reminiscent of \u201cTailchasers Song,\u201d a book by Tad Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing I noticed in both is that the feline heroes weren\u2019t seemingly driven by emotional attachment to their human counterparts. It\u2019s a common misrepresentation of the bond a cat is absolutely capable of building with the human caregiver. That said, while Dingleberry was driven entirely by his need for control, that wasn\u2019t the case for Joffrey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure if the preconceived notion that cats are aloof and unloving will ever truly be left behind the more we  learn about their psychology, but I hope so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That aside, this series – and most definitely the episodes featuring feline stars – are absolutely worth a watch. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Joffrey can creep<\/em>\u2026
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