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[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Kintarian 3 points 2 months ago

Mew ๐Ÿˆ

[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They have caturday. Isn't that enough?

[โ€“] elephantium 8 points 2 months ago

We all have caturday!

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The saying "dog days" is related to astronomy, and how a certain star appeared in the sky during the warmest months.

edit: Maybe we can consider all Fridays cat days?
It being Frigg/Freya's day, and Freya is known for her 2 kitties.

[โ€“] CM400 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC, the โ€œdog daysโ€ are when the โ€œDog Starโ€ Sirius rises before the sun does.

[โ€“] Kintarian 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alright, don't get all sciencey ๐Ÿ˜›

[โ€“] CM400 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sciencedamnit, I wonโ€™t stand for this!

[โ€“] Kintarian 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, and get off my lawn! ๐Ÿ˜ก

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

There are three feline modern constellations: Leo, Leo Minor, and Lynx. They're adjacent, so they're all visible around the same time.

Leo's heliacal rising from mid-northern latitudes is around early September. Alternatively, it is most easily visible in the evening in early May. So either early May or early September could be considered the "cat days"!

[โ€“] Kintarian 2 points 2 months ago

That sounds like a good idea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why are cats and dogs considered "opposites"?

[โ€“] essell 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because you have two choices when choosing a family pet, Cat or Dog. Two choices makes them opposites.

Obviously this is not all logical or rational but that's fine. People are not all logical and rational.

[โ€“] Kintarian 1 points 2 months ago

Why if you have an aardvark as a pet?

[โ€“] NONE_dc 10 points 2 months ago

Every day is Cat days if you're lazy enough.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

i take catnaps during the day so

[โ€“] BilliamBoberts 5 points 2 months ago

What do you mean? Caturday is every week between Friday and Sunday.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There are like 3 cat days in the year, look it up.

[โ€“] jimmydoreisalefty 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TIL^[[1] https://thatsmeow.com/cat-day/]


Too much to post text of all months.

Here are the ones just for September:

  1. Month Long Events
  • Happy Cat Month: Founded by the CATalyst Council
  • National Pet Insurance Month
  1. Week Long Events
  • Third Week in September: Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week
  1. September Cat Holidays
  • September 1: Ginger Cat Appreciation Day
  • September 13: Pet Birth Defect Awareness Day
  • Second Sunday of September: National Pet Memorial Day
  • Third Thursday of September: Remember Me Thursdayยฎ (an international social media awareness day that brings attention to the millions of adoptable pets waiting in shelters and remembers those pets who never got a second chance.^[[2] https://iheartcats.com/annual-cat-holidays/]
[โ€“] Kintarian 2 points 2 months ago

Nice, never seen that before

[โ€“] Sanctus 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kintarian has never had a cat night before.

[โ€“] Kintarian 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Sanctus 2 points 2 months ago

Its like that, but at night and any weekday.

[โ€“] Sam_Bass 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because cats are night critters

[โ€“] Kintarian 2 points 2 months ago

Fair enough