All days are cat days.
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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They have caturday. Isn't that enough?
We all have caturday!
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.
IIRC, the โdog daysโ are when the โDog Starโ Sirius rises before the sun does.
Alright, don't get all sciencey ๐
Sciencedamnit, I wonโt stand for this!
Yeah, and get off my lawn! ๐ก
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"!
That sounds like a good idea.
Why are cats and dogs considered "opposites"?
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.
Why if you have an aardvark as a pet?
Every day is Cat days if you're lazy enough.
i take catnaps during the day so
There are like 3 cat days in the year, look it up.
TIL^[[1] https://thatsmeow.com/cat-day/]
Too much to post text of all months.
Here are the ones just for September:
- Month Long Events
- Happy Cat Month: Founded by the CATalyst Council
- National Pet Insurance Month
- Week Long Events
- Third Week in September: Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week
- 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/]
Nice, never seen that before
Kintarian has never had a cat night before.
I've heard of caterday.
Its like that, but at night and any weekday.
Because cats are night critters
Fair enough