World’s Smallest Cat: Rusty Spotted Cat | “He may look like a kitten, he’d still fit in the palm of your hand – but this little male is very nearly fully grown. [..] What he lacks in size… he makes up for in daring.”
FOUND: Cat was on my porch this morning. Ate 3 big cans of tuna. Was muddy from the rain, so I gave him a bath. If you know of anyone who is missing a Tabby (?) in East Santa Rosa, tell them to PM me.
TIL that a cat once co-authored a physics paper. In 1975, a physicist had just finished writing a paper and was ready to publish but realized that he had used ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ throughout, despite being the sole author. Not wanting to edit the paper, he listed his cat, Chester, as a co-author.
Ok but the best part is, physicists loved the joke. When people called the author’s university and he wasn’t available, they’d ask to speak with the co-author instead. The author issued a limited number of copies of the article signed by both authors. (Chester’s was obviously a pawprint.) And to this day, physics papers will often have F.D.C Willard (Felix Domesticus, Chester Williard [Willard was the author’s father’s name]) mentioned in the footnotes thanking his “useful contributions to the discussion”.
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