Stephen Harper's cat is watching you masturbate.
In the eternal quest to differentiate Ethnic from Very Ethnic, the cat is an unfailingly crass acid test. Ethnic likes to name a cat. Very Ethnic eats its for dinner. (Our only judgement is the phony carnivore’s cat exemption, but that’s a post for another day.)
If cat really has replaced dog in our nation’s brand of Timbit politics, what shall we name the one at 24 Sussex? Bastet was sacred to Egyptians. Maneki Neko is the lucky cat of Japan. Muhammad’s favourite cat was Muezza:
Prophet (s) was so attached to his cat that when he gave sermons he let Muezza rest on his lap and he also drank from water previously drunk by his cat. He also did his ablutions from the same water that was drunk by a cat. He seemed to treat his cat in the same way as cat lovers do today…Islam teaches Muslims to treat cats well and that the cat is a creature to be cherished and loved. Mistreating a cat is regarded as a severe sin in Islam.
Chairman Meow has been suggested. There is something very appropriate about Britain’s Reform Cat too. T.S. Eliot’s Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer had a penchant for larceny and knocking over Ming vases. But we are partial to naming Steven’s new cat Cat Stevens. Or more specifically, Yusuf.
Lest we forget the weirdly ethnic shadows of Fritz, who has been up and down the four corners of this big old world too.
Lo, like a Cheshire cat our court will grin.
Tags: Cats, Ceiling Cat, Eating Cat, Ethnic Animals, Fritz, Muezza, Stephen Harper
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