Nina Leen, Swimming Cat, undated. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

Lyonel Feininger: [Julia Feininger with kitten rescued from drowning, Deep, Baltic Coast], 1934. Source: Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum.

From “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” in The Jumblies and Other Nonsense Verses by Edward Lear. Drawings by L. Leslie Brooke. Via Internet Archive.

They sailed away, for a year and a day,
    To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
    With a ring at the end of his nose,
          His nose,
          His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.

bunny-realness:

louis wain cat valentine <3

‘Whisky’ the cat, pet and mascot of HMS Duke of York (ca. 1940s). Source: National Maritime Museum on Flickr.

This photograph is featured in Arctic Convoys, a new photographic exhibition looking at the experiences of those who served on the Arctic Convoys. It’s on at the National Maritime Museum until March 2012, www.nmm.ac.uk/convoys/

petsincollections:

Teaching a cat a trick aboard the cruiser Olympia, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml

petsincollections:

Sailors with two ship cats, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml

petsincollections:

Sailors with two cats aboard cruiser Olympia, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml

petsincollections:

Sailor with a ships cat aboard the cruiser Olympia, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml

petsincollections:

Cruiser Olympia crew relaxing with a ships’ cat, circa 1898.

Photograph from the Littlejohn collection at J. Welles Henderson Archives & Library, Independence Seaport Museum.

http://www.phillyseaport.org/Museum_Library.shtml