It’s nice to know people took silly pictures of their pets back in 1875 already
@stux Now where could my pipe be?
@stux There's more to it than that - it's a little-known fact that people in the UK taught their pets to smoke up until the Cabinet Crisis of 1903
@stux c’est ne pa un pup
@stux Seems that people were PETS in those days !😆😆😆😆
@stux @chucker What are you talking about? That’s just his pipe.

@stux And Edison was involved in the creation of a funny cat video in 1894 (maybe one of the first of their kind):

https://archive.org/details/TheBoxingCatsprof.Weltons1894

The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's) (1894) : W.K.L. Dickson and the Thomas A. Edison, Inc. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This film is the product of Thomas Edison's (yes, that Thomas Edison!) Manufacturing Company. Why did the brilliant men - namely producer, W.K.L. Dickson - who...

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@stux
Photography was very expensive too. Someone loved that dog a great deal ❤️❤️❤️
@stux Distinguished, you mean. Befitting the character of a noble creature ;)