This is the Ruthven Lane Cat in the west end of Glasgow, and its a bit of a mystery. It's high on a wall on the back of an old tenement building, and it really doesn't look like it belongs there. Cont./
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There are also other cats on Glasgow Buildings, like the one on Brechin's Bar in Govan, which acts as a memorial to a specific cat, and this as been suggested as well. However, why there would be a big cat living in the west end of Glasgow is unclear.
There is also a big cat featured on an old tenement on High Street (bottom of the second picture), and this is the one that bears the closest resemblence to the Ruthven Lane Cat. Unfortunately, it's not clear what that cat is doing there either!
So the mystery remains (unless you know otherwise and can fill us all in).
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The puma seems to have been an emblem of the Victoria; are there any medical connections with the Ruthven Lane building? (Evidently too remote from the Western…)
It’s all complicated by the fluidity of the big cats in emblems of various sorts, and the question of how much a sculptor or designer actually knew about the conventions of representation and symbolism.
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