Lord Byron (died yesterday 200 years ago) was noted for keeping a large and exotic menagerie, which included, at one point, five cats. One of these was called Beppo who allegedly drank milk from a skull. Suitably gothic for a cat whose human was a dark romantic.

Happy #Caturday !

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