DangerousTeaMar 4
Cats of Yore
I recently found this set of four photos in which someone was documenting their cat’s obsession with the television. No date/info.
Mar 4 at 6:39pmWeb
Show threadQuinn NortonMar 4
@CatsOfYore sad to see a mind captured so young by network media 😂
Show threadElizenery🔻Mar 4
@CatsOfYore I don't like television at all, but this is adorable.
Show threadbriMar 4
@CatsOfYore was just recently chatting with some friends about how cats these days will never know the joy of sitting atop a warm crt… truly a brief golden era for catkind
Show threadChuckMar 4
@CatsOfYore That "Aretha: Live at the Fillmore" album shows some good taste 😃
Show threadSteve's PlaceMar 4
@ChuckMcManis @CatsOfYore 👍
Show threadPseudonymous Mar 4

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Is this what they mean by rose-colored glasses? 

Show threadMeanderingOKMar 4
@CatsOfYore I love how their style changed. A lot of clutter and heavy visual elements where the Aretha Live at Fillmore West is present. Then lighter and more airy in the others. The cat and TV remain the same! The Aretha record came out in 1971 so that gives a clue on those 2!
Show threadDavid W. JonesMar 5
@CatsOfYore I see a cat with much more sensitive ears than ours hearing some electronic component inside the TV make a sound too quiet or high-pitched for human ears.
Show threadMeanderingOKMar 5
@dancingtreefrog @CatsOfYore that brings back memories. When I was a kid, we'd visit my grandmother and her TV had this terrible high pitch ringing that I hated so much. She probably didn't notice it at her age but my kid ears surely did!
Show threadDavid W. JonesMar 5
@meanderingok @CatsOfYore We were watching a video tape many decades ago - myself, my spouse, two adult friends, and their two children. The children kept complaining about a high-pitched whining sound none of us adults could hear. The sounds stopped when we turned off the VHS player...
Show threadMeanderingOKMar 7
@dancingtreefrog @CatsOfYore yep that was the sound!
Show threadDavid W. JonesMar 7

@meanderingok @CatsOfYore It didn't stop when we stopped the tape, either, so I think it was coming from some electronic component inside. Maybe a dying capacitor or such in the sound circuit somewhere.

We dumped the VHS player and have been replacing the old commercial tapes with DVDs ever since.

We have two tapes our daughter made during high school, so we'll eventually need to have them digitized, I suppose. There are services that can do conversions.

Show threadFardels BearMar 5

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I like how the TV is set up like a shrine in the last two photos, complete with votive offerings and a statue on either side. Of course the cat is going to knock off the statues.

Show threadDavid PollakMar 7
@CatsOfYore @quinn when I played “lion in the living room “ my cats went berserk and tried to figure out where the cats were
Show threadmjdxp3d ago
@CatsOfYore this is me