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The Unadulterated Cat

174 statements
33 feature instances
21 referencing feature instances

The Unadulterated Cat	type	TVTItem
The Unadulterated Cat	label	The Unadulterated Cat
The Unadulterated Cat	page	TheUnadulteratedCat
The Unadulterated Cat	comment	The Unadulterated Cat is a humorous nonfiction(ish) book about cats by Terry Pratchett, with cartoons by Gray Jolliffe.It is a book of praise (mostly) about Real Cats, by which it means cats that act like cats are "supposed to". Topics covered include types of cats, names of cats, how to give a cat a pill, breeding cats, games cats play, how to transport cats, the future of cats, and more.As this is an allegedly nonfiction book, many of these tropes are more discussed than actually played straight.
The Unadulterated Cat	fetched	2023-12-05T19:35:05Z
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The Unadulterated Cat	processingComment	Dropped link to OldPossumsBookOfPracticalCats: Not a Feature - ITEM
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_16995d90	type	Right-Hand Cat
The Unadulterated Cat / int_16995d90	comment	Right-Hand Cat: Arch-villain cats are not Real, because there are no unwanted animal bits hiding underneath the laser table.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
The Unadulterated Cat / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: Commonly used to yell at cats.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_2fac1b86	type	Flying Dutchman
The Unadulterated Cat / int_2fac1b86	comment	Flying Dutchman: Parodied, in reference to the "Travelling Cat" so beloved of local newspapers (as in "this unlucky cat was rescued from a car's engine compartment, having accidentally hitched a lift..."). The book alleges that St. Eric, 4th century Bishop of Smyrna, may have unintentionally cursed a small black-and-white tomcat to an eternity of wandering when he yelled for it to go away after he'd tripped over it.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
The Unadulterated Cat / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Warns against giving the cat one. One of the cartoons features a man standing in the doorway calling his cat by name: "Sperm Bank!"
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
The Unadulterated Cat / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Where cats came from, courtesy of the Schrödinger's Cat experiment. A cat wandering through time and space came across a residence in the country (read: a prehistoric cave) that had people but no cats, and decided to fill in the gap because it could get food that way.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Unadulterated Cat / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: The bit about travelling with cats says travelling with any animal is fraught, and casually adds "goats are generally the worst". Further details about why the author was travelling with goats and what happened are not forthcoming.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_44447239	type	Rigged Contest
The Unadulterated Cat / int_44447239	comment	Rigged Contest: Mentioned in the definition of a Real Cat, where an unReal cat will go for the cat food being advertised even if the others don't have sump oil on them.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
The Unadulterated Cat / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: Talking about how cats evolved from civets, Terry initially refuses to look up how civetone is extracted because "it's probably dreadful". Upon doing so anyway, all he says is "It is".
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_4b577c13	type	The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party
The Unadulterated Cat / int_4b577c13	comment	The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: Number 3 on the list of things that happen to cats in a house with children.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_58e43f17	type	Cats Are Mean
The Unadulterated Cat / int_58e43f17	comment	Cats Are Mean: One of the major topics of the book.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_6b17071a	type	Running on the Spot
The Unadulterated Cat / int_6b17071a	comment	Running on the Spot: Mentioned in the definition of a Real Cat:
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_71d97c2b	type	Saint-Bernard Rescue
The Unadulterated Cat / int_71d97c2b	comment	Saint-Bernard Rescue: One chapter imagines what the world would be like if we'd attempted to breed cats to fit all the roles dogs take in society, with the St Bernard being replaced by the St Eric. Many lost mountain hikers have been kept warm by the sheer fury of seeing a St Eric give up looking for them and go to sleep.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_7557f1af	type	Business of Generic Importance
The Unadulterated Cat / int_7557f1af	comment	Business of Generic Importance: The section on Factory Cats says they may be an endangered breed because management thinks "they don't fit in with the new streamlined image of United Holdings (Holdings) plc".
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_7945278c	type	Wet Cement Gag
The Unadulterated Cat / int_7945278c	comment	Wet Cement Gag: A game cats play. The basic play is simple; run through some wet cement. Scoring maximum points, however, requires careful judgement and timing, to hit the cement when it's still wet enough to leave clear paw-prints, but hard enough that smoothing it out again is going to be a tough job.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_7e9a0f3a	type	Wrote the Book
The Unadulterated Cat / int_7e9a0f3a	comment	Wrote the Book: A particularly lazy cat who gained a reputation as a mouser by stealing mice from another cat is described with, "When it came to delegation, this was the cat who got someone else to write the book".
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_817a04a2	type	Amalgamated Individual
The Unadulterated Cat / int_817a04a2	comment	Amalgamated Individual: It's claimed that all "Travelling Cats" — i.e. the ones that make news headlines after showing up thousands of miles from home, and are frequently named Oscar for some reason — are all actually the same cat, a smallish black and white tom which is trying to get somewhere, but keeps getting lost due to its inability to provide directions a human can understand. It goes on to suggest that Oscar is in fact a sort of feline Flying Dutchman who has been cursed to walk the earth ever since the 4th-century Bishop of Smyrna, St. Eric, tripped over it and wished for it to go away and never come back (It also notes that some evidence suggests Oscar may have had a litter of kittens, which does make "a tiny hole" in the theory, but "nothing that a reasonable grant couldn't plug").
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_82ff8b68	type	Artistic License â€“ Animal Care
The Unadulterated Cat / int_82ff8b68	comment	Artistic License – Animal Care: Subverted by a vegan couple who claimed their cat thrived on a meat-free diet, while the rest of the neighbourhood knew it thrived on the area's entire rodent population.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_89499ccf	type	Dolled-Up Installment
The Unadulterated Cat / int_89499ccf	comment	Dolled-Up Installment: Republished in 2022 with the animated version of the Amazing Maurice on the cover, and the word "Cat" clawed out of the title and replaced with "Maurice" in a much bigger font.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_90f2fd8a	type	Grandfather Paradox
The Unadulterated Cat / int_90f2fd8a	comment	Grandfather Paradox: Cats have no thumbs, and therefore do not need to worry about traveling back in time and shooting their own grandfather. They may try to become their own grandfather, but this is normal for barn cats anyway.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_9798789d	type	Animals Fear Neutering
The Unadulterated Cat / int_9798789d	comment	Animals Fear Neutering: Averted, oddly enough; the book refers to "sleek females for whom liberation from the joys of motherhood appears to have come as something of a relief".
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_9a032f08	type	Giver of Lame Names
The Unadulterated Cat / int_9a032f08	comment	Giver of Lame Names: Warns against being one of these, because you will end up calling out the name at midnight to try to convince an escaped cat to return home.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_b32990b8	type	Pet Dress-Up
The Unadulterated Cat / int_b32990b8	comment	Pet Dress-Up: Number 5 in the list of unfortunate things that happen to cats in a house with children.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
The Unadulterated Cat / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: A possible method of getting rid of an unwanted cat, complete with cartoon illustration.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_c24fa49e	type	Dogs Are Dumb
The Unadulterated Cat / int_c24fa49e	comment	Dogs Are Dumb: The Campaign for Real Cats describes most dogs, at least, as "smelly, fawning, dribbling, morons of uncertain temperament".
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_c3a1e89b	type	Cats Are Magic
The Unadulterated Cat / int_c3a1e89b	comment	Cats Are Magic: One of the theses of the book is that the Schrödinger's Cat experiment has bred the ability to teleport and time-travel into cats.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Unadulterated Cat / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many. The Campaign for Real Cats, including the reference to "Fizzy Keg Cats", is a reference to the Campaign for Real Ale, a UK organization opposed to the homogenization of British beer. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: The Naming Cats chapter, of course.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_d05cf3f	type	Footnote Fever
The Unadulterated Cat / int_d05cf3f	comment	Footnote Fever: A given for Pratchett, of course. A discussion of Dogs Are Dumb nests footnotes three-deep.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_e5d630b7	type	Paper Key-Retrieval Trick
The Unadulterated Cat / int_e5d630b7	comment	Paper Key-Retrieval Trick: Describes using this to rescue next-door's gerbils from his cat, based on a vague memory of a "beat the burglar" piece in The Eagle, and being amazed when it actually worked.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
The Unadulterated Cat / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: The Campaign for Real Cats has nothing against dogs, certainly.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_f9f488b8	type	Vegetarian Carnivore
The Unadulterated Cat / int_f9f488b8	comment	Vegetarian Carnivore: The entry for "the green, organic, whole-earthbox cat" features a vegan couple who worked out "a vegetarian diet with occasional treats of fish" for their Siamese, and were blissfully unaware that it had consequently become one of the most dedicated hunters in the area.
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_fa36ea2e	type	Patron Saint
The Unadulterated Cat / int_fa36ea2e	comment	Patron Saint: St Eric, the patron saint of Real Cats. The book's theory that Cats Found in Lorries are all the same cat, who is trying to get somewhere, goes on to suggest that it might be a feline Wandering Jew, cursed by Eric to "go away and never come back" after he tripped over it. In the chapter speculating about cats being bred for the same roles as dogs, the St Eric is the counterpart to the St Bernard. (There's a real St Eric, but he was a 12th century Swedish king, while the one in the book was a 4th century Greek bishop.)
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The Unadulterated Cat / int_fbec97c9	type	Dog Food Diet
The Unadulterated Cat / int_fbec97c9	comment	Dog Food Diet: Mentioned as one of those things one used to do.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Amalgamated Individual / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Animals Fear Neutering / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Business of Generic Importance / int_20c8b2da
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The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Dogs Are Dumb / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Dolled-Up Installment / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Embarrassing Nickname / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Feline Fiction / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Footnote Fever / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Grandfather Paradox / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Lazy Neutered Pet / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Paper Key-Retrieval Trick / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Patron Saint / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Right-Hand Cat / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Vegetarian Carnivore / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Wet Cement Gag / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Wrote the Book / int_20c8b2da
The Unadulterated Cat	hasFeature	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant / int_20c8b2da

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