#scot christenson

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Just in time for Caturday: Cats in the Navy by Scot Christenson arrived in the mail.

It's a publication of the Naval Institute Press of the U.S. Naval Institute, I often visit their website for War of 1812 pictures and articles. Although this purports to be a (very non-academic) history of cats at sea, the focus is very 20th century and USA-centric. There is this tidbit though:

To track cats and identify vagrants that managed to slink onto ships without a medical exam, the Royal Navy once tried to implement a regulation requiring all mascot cats to wear collars embroidered with the name of the vessel to which they were assigned. Whether it was due to the cost of the collars or the realization that cats do not follow rules and would continue to change ships at will, the official collar regulation was short-lived.

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REVIEW: Cats in the Navy (2022)

REVIEW: Cats in the Navy (2022)

by Scot Christenson Sometimes after reading some of the heavier material I normally end up reading, I need a nice bit of fluffy escapism to lift me up. One of my low-key favorites is reading or listening to stories about animals during wartime or in the military service. This is assuming I’m not listening to or reading stories about Russian “tank dogs”, or some such, as that’s insanely…

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Currently reading: Cats in the Navy

Currently reading: Cats in the Navy

When I first met Laura, my wife, we each had two cats. I joked that the merging of our feline families into one was the lesbian version of the Brady Bunch. Twenty years later and all of our cats are now in Kitty Heaven. We have two dogs that I adore, but I do miss living with cats. So when the Naval Institute Press offered me a copy of their new release, Cats in the Navy by Scot Christenson, I…