Ship's Cats Today
The Royal Navy banned cats and other pet animals from all ships on the ocean in 1975 on hygiene grounds.
Cats are still present on many private ships, such as Chibbley aboard the barque Picton Castle, and Toolbox on board Kalmar Nyckel.
Read more about this topic: Ship's Cat
Famous quotes containing the words ship, cats and/or today:
“... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“Sometimes they are little cats mewing and scratching
at the door, sometimes they are her grandmother’s voice,
and sometimes they are gigantic men of light whispering
to her to get up, to get up, to get up.”
—Joy Harjo (b. 1951)
“What
Reply can the vast flowering strike from us,
Unless it be the one
You make today in London: to be married?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)