Cat Tuesday - Dec. 4th

For this week’s Cat Tuesday I decided to do some research about cats in the bible. Here’s what I found. The word cat does not appear anywhere in the bible. This is not what I expected. You can find close to 100 references to lions in the bible including Daniel in the lion’s den. There are 8 references to leopards most notably the question in Isaiah, “Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?” But nowhere does one find the word for the average cat.

It is possible that the cat became taboo in Israel because the cat was so involved in Egyptian religion. Cat mummies can be found by the tens of thousands in Egypt. This much is certain, on the very sad day when Maude breathes her last she will not be mummified. Her ashes will in fact be spread in the lazy river at Kalahari Indoor Water Park.