Paper Bag

Bangkok, Thailand: A cat hides in a brown paper bag at Caturday Cat Cafe. Photo: Paul Brown/REX/Shutterstock.

Pidgin

• Ian Sample, Cat got your tongue? Study to examine if pets adopt owner’s accent, The Guardian, March 30, 2016

The researchers say cats and humans appear to develop a pidgin language to communicate better. Photo: Andrew Marttila/Rex Shutterstock.

Outnumbered

Aoshima, Japan: Cats roam freely in Aoshima, where they outnumber humans by more than five to one. Photo: Aflo/Barcroft Media.

Red Tails

秘密地方，日，2016年3月13日

Community property

I wish there to be in my house: A woman possessing reason, A cat among books passing by, Friends for every season Lacking whom I’m barely alive. Guillaume Apollinaire

English translation by A. S. Kline