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A fact from Ship's cat appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 10 January 2008.
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this is a lot of fun, thanks for posting this article.Mtsmallwood (talk) 14:51, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I know that "... in popular culture" sections are now to be shot on sight, but wouldn't there be some other way of working the cat in Alien into this article, probably through some "fictional ship's cats", as a way of showing that the tradition has even been carried over into sci-fi? Daniel Case (talk) 16:00, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Split

It may be too early for this but I see the possibility of a good article about general use of ship cats separated from the list of cats especially if we start including more cats and fictional ones which will lead to further imbalance of the article. gren グレン 16:03, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Well done

Very interesting and great photos. I was surprised this topic didn't already have a page. Any chance of some non-British ships cats being mentioned (apart from Unisnkable Sam/Oscar)? Or is it a particularly nuts-about-animals-British maritime thing? 86.133.240.138 (talk) 17:13, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

As was I. Chibbley is Canadian I believe, though the British seem to have a soft spot for animals, and have turned some of them into celebrities as a result. Celebrity ship's cats seem to be a rarity in other nations. Benea (talk) 17:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
And the Unsinkable Sam was a German cat come to think of it. Benea (talk) 17:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations on the nice new article and on the DYK mention. Very interesting. I suggest you add "other uses" templates to cross-reference this article and The Ship's Cat (book) to each other. Hult041956 (talk) 17:34, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Polydactyl cats

I thought the reason they were better on ships is that they could climb along ropes better. — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-10 17:51Z

[edit] Balance?

Overall this was a good article. However, I do believe that the examples are focused too much on British cats. I'm not sure if this is because there are no known other examples of ships cats in other countries but I do believe that it should be fixed.

Foodmonster (talk) 19:19, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In other countries?

The article gives a lot of time to ship's cats in British ships, but, aside from ancient history, doesn't really mention them in the context of other countries. While it's likely there may not be many cats from other countries which rise to the level of notability, it would be good to have info on the general status of ships cats in other navies. For example - are there ship's cats on US Naval vessels? If not, when were they banned? (You can substitute other countries for US, as you will.) Also unaddressed in the article - are there any navies still using ship's cats routinely? How about merchant fleets? -- 19:23, 10 January 2008 (UTC)