Cat Armor

"Miaowcenaeans, let us too for the fight prepare,
He said; and the cat leap'd down in arms:
Fierce rang the armour on the warrior's breast,
That ev'n the stoutest heart might quail with fear." Cats and Mice Gallery [Jeff de Boer via Laughing Squid]

• [Anonymous]

  Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the *Kittens* of war… ?

• [ponto]

  It’s not nearly so swank, but my cat looks quite distinguished in her feline-sized pickelhaube – the old Prussian spiked helmet –

  http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/may10.htm#30may2

  • [dr.hypercube]

    Lozenge-camo sneakers? Oh, my. And your cat looks plenty swank – perhaps a feline C-93 or C96?

• [jimh]

  INVISIBL CAT IS HUNG LIEK HORSE
  CHEK OUT DONG ARMER

• [Vulpes Abnocto]

  When the lady of the house called me to the computer with the words “I just found armor for my cat!”, horrific images of chastity belts ran through my head.

  *whew*

• [ponto]

  Oh, my lozenge camouflage sneakers are fabulous, Dr. Hypercube:

  http://janusmuseum.org/panabasis/july10.htm#24july

  I’m not sure I’d trust Nutmeg around firearms – though a Mouser would be an appropriate variant on the Mauser.

• [maryr]

  Also awesome and not immediately obvious from link – Ro-Cat: The 1934 Twin Rocket Flying Suit. I think not naming this Ro-Cat-Teer was a lost opportunity.

• [Apreche]

  That may be armor for a cat, but it’s not cat armor.

  There’s an anime series titled El-Hazard. In it, there is a cat which literally wraps itself around the main character to form a protective covering. That’s what I call cat armor.

  Sorry I can’t find an image or video right now.

• [acb]

  Has anybody tried dressing a live cat in such armour? I can see that going wrong in a number of ways.

  • [minamisan]

    I totally agree. My cat almost tortures itself to death trying to remove a collar with a bell. I can’t imagine what would happen if I dressed it in this (yet a dark & deeply repressed part of me wants to try).

• [fr4nk]

  I can haz matchen hooman armer fer when we tri too put thiz on ar kittehz?

• [Potoman]

  Even better than the Squirrel Armor from Pitbull Armory http://www.pitbullarmory.com/Squirrel-armor.html (who also made several for dogs as the name implies)

• [Cherubini]

  I can hardly express how awesome that is.

• [dr.hypercube]

  I’m still waiting for Thracian mouse greaves for the

  [dr.hypercube]

  Screwed up the 2nd link – Batrachomyomachia.

[WisconsinPlatt]

I believe that may have been worn by Miowara Tomokato – Samurai Cat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samurai_Cat

[Blackwell]

I can has sum holez drilld for heering?

[braininavat]

Just imagine the sounds from the alley at night if this becomes a trend!

[Trent Hawkins]

I’m kind of disappointing that it’s not an actual relic.

[millrick]

just caught my cat downloading images from that website, and am now hearing metalworking sounds emanating from the cat’s ‘fortress of solitude’.

should I be worried?