Ben’s Reviews > Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania > Status Update
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“Drowning unwanted litters was standard practice…it must have been a heartless fancier who did not occasionally pause to reflect on the obscenity of lavishing care…on one kitten while consigning multiple others to a cold, wet death…Supply and demand, birth and slaughter, were caught up in a Malthusian nightmare in which the underclass was always expanding no matter how quickly you tried to kill it off.”
— Aug 28, 2026 05:55AM
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Ben
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“Seasonal abandonment was a practice fuelled by the old and unfounded prejudice that cats, unlike dogs, built attachment to places rather than people. A cat belonged to the farm, not the farmer, to the alley not the urchin, the ship not the sailor. It liked being left to its own devices.”
— Aug 29, 2026 07:16AM