Russian moggies banned from competing

[Viviennemary]

The International Cat federation has banned Russian cats and Russian bred cats from competing. Good call!

That'll teach em

@garlicandsapphires

He likes dogs apparently

There was an infamous incident a few years ago when Putin hosted Angela Merkel for a diplomativ visit. Merkel has a well known phobia of dogs. Putin deliberately let in his huge dogs and seemed to really enjoy Merkel's unease. What a jerk.

Definitely a dog person.

@NaiceHamAndHugs

Putin definitely would be a cat person. You can tell.

Seems ott

I doubt the cats would mind.

Also since when do cats compete for anything?? I thought their thing was more “make people compete to do things for cat”

Aw. My cats Vladimir and Alesksandr will be so disappointed.

@GizmosEveningBath

Hmm, this virtue signalling seems to be tipping into xenophobia pretty quickly. I feel for the innocent Russians who have had nothing to do with Putin's actions.

Me too actually, it's awful for them.

@zafferana

Well that should really make Putin sit up and take notice

LOL

If you are going to have cultural sanctions alongside humanitarian aid and economic sanctions, then events such as cat shows should be included in exclusion of Russian competitors.

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

Were the cats planning on invading Poland?

You never know ...

All of these sanctions are tough on the innocent people (and moggies) caught by them, but it's an important signal to those in charge. We don't want to get pulled into a fight but economic and cultural sanctions can be applied.

This has got nothing to do with anti-Russian xenophobia 😂 it's about getting people pissed off and overthrowing Putin if he carries on this
dreadful economic catastrophe and isolationism

It's ridiculous. I'm all for sanctions against their government and the oligarchs but it's spilling over into xenophobia affecting ordinary Russian people. I heard a man on the radio this morning who said that his 8 year old son is being bullied (his wife is Russian). That's awful but it's starting to happen.

A win for the cats

Cats don't like being judged by humans in competitions really.

Yes, I agree that the general xenophobia is ridiculous. Also I bet Polish and Ukranian people are getting hassled for being Russian by some idiots - doubly awful.

And yeah, the xenophobia is pretty rife atm. I wish people would read news stories properly and not believe all the propaganda.

Russia is being systematically excluded from standard international cultural life because they have invaded a European neighbor.

This is very sad for individual Russians but there are a limited number of ways for the rest of the world and Europe in particular to object to Russian aggression.

The cats I imagine will be perfectly happy with not being taken to shows.

@zafferana

No, authoritarians are always dog people. They can’t cope with the insolence from cats.

This^. No way could an authoritation cope with the 'fuck you' attitude of cats. They need the fawning adoration and desperate need to please of dogs.

Exactly. A dog can be trained to love you, no matter how dreadful a person you are. That is not an admirable quality in my view.

It's not xenophobia, its sanctions! As I tell my children if you can't play nicely, no one will play with you.

He needs overthrowing, by his own people.

@Ghastlyghoul

Were the cats planning on invading Poland? . I wouldn’t trust mine to not be planning that.

the xenophobia is pretty rife atm. I wish people would read news stories properly and not believe all the propaganda.

?

Sooooo.... Russia hasn't really invaded Ukraine then?

this virtue signalling seems to be tipping into xenophobia pretty quickly. I feel for the innocent Russians who have had nothing to do with Putin's actions.

Yeah, I remember when poor South Africa used to get treated the same because of apartheid. And there is the terrible xenephobic treatments of Iran over a few kidnaps.

Has anyone even tried asking Putin nicely?

Sooooo.... Russia hasn't really invaded Ukraine then?

Certainly according to the newspapers

It's not as clear-cut as that though. USA have been prodding for a long time. I'm sure they'd have something to say if russian bases were installed in a neighboring country.

@oncemoreunto

Russia is being systematically excluded from standard international cultural life because they have invaded a European neighbor.

This is very sad for individual Russians but there are a limited number of ways for the rest of the world and Europe in particular to object to Russian aggression.

The cats I imagine will be perfectly happy with not being taken to shows.

Exactly. I think that however people can show their support for Ukraine and their disdain for putin is very welcome-regardless of how small.

Obviously this move won't hurt Putin but it's a show of support.

@KaptainKaveman

Putin IS a dog.

Please don’t insult dogs!