Since we’re celebrating cat birthdays today, let’s go to a party for Simon’s Cat, the feline phenomenon who celebrated ten years on YouTube this month. Well-wishers showed up both in person and on video to thank Simon Tofield and his animators for a delightful decade of fun. (Nice find, Lois M.)
Lucas the Spider, the world’s most adorable arachnid (also the world’s only adorable arachnid) demonstrates the correct protocol for dealing with polar bears: Step One, boop the polar bear on the nose; Step Two: Run like hell. (Also, if your polar bear can actually be a dog instead, this is much less dangerous.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HU6Z7anycw&rel=0
Sometimes you boop the bear, sometimes the bear boops you, Faye. (I have no idea what that means.)
On Valentine’s Day, Simon’s Cat takes his sweetie on a date, but his present doesn’t float her boat — at first. But before he can pop the question, she bursts his bubble.
Poor Simon’s Cat, Lois M.
A concert violinist gives a band of alley cats a command performance — but is there more to this virtuoso than meets the eye? Find out in the charming cartoon Fantasia dei Gatti, found by Thérèse B.