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Furball's Daily Life: Celebrating International Cat Day

Across the world, 8 August is observed as the International Cat Day. While the celebration was established in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, its custodianship has since passed to a British not-for-profit organization called International Cat Care.
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The goal of this observance is to raise awareness for cats – adorable but capricious creatures who have served as man’s companions and stalwart defenders against rodent infestations since time immemorial.
Feel free to peruse this photo gallery we have compiled for the occasion.
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A cat has its hair brushed at Caturday Cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 8, 2020. Small restaurants were among the few venues allowed to start again during the gradual easing of restrictions in Thailand's capital Bangkok that were imposed weeks ago to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

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This May 16, 2017 picture by AFPBB News shows a cat in an IT office in Tokyo. Japan is known for long office hours and overworked employees, but one company claims to have found a cure: cats.

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Missy, a stable cat, is licked by a dairy cow during feeding time at Madersbacherhof Farm in Brixlegg in the Austrian Alps, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. The cat lives in the stable with the dairy cows who are kept inside for the duration of winter.

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Socks, the White House cat, sits atop the podium in the White House press briefing room on March 19, 1994. A groundskeeper who regularly walks Socks brought him into the press room and placed him unannounced on the podium. Socks stayed there for a few minutes as photographers took his picture before the groundskeeper said it was time to go and took the kitty away.

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A biker shows his 12-year-old cat Chiquinho, which always rides with him on his motorbike in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 19, 2016.

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Two Scottish shorthair cats dressed in red hats are pictured during a cat exhibition in Bishkek, October 16, 2016. Cat lovers from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan took part at the exhibition.

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A cat looks out from an eyrie about 12 metres (39.37 feet) above the ground in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 15, 2006.

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A cat grapples a DSLR camera on the ground at an animal shelter built by the Syrian Organization for the Rescue of Animals (SORA) in Azmarin, near the Turkish border in the north of Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on December 12, 2020.

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Maverick, an American Shorthair, keeps its claw on a mouse while it uses a computer at a press preview for the Cat Fanciers' Association show on October 10, 2007 at Madison Square Garden in New York.

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Princes the cat spent time on a river with its owner Ashley Toccati, right, and her friend Kasandra Mullen at Discovery Park, Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Sacramento, California.

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Cats participate in a New Year show held at a circus in Simferopol.

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A cat dressed in a collar and tie looks out from a window at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Monday, November 14, 2016.

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In this Thursday, August 2, 2018 picture, photographers take photos of Merlin, dressed in a 1920s tail tuxedo and top hat on the red carpet during a cat fashion show at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. The event was a fundraiser for the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, which helps support more than 150 animal shelters and rescues in New York.

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A cat sits by a man reading a newspaper at a park in Tokyo, Monday, November 7, 2011.

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A cat seen at the estate of Vitaly Teivans, chairman of the Board of the Latvian Peasant Fund.

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Sibir player Joseph-Reinette Steev, right, chases after a cat which ran on the pitch during the Europa League qualifying round soccer match of PSV versus Sibir Novosibirsk at the Philips Stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands, Thursday, August 26, 2010, as PSV player Stanislav Manolev laughs in the background.

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A Ragdoll cat looks into a video camera during a press preview on October 11, 2006 at the 4th Annual CFA Cat Championship hosted by the Cat Fanciers' Association at Madison Square Garden.

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Semyon, the pet cat of a fire brigade in Russia's Tyumen region, sits on a fire truck.

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