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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4961595, member: 110504&quot;]Seriously, Cats are a Thing.&nbsp; Unlike dogs (where orders of magnitude more human, de facto genetic engineering happened), they make friends with you at Their Express Option, instead of as a literally innate compulsion.&nbsp; ...Like spiders and crows, two other kinds of beast for whom I harbor great, mostly unrequited affection.</p><p>...If you need cats, medieval coins are (metaphor, okay?) stinky with &#039;em.&nbsp; Especially by way of lions, rampant and passant, and, in the case of Baybars, the mid-13th c. Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, maybe a tiger.&nbsp; (In contemporary European heraldry, a &#039;lion passant&#039; (on all fours) is sometimes referred to as a &#039;leopard.&#039;&nbsp; Effecting a cool transition to the tiger (or, depending on the interpretation, more literal leopard) of Baybars.)</p><p>...Meanwhile, Edward I&#039;s deniers and oboles as Duke of Aquitaine have unmistakable lions passant, with manes.&nbsp; Both before his coronation (and departure on what may have been the last 13th-century crusade), and afterward.&nbsp; While on crusade, Baybars was who Edward ran smack into.&nbsp; ...Including a nearly successful assassination attempt.&nbsp; The fact that there <i>is</i> a King Edward I was largely a matter of luck.</p><p>...I was about to find one, at random (with the luck of the draw as far as what .jpgs show up first).&nbsp; But I&#039;m having only worse luck than usual with the prevailing chaos of the operant files.&nbsp; Surely, other people here could go that route (medieval lions), were they so moved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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