Cat

[left-of-center2012]

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Yes!

Cats are amazing. I wish I were a good enough writer to write the novel in which cats have evolved, survived humans, and are now the intelligent species on this planet.

Okay, a parallel book would have dogs as that surviving species. Either one would be fascinating, in the hands of a good writer.

[First Speaker]

3. For the dogs...try Clifford Simak's classic SF novel, "City"...

...it's a haunting book, and something of a tear-jerker.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Oh, yes! I'd totally forgotten about that book,

but I read it many years ago. Perhaps I should try to read it again. I do remember how it valued and appreciated dogs. I honestly remember almost nothing, other than I loved that book all those years ago.

While I am myself a cat person, I know lots of people with dogs, and fully appreciate canines.

[csziggy]

10. C. J. Cherryh's Chanur novels have intellgent felines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chanur_novels

The intelligent canines are the bad guys. Lots of fun and adventure.

And yes, that is a human mixed in with the crew.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. Ohhh, thank you for that.

I had no idea.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. There are a few of those; wish I could remember more of them by name.

In the meantime, try "The Game of Rat and Dragon".

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-game-of-rat-and-dragon-cordwainer-smith/1017475386?ean=2940000161081

"Cordwainer Smith" definitely had a thing for cats, and the cat-derived underpeople played important roles in his stories -- particularly the girlygirl C'Mell in the Norstrilia stories. There is one story in which a race of space-faring, human-loyal cat descendants is created, effectively instantaneously, but they are only briefly described.

Googling "cats science fiction" yields an embarrassment of riches !

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. Oh, my.

So much I had no idea of.

Thank you.

[Demovictory9]

14. Red Dwarf... Science fiction series where ship floats with only cats active on it for a million year

cats evolve to be humanoid but not that smart... just concerned with their clothes and looks. LOL

[Grey5]

2. Ceiling Cat Junior. n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

5. I certainly hope that cat's name is Cato.

https://pinkpanther.fandom.com/wiki/Cato_Fong

...because he is poised to attack when you are least suspecting it.

[NJCher]

6. The most amazing creatures ever

As I type this on my iPad, I have one lying next to my head. If I annoy her enough, she lifts her tail slightly to block my vision. This is plan b, you see. Plan a would be to sit on the keyboard.

Quite effective at control, these feline overloads.

[Fla Dem]

7. An elevator / dumb waiter shaft!?! Hope they got the cat outa there.

[left-of-center2012]

8. Ceiling rafters

You can see things hanging on the wall in the bottom of the picture.

[Fla Dem]

9. Thanks left, I see it now.

[Demovictory9]

15. ceiling with the drywall stuff removed

[Lady Freedom Returns]

16. How? Just How?

It's a Cat, there is no How, they just do it. Why bother asking?