{"id":4680,"date":"2015-08-07T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2015-08-07T15:56:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T15:56:58","slug":"celebrate-international-cat-day-with-9-of-the-best-cats-in-movies-and-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/07\/celebrate-international-cat-day-with-9-of-the-best-cats-in-movies-and-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate International Cat Day with the Best Cats from Movies and TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate International Cat Day, here are some of our favourite on-screen felines. Share your favourite with us in the comments!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/simba1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4682\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/simba1.jpg\" alt=\"simba\" width=\"800\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/simba1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/simba1-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Simba (The Lion King)<\/h3>\n<p>As much as we love them, most cats are pretty lazy. They sit around licking themselves, sleeping and eating&#8230;then saunter off around the neighbourhood to do the same thing elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Not Simba, though. He\u2019s barely a kitten when he sees his poor Dad trampled to death by a stampede, then spends his teenage years planning for vengeance (admittedly with the help of a very cheerful meerkat and warthog) like a feline Liam Neeson.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and he\u2019s got a great singing voice for a lion too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mr-bigglesworth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4683\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mr-bigglesworth.jpg\" alt=\"mr bigglesworth\" width=\"799\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mr-bigglesworth.jpg 799w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/mr-bigglesworth-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Mr Bigglesworth (Austin Powers)<\/h3>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen I get angry, Mr Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr Bigglesworth gets upset&#8230;PEOPLE DIE!\u201d\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr Bigglesworth may look cute, but he\u2019s actually pure evil. He accompanies Dr Evil through most of his evil schemes, and even begins to look a bit like his owner when he loses his hair after cryogenic freezing.<\/p>\n<p>In real life, though, he was a big softie. The cat who played Mr Bigglesworth (the fantastically named Ted Nude-Gent) often held up filming because he kept falling asleep in Mike Myers\u2019 lap.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xOBvJRBOoNA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Salem Saberhagen (Sabrina The Teenage Witch)<\/h3>\n<p>Imagine if your cat could talk. Now imagine he could talk, but he had been possessed by the personality of a wise-cracking snarky cynic. That\u2019s pretty much Salem the cat from <em>Sabrina the Teenage Witch<\/em>, a poor chap condemned to live as a cat for the rest of his days.<\/p>\n<p>Although given that cats don\u2019t actually do much, it doesn\u2019t actually sound like that much of a punishment.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4684\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jones.jpg\" alt=\"jones\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jones.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jones-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Jones (Alien)<\/h3>\n<p>You can count the amount of humans who have survived an encounter with the infamous Xenomorph on one hand. Cats, however, have a 100% survival rate \u201d\u201c and it\u2019s all thanks to this little cutie.<\/p>\n<p>Jones is the Nostromo\u2019s ship cat and while they\u2019re all off getting killed, he\u2019s swanning about the ship and occasionally jumping out at them for a laugh (presumably).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/garfield.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4686\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/garfield.png\" alt=\"Garfield\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/garfield.png 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/garfield-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>Garfield (Garfield and Friends)<\/h3>\n<p>He\u2019s fat, lazy, regularly torments his owner and his owner\u2019s dog and has a near insatiable desire for lasagne. What\u2019s not to love?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4687\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tom.jpg\" alt=\"tom\" width=\"800\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tom.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/tom-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Tom (Tom and Jerry)<\/h3>\n<p>Poor Tom. All he wants to do is have a Jerry sandwich, yet he\u2019s constantly subjected to horrendous levels of pain and suffering. We\u2019re surprised the RSPCA never paid his owner a visit, to be honest.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rOVC4NY8Q-A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Puss-in-Boots (Shrek)<\/h3>\n<p>Voiced by Antonio Banderas, this sword-wielding ball of fur in knee high boots is possibly the only cat who could steal your girlfriend.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wW6rENTfaU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Stimpy (Ren and Stimpy)<\/h3>\n<p>Alright, so he looks nothing like a cat. But it\u2019s impossible not to love the dopey little guy, even when he\u2019s engaging in extremely weird antics with his short-tempered Chihuahua pal Ren. And trust us, they got up to some really, really weird stuff&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Have we missed your favourite cat? Share it with us in the comments!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/sell-dvds\/\">Get CASH for your DVDs<\/a> with musicMagpie! Just click below to get an instant price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/start-selling\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3533\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/DVD-button.png\" alt=\"DVD Button\" width=\"299\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate International Cat Day, here are some of our favourite on-screen felines. Share your favourite with us in the comments! Simba (The Lion King) As much as we love them, most cats are pretty lazy. They sit around licking themselves, sleeping and eating&#8230;then saunter off around the neighbourhood to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,179],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4690,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions\/4690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}