20 Awwdorable Vintage Photos of Cats Proving That Humans Have Always Been Obsessed With Fluffy Felines

This article is for all the cat haters. This one if for all the cat doubters. This article is going to prove that there is no such a thing as "too many cute cats" or taking "too many pictures of cats". These concepts do not exist. Cats are purrfect, and everyone knows and has known this throughout all of history. People used to build statues for cats, people used to build cats tiny hammocks so that they could be comfortable all the time. Today, we take pictures of cats, and we make funny cat memes. That is how we show them our appreciation, and appreciation is what they deserve. 

If you don't want to believe us, then believe these pictures - believe the past. Understand that people have always been obsessed with cats, and that can only mean that being obsessed with cats is morally correct and normal. At least… we choose to believe that. It's hard to argue with the love that you see seeping from these photos. It's impawssible to. 

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    Baby.
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  • “Baby” is accurate. Simply so. Cat haters try to tell us that cats are not our babies, that us calling them our babies is just because we don't have babies of our own anymore, because we don't understand what it actually means to have a baby. But they are wrong, and this is the proof. Cats have and will forever be our babies. 

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    THE WELL FED CAT Joseph, a tabby of 48 pounds, was left a bequest by his owner, Miss Agatha Isabel Frazer Higgins, upon her death in 1969. He is famous in England for both his size and his wealth. Whatever became of him after he got rich is unknown. often enjoy in the of the diet of cats. In fact, an owner should
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    WEWONT GO HOME TILL MORNING. COPYRIGHT
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    All zipped up, but nowhere to go.
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    DUNCE
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    Overlooking biological differences, Muffin, Los Angeles cat, caresses a two-weeks-old motherless white rabbit. Muffin recently gave birth to a litter of kittens, later k lled by a tom cat. Now cat and rabbit live together quite happily.
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    M&AAustin. RAPID PHOTO, EC. "HELD BY THE ENEMY." 4047
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    ONE EYE PETE
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  • One Eyed Pete is a legend to us. We don't know the exact story of his life and everything that he has been through, but we don't need to know that to know for a fact that he brought endless joy to people's lives, and for that, we are furrever thankful. 

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    "Buffins, winner of the title of "Cat with the Most Appealing Expression in 1958.
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    THE SHIP'S CAT An Entertaining Series of Pictures taken Aboard H.M.S. "Shropshire" "WHAT ABOUT A BLANKET?": The ship's cat, in spite of his winter coat, feels slightly chilly
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    THAT'S BETTER": Well wrapped up by an obliging friend and ready for a night's sound sleep
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