Bomber cat battle cat5/18/2023 Cats - bless their stubborn souls - have their own agenda, a remarkable sense of preservation, and an innate genius for making mischief. It is also why armies have long used dogs and horses, because these animals can be trained to be compliant and sometimes even enthusiastic. This is why modern armies spend a great deal of money on guided missiles. The essence of a useful weapon is control it hits where it is supposed to and when it is supposed to, presumably without blowing up the user. And for this, cats can thank their independent streak. Yet cats have been used in warfare far less often than dogs and horses. Using cats as weapons is cruel, though no more or less morally reprehensible than using any other animal. More recent non-military uses include a cat that recently used in an attempt to smuggle saws and a cellphone into a Brazilian prison, and a CIA project, codename "Accoustic Kitty", that wired cats to eavesdrop on Soviet diplomats (the project was dropped when the cat was hit by a car). ![]() Mourka the courier cat reportedly carried messages to Soviet troops during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. Thus even 2,500 years ago, cats had convinced some humans to carry them around, while thumbing their little noses at other humans who dared not raise a hand to them.Ī 16th Century German officer planned to attach jars of poison gas to cats and panic them towards enemy lines, while the British Army used 500,000 cats as poison gas detectors in the trenches during World War I. ![]() Legend has it that in the Battle of Pelusium in 525 B.C., the Persians defeated the Egyptians because the Persian soldiers carried cats into battle, knowing the Egyptians would be reluctant to attack for fear of injuring a sacred animal. ![]() It turns out that humans have attempted to use cats as weapons for thousands of years.
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