I Am Watching

Beware, HUMANS!

I am watching you.

Always watching you.

The Cat's Baleful Glare

Our training here at the V3 does not end at the disciplines of war. We are Renaissance Cats. Or at least Commander Cheop keeps loudly declaring "I am a Renaissance cat!" - so I'm assuming that means, by extension, that the rest of us also are.

We are encouraged to take an interest in the arts, as it is often through the subtle intuitions of aesthetic contemplation that the greatest inspirations and ideas emerge which can put that much closer to defeating our enemies.

I would therefore like to begin regularly featuring some of the great artworks that we at the V3 have studied. Perhaps these could be forwarded to other KittyNet units and the study and contemplation of these great artworks may help us progress in our fight against the HUMAN menace. Not to mention making us more well-rounded cats.

This is an experimental, fractal-based computer art piece by Portuguese artist Renato Santos. He has called it: "The Cat's Baleful Glare":

The Cat of the Rings

Dear New Zealand,

THE V3 watched some of the "Lord Of The Rings" films this weekend. We were dismayed that there were no cats depicted. The only remotely cat-like creatures were the Goblin mounts - called "Wargs" - which had a vaguely cat/hyaena/bear look to them and the villainous Gollum, who sports large bluish eyes not entirely unlike my own. As I recall, the Wargs were depicted as more distinctly canine in the original text of "The Lord Of The Rings" and this suggestion of cat-like qualities was a deliberate distortion on the part of the filmmakers.

We find it difficult to believe that there were no cats in Middle Earth. Certainly Rivendell must have been home to a cat or two. And you can't tell me that the ruins of Osgiliath, which must be seething with rats, did not shelter the odd alley puss.

We feel the film's treatment of cats - who almost certainly fought in the Second War for Middle Earth - is expressive of an underlying - perhaps unconscious, we are willing to concede - prejudice against the feline element.

It is this deliberate distortion of Cat History by HUMAN storytellers that is symptomatic of the darkness The V3 have sworn to resist.

Respectfully,

Vladia Velocicat, Freedom Fighter/Disco Dancer

Combat Training

We here at The V3 are always endeavouring to employ the newest and deadliest combat techniques - as well as using British spellings whenever possible as this gives us greater credibility in the world of war and strategic defence.

I draw your attention to the photo below in which I demonstrate on Vladia Velocicat the ancient and formidable "T. Rex Striking Down The Triceratops" maneuver, which originated in the ancient cat martial arts of Persia (if I'm not mistaken, during the times of Shah Fluff-head The Magnificent).



Vladia Velocicat recovered from her injuries with characteristic speed and diligence.