Bisset's 'Cat Orchestra' and other performing cats.

I haven’t posted about cats for a while, so to put that right here is some historical trivia about performing cats.

In the mid 18^th century, Scotsman Samuel Bisset read about the success of an animal act, ‘The Thinking Horse’ and decided to have a go himself. His first foray into animal training involved a monkey who he taught to ride a pony, and dance with a dog. But Bisset astutely realised that novelty was the key to success and hit on the idea of training that least trainable of all animals – the cat!

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