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Currently Reading: Tallstar’s Revenge. Episode 331.
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Content Warning: Today’s Cat Fact includes the topics of Animal Violence, Animal Death. Please skip 32:11 - 41:51 to skip.
These past 4 episodes have actually just been one long flashback sequence.
Book: Mapleshade's Vengeance
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa
Cat Fact Sources:
The Real Victim of Tara the Hero Cat's Story Is the Dog – Dogster
Dog chased away by hero cat Tara is euthanized | News | bakersfield.com
"Tara" the hero cat video goes viral - CBS News
My Cat Saved My Son *Video may be upsetting
Jackson Galaxy Meets Tara: The Hero Cat Who Fought Off An Attacking Dog
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Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod
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So a train coming down a track towards five people. You can flip a switch, diverting the train to a second track where it will only hit one person. Frecklewish is passing by on a walk and gets hit by the train instead.
Book: Mapleshade's Vengeance
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
Cat Fact Sources:
Truffles the Kitty Organization
About Us - A Child's Eyes - Glasses for Infants and Children
CBS - YouTube - Cat helps kids feel comfortable at eye doctor
Truffles the cat helps kids with glasses and eye patches - Good Morning America
Truffles the glasses-wearing Cumberland County cat receives $25,000 donation
Truffles Has the PURR-fect Way to Ease Kids' Fears About Eyewear | Women In Optometry
Truffles The Kitty Wears Glasses To Help Kids Feel At Ease
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Things go swiftly wrong for Mapleshade.
Book: Mapleshade's Vengeance
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Cat Fact Sources:
Russian cat 'saves' baby abandoned in stairwell - BBC News
Cat saves baby from freezing Russian night - video | World news | The Guardian
Hero cat saves baby from freezing to death
Homeless Russian cat 'saves' abandoned baby boy | The Straits Times
Russian cat keeps abandoned baby warm for hours
Music:
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Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod
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Have you ever seen someone share really personal family dramaon Facebook and there are like 100+ comments and it’s basically a family reunion but everyone is just yelling? Well, our brief detour to the past is kinda like that - and Mapleshade just hit “post”.
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston with Ruby Dee (Narrator)
Cat Fact Sources:
'My cat saved my life when I had a heart attack' - BBC News
Woman having heart attack saved after cat jumped on her chest - Wales Online
Owner Claims Cat Saved Her Life
Hero cat saves owner - Zenger Youtube
Music:
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Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod
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This is a sad episode. Too sad to think of a good description. :(
Book: Super Edition: Crookedstar’s Promise
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie*
*CW: Author has said transphobic things - please look into nonbinary author Akwaeke Emezi’s response to her.
Cat Fact Sources:
Man thankful for his kitten's life-saving measure
'Ring-a-ding': The story of Fluffy the hero cat
Youtube - Cat saves man's life after fall
Music:
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Crookedjaw receives lives, Riverclan acquires kits, and Mapleshade tells the truth.
Book: Super Edition: Crookedstar’s Promise
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Cat Fact Sources:
House cat protects family from intruder - WISH-TV | Indianapolis News
Family cat protects house from intruder – KIRO 7 News Seattle
Family cat brings down would-be burglar | wthr.com
Cat thwarts Indianapolis home intruder with one mean bite
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Music: Fluidscape by Kevin MacLeod
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Crookedjaw learns that he is going to have to carry that weight.
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Cat Fact Sources:
Love for Libby the Library Cat – WNY News Now
Love For Libby The Library Cat
Ashville Free Library Starts Fundraiser For Beloved Cat | News, Sports, Jobs - Post Journal
Fundraiser by Ashville Free Library : Libby Needs Your Support
Ashville Free Library Facebook
Music:
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Crookedjaw debates whether or not he should tell his boss that his reference was actually an evil ghost. Tangletongue and Emberheart do not solve a mystery.
Book: Super Edition: Crookedstar’s Promise
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Cat Fact Sources:
Æsop for Children presented by the Library of Congress
Music:
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Crookedjaw gets what he wants, but learns that not all cats go to heaven.
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
Cat Fact Sources:
Aldhelm's cat | Stanford Humanities Center
St Aldhelm's riddles — Malmesbury History Society
Music:
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Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod
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With his paws full corralling his new apprentice, Crookedjaw is one step closer to his destiny. As long as he follows Mapleshade, nothing will go wrong. Right?
*Correction: Xiran Jay Zhao, mentioned in this episodes cat fact, uses they/them pronouns - please see their own statement here: Press Kit.
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What We Are Reading (Not Sponsored):
New Lesbian Writing: An Anthology Edited by Margaret Cruikshank
Cat Fact Sources:
Xiran Jay Zhao Twitter thread on Lu You's Cat Poems
Music:
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Happy Boy Theme by Kevin MacLeod
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