Comments on: Solar Cat! http://greatgreenpet.com/2007/03/02/solar-cat/ GreatGreenPet is a shopping blog devoted to the green, eco-friendly, pet owner. We comb the web and find the most interesting environmentally friendly products for you and your pet. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:53:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jim Augustyn http://greatgreenpet.com/2007/03/02/solar-cat/#comment-1034 Jim Augustyn Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:01:15 +0000 http://greatgreenpet.com/2007/03/02/solar-cat/#comment-1034 I recently asked the current head of the International Solar Cat Society why cats, and in fact dogs as well, never seem to actually be green - in fur color that is. They can be black and white and brown, golden, speckeled, and all sorts of other colors and patterns, but never actually green! Sure, you can paint them green, or fuss with their digital images in photoshop, but in the real world - there are no green cats. Why is this? Chaircat Baron Ernest von Pinkle Purr reminds us that there is really no good reason why cats need to be green, so what's the big fuss? Long, long ago they devised perfectly good ways to use sunlight for their own purposes, without ever being literally "green". Green happens to be the color which plants have specialized in to perfect their photosynthic processes. That's fine, but you don't have to be green to be good. That would be silly! Cats of all colors have developed the means to use solar energy and use it very effectively! Yet it's fine for people to think of the color green having inherently beneficial qualities. People are still learning, and will will eventually learn that cats and people of all colors and patterns can rely on the sun for all the energy they will ever need. I recently asked the current head of the International Solar Cat Society why cats, and in fact dogs as well, never seem to actually be green - in fur color that is. They can be black and white and brown, golden, speckeled, and all sorts of other colors and patterns, but never actually green! Sure, you can paint them green, or fuss with their digital images in photoshop, but in the real world - there are no green cats. Why is this?

Chaircat Baron Ernest von Pinkle Purr reminds us that there is really no good reason why cats need to be green, so what’s the big fuss? Long, long ago they devised perfectly good ways to use sunlight for their own purposes, without ever being literally “green”. Green happens to be the color which plants have specialized in to perfect their photosynthic processes. That’s fine, but you don’t have to be green to be good. That would be silly! Cats of all colors have developed the means to use solar energy and use it very effectively!

Yet it’s fine for people to think of the color green having inherently beneficial qualities. People are still learning, and will will eventually learn that cats and people of all colors and patterns can rely on the sun for all the energy they will ever need.

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