The navy of course used a breed with nine tails, hence the phrase ‘nine-tailed-cat’.
Fact of the Day: Every German Leopard tank during WW1 had a cat as a mascot. The Navy adopted this idea, which is why the Phrase "The boat's cat" came to be so popularpic.twitter.com/qkxj5HGla8
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Hence the phrase ‘ Put a tiger in your tank!’
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And I always thought that it was “Put a tiger on your tank - they’re Grrrrrrrrrrreat!”
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die Panzerkatze
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Is this why German tank design was so successful, they were given feline names, Leopard, Tiger etc? Whereas British tanks were called things like Spanner, Black Pudding or Soil.
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Or noisy, dirty, broken and smelly.
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They were taught obedience.
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Imagine the litter tray with the hatches closed
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