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Can Cats Eat Cheese?

Can Cats Eat Cheese? Sure they can, We, Zarathustra the Cat answer on this very important question. Here is the evidence, the original version of the famous Dutch Still Life with Cheeses by Floris van Dijck painted at 17th century:

Floris van Dijck, Still Life with Cheeses and Cats

Floris van Dijck, Still Life with Cheeses and Cats

The known version of the masterpiece is to be found at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and at the museum site you can explore the painting in details. and imagine how tasty all this delicious food was. (By the way, in this museum one can find also the cloth covering this table.) Look how lonely are theese cheeses without cats!

Floris van Dijck, Still Life with Cheeses

Floris van Dijck, Still Life with Cheeses, but without cats. From Rijksmuseum collection

While working over the masterpiece,  the painter was too concentrated that didn’t shut a door to his studio. Cheese odour was so strong that it called for a very large ginger cat from the dark. Another cat is arriving, blinking its eyes, eager to share delicious food. When Floris van Dijck made another brush stroke and returned from canvas to table, he cought such a scene:

Флорис Ван Дейк, Натюрморт с сырами и котами

Флорис Ван Дейк, Натюрморт с сырами и котами, деталь

Does anybody doubt that itis true story?

Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat
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