Talk:Cat's paw

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Cats Portal This article is supported by the Cats WikiProject. This project provides a central approach to Cat-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the Project's quality scale. Please rate the article and then leave a short summary here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.

[edit] Manipulation, not torture!

(Lifted from the article:) "The Cat's Paw, an oil painting by Sir Edwin Landseer, depicting a cat being tortured by a monkey. <!-- Seriously. Why, who knows? -->"

I know why; the monkey is not actually torturing the cat but manipulating it to literally get the chestnuts out of the fire, referring to the fable The Monkey and the Cat by Jean de la Fontaine. That fable also spawned the expression the cat's paw for "dupe".

At last, all those years at Oxbridge not spent in vain! ;-) Maikel 20:41, 25 February 2006 (UTC)