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Is there a year of a cat?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Unless you count the tiger...then Nope! The cat was left off of the Chinese New Year. There is an old folk tale, which being lazy, I'll recount from Wikipedia:

"There is a folk story that describes how the animals were assigned to the cycle of years. A long long time ago, the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals together to assign each of them a year. When the cat heard the news, he let his friend the rat know about it and the two animals decided to go together the next day. However, the next day the rat did not wake the cat who, being a cat and loving to nap, slept through the morning. Therefore, the cat did not make it to the assembly on time and did not get a year. This is why there is no year of the cat and this is why cats hate rats. "
From wikipedia.org (see Related Links below)

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14y ago

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