Our ad-related inane topic for the bank holiday weekend is: cats. I'm a cat person myself; in the words of Roger Moore from the 1979 movie North Sea Hijack: "I like cats--and I don't like people who don't", though long-suffering gf is a dog person so I'd better make an exception in her case.
Dogs seem to feature more than cats in TV adverts (e.g. the Andrex puppy), probably for good reason when it comes to working with them. But how about this "herding cats" advert?
While we're doing things cat-related, here's a product that should perhaps be marketed: the cat wheel. And here's one that perhaps shouldn't: the electric wheelchair for cats. Reminds me of Davros and I'm not convinced that moggy has any control over it whatsoever...
Incidentally, Churchill was a cat person and Hitler was a dog person. Perhaps that says something about their respective characters / leadership styles and deserves a Channel Five documentary, "Hitler and Churchill: the pets". Churchill's will stipulates that a ginger cat called Jock must always be kept at his house at Chartwell (the original Jock was on his bed when he died in 1965). Mussolini hated cats but Roosevelt had a six-toed silver tabby called Slippers. So maybe there's something in this WW2-leaders-and-their-pets perspective...
