Happy Year of the Cat

Happy Lunar New Year, and welcome to 2023, the Year of the Cat.

What's that you say?  You say it's actually the year of the rabbit.  And that there is no year of the cat.  And in fact, there's a whole legend to explain why the cat got left out of the zodiac--the mouse tricked the cat by telling him to come on the wrong day, and thus the cat got didn't get a year appointed to him, and that's why cats have been chasing mice ever since.

Ahh.... you're thinking about China, Japan and Korea.  In Vietnam, this is the Year of the Cat.

As I explained in this Interesting Random Fact post: The Chinese Zodiac and the Cat