by Linda Kay

British Pathé

Synopsis: Newsreel footage from in and about London focuses on animals faced with U.K.’s The Big Freeze of 1963. The footage shows the residents of Chessington Zoo coping with the snow among others.

Reality Cat: The first clip is of a black cat making their way through several inches of snow.

The narrator states, “But what’s the winter really like when the alley cat finds her favorite dustbin buried in a snowdrift? Would you call this a winter wonderland? This is the stuff that keeps the moths out of her fur coat. But just think of it . . . the snow is shoulder high to a cat.”

Final Mewsings: Cats probably don’t enjoy snow as much as we enjoy watching them walk through it.

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