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An orange tabby cat named Suki became the first honorary feline graduate of The University of Texas at Austin. According to FOX 7, UT student Francesca Bourdier spent most of her college career at home like any other college student, on Zoom with her cat by her side.

Bourduer said Suki attended every class she had online so she knew she had to include the one-and-a-half-year-old cat when graduation came around.

Through a quick search online, Bourdier was even able to buy Suki her own cap and gown.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Imagine being 40 and still paying off your dead cats student loans

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I support this

[–] LillyPip 2 points 1 month ago

Grim, but relatable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whoops, wrong spot for reply.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Was this an expedited degree? The cat is only a year and a half old. I think this might be fraud.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It only attended lectures, but did no tests or quizzes? Even if it negotiated pass/fail grades on attendance and not exams, the degree should probably have stipulations requiring some number of credits be from letter grades.

At best, this cat was auditing classes. I do not believe it earned this degree and I would not hire it in the field based on it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find these statements discriminatory and have decided it's best we make sure they vote this cat to be Governor of Texas.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Cat's overqualified for that position.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems the owner is selling fashion on Instagram and training to be a Pilates teacher. Maybe the degree wasn't that expansive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

A cat teaching Pilates? I thought it was an MBA or something, but this no longer sounds believable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Maybe an Associate degree?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

How did that cat even get through admissions?! I smell a bribery scandal.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gets college degree, remains an unemployed leech.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Unemployed by choice I guess

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

That cat refused to wear that cap lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

oh that's where all the braincells went

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember the lawyer who said he wasn't a cat?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

OMG I hate these fake headlines. The cat can't graduate. She only audited the classes.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's true! The cat's already got recruiters putting job offers in her inbox.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Her inbox is also her outbox, though

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We had a black lab graduate yesterday!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why you got to bring race into it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Another DEI graduate 🙄

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plot twist: the cat did most of the actual work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

It was all in ventinary science and mouse psychology

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

What a smart kitten

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"University" of "Texas" (derogatory)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Doctor of Divinity degree

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, can you graduate from uni just by turning up? No exams?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Cats have pretty privilege in levels humanity can't reach.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Aw what an adorable way to get easy publicity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm unable to get the jokes about orange cats and low braincell count. My orange cat is a genius.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've met both, but they often tend to towards the idiot side of the spectrum.

Have a Russian blue who probably has a novel solution to fermats last theorem though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't get that either - is it a blond thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

I don't think so. Probably a trend that started from some biased material that went viral.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I support this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Suki will be the least annoying UT Austin grad ever

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Imagine applying for a job and having a cat get the job instead of you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Better temperament than me by far I’d wager

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That erudite-looking sonofabitch!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Funny if the cat was called Desmond.

Not sure if it's the same across the pond but in the UK a 'Desmond' is the score 2.2

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Wait until his student loans come due

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

'graduates' is how they wrote it. I hope they honoured a bunch of students for their actual accomplishments.