Pirate Cats

   After finding no "Sea Dogs" as it has been described, I set off in search for pirate cats instead. I thought I would find fewer hits than my searches for pirate dogs. I had forgotten that this was the internet. If there are two things the internet loves, it's cats and piracy. If there are three things the internet loves... but we won't go there. (Actually, given the subject matter, there was a surprising lack of that.) Aside from the name of a defunct SF radio station (now (apparently) called Mutiny Radio,) "Pirate Cat" could refer to

• Growltiger (natch,)
• Captain Amelia from Treasure Planet (double natch... though, wait, wasn't she not a pirate?)
• J-Lo's character in Ice Age (much better,)
• YouTube's punishing of copyright offenders (they use... well, a pirate cat, apparently,)
• Captain Spangles, the cross-eyed pirate cat,
• Captain Stumpy the Pirate Cat by Jeremy Bliven,
• Captain Jeb, Pirate Cat by Meg Ellen Grandfield and Meg G. DeMakas,
• The Adventures of Peter the Pirate Cat: Light and Shadow by Michiel Van Rompaey and Nanoeshka Vervoort,
• more memes than you can shake a stick at,
• more t-shirt designs than you can shake a stick at,
• just enough tumblrs and deviantarts for you to be able to shake a stick at,
• SPANC (Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls... yeah.)
• some dog-crushing, hot-air balloon-riding villains in an episode of American Dad,
• The Black Cat Pirates, a pirate crew of pirates who pirate from pirate anime/manga One Piece,
• that character from Last Unicorn I had totally forgotten about,
• Pirate Cat Adventure, a Japanese point-and-click adventure game,
• the flash game Pirate Cat with Broken Leg,
• an iPhone game,
• an entirely unrelated Windows Phone game,
• and Captain Claw, a classic platform game for PC about a pirate cat captain who searches the seven seas for all pieces of the fabled Amulet of Nine Lives, which has been rumored to grant near immortality, which is... which is just... which is kinda... well, frig. 

   Well, umm... Let's see here... Anthropomorphic dogs and cats... piracy... yep, yep... Cocker Spaniards, ha! I wish I had thought of that... Granted nine lives...

   Okay, so it looks like they've also got tigers and bears, (and it looks like the final boss Omar is a lion...) And Red Tail is a bull and Aquatis is a giant frog... thing. So, that's different; not just cats and dogs but all kinds of critters. And I think the concept of the Amulet of Nine Lives is different enough from the Pieces of Eight. That's good.

   And aside from that there were a whooole bunch of drawings of pirate cats, mostly on deviantART (surprisingly not as hot a topic for furry fen-exclusive image boards as you'd think.) Anyway, I seriously think that I looked at all of them. All the pirate cat drawings, on the whole of the internet. Okay, maybe not all pirate cat drawings on the internet. But, maybe even 90%+. And I spent all that time looking at them, so darn it if I'm not going to share some of my favorites. It's coming up.