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My cousin asked my sister if that's my cats Koda and Lilly she found on the cover of a book (top left). Today I received these two copies in the mail directly from the publisher. Such a nice gesture. (lemmy.nz)

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High res pic I took six years ago:

The card reads: Warmest greetings from the DuMont publishing house. Have fun reading it!

The cover reads: Help, my cat is broken! 200 cats going beyond their limits

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[-] pixelmeow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I also thought that, but then I remembered my Latin:

Kaput comes from the Latin for "head", caput. Knowing that but not knowing any German, my guess is because it looks like the cat's head is in the basket instead of on its neck :)

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kaputt means "broken" or "non-functional" in German, like: Die Tasse von meiner Oma ist mir heruntergefallen. Nun ist sie kaputt. (I dropped my granny's cup. It's broken now.)
Here, it looks like the head of the cat is broken off.