My 7 month old kitten is pushing his luck these days. If he doesn't stop biting me I may have to cash in some of his lives! (Little bastard is just playing I know, but I've got wounds all over my hands and up both arms! AND my feet! He's super sweet the rest of the time. He's asleep between my knees right now.)
Why the extra lives? In Norway, it's probably due to their excellent social systems. For the US, we took Mexico's extras in the 1840s. As for Britain? They probably took the extras from Greece and the Middle East for a museum. Russia took some from Poland after WWII, and gave Poland some of Germany's as compensation. ;)
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