Cats who balance babies' cradles in floods - updated

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 'The Inundation of The Biesbosch in 1421" "Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted [the top image] in the 1800s, after a true story from 1421 when a flood carried off a cat and a cradle. The cat jumped from side to side on the cradle to keep it upright..." John Everett Millais: 'A Flood', 1870 Images found at My Own Thoughts , via A Polar Bear's Tale [as of 2016, both sources have…