Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Dumskii Al'manakh, 1905.

From The Judge, 1893.   See How to Be Your Own Cat.

You can still like dogs if you learn How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.

Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.

Here's a precusor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Cosmopolitan, 1909.

Here's a precursor to the David Bowie lyric about "putting out fire with gasoline" ("Cat People," 1982).  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.  Speaking of cat people, see How to Be Your Own Cat.

Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Le Rire, 1900.

Thanks to Steven Svymbersky, who praised our non-surgical method for How to Be Your Own Cat as "a scientific breakthrough."  Prove it to your own satisfaction, at Quimby's Bookstore in Brooklyn or at Amazon.

From Mocca, 1932.   Related: How to Be Your Own Cat.

This rather occult-looking rebus (in German) features a succubus who has apparently hearned how to be her own cat.  (See How to Be Your Own Cat.)  From Die Bühne, 1927.

"It brings the Panther Woman to the screen!"

A cat's eyes wax and wane with the moon.  From The Domestic Cat by Edward Howe Forbush, 1916.