Felicette / 菲利切特

Felicette / 菲利切特 is the French space cat mentioned in 34.猫咪秘史：呵，愚蠢又可爱的人类. The episode places her near the end of a long cat-history arc, after granaries, temples, ships, wars, and polar expeditions, to show that 猫 also entered modern state science and space experimentation.

In the source, Felicette’s flight is described as a short 1960s rocket mission that survived the trip. The page records the episode’s role for her rather than making a full independent space-history claim: Felicette is the “space age” endpoint of 《猫咪秘史：从史前时期到太空时代》 and a reminder that animal usefulness can become scientific exposure as well as companionship.

Key Claims

• Felicette turns the cat-history narrative from premodern practical labor into modern experimental science.
• Her role sits uneasily between contribution, state prestige, and Animal Experiment Ethics.
• The episode uses her as evidence that cats were not culturally marginal even in the technological imagination.

Connections

• 猫 - central animal.
• Cat As Civilizational Infrastructure - modern science and state-technology endpoint.
• Animal Experiment Ethics and Scientific Public Spectacle - adjacent experiment and public-science frames.
• 《猫咪秘史：从史前时期到太空时代》 - source book frame.