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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The funny thing is that some medieval bricklayer made a conscious choice here, he could have put that brick paw-print down and made a flawless floor. Now, here we are getting a chuckle out of some unknown bricklayer's little gag centuries later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m also wondering if those are not fake prints. They look pretty deep. I don’t think a cat walking on drying bricks would leave such deep marks.

To me they look like easter eggs left by the brick layer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe they're deep because of water erosion from rains over a thousand years, those bricks look pretty polished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think the bricks are that old. Maybe a few hundred years or so

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As a cat owner, this doesn't even look like a real print. It's too deep. Most likely a manufactured print done as a gag by whoever made the bricks.