Hi, Anton Shepelev!
I read your message from 23.06.2019 23:24

 AS> As sure as sugar is sweet, for none else but Kipling wrote it. I
 AS> haven't read the original, but the Soviet animation is very clever
 AS> and not children at all at all:

 AS> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL7PSeN3SYU
 AS> (unfortunately no subtitles)

 AS> Kipling's cat is male whereas its Russian couterpart female,
 AS> probably because such cunning wisdom is here considered a feminine
 AS> trait.

Why the Russian counterpart is female? You can watch the cartoon on your URL
and hear that the cat talked as a male cat.

https://youtu.be/NL7PSeN3SYU?t=254

PS:
"Kipling's cat is male whereas its Russian counterpart IS female,"

Bye, Anton!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

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