--- title: Someone Photocopying Cat at University of Wisconsin Madison Library description: And they're leaving copies sitting around canonical: https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-18T17:47:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:32.673Z og:title: Someone Keeps Photocopying Their Cat at the University of Wisconsin Library og:description: And they're leaving copies sitting around og:url: https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Someone Keeps Photocopying Their Cat at the University of Wisconsin Library twitter:description: And they're leaving copies sitting around twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Someone Keeps Photocopying Their Cat at the University of Wisconsin Library ## Video: Inside New York's First Cat Cafe [Watch (HLS stream): Inside New York's First Cat Cafe](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8) (1:49)  _Published 2014-12-12. Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 18, 2015 5:47 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 18, 2015 5:47 PM UTC College campuses are full of mysteries, and there’s a major one developing right now at the University of Wisconsin. Somebody has allegedly been using one of the campus libraries to photocopy a cat. But so far, nobody knows who is doing this. A staffer at the university’s _Badger Herald_ newspaper [stumbled upon](https://badgerherald.com/news/2015/03/17/who-is-photocopying-their-cat-at-steenbock-library/) the following photo while studying at the Steenbock Library Tuesday: > [](https://twitter.com/SleepAmy/status/578011938183110657) Apparently, these photos have been spotted several times at Steenbock, which is the library for agriculture and life sciences, human ecology and, wait for it, veterinary medicine. So maybe this mysterious photocopier is actually doing this for some kind of research purpose. So far, it looks like only one person has been committing this strange act — but there could be some _copycat crimes_ soon. _Read next:_ [_See Firefighters Resuscitate Unconscious Cats_](http://time.com/3747859/oregon-firefighters-cats/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/"},"headline":"Someone Keeps Photocopying Their Cat at the University of Wisconsin Library","datePublished":"2015-03-18T17:47:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:32.673Z","description":"And they're leaving copies sitting around","url":"https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/","name":"Someone Keeps Photocopying Their Cat at the University of Wisconsin Library"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside New York's First Cat Cafe","description":"Meet the cats of NYC's first cat cafe, Meow Parlour, and hear more about the growing trend of paying to play with cats from the cafe's two owners.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/0MiiFeak/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-12T19:30:27.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/0MiiFeak.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/","duration":"PT1M49S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3749329/photocopy-cat-university-of-wisconsin-library/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```