The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies is having a cat moment this spring, launching a series of awareness and adoption events with the Just for Cats Internet video festival. It kicks off Thursday in Toronto at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, with subsequent stops from Charlottetown to Vancouver (visit justforcats.ca for details). We here at National Post Arts Life are cat people, so in honour of the festival, we’re taking a 360-degree look at the role of felines in wellness, music and culture. Follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #justforcats. Who needs the Easter bunny when there are cats? Meowwr.

Queen frontman Freddie Mercury so loved his feline friends that he dedicated one of the last songs he ever wrote, Delilah, from the album Innuendo, to this furry friend. Now that’s a legacy. The National Post’s David Berry, who refuses to like Instagram photos of cats on principle and pretends that he didn’t receive emails from friends asking him to cat-sit, very eagerly and excitedly and with no bitterness whatsoever sifts through the litter box to investigate the depth of Mercury’s feelings. 

Reading suggestion: Listen to Delilah below, then scroll down to follow along with the lyrics.