APAD: Who will bell the cat?

Belling the Cat is a fable also known under the titles The Bell and the Cat and The Mice in Council. In the story, a group of mice agree to attach a bell to a cat's neck to warn of its approach in the future, but they fail to find a volunteer to perform the job. The term has become an idiom describing a group of persons, each agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task under the misapprehension that someone else will be chosen to run the risks and endure the hardship of actual accomplishment.

Although often attributed to Aesop, it was not recorded before the Middle Ages and has been confused with the quite different fable of Classical origin titled The Cat and the Mice. In the classificatory system established for the fables by B. E. Perry, it is numbered 613, which is reserved for Mediaeval attributions outside the Aesopic canon.

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• haha,haveTried b4, butMaowi theCat wouldFreeze if wear aBelt -最西邊的島上- ♀ (98 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 10:15:37

• what about a bell? Bell is helpful for tiny kittens, -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 10:18:48

• they run at your feet, bells alert them being stepped -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 10:20:31

• true,butMaowi refused anything on hisBody, even 3monthOld -最西邊的島上- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 10:38:55

• There should be a brave mouse available：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 11:21:32

• That's what every mouse thinks :-))) -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 12:56:58

• That is a true hero：） -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 13:10:09

• Hahaha! Reminds me of "老鼠怕貓，那是謠傳." -7grizzly- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 12:56:11

• 哈哈哈， 有一次公司遇到緊急情況，老板抓人解決每個人都倒退一步，我反應慢半拍被留在最前麵，成了那個bell cat的老鼠 -移花接木- ♂ (0 bytes) () 06/01/2024 postreply 17:05:19