Wild Friday: Rocket Cats!

Gunpowder plus small animal = bad idea!
Gunpowder plus small animal = bad idea!

A 16th century German prince once considered using rocket cats against the Turks!  This impractical idea was presented by artillery master Franz Helm of Cologne at a time when gunpowder was changing warfare.

Read about the debunking of these Rocket Cats from this AP story.  Do you believe them? Or was Cat Scratch Fever launched across the Bosphorus?