Prisoners (Temporary Discharge for Ill Health) Act 1913 was viewed as violating basic human rights, not only of the suffragettes but of other prisoners. The Act's nickname of "Cat and Mouse Act", referring to the way the government seemed to play with prisoners as a cat may with a captured mouse, underlined how the cruelty of repeated releases and re-imprisonments turned the suffragettes from targets of scorn to objects of sympathy. The Asquith government's implementation of the Act caused the militant WSPU and the suffragettes to perceive Asquith as the enemy — an enemy to be vanquished in what the organisation saw as an all-out war. A related
Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse "The Alvin Show." Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse is a children's cartoon television show that was produced by Trans-Artists Productions and syndicated by Tele Features Inc. in 1960. The characters were created by Bob Kane as a spoof of his earlier creations, Batman and Robin. In many ways, "Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse" presages the "campier" aspects of the later "Batman" live action series, which William Dozier and Howie Horwitz produced as a villain-driven action-comedy lampoon. In the animated series, the pair are anthropomorphic animal superheroes without known secret identities (the green-eyed caped crimefighter and