Comments on: It finally happened to me

By: GregH

GregH — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:07:46 +0000

BBD: “It was, and is, and evermore shalt be, about food!”

Indeed:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watch/pet-nile-monitor-lizards-turn-owner-in-victim/vi-AAh1TEs

(I picked this link because of the lurid fakery of the picture…)

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:13:56 +0000

As we pet owners know, “Dogs have masters; cats have servants.”

Excuse me, I’ve just been informed that I’m required to feed my little ones now…

By: Doug Alder

Doug Alder — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:09:46 +0000

Everyone who is owned by a cat knows they like to toy with your fear response while they plot your sudden death. Ever notice how the more precarious your balance is the more your precious tabby will try winding itself around your legs? Not a coincidence – case closed (I have to go feed my cats)

By: dean

dean — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:28:07 +0000

“However I do believe that a wee dram of aged, single malt scotch makes for time well spent!”

Indeed

By: BBD

BBD — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 08:53:27 +0000

Brainstorms #15

However, his quarry weren’t just freshly killed and presented to us as a gift, or encouragement to hunt ourselves.

I’m convinced this cat wanted to go to medical school or something to become an anatomist. He would carefully “disassemble” the corpses into parts: arms, legs, head, pelt, each internal organ, removed and separated… But not bloody.

What made it especially weird was that he would arrange the parts on the mat, everything arrayed in uniformly-spaced rows and columns. No kidding.

Mebbe the moggy was just saying: look, weird-eye idiot, I’ve unpicked this one for you – look at all the good and yummy shit there is in there. So stop wussing about and get some killing done like a proper cat!

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 02:25:28 +0000

Yeah, I meant to delete that line about going into my take on cats. It was unnecessary and peculiar. Which I guess you could also say of just about anything on TV. I have a knack for wasting time.

However I do believe that a wee dram of aged, single malt scotch makes for time well spent!

By: dean

dean — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:53:40 +0000

“I’m willing to go into my take on the whole cat thing depending on how this thread goes.”

No need (for me at least). It isn’t that I hate cats, I just am more than indifferent towards them. We had a few around the farm when I was a kid, but didn’t care for them then and have never had a hankering for them since.

Re the Big Bang: I’ve heard it’s good. It’s just that I don’t watch much television at all. Baseball, hockey (although both have been painful recently, since I prefer the Tigers and the Redwings), 3 regular shows, and the more than occasional (bad) monster movie on SCIFi. If I’m not busy with something here I prefer to be out roaming around, with dog or camera or both.

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:50:34 +0000

Ah! I’d forgotten about that — and rubbing balloons on the cat…

Which brings to mind this other thing that people do:
http://stuffonmycat.com/

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:34:33 +0000

In reply to Tyvor Winn. The "static" was a cat joke.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:13:36 +0000

#9: Long ago, a landlady of mine had a ginger cat (of course named “Morris”) who liked? to hunt…

More than once I would depart for work in the early morning, only to be greeted by a dead mouse or rat on the front mat. However, his quarry weren’t just freshly killed and presented to us as a gift, or encouragement to hunt ourselves.

I’m convinced this cat wanted to go to medical school or something to become an anatomist. He would carefully “disassemble” the corpses into parts: arms, legs, head, pelt, each internal organ, removed and separated… But not bloody.

What made it especially weird was that he would arrange the parts on the mat, everything arrayed in uniformly-spaced rows and columns. No kidding.