Cats...

Cats are very regal animals, and their presence keeps the household magnificently rodent free. While my parents' old female was still with us, their yard was littered with corpses of dead rats, who couldn't get anywhere near our house, before she'd terminate them with extreme prejudice. The money we spent on deworming her every 6 or so months was well worth it, because not a creature was stirring while she stood guard. Not to mention, the most loyalty I've ever gotten from anyone, I got from that cat. They're very affectionate creatures (females at least) if you just firmly demonstrate to them that you're standing in their corner.

And compare to now: No longer a cat owner, and now I have a fucking rat nesting in my roof structures, and here I am, thinking "What the fuck am I gonna do to get rid of that little bastard?". Oh yeah, cats have their place in the grand scheme of things. Trust me, you don't want them gone.

 

Alternative to a cat: the furby

The group of furbies in the video sounds like one of those U.S. TV talk shows that has about five hosts all talking over each other at the same time.

 

Hey, don't use such phrases in a PR thread.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why PR doesn't like cats.

 

Because they're highly comical for one thing. You can develop such a relationship with a cat, too, a very deep bond. I know we seem playful and non-chalant, but there is a helper there behind the wonderfully claws and fangs.

 

You have been ignoring the cats, Pressed Rat. We have things to show you.

 

Some don't like cats BECAUSE they are independent and not slobbering, needy, attention grabbing "children," as dogs often are. Cats can't be ordered around, a trait which can't be tolerated by controllers.

I do like dogs for their intelligence, bravery and loyalty. I just tend to look askance at those that claim to "not like cats."

 

I worked at an animal shelter that developed a mouse problem. It had never occurred to them before I got there to let a few of our cats out over night without paying an exterminator who kept failing. Because the shelter was close to open fields it was pretty hard to stop. It's better for the cat then a small cage. They really are small tigers.

 

Anyone that doesn't like cats or dogs says much more about them than the animal. Its always better to know how someone feels (upfront) also..it helps in dealing with said person.

Many many cats walk in the figure 8 / testing your balance position on the way to be fed. Its not uncommon. I always laugh at mine, as I walk on and talk to them. lol To me that is their way of interacting, to a certain degree, whereas they often just don't have anything to "talk about" or they are otherwise occupied.

I love dogs...AND much to the chagrin of fools that know nothing of taking care of a cat...my dog actually required much less work in the end that cats!

My dog always went outside to do his business and we went on out walks and that was all he worried me for. lol Cats will want a million things an hour...well not an hour but you know...and then they are undecided as to Just What It Is they Really Want.

I also LOVE LOVE LOVE deeply my cats....only my son being ahead of them in importance to me. That's just the way it is. Really its the boy and one cat and on maybe one equal to the cat.

edit: how could I forget??? Dogs DO NOT have litter pans!!!! That is 100 + for good things and pro points for a dog. A cat, much less multiple cats...dealing with a litter pan is a MUST many times per week, dealing with this IS AWFUL...

 

our cats always went outside. but then we didn't live in a city. i've also lived with in the house only cats, that had to have one (or more). rabbits smell worse. much worse.
had a friend who had house rabbits. seriously. house rabbits. well they meant well. pet skunks can be less of a problem.
never knew anyone who had a fox though. i've heard they're all of everything both cat and dog.
then there's ferrets, and then there's reptiles. oh and mice. and relatives of mice, that are way too shy, but mostly not too difficult.

 

We don't let ours out, they always get hit by a car. The small town just a mile from us has mean spirited people in it, they will swerve and run over them for fun.

 

Almost all cats we had in my youth died on the road in front of our house. A lot would reach a decent age but sooner or later they crossed that road at the wrong time. I don't blame any driver. Hitting the brakes at 80 kmph or pulling the steering wheel for a cat on a road where that's the average speed is asking for bigger problems.

 

I ran over my own cat a block from my house once. I didnt know it was mine, I went home and waited on my brother to help me move the body off the road and find the owner and when we went back it turned out I was the owner. That was depressing.

 

When my girl was nine, she had a favorite kitten, gray and white. I pulled in the garage after dark, felt I'd ran over something. I'd seen two other kittens in the headlights inside the garage.
After we got out, we realized it was her kitty. I've never heard my girl scream like that before or since, and I felt like hiding in a hole...She wrote me a note later telling me not to feel so bad, it was an accident and it was ok. I felt worse about it than she did...my cruel wife was grinning about it...(bitch!!)
So glad she's someone else's headache now! (the ex).

 

That's awful! I had a friend once who actually tried to run a cat over. It was night time and we actually hit the cat. He was mean to cats though. I've always loved them. In fact we had two at the time of the incident. I didn't know what to say. I was like 17 or so. Really awful experience.

Anyway, I'm sorry that happened with your cat.

 

Somewhere in the world is a group of Cannibals, that have the perfect recipe for you too.

 

Is it a stew? I hope it's a stew. Seems like that would be a good meal to be. Warm and cozy--it'd be like soaking in a hot tub.

 

That pic of Alf is funny, but I think there are Danish people who actually cook up cats or something. Someone in my Cultural Anthropology class presented something about this in front of the class, but I only caught the tail end of his presentation. It seems really barbaric considering how friendly domestic cats can be, but I don't want to seem ethnocentric. To each there own. And it's possible I have the story wrong. Most likely though the cats in question weren't someone's domestic pets.

 

They will eat cats and dogs in Asia also.
Was talking to a Korean lady on another forum once, said she'd love to cook my cat...good eating...
I told her she'd have to deal with my (then) 14yo girl over that one. She said "never mind, I'm know not to get in a tussle with a 14yo girl over her cat!

 

Jesus that is awful. I wonder if he grew up to be a serial killer