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Posted on 10/16/2016 8:59:39 AM PDT by heterosupremacist
“Medieval people may have wanted to restrict cats to the function of animated mousetraps, for the very reason that the cat “stands at the threshold between the familiar and the wild.”
“Cats were intruders into human society. They could not be owned. They entered the house by stealth, like mice, and were suffered because they kept the insufferable mice in check.” This causes a kind of conceptual tension. While the cat possesses the characteristics of a good hunter it is useful, “but as long as it does it remains incompletely domesticated.”
Heretics, too, in a transferred sense, are not completely domesticated, since by challenging orthodox thought and roaming freely hither and thither in their interpretation of religious beliefs they resemble the bestiary definition of wildness. As symbolic animals, them cats may be the heretical animal par excellence”
(Excerpt) Read more at aleteia.org ...
My typos and incoherent posts are due to cats tip toeing across the keyboard and pacing in front of the screen. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Yesterday, one of the feral kitties decided to relax on the printer and watch me intently. They may never be domesticated enough to be petted but they’re coming inside to eat, cat nap on recliner and slept on the couch the past two nights. But don’t look at them or they’ll scatter.
We’ve done pretty much the same things (including giving up on furniture). Our current cat will go out on the covered porch but never any further. She’s gotten pretty old as a result.
Is that how the Cathars got their name?
Nowadays, we call them hipsters.
PS Heretic Cats actually is the name of a band.
Actually I’m macro agressing the idiot....go big or go home
Very possible... modern veterinary medicine made cats much more acceptable as house pets.
Toxoplasmosis gondii
Hey! Hey! Hey!
This is a family friendly site.
You save that kind of dirty talk for over by the sink in the laboratory.
Kevin D. Lafferty (2006). Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 273 (1602), 2749-2755 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3641
...and...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/220113-sneaky-cat-parasite-takes-over-human-brains-science/
...beware the Liberal mind...
When learning English as a second language, it is imperative to know that the phrases “house cat” and “cat house” are not interchangeable.
yeah. The last two cats we had that died were 21 and 18. They just expired in their sleep. Still miss ‘em.
I understand.
I read an article the other day that said in the early years of the plague people thought cats were carriers and turned against cats. Later it was believed rats and mice were actual carriers, if so they truly cut their nose off to spite their face by getting rid of cats in large numbers.
Some researchers now do not believe the plague was carried by rats, mice, or cats. They seem to think it spread to rapidly and was more likely person to person.
I have a 4 month old infant at home, and can report that I have caught the cats attempting to steal her breath, and thus maybe her soul, several times.
And you lived to write about it?.....I LIVED TO HAVE MANY OF THE GIRLS CALL THEIR PRIESTS TO GET ME BACK!
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Read that during the time of the Black Death there was a mini-ice age the caused the rat population to move in closer to humans.
Cats choose their ‘owners’.
Who really never ‘own’ them...............
I eat cats.
What planet am I from?
5.56mm
Weird day for resurrected threads as far as cat themes.
The reason people were afraid of cats...
Oddly ties in on the last verse of the Torah:
Deuteronomy 34:12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.
We have one called Toots. We have 3 cats, but Toots rules! And she knows it!
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