Posted on 04/13/2019 9:47:21 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Play Led Zep's Immigrant Song and see if they like it.
Vikings used cats to hunt Sporkweasels.
And to this day you will find nary a Sporkweasel in Norway!
Viking Kitties!
I’m always wondering what happened to that guy who used to post a logo of a viking.
Who was that? Where did he go?
Some people say, animals kill to eat. That’s not nearly true. Many hunt for sport. Watch dogs, cats, wolves, people, and others. I don’t know where my cats heritage came from but when they are on the hunt something’s going down.
I don’t remember him... Posted a logo of a Viking?... No, I definitely don’t remember anyone like that. I’ve seen a lot of Viking kitties here, but not so many Vikings.
Doesn't that count for something?!
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Haha, that’s good. I have two Norwegian Forest cats, my 4th and 5th, as my first three have passed on two years ago. Anyway I will try to figure out how to post pictures here. We definitely need a new ongoing beautiful cats thread. :^ ) I do post my cats on Instagram @felineforests
The most amazing breed of cats!
Some blamed the Black Plague on Europeans who the thought cats were connected to witches and the Devil and killed them. That allowed rats to flourish and the fleas they carried spread the Plague.
That is an anti catholic lie repeated by those who should know better. The few reports of cat killing were sporadic, not general, and do not fit the time line.
The plague epidemic was also killing a lot of folks in Muslim lands, Hindu India and in China.
The main witch craze was after the reformation so could not have caused the black death to spread 200 years earlier.
Finally, Rats are also hunted by barnowls, snakes and dogs.
They thrive in garbage, and medieval cities were like third world cities today, but worse because of horse manure was there too.
I have heard that bandied about for years, I’m 67. But cats have fleas too sometimes and they are all over everything you own if you let them in your house. So fewer cats may mean more rats, but I don’t see lack of cats adding to the epidemic. The cleanliness and hygiene sucked back then. I keep my 3 for mouse control and fortunately where I live now there aren’t many four legged rats. I have seen rats the size of some cats. A good bullet works on them and on the two legged kind too.
the cats here in the Philippines kill birds and mice, but yes, the rats are huge, the size of a small cat. But our Labrador kills them...
but mainly we have to rely on periodic rat poison, which is dangerous and we have to watch out that the dogs don’t eat it.
guns will work, but the problem is you don’t see them: We will only see one or two rats, but after the rat poison works, we sometimes collect eight or ten huge dead rats.
Agreed. We shot the rats at the city dump at night with a light years ago. They are hard to get rid of for sure. Poison always worries me, and I feed the cats enough they are not hunting for any reason but that it’s what they do. I feed birds and I don’t want them hurting them. They still do sometimes, but I’m hoping they’re being slowed down some.
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