Posted on 10/01/2018 7:03:27 AM PDT by C19fan
PING!
I have a little sweetie pie cat who is my shadow (the one who keeps bringing me presents). She’s always watching everything I do and then tries to help. If I’m digging in the garden, she’s right there digging ... up the plants I put in the ground. When I’m picking up pecans and putting them in a bucket, she’s right there tossing pecans out of the bucket. I’ve had to set up a stool for her in the kitchen so she can supervise the cooking.
Her brother is beside me now telling me all about his morning adventures and giving kisses. He’s the one who decided to bring home their half siblings when their feral mama didn’t have enough milk. Smart and caring little guy.
PING!
Does it make the dog sick?
If not, in nature the dog might survive in situations that cat would not.
“that A cat would not”. Geez...
My cat is a bonehead.
I’ve never had a smart dog, unless it is a working dog, I prefer the dumb ones.
Just remember: You can make a cat do anything you want it to, if it happens to feel like it at the time!
I have only ever seen “indoor” cats chase a LASER. “Outdoor” cats ignore it.
Puking is for sure, but eating their poop is a sign that something’s wrong, not a lack of intelligence.
Often they eat their poop because something necessary is missing from their diet, with enzyme deficiency being a common cause.
Without necessary enzymes, food can’t be digested, causing indigestion and puking, and vital bodily functions can’t be accomplished fully, often resulting in inflammation and, over time, chronic disease.
Enzymes are vital, especially as we get older, but many enzymes are cooked and processed out of the foods we eat and feed to our animals,
Or drink out of the toilet bowl.
Me either, until my current cat.
Hmmm, interesting observation. I will have to test that one. ;)
Love that little loop. Cats can obsess with the best of ‘em.
My parrot speaks English, in context, not imitation. Some have huge vocabularies. Dogs and cats? Nope.
A buddy and I worked over the crow population in part of a township over the course of two years (give or take), having to change some practices now and then to put them off their guard. They picked up on human trickery fast. Hunting them became a long-range-only proposition to achieve even moderate success, and we all tired of it.
After a few years' hiatus, I went out there by myself and I swear those birds knew it was one of the two @$$#*!&s back in town... and they cussed at me from just out of range of the handgun I was carrying. Never underestimate a crow.
Our latest cat - a shelter adoption - can be quite annoying (as in pushing our buttons), but he is nonetheless an affectionate little guy who figures things out very quickly. I'd put him up against the average dog any day of the week.
“A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing.”
— Ancient Greek poet Archilochus
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Did Archilochus ever say what the one thing the hedgehog knows it?
Bump
works like a charm
Isaiah Berlin wrote a short book "The Hedgehog and the Fox" which is an examination of the idea that a writer can have one consuming idea and see all aspects of the world through this one lens or else be a generalist with multiple ideas which may not line up into a cohesive system.
Plato is a hedgehog with one primary idea: This world is a shadow of an ideal and perfect world. Everything Plato had to say is a reflection on this concept.
Aristotle is a fox with diverse interests and many ideas on many topics (politics, rhetoric, nature, etc.) but not unifying system that explains all of these ideas in a cohesive manner.
Isaiah Berlin discusses Tolstoy at length, explaining that Tolstoy was a multifaceted individual with all of the talents needed by a fox. However, Tolstoy did not really respect such a diversity of approach in others. Tolstoy had all the respect in the world for individuals who had one really big idea. He wanted to be a hedgehog. But he wasn't.
NOTE: Isaiah Berlin's whole work is an explicit examination of the Archilochus quote. But I'm not sure Tolstoy knew the quote and he probably never said "I want to be a hedgehog". But Berlin reviewed Tolstoy's output through the lens of Archilochus, and concluded that Tolstoy struggled against his own primary characteristic and suffered for it.
But this thread is supposed to be about kitties and dogs.
Smiles. Our little gang help out in the garden as well but mostly play hide and Chase until someone gets too rough.
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