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Outdoor Cats Are Using $500 Starlink Satellite Dishes as Self-Heating Beds
Smithsonian Magazine ^ | 14 Jan 2022 | Margaret Osborne

Posted on 01/15/2022 4:25:50 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

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To: Slings and Arrows

Thanks, S&A!

Some great pics! <3

‘Face

;o]


41 posted on 01/16/2022 5:19:28 AM PST by Monkey Face ( ~~ Keep calm and watch British murder mysteries on TV ~~ Facebook )
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To: ptsal

Yes, of course. I was dumbfounded. Twas a little black long-nosed beady-eyed dead mouse-thingy.


42 posted on 01/16/2022 6:00:32 AM PST by waterhill (Resist)
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To: Magnum44

Our Townes killed our Roomba. It could not hold his weight. He lives on bologna and cheese.


43 posted on 01/16/2022 6:03:35 AM PST by waterhill (Resist)
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To: waterhill

We are apex/alpha hunter/killers, but we love some bologna and cheese...


44 posted on 01/16/2022 6:24:17 AM PST by waterhill (Resist)
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To: Jamestown1630

—” I already know my cat’s ‘self-heating’ bed.

It’s ME.”

Our Australian Sheperd will warm the bed for us beforehand but doesn’t like to move once she has a good spot.

We have a large and comfortable couch, a good option over moving a 62-pound brick.


45 posted on 01/16/2022 7:58:47 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Bobalu

—”I’m in my late sister’s enormous farmhouse. It can cost as much as 800.00/mo to heat this whole place so I just heat one large bedroom upstairs with a space heater and stay there.”

We live in a hundred-year-old farmhouse, not that big and over the years add all new windows and LOTS of insulation plus an Ultra 95% efficient boiler... and my wife and personally installed miles of PEX tubing for heated floors.

But still, cool at night.

A friend knowing that I make felted wool quilts that look similar, sent me this link:
https://okanarts.com/blogs/blog/hot-water-bottle

I tried one, liked it so much I gave them out for Christmas!

Some were the Japanese ones as shown and some antique copper ones from ebay most of them for less than $25 delivered but need polishing. A grode one for $14 delivered!

Fill from a teapot or set directly on a gas burner, with LID OFF.

They stay HOT all night long, using a thermocouple and remote meter... Starting at 9PM @ 190 F. degrees @7AM 127 F.
The next morning!!!

And all of them were used the last couple of nights!!!


46 posted on 01/16/2022 8:46:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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bfl


47 posted on 01/16/2022 8:48:49 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Magnum44

Oh James is my milk warmed yet.


48 posted on 01/16/2022 9:14:39 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Jamestown1630

LOL! I here ya. Four cats. As soon as the temps get cooler, they magically appear sleeping in bed, two on either side of Hubby, and two on either side of me. Hard to turn over — don’t want to disturb the cats, of course.


49 posted on 01/16/2022 9:19:28 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: Daffynition

Aw. It’s so sad to see so many strays. I hope some organization has come in to TNR as many as possible.


50 posted on 01/16/2022 9:20:50 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
"Outdoor cats"?

I guess the cats objected to being called "stray" or "feral."

51 posted on 01/16/2022 9:24:28 AM PST by x
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To: MayflowerMadam

“two on either side of me”

Mine do that, too. They makes me feel like Gulliver in Lilliput.


52 posted on 01/16/2022 10:14:03 AM PST by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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To: Monkey Face

My pleasure.


53 posted on 01/16/2022 10:23:46 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | http://mewe.com/i/hopalongginsberg)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Some parts of the world, this is commonplace. What was it Bob Barker always said?


54 posted on 01/16/2022 12:33:31 PM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I have no problem disturbing Jimmy. I pick him up, throw him onto a pillow at my husband’s feet, and get into bed.

Within seconds he has migrated to slam himself against me, and then it’s a battle to turn over all night.

Cats demand what they perceive to be their rights, and they have no concept of what ‘No!’ or ‘Bad! mean. They just look at you, dismiss you, and continue on with what they were doing.

You can shame a dog, but you can never shame a cat. The concept just doesn’t register in their little walnut brains.


55 posted on 01/16/2022 9:11:05 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

“Cats demand what they perceive to be their rights, and they have no concept of what ‘No!’ or ‘Bad! mean.”

LOL! I’m pretty sure they KNOW what the words mean. They just don’t CARE. Such attitude.


56 posted on 01/17/2022 2:40:01 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: Jamestown1630

Last night one of ours went woke.

Said she didn’t want to be called a ‘’cat’’ anymore.

Said from now on she wants to be known as a ‘’Feline-American’’.


57 posted on 01/17/2022 3:41:46 PM PST by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: jmacusa

Cats represent the epitome of opportunism.

They don’t care about politics or social trends. They go with whatever works for THEM, at any moment :-)

(By the way: If there are any carpenters around here who know how to repair clawed-up woodwork around doors, I’d appreciate a clue. Ours discovered over the past year that it’s a good way to wake us up and get us out of bed in the early morning .)


58 posted on 01/17/2022 7:51:03 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Ezekiel; ptsal
But the swimming pool was open. Thanks mom


59 posted on 01/18/2022 5:37:04 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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