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Viking cats: Travelling the high seas helped felines conquer the world
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Posted on 09/24/2016 3:23:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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09/24/2016 3:23:08 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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09/24/2016 3:24:10 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Viking Cat Fritters is still a very popular dish in many countries visited by Vikings.
To: BenLurkin
Beware Viking kitties!
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:27:46 PM PDT
by
neefer
(Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run.)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:29:01 PM PDT
by
PROCON
("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
To: BenLurkin
Cats are domesticated!?
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:32:20 PM PDT
by
The Westerner
(Will Free Republic exist when ICANN controls the web?)
To: The Westerner
Cats are not domesticated.
Cats are domesticators (of inferior species like humans)
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:33:37 PM PDT
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faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
To: Snickering Hound
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:35:23 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Ancestors of Maine coon cats.
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:37:28 PM PDT
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MUDDOG
To: BenLurkin
The reason for cats being with humans is simple.
They were natural hunters, still are as anyone with an indoor/outdoor cat can attest to. When humans started early agriculture having ready stores of grain attracts rodents, ie kitty cat food.
Food chain; grain, mice, cats. See, we’ve been working for cats all along. They have us properly domesticated.
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:37:58 PM PDT
by
PittsburghAfterDark
(The American media: We do what the Soviet media did without the guns to our head.)
To: BenLurkin
My paternal grandfather ran away from Ireland before 1900, joining the merchant marine and traveled the world. Still had some sailing vessels then as I recall him saying. All had cats on board, for rat patrol no doubt.
Dad said they always had cats at home growing up, grandfather loved them. Took him a while to warm to dogs.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
09/24/2016 3:58:44 PM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: BenLurkin
Felines invented catamarans. (That’s why they call them that.) They discovered Catalonia and Catistrono. (Why do you think the swallows leave? They call them swallows because that’s what happens to them.) If you read the tuna cat food it says, “a cat’s natural food.” They fish with one paw in the water. Then, there was a catastrophic storm. It was a cat 9. After that cats gave up the sea, but left us with a system for describing the severity of storms.
Incidentally, here is a fun fact to amaze your friends. Catatonic is a condition caused by catnip and beer.
To: faithhopecharity
When you feed and shelter a dog it thinks “Wow. You do all this for me! You’re a God!’’. You feed and shelter a cat and it thinks “You do all this for me, I’m a God!’’.
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09/24/2016 4:17:50 PM PDT
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jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: doorgunner69
“Dad said they always had cats at home growing up, grandfather loved them. Took him a while to warm to dogs.”
But,but what about Great Dane tea cup puppy love dogs?? Great to share cold nights with.
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09/24/2016 4:19:58 PM PDT
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libstripper
(oHillary is willing to risk her own life to protect her secretive nature. She would rather go to her)
To: jmacusa
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09/24/2016 4:27:22 PM PDT
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faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
To: BenLurkin
Cats were worshipped as gods by the Egyptians. Cats have never forgotten this, as evidenced by their behavior.
To: PittsburghAfterDark
I’ve read that cats consider us to be useful domestic animals.
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09/24/2016 5:17:42 PM PDT
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Moonman62
(Make America Great Again!)
To: BenLurkin
We just need the money," she said.No you don't. It's not that complicated. Humans toss out food scraps or they have grains for their livestock which bring in rodents. Cats wander up and see free food. They associate food with humans. They move in with humans and don't leave their easily had food source.
Same principle aboard ships. Cats kept the rodents, bugs and other creepy crawlies in check for the humans. A win-win.
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09/24/2016 5:50:51 PM PDT
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bgill
(From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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