Posted on 02/06/2020 8:03:42 PM PST by RummyChick
https://twitter.com/silkdynastystx/status/1225609177587802113
absolutely....
LOL
Humans borrow money they can’t pay back.
Humans make bets they can’t cover.
Humans choose certain indulgences.
All of these can lead to ruin for themselves and their families, yet they proceed down these paths anyway.
Kittens want to play and give and get affection.
I prefer them over many humans I know.
Congratulations for being very conscientious with regard to the things that you personally find ‘important’.
But your thoughtfulness in general is questionable, if you think that posting this particular video was useful in any way.
You only posted it because you thought it was ‘funny’ - and that’s really all about YOU; not about anything important.
It’s not like you posted a scientific video about how to rid oneself of a vermin infestation.
You just wanted to make people laugh over something violent and unkind - and to applaud you for your cleverness in posting it.
I can’t respect that.
sick
It’s obvious the squirrel was tamed, and the man was trying to put it out to live in the wild. Of course it had no idea how to survive on its own. If not for the cat, it would have starved or fallen prey to just about anything out there.
You can’t raise an animal as a pet and then expect it to be able to live in the wild. It doesn’t know what to do.
As a general rule, people tend to either self-associate with the peaceful animals living their own lives peacefully and wanting to go their won way in peace, or the animals programmed to prey on the first type.
Personally, I sympathize with the first type of animal, to the point I would feel the same satisfaction smoking the predator I’d feel smoking some feral human victimizing innocent people. I see both as emotionally entirely analogous, and probably am extrapolating my own mentality into those situations.
And I’d argue both as nature taking its course, though in reality it is just deep psychological programming seeking some sort of rhetorical justification.
But I guess we are all programmed in our youth.
I have heard squirrels referred to as tree rats for a long time, I side with cats for rodent control.
That is EXACTLY how to get rid of a rodent infestation . someone here pointed that out to me a few days ago.
Rat traps catch some..electronic zappers..poison..drywall in oats..drowning..oh boy you should see those videos if you really want to get bent out of shape
But the most effective method for seeing them disappear is the neighborhood cat
And this video shows why.
They are so smart..this year i may put a camera on the rat trap to see how they get the peanut butter off..sometime it triggers it but a lot of times it doesnt.
Cats are smarter than the rodents
Btw..i have a whole complicated set up to catch japenese beetles..and some animal comes in the middle of the night and eats them all...even sucks them out of the water pool beneath the trap..
And dont get me started on the battle with carpenter bees
I have no qualms about killing insects and pests
You didn’t post this because you wanted to show people how effective cats are at getting rid of rodents. I know lots of people who keep barn cats - they don’t post videos of the carnage on social media; it’s simply a known fact of life on farms. They take it in stride, and don’t exhibit glee over it.
You posted this particular video because you thought it was funny, and you thought people would think YOU were funny and clever for posting it.
Death - no matter the form of life - is an immutable fact, for all life on this Earth. But when self-aware entities experience it, it’s a solemn thing, and not ‘funny’.
Staged or not, the video you posted was not ‘funny’.
Once again..dont care what you think..
I posted it as i said the first post because someone told me this week to get a cat to deal with them.and yes..i do think this post is funny. It shows exactly how to deal with the bane of my existence
And one more time..dont care what you think
Yes, I don’t see it as funny in the least. It’s about as funny as watching an idiot drown a cat.
LOL !! I needed that! Tom the cat loved it and the woman shrieking just added a cherry on top!
I am with the “LOL very funny” crowd. The law of unintended consequences strikes again. Cat owner doesn’t even see it coming.
For all the people crying about the video.
First, it is funny.
Second, nobody knows the squirrrels status. For all we know the man saved it from the cat.
Third and most importantly, if that was a tame squirrel, it was short for the world anyway. Wild squirrels have survival “street smarts”. A baby squirrel raised and then released later is going to be tame and unable to survive in the wild. Any number of predators were going to get it post haste and it probably lacked the survival skills to make it on its own even without a predator.
I guess suburban people think most of the squirrels in the world have no predators. It goes far beyond pet dogs and cats killing squirrels. Everything with teeth and claws that walks, crawls, or flies has squirrel on the menu.
I didn’t think it was even that funny, but was a twist ending.
Dude, you don’t like it, don’t watch. It’s a tree rat. It multiplies at an exponential rate and can be highly destructive.
Cats will be cats. Just calm down a bit.
When you release something into the wild, that means it’s now part of that system. Predators and prey. And who says cats should be kept inside a house all their lives?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHFRmj2cTyE
start to slow it down to .25x at 0:24
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