At this point in the story, I'm hearing "Also Sprach Zarathrustra", like when the apeman picked up the bone to use as a weapon for the first time in 2001.
Posted on 01/25/2013 3:54:40 PM PST by SJackson
Why New Zealand is right to consider banning them in order to save its wildlife.
You know what animal makes a good pet? No animal.
Dogs will bite you to death and then eat your corpse. Snakes will asphyxiate you, escape, infest the Everglades, and eat all its mammals. Pet parrots perpetuate a trade that upends ecosystems, and hamsters pass you dangerous zoonotic diseases. But perhaps the worst pet of all, environmentally speaking, is a cat.
Domesticated cats started out as parasites on human civilization. Unlike other species, and admittedly to their credit, they domesticated themselves. When humans started growing grain, the crops attracted rodents that attracted cats. Wild cats evolved into housecats, and they were quite useful for thousands of years, killing disease-ridden rats and mice and protecting our food stockpiles. But now that we have industrial farming, reliable food storage, and mostly mouse-proof houses, cats are mere parasites again. Playful and often affectionate parasites, sure, and adorable when young, but a scourge on the landscape.
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There’s a reason most women identify with cats...
LMAO
That explains quite a lot.
The cat isn't the one she should have swatted.
I always wear a chef's apron and carry a chef's knife when around geese or swans. They know. They know what that means.
/johnny
Yes. Brutus is naughty. She runs out from under the bed and attacks and bites the backs of my legs. She’s had to stay in a lot lately because of the extremely cold weather. I started out calling her “Lambchop”, but neighbors across the hill heard me and just hee hawed and snorted “LAMBCHOP!!?” . . Snort!” So I changed her name to “Brutus” and that’s the only thing that she will answer to. Naughty. Naughty. Naughty; but looks innocent as a lamb.
I take that as surreal satire, because in reality, cats must view humans as “fish-dispensing machines”. We have strange foreign delicacies which they find delicious but can’t obtain for themselves, and we provide it to them when they demand it, for no discernible reason. The joke’s on us, my friend.
Jeez. Yes, a bit of a Michael Moore edit on the .gif ...
That is how cats play though, especially if the cat is not strictly an indoor only cat raised around infants. The mom was an idiot for not realizing that, and she put the kid in harms way to get a cutesy video.
I love cats. They are great animals to have around, and they pay their own way, but it’s not a good thing sometimes to let cats and babies mix.
Exactly. Kids are kids and cats are cats. Raw nature in both of them.
You would expect the adult in the room to be an adult.
Kid and cat can’t be blamed here.
But mom, she needs to have her head examined.
At this point in the story, I'm hearing "Also Sprach Zarathrustra", like when the apeman picked up the bone to use as a weapon for the first time in 2001.
Catherine,
Go watch the video, NOT THE GIF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMIhL63KPxw
The kid did NOTHING wrong. He was being attacked by the cat.
His mom should have swatted the cat.
Since the mom was not protecting her son, the boy did what he needed to to protect himself. The cat needed the punch in the head it got.
LOL. I used to live on a small lake and in the summer geese would mate and raise goslings in the area. They were great to watch, and we even fed them. They became quite friendly.
At the same lake were these white geese. The evil geese, we called them, because they were very aggressive ... I don’t know what they were actually called taxonomically, but anyway they showed up and during an afternoon feeding ritual in the back yard one of them attacked me. Chased me all over the yard and just would not stop. I was 6’1”. 205# at the time and this damn white goose was all over me trying his best to bite me in the face. I finally fought back when it stopped being funny.
Fun fact I learned that day was that if you grab a goose by the neck they instantly crap all over you, and their necks do not have sufficient torsional strength and flexibility to withstand a pissed of 200 pound man. He ended up in a trash bag, and I had nasty infected forearms for a couple of weeks.
LOL!
Never thought about that!
But till this day, some 58 years later, I still remember the feeling of exhilaration I got when I connected with and clobbered that first gander and sent that evil, arrogant bustard flying.
Suddenly, I was in control and my tormenters ran for their lives.
Small victories sometimes provide the greatest rewards.
Since my kitty keeps my home free of mice, even respectful ones, I am more than happy to have her strut around as if she owns the place.
My daughter was not amused by my explanation that Maggie was only trying to help her feed the baby.
they domesticated themselves humans
>>Cats strut around like they own the place, have no respect for our property, and would definitely try to eat us if they could figure out how.<<
Okay but what are their bad points?
You are exactly right.
Geese are not to be trifled with. They are used as watch dogs on many farms.
THEY WILL ATTACK YOU AND DO DAMAGE! I don’t care how big a man you are, a p!!sed off gander can put some fear in your heart.
Its just too bad you put him in a sack and not the broiler, geese are tasty.
Maybe they know that, and its why they are so mean.
“Cats are evil,bloodthirsty,wanton killers.”
That’s their natural charm.
I was trying to think of the name of that book this morning - for another kitty reason.
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