Going go be one of *those* days.
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There I am, visiting the loo, just sitting and doing what comes naturally, and I hear a quite series of thumps from the living room. I can't exactly move, so I figure I'll deal with it when I get a chance. Finally free, and what do I find: Dij has brought home a birdie and liberally spread it round the room. :sigh: First job - get remains of bird from cat to prevent eny further shower of feathers (and it's surprising how many of the damn things a small bird has got). Not easy - he knows that once I get my hands on it, that's the last he'll ever see of it. Any way, after a chase round the garden, and a bit of bribery the bulk of the birdie is in the river and well on it's way to a burial at sea, and I'm free to hoover up the rest. Back to work - for ten minutes before I hear a familiar "thump, thump, thump..." OK, let's try bribery first this time... :sigh:
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
Lucky you. When my cat brought me suhc a gift, it was accepted as a house member with special protection as soon as it crossed the sill. Meaning I was the one to hunt the mice.
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There I am, visiting the loo, just sitting and doing what comes naturally, and I hear a quite series of thumps from the living room. I can't exactly move, so I figure I'll deal with it when I get a chance. Finally free, and what do I find: Dij has brought home a birdie and liberally spread it round the room. :sigh: First job - get remains of bird from cat to prevent eny further shower of feathers (and it's surprising how many of the damn things a small bird has got). Not easy - he knows that once I get my hands on it, that's the last he'll ever see of it. Any way, after a chase round the garden, and a bit of bribery the bulk of the birdie is in the river and well on it's way to a burial at sea, and I'm free to hoover up the rest. Back to work - for ten minutes before I hear a familiar "thump, thump, thump..." OK, let's try bribery first this time... :sigh:
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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If I hang two of them round his neck, Herself will remove certain hanging things I'm quite fond of...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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There I am, visiting the loo, just sitting and doing what comes naturally, and I hear a quite series of thumps from the living room. I can't exactly move, so I figure I'll deal with it when I get a chance. Finally free, and what do I find: Dij has brought home a birdie and liberally spread it round the room. :sigh: First job - get remains of bird from cat to prevent eny further shower of feathers (and it's surprising how many of the damn things a small bird has got). Not easy - he knows that once I get my hands on it, that's the last he'll ever see of it. Any way, after a chase round the garden, and a bit of bribery the bulk of the birdie is in the river and well on it's way to a burial at sea, and I'm free to hoover up the rest. Back to work - for ten minutes before I hear a familiar "thump, thump, thump..." OK, let's try bribery first this time... :sigh:
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
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I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
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If I hang two of them round his neck, Herself will remove certain hanging things I'm quite fond of...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
Balls, bells, what's the difference?
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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And they're allowed to shit all over everyone else's gardens with impunity for the owners.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
ChrisElston wrote:
sh*t all over everyone else's gardens with impunity
I have a stock of old shoes by the terrace door. See cat, lob shoe. Cat go, Vilmos happy.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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Balls, bells, what's the difference?
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
Tonal qualities?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
My cat won't go outside. YOu can just leave the doors and windows open, and he will only look. He does like to go out in his carrier though. He is a fast and strong persian cat that we never had declawed. Anything that comes into the house, he murders.
If it moves, compile it
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I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
BobJanova wrote:
I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing.
Pretty much answered your own question there ;) They're so damn arrogant, that they make you feel all warm inside when they decide to tolerate your presence. Until such time as they get so happy they dig their claws into your legs and launch themselves off of your bloodied thighs. What's not to love? I hear Steve Jobs had the same effect on people. There is a parasite that reproduces inside cats' stomachs (all sizes of cats - housecats to lions) and when it infects, say, a rat, it makes the rat enjoy the smell of feline urine instead of, as usual, running away from it, because the parasite "wants" to get back inside a cat's stomach (via consumption of said rat). There is a hypothosis that the same parasite can infect humans, causing an irrational desire to be around cats. Lots of cats. Thus, cat people. I hear Steve Jobs had the same effect on people.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
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I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
... And why we're not up to our eyeballs in rodents.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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BobJanova wrote:
I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing.
Pretty much answered your own question there ;) They're so damn arrogant, that they make you feel all warm inside when they decide to tolerate your presence. Until such time as they get so happy they dig their claws into your legs and launch themselves off of your bloodied thighs. What's not to love? I hear Steve Jobs had the same effect on people. There is a parasite that reproduces inside cats' stomachs (all sizes of cats - housecats to lions) and when it infects, say, a rat, it makes the rat enjoy the smell of feline urine instead of, as usual, running away from it, because the parasite "wants" to get back inside a cat's stomach (via consumption of said rat). There is a hypothosis that the same parasite can infect humans, causing an irrational desire to be around cats. Lots of cats. Thus, cat people. I hear Steve Jobs had the same effect on people.
Look at me still talking when there's science to do When I look out there it makes me glad I'm not you
David Kentley wrote:
I hear Steve Jobs had the same effect on people.
Yup, he pissed all over 'em.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My cat won't go outside. YOu can just leave the doors and windows open, and he will only look. He does like to go out in his carrier though. He is a fast and strong persian cat that we never had declawed. Anything that comes into the house, he murders.
If it moves, compile it
loctrice wrote:
Anything that comes into the house, he murders.
My mother-in-law will be down your way, soon. I'll tell her to drop by.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ChrisElston wrote:
sh*t all over everyone else's gardens with impunity
I have a stock of old shoes by the terrace door. See cat, lob shoe. Cat go, Vilmos happy.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
Paintball gun loaded with naga jolokia-filled rounds. If that stuff can keep elephants out of villages, it'll keep a cat out of a garden. Failing that, I read once that marking your garden boundaries with urine from a larger feline is the way to go, with Lion being the best. Surely everyone's got an old jar of Lion's piss in the cellar?
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Paintball gun loaded with naga jolokia-filled rounds. If that stuff can keep elephants out of villages, it'll keep a cat out of a garden. Failing that, I read once that marking your garden boundaries with urine from a larger feline is the way to go, with Lion being the best. Surely everyone's got an old jar of Lion's piss in the cellar?
# Vilmos thinks, FX: crashing gears # Umm, maybe some sort of high velocity spud gun along with me pissing the boundaries.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
Well, they (generally) smell better than dogs, they eat less and they make a lot less noise. You don't have to take them for a walk when it's cold and wet and dark - they sort out their own exercise. And they bury their waste - you don't have to walk round with a pocket full of poo if you aren't near a suitable bin. They don't fawn all over you - you have to earn respect instead. And they purr nicely when you do what they want! :laugh:
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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I don't really understand the attraction of cats. They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing. Also, they are a big reason why there are no birds in the suburbs and why some small birds are endangered.
BobJanova wrote:
They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing.
That's also mankind for you. ;)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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BobJanova wrote:
They're vicious and selfish predators and almost impossible to train out of this kind of thing.
That's also mankind for you. ;)
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
