Ground coffee? Never would have thought of that! Must be like catnip, which some some cats love, and some don't.
What gets mine in a tizzy is chicken livers. They stand on their legs and cry, "me, feed me". It's pandemonium watching them as I drop bits of liver. The cats standing on their hind legs trying to catch them. My girlfriends cats, same litter, are too refined for this and have lost the blood lust. One of mine will just sit at the edge and watch this craziness unfold, and wait for her bit of liver. They are adaptable, and easily spoiled!
What amazes me about cats, much more so than dogs, is how clearly defined and different their personalities are. They really are individualists.
We don't give it to the dumb cat but sometimes a little spills. He'll find it!
Animals are quite like children. We had a Golden Retriever that *loved* grapes. Grapes were the only floor he'd catch in the air. Steak, nope, he'd jump like he was going to catch it, then let it drop, before he'd snarf it up off the floor. My brother, a veterinarian, once decided to "teach" him to stop begging (he never begged from us because we ignored him at the table); he threw him a grape. Bad move. ;-)
Yep. Every one we've had has been quite different. All affectionate, but very different.
I think it's shrimp. They're sea food flakes of some sort. The cats go nuts over them. We don't often give it to them, just a special treat.
Sure there are. Visit any farm or temperate-climate area with sufficent game to support a reproducing population. Where do you think the Egyptions or whoever got theirs? Just like dogs and humans bonded for hunting purposes, cats and humans bonded for rodent control purposes. The 4-legged ones that hung around with humans ate better, and were more successful at passing their genes on. Some animal shrinks claim that domesticated dogs and cats suffer from arrested adolesence, since humans dote on them, and the ones that act like wild animals get expelled or killed. And yes, their life in the wild is shorter and nastier. If humans hadn't mostly eliminated wolves and other predators, there would be no feral cat/dog problem.
You recall the Bible story of Joseph who predicted seven bountiful years followed by seven lean years thereby encouraging Pharaoh to store up grain?
The Egyptians were the first to practice large-scale agriculture and, to store up the harvest, they had to have granaries. The goddamn (Ra-damned?) mice began eating the grain as fast as the Egyptians could store it!
Then some enterprising soul brought to Egypt a critter known as an "African Tree Cat," which promptly set about catching mice. The African Tree Cats caught a LOT of mice. So much so the Egyptians deified the cat, calling the new god "Bastet."
Mummified cats are quite commonly found in Egyptian tombs.
On Dec 26, 7:51=A0pm, "HeyBub" wrote: It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of
What you're telling me is you have no responsibility for the damage that your cat may cause on other people's property, because it is the cat's nature to do so.
If that is really the case, then cat ownership should simply be prohibited, because there is no way to manage it responsibly.
However, there are plenty of cat owners who ARE responsible and who do not let their cats roam the neighborhood unattended, at risk to themselves and causing harm to the neighbors.
Much as I like horses, cows, and dogs, I don't want your animals in my yard, and it isn't my job to keep them out. Why should cats be any different?
Very simply, keep your cat out of my yard. If you can't figure out how to do that, then you shouldn't own a cat.
what kind of fence to you have to contain your cat? one of mine, which was declawed when i got him, could scale an 8' block fence without problems. he used to sit on top of the fence and drive the lab next door crazy.
Every neighborhood is different. Different feel different type of people live there.
Now, I can understand a cat howling at night, and an owner has responsibility here. But a neighborhood where cats can't cross through your yard is way too uptight for me. I know of no laws that prohibit that.
There's a lot of unregulated animal behaviour going on out there. Get over it.
"Wild" and "domestic" are not exclusive. "Wild" and "domesticated" might be. Just as domesticated cats can go feral (or start out that way), wild cats can, and were, domesticated.
All of the cats we have today in the West originated with the Egyptians domesticating an African wild cat (Felis silvestris lybica). Domestic cats in other parts of the world had a slightly different ancestor.
II. Animals DO exhibit some of the same emotions as do two-leggers. The same parts of their brains are excited with the same stimuli that causes emotions in humans. The more primitive emotions lie in the Lymbic System, whose basic functions can be remembered by the four Fs: Flight, Feeding, Fighting, and Reproduction.
No, Adali Stevenson - twice Democratic nominee for President (against Eisenhower) and governor of Illinois is telling you that, not me.
No, under the civil law your open, unfenced, yard is known as a "constructive nuisance." Further, it is much the same as an unfenced swimming pool, or in the law, a PIT.
You are responsible for any damage to your property when its very being entices a child - or a cat.
At least those are the points that could be made in a civil trial.
On Mon 27 Dec 2010 11:00:50a, Red Green told us...
We have five cats who have lived all their lives indoors and are very happy and contented. We occasionally take two at a time with us when we spend time on the patio. They're usually ready to go back in the house long before we are.
FWIW, they play with each other and also have dozens of toys that they actively play with.
Standard four foot chain link fence and I've added another four feet or so of Home Despot green chicken wire of some sort. The secret is that the top foot or so is bent in at a 45° angle. They can climb up but climbing around that infacing tilt isn't so easy. Folks sell fences for this purpose
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but I saw what they did and did the same thing for a lot less money. Their's is nicer though.
I didn't go the razor-wire route; we don't want the neighbors thinking that we're running some sort of penal colony.
I have one part of the fence hinged so the enemy cats that get in can get out before I let mine out. That's another reason I don't put in the cat door - I'd have to leave the escape route closed and confrontations would result. My alpha goes after any other cat that comes near the yard. Very territorial that one.
Oh, it isn't impossible for cats to get out even if the opening is closed. There are four evergreens that have grown over the top of the fence, and I've seen other cats shoot up the trees and right over the fence when I enter the yard. Two of my cats have even gotten on top of the fence that way but they never did it again - I guess they forgot or just don't want to leave that badly.
I also have collars on the cats with a tracking device
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which comes in handy when I need to find them - more often inside the house or yard than outside. I do have one recent addition that I pulled off the street named Scooter who still has OUT priviliges. He'll sometimes go out the front door in the morning when I feed the strays (they're his buddies) and decide not to come back in when I leave for work. I've used the loc8tor to track him down a few times.
That's actually why I took in Scooter. He kept trying to come into the yard when my cats were back there and did it a few times. He is incredibly friendly and must have been inside at one time and saw an opening. I finally decided that I'd better have them become housemates rather than enemies. It hasn't really worked out quite that well, he's still the odd-cat-out most of the time but they usually don't hiss at each other anymore.
You can't really count on the loc8tor too much though since the collars are the break-away type; anything else is too dangerous for a cat. There have been at least three occasions where he's come back without the collar and I've always tracked it down later. Cool toy.
Sort of like Christianity set back western civilization for a few hundred years, nothing like a few dark ages. Religion does that. But of course, what really caused most of the problems were (sorry Harry) the British. After all, it was the British (and US of course) that put in Saddam, and the Shah in Iran. What we get now is referred to as "blow back".
I watched a documentary that had some information about Brazil and it described Brazilian natives being so impressed with the early Christian missionaries that they wanted their power so they ate them. :-)
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