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Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Thu September 07, 2023 12:41 pm
by tommy
Let's talk about cats.
I have two cats. They're siblings. One is orange and fat, the other is grey and timid. Maybe later I'll post pictures.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Thu September 07, 2023 12:52 pm
by Ello Sailor
I used to be indifferent to cats. Looking back, my childhood cats were likely hardcore predators. I don't remember seeing them around the house much.
But since having cats of my own, they're super dope. I just wish they weren't programmed to murder dumb ass birds for fun.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Thu September 07, 2023 6:43 pm
by Jorge
My cat makes me laugh every day
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 2:07 am
by Higgs
Jorge wrote:My cat makes me laugh every day
Nyuck nyuck nyuck?
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 2:30 am
by bodysnatcher
Never had or lived with a cat. I feel like I’d like them but I also don’t trust them.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 3:04 am
by Ello Sailor
bodysnatcher wrote:I feel like I’d like them but I also don’t trust them.
Just like Lenny. Coincidence?
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 3:19 am
by Jorge
Higgs wrote:Jorge wrote:My cat makes me laugh every day
Nyuck nyuck nyuck?
No, more like... "ha ha ha"
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 3:21 am
by Ello Sailor
Do you think you'd like stand-up comedy if your cat did it?
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 4:06 am
by Rangi Guy
Our cat went blind - then went downhill real quick. Took her to the vets a couple of times feeling pretty sure I was going to be bring home an alive cat, but each time the vets assured me she still had a fair bit of life left in her. The morning after the last vet visit - she went walk about and we haen't seen her since - that was two weeks ago.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Fri September 08, 2023 10:54 am
by wease
Sorry, Rangi
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 4:11 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:13 am
by spike
Glad he medaled, trag.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 7:42 am
by coptheriotact
tragabigzanda wrote:We have this tracker for our cat, and there’s a Strava-like element of the app. Today my cat hit 3rd place for most active cat in our “region.” It’s unclear how that’s defined, but still I’m proud of the little guy.
thats awesome. prize cat! is he just active in your home or does he roam around a bit? what its name?
our cats mostly stay inside at night i think, but i don't think i wanna wanna know where or how far they possibly go.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 3:38 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 3:42 pm
by Ello Sailor
I hope Wally is just roaming around beating up rival toms Russel Crowe style, and not murdering birbs. Cats love murdering birbs. Quite possibly their only flaw.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 3:57 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 3:59 pm
by Ello Sailor
Oh yeah, mice can get fucked. Wally sounds like a solid dude.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 4:32 pm
by BurtReynolds
Ello Sailor wrote:Oh mice can get fucked.
!
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 4:38 pm
by Ello Sailor
Fictional mice are fine.
Re: Cats and other pets that are cats
Posted: Sun October 27, 2024 4:40 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.