Is it such a bad thing?

Oh, Zoid, I am STILL laughing at that! The "3 poage" post about your cat! How is the other Little Cat, by the way?

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

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'Lishus:

She -- 'Little Little' -- just won't leave me alone! I have never had such an affectionate feline. She keeps bringing me 'presents': Half-chewed field mice, mostly. Which is a good thing, I suppose, since the wintry weather we've been getting lately has been driving the critters into our garage. Still, she could just kill 'em and leave 'em where they drop, rather than bringing them into the house in her mouth and depositing them at my feet, sometimes only half-dead. I'm sure it's all very devotional by cat behavioral standards; but I'd just as soon she be a little more standoffish, like a stereotypical cat.

There's no such thing as sitting alone on the sofa. If I'm watching TV, I'm doing it with a cat on my lap, or on my chest, or wrapped around my neck. Frankly, it's a little spooky. I sometimes catch her staring at me, and it's like maybe she's an old girlfriend reincarnated as a cat. Imagination run wild, I know; but I've just never seen a cat get so attached to a human...

There's a trick to getting a cat to imprint on you: When they're kittens, you pet them around the head and shoulders, between the ears -- and you should refrain from petting below the shoulders because their spines are sensitive. If you've done it right, the kitten will work up a good drool, and may even have its mouth open slightly, as though it was smiling. Cats have scent glands in their mouths and this 'smiling' is indicative of them scenting their territory. Either smiling or drooling ('cause they want their mommy to feed them), you now gently grasp them by the head and rub your cheeks against their mouth. They may resist this somewhat, but just press on -- gently! -- and rub both cheeks against their mouth and then release them. It sounds bizarre, I know, but that cat becomes imprinted on you and is yours 'til death do you part.

Like any other magic, this charm should be used sparingly, and only once you're certain the cat is worth having (some cats are useless, sad to say). And I admit it's a pretty callous means of getting an animal to serve you; but every house should have a good backyard lion and a house wolf (preferably, a GSD) to keep varmints away.

So, in conclusion, I think everyone should be able to see why fireflyfan23 was right to call Willowy a 'sheep', because she is a sheep (Merino, I think). I'm disappointed in all the rest of us for not seeing it sooner, because we could have all had new jumpers this winter.


Cattily,

zoid

P.S.
*zoid gently massages the other Little Cat's ears, and lightly rubs cheeks with her*

P.P.S.
The cold, hard truth is that 'Little Little' owns me, not the other way around. But, I can live with that.
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"Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me." The Ballad of Serenity

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Good thing I checked back in on this thread I guess.

Yes, there was a typo in one of my posts.

No, it was not meant to be trolling.

For the record I'm circumsised. Do you consider my parents monsters?

I see no reason why we should assume that any of us here are superior and deserve to decide right and wrong for the world.

Hurting others = wrong huh? I wish I had you on my side when I was getting immunization shots as a kid. I really didn't like the pain of those needles. Since it's wrong I assume you're out on the streets picketing and writing to congress to ban syringes. Or did you decide that this pain is ok because you have come to accept the result as being good? Amazing how a culture can teach people such things isn't it? I have no reason to believe that other cultures couldn't do the same. Which is why I'm glad we haven't invaded any South African countries to impose our will on their genital mutilation practices. Kudos to the USA.

I do understand that the children who undergo these operations may not be capable of making their own informed decision at the time. Neither was I as a child. Now that I've grown up some I learned the reasoning behind choices my parents made for me. If I didn't believe in them, I would try to prevent my potential future children from undergoing the same treatment. If I felt it was a complete outrage, I might even fight to stop the practice all together. That's how change is supposed to work in my book.

Hopefully you can see where I'm coming from. At least enough to understand that I'm not trying to get you riled up.

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Just 'cos I'm concerned Zoid'll wear himself out...

I have no cats to use I'm afraid, though I once owned a hamster. It died.

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Originally posted by Zeek:

For the record I'm circumsised. Do you consider my parents monsters?

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See that mark over there? See that hole in the post waaaaaayyyy over yonder. That's how far you missed the point of the argument. One's mutilation, the other has proven medical benefits (ignoring any religious connection).

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Hurting others = wrong huh? I wish I had you on my side when I was getting immunization shots as a kid. I really didn't like the pain of those needles.

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Wow. Didn't think you could get any wider of the mark, but you raised the bar on this one. I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave some moments ago. Medical benefit.

But I guess if we increased the infant mortality rates we'd decrease the surplus population, which in turn would probably lead to a lesser life expectancy as we started getting all the funky diseases back again, which in turn would ease the pension burden. Hey, I like your thinking, can you give W a ring with your ideas?

You're comparing apples with elephants. We (the civilised West) used to burn and dunk women for being witches. In Iran they recently paused stoning to death a woman that committed adultery. The man that she committed it with; he was due to be hanged.

Sometimes wrong is just wrong, and the culture excuse is just so much bull.


"I threw up on your bed"

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