The diversion into the morality of veganism in animals
this was such a badly wrought provocation that you should consider turning in your provocateur's license, deems
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:11 (two years ago) link
What if i agreed to go through an agent
― pandmac (darraghmac), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:12 (two years ago) link
those are both really great pictures
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:18 (two years ago) link
wait did i post mine wrong, did my 3 excellent portraits not show up, should i post them again
many fine cats itt
― cat? (cat), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
xps - said agent would simply deliver similarly dismal results at one remove
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
this is important, it’s worth the risk of double posting:
consume veggie
https://i.imgur.com/fLKLLwx.jpg
love music
https://i.imgur.com/986xDef.jpg
https://softerdrive.bandcamp.com/releases
― cat? (cat), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:44 (two years ago) link
I like your smudgy puff
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link
i like her too!!!!!!! very very much!!!!!!!!!!!
https://i.imgur.com/FmJ94bF.jpg
― cat? (cat), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:04 (two years ago) link
♥️ ♥️
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
Yowzah!
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:08 (two years ago) link
Everyone get in here and post photos of your cats!
Gus before an arvo beer
https://i.imgur.com/tymdLT0.jpg
Gus after an arvo beer
https://i.imgur.com/F3YJvV1.jpg
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:12 (two years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:13 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Z5hJm9b.jpg?1
bones is goin outside over my dead body
― Clay, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:33 (two years ago) link
would snorgle all this kitties by golly
― cat? (cat), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
bones looks very proper
― Dan S, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
these cats look nice enough, but their looks belie a bird murdering rage
― Ssäm Sauce | Martha Stewart (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 02:58 (two years ago) link
We had one cat who wanted to be an outside cat so desperately. In order to enter the house, you would have to open the door a crack and stick your foot through it to shoo him away and interrupt his escape plans. His escapes were successful a few times. Once, he fell out of a tall tree and ended up with some serious bruising. I tried harness training him, but he never enjoyed it.
The three cats we have now show little interest in going outside, even though two of them were literal strays we rescued from an abandoned house in our neighborhood. They have spent hours trying to get at our parakeets though and once successfully caught one. That bird survives until this day, despite having been plucked from the literal jaws of death. I've bought them feather-chasing toys such as Da Bird and Mystery Motion. Those help a lot with exercising their hunting instincts.
Murder on their minds:https://i.imgur.com/5QZvGMl.jpg
My girl Connie, who I relate to a lot: https://i.imgur.com/RzTRgo6.jpg
― peace, man, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link
Here's the two weird ways Oscar has been sleeping lately:
https://i.imgur.com/BTlWHyi.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Afv6j0F.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link
Hmm. Reminds me of someone I know. Nice.
― (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Razor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:21 (two years ago) link
love that this has turned into WDY(cat)LL. my handsome boy Chauncey, contemplating the horrible 'outdoors' with disgust and loathing. if he ever encountered a bird face to face, the bird would surely murder him without trouble.
http://i.imgur.com/4OfV8t7.jpg
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 13:50 (two years ago) link
Also, I'm currently reading the Warriors book series with my daughter. They're chapter books for kids about clans of feral cats who live in the woods and hunt the hell out of birds (in between murdering each other and lots of other general drama). As far as I've read, they have discussed food scarcity issues rising from human encroachments on the environment, but not the depletion of bird populations caused by cats themselves. However, I have some serious catching up to do. Maybe this will be covered in a more recent book.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
Chauncey is a dapper man.
I had to give up on those Warrior books due to murdering of helpless kittens by rival clans ;_;
― Jaq, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 14:58 (two years ago) link
Warriors, stay in and play
― Ssäm Sauce | Martha Stewart (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
Those are the "kittypets" which must always be said with a vicious sneer.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
Yeah, it's definitely a brutal series. It's got my kid into reading again though, which she was veering away from for a while.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:14 (two years ago) link
Always a good thing! I started 2021 with it (due to ILXor sunny successor) after a 2020 of not being able to read much, so it got me kick-started as well.
― Jaq, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 16:12 (two years ago) link
On a selfish level, if everyone kept their cats inside, then I wouldn't get to make friends with the cats in my neighbourhood.
We walk our dogs around the block at bedtime, and before our cats got too old and housebound, they used to come with us. It was great. Sometimes, if I was bringing the dogs to the green at the bottom of the road for a little run around in the day, our tom cat Linus would come with us and hang about getting pets from the local kids. He loved to socialize with people. I never liked him being out without me, though. I had to scare the shit out of some kids one day who threw a stone at him when he was chilling in the front garden, minding his own business. I happened to be standing right beside the front door and ran out and ROARED at them. They never came near my house again. I'm lucky they didn't hit him, because if they had I might have really lost my shit at them and then I would've got in trouble.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 19:39 (two years ago) link
Great photos of Oscar. Give that meaty boy a big ol’ pat from his biggest internet fan, H.P
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 21:09 (two years ago) link
Willie Wildman, Cali from accounting, Cherry the Arkansas Redcat, Security Chief Leon, and Miss Pamela of the GTOs at their least murderous:https://imgur.com/a/OyTu1xV
And the CEO's grandson, Squit (who was declawed by a previous owner before being abandoned on a freeway onramp in Florida):https://imgur.com/Cc3kCvl
― Jaq, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
good job ILX! keep the cat pics coming! <3
― sarahell, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 23:59 (two years ago) link
That's a hell of a band pic, Jaq!
― peace, man, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link
awesome! not sure how anyone could get a picture like that
― Dan S, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 01:50 (two years ago) link
leo has taken to eating canned pumpkin as a treat. he loves it. here's a photo of him not eating pumpkin.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FITZ-bEVgAEHkUA?format=jpg&name=medium
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:00 (two years ago) link
Awwww Leo, what a gorgeous boy!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:32 (two years ago) link
(I've been clicker training these guys - Squit is just not interested, but all the rest of the crew is very treat motivated.)
― Jaq, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:35 (two years ago) link
they are very statuesque
― Dan S, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
Boys will do anything for their treats
― hrep (H.P), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
Jaq's group photo is amazing!
― rob, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 15:41 (two years ago) link
amazing, adorable, vaguely ominous - checks all the boxes.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link
not to damn it with faint praise but it has strong meme potential
― rob, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 16:01 (two years ago) link
top cat that Leo
― sarahell, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
all the cat pics are v welcome & appreciated ^v^
― davey, Thursday, 6 January 2022 13:49 (two years ago) link
There's a feral outdoor cat that's made appearances in the neighborhood over the last few years. We've all had the same observation, that while very wary of people he seems to have no problem with other cats, nor they with him. That's something I've always wondered about exclusively indoor cats. They're inside with their people, cordoned off from the rest of the world, spoiled, special, the only cat in the world, and then one day, out the window ... they see another cat! WTF? I know they're probably wired to recognize them, but part of them must be totally freaked out. And then every day for the rest of their life inside, they're probably thinking, did I hallucinate? Did I see another cat? Will I ever see another cat!? (The rest of the time they will be sleeping.)
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:16 (two years ago) link
its funny, ive had indoor cats who fully lost their minds at their first sight of another cat and ones who couldnt have given less of a fuck. with my current indoor cat who has never seen another cat, i often wonder about what his sense of self is like, whether he thinks me and him are the same kind of animal or not.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
Heh. When my outdoor cat, Clementine, appears on the other side of the screen door, Sappho runs right up to her. Oftentimes, this freaks Clementine out and she retreats to a more comfortable distance! This is a little surprising, as Clementine is much bigger and tougher than li'l Sapphy. I guess her wariness fear of other cats takes control. Eventually, we adopted Alex, who's even tinier than Sappho, and a little shier toward the big mean cat outside. He too is clearly curious about her.
I wonder what my Persians must think about their confinement to the house, and suspect they might pine for the freedom to roam when confronted with Clementine's presence. I'm glad we managed to socialize my indoor cats and they have each other's company to enjoy. Sappho seemed a bit listless for some months before Alex entered the picture.
On preview: exactly what One Eye Open says! It seems very dependent on personality. And I have the same questions about what cats must think of us and how they conceive of the human species.
― davey, Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
one of my cats will run at and attack any strange cat in his territory (the last time this happened he came off worse, because he'd just had his claws done, is mostly indoors and not really used to fighting for real as usually the other cat legs it before anything happens, the invading cat being a fully outdoor cat probably has been in a lot more scrapes than mine has). the other is more likely to run away
― bovarism, Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
I think one of the books I've read about cats (The Lion in the Living Room?) does say that research suggests cats at least in some ways relate to us as other big cats, that they see us as part of the pride (or whatever) at a level above them. The way they relate to each other, though, our vet once described it as not that different from how people relate, similar to roommates. Some roommates become friends, some are just there, some are antagonistic, etc. Some click, some don't.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 15:33 (two years ago) link