Not to be a contrarian, but we all need to keep in mind that https://imgur.com/a/FGN8zuI.jpg
― hrep (H.P), Friday, 14 January 2022 04:40 (two years ago) link
Good lord I used the same phrase as cowboy. Ban me pls
― hrep (H.P), Friday, 14 January 2022 04:41 (two years ago) link
See thread: Reusing the same phrase used in a post several posts above yours - is it a sin?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 14 January 2022 04:45 (two years ago) link
not when you are making an excellent point, as H.P has! we can’t let minor concerns over word choice distract us from
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― cowboy bopeep (cat), Friday, 14 January 2022 05:24 (two years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is
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― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 14 January 2022 14:25 (two years ago) link
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my client considers the matter closed and is unwilling to offer further comment
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 14 January 2022 14:50 (two years ago) link
Without outside cats, there can be no...
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― Michael Jones, Friday, 14 January 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
wish flappy bird was around to offer their perspective
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Friday, 14 January 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
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― calzino, Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link
JUSTICE FOR SIMPKIN
SIMPKIN JUST WANTS TO LEARN, DAMMIT
THERE’S NOTHING IN THE RULES THAT SAYS A CAT CAN’T HAVE A LIBRARY CARD
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:49 (two years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJJjd4cXoAQ_J48?format=jpg&name=large
apparently they already have a more civilised regular indoor/outdoor cat in this particular library called Walter. This unbidden intruder thug-cat Simpkin (who belongs at Hertford!) has been causing him some distress.
― calzino, Sunday, 16 January 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
this is a matter for the cats to hash out between themselves, in the age-old battle for dominion over human knowledge and the right to snooze on that knowledge
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Sunday, 16 January 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
Consider yourself lucky your library would have two cats! oh but to have only one :(
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 16 January 2022 04:35 (two years ago) link
Agree that his seems to be a problem for the cats and the Brits considering their history would do well to stick to matters of their own kind. Let the Cats govern themselves
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 16 January 2022 04:36 (two years ago) link
H.P otm, as am i. if this “walter” chap cannot defend his library then perhaps he should consider a less demanding and competitive venue, like a bodega or a wharf. libraries belong to those cats with the will to take them. this is the immutable law of the jungle and human interference will only disrupt the natural order of things.
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Sunday, 16 January 2022 06:10 (two years ago) link
Cowboy Bopeep a Simpkin burner account confirmed.
― hrep (H.P), Sunday, 16 January 2022 07:51 (two years ago) link
i’m just sayin you pull one thread and the whole house of cards could come unraveled, sheep on the bus, badgers in the closet, i don’t think the uk can handle any more chaos right now
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Sunday, 16 January 2022 10:38 (two years ago) link
JCO steps into the controversy
is this really good? our poor enervated indoor cats get virtually no exercise, ever. they are born to hunt, stalk, chase, kill, devour their prey, even in the dark...instead, not only are they fed constantly, their food is placed literally in front of their mouths. not good. https://t.co/1Wnv08DZx3— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) January 17, 2022
― Josefa, Monday, 17 January 2022 04:01 (two years ago) link
We have an indoor/outdoor cat and there's no way we could keep him permanently indoors - on the few occasions we've had to keep him in for a few days, he's gone stir crazy insane. When I was living in Paris, I heard numerous stories of "chats d'appartement" who fell to their deaths from balconies - and I used to watch with horror a cat across the road from our apartment block, who would leap from one impossibly narrow ledge to another, five floors up.
It's tricky as no doubt cats are a scourge on the local wildlife, although I'm pretty sure my particular cat doesn't manage to catch anything beyond cockroaches and small lizards.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 17 January 2022 04:13 (two years ago) link
It was extremely cold in NJ yesterday, so I emailed my mom to check up on her, and as part of that, asked how her cat was doing. He goes out; he even has a little "igloo" on her back porch that he hangs out in, but I figured he might have converted to an indoor lifestyle. Turned out he hadn't been outside since October, but then went outside yesterday and lasted about a minute before curling up right next to her wood stove. She lives on the edge of a state park and has seen bears in her driveway in the past, but the cat seems to know not to go outside when there are large predators around.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 17 January 2022 12:53 (two years ago) link
This morning our cat projectile vomited his wet food all over the basement windowsill, where he was sitting, staring out. I would have much preferred he did that barfing outside.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 January 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
“our poor enervated indoor cats get no exercise”
i’m sorry i’m assuming jco had a big house and cat toys. for fuck’s sake
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 17 January 2022 13:40 (two years ago) link
has*
damn what luck josh, your cat threw up on glass instead of a rug. good for you
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 17 January 2022 13:43 (two years ago) link
Ha, actually, the cat missed the window entirely and did it all over the windowsill/ledge (it's on the stairs leading down), where it *then* dripped down ... onto the carpet.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 January 2022 13:44 (two years ago) link
cats are very good at picking where to throw up it’s amazing
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 17 January 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
I'm imagining poor, enervated JCO holding a cat toy and staring at it, wondering what it is, how it could possibly be used, why anyone would think she would need such a thing.
Most of my cats are not hunters. The one who is used to love it when I threw her kibble up the stairs, a piece at a time, so she could hunt it and kill it. Even she can't be arsed with that carry-on nowadays.
― trishyb, Monday, 17 January 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
i imagine she is affluent enough that she could hire a personal trainer for her cat
but seriously -- more pics
― sarahell, Monday, 17 January 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/U7PdCjL.jpg
Context: this is from last summer, when some birds were sick and sluggish with iirc West Nile, which explains how my guy, arthritic, missing a canine and blind in one eye, was able to catch his first anything in years.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 January 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
That is a great picture Josh. Captures it all
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 17 January 2022 22:54 (two years ago) link
Heeeeeeat veeeeeeeeenthttps://i.imgur.com/TCaphW6.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 22:21 (two years ago) link
Norm outside at the end of summer.
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― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 22 January 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
And trying to get back INside:
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― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 22 January 2022 20:00 (two years ago) link
YOU are cold. They have fur. Do not let inside. pic.twitter.com/WrVIdF9mkh— Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (@OKWildlifeDept) January 20, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
I take it those furry kitties have the tendency to rip the face of people? Otherwise how could you not let a playful kitty like that into you home
― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:46 (two years ago) link
Found out how to get Butch to stay with me when I’m studying too. I introduce, the washing basket.
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― hrep (H.P), Saturday, 22 January 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
Had a great lesson in the natural order of things very early this morning. Our daughter woke us up around 3am because she thought she heard a woman screaming outside. We figured it was an animal or a cat fight, and because we have other animals around here and our cat was outside, my wife went downstairs to let him in. She said when he came inside his tail was all bushy, but also that when she opened the door to call him she was met with this horrifying shriek from the darkness. She didn't know what it was, just that it was some demonic animal. Based on that description we surmised it was probably a fox, and when I woke up I googled and found a clip that my daughter and wife confirmed was what she heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1mAd77Hr4
What's interesting, though, is that our cat didn't even react to the clip I played, staying sound asleep. Makes sense, the fox is not really a threat or predator, more an outdoor peer, and the cat is ambivalent at best about youtube clips. But when I called up a sound clip of coyotes, just to rule it out, he leapt from his chair in the other room at full attention, eyes wide, wildly looking toward the windows then to the computer then to me and back again. Because his tiny little brain apparently knows, through instinct or experience, what a coyote is, and knows they are bad news.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link
Meanwhile, our big guy was pretty happy to enjoy a near '70 degree day yesterday (though weirdly enough he seems to prefer colder weather; maybe it's the fur?)
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― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 March 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
We had a male indoor cat who, inexplicably, started pissing everywhere. On everything. There may be a way to break male cats of this habit, but I never found it. Anyway, he was exiled to the outdoors where he has happily lived for more than a dozen years. He never goes off very far, and despite the near constant presence of coyotes and foxes in the neighborhood has managed to stay in one piece.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 March 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
This morning in a pleasant change to the monotony of dead lizards, we instead woke up to a half eaten sausage roll my cats had dragged off the street onto our bedroom floor
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 21 March 2022 03:04 (two years ago) link
"it's for you"
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 21 March 2022 10:23 (two years ago) link
I do appreciate that this is there way of expressing love
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 21 March 2022 13:45 (two years ago) link
You provide food for us, we provide food for you kind of deal
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 21 March 2022 13:46 (two years ago) link
imagine your cats instead of Lana del Rey in "Video Games"
― sarahell, Monday, 21 March 2022 14:52 (two years ago) link