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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
one month passes...
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?)
https://i.imgur.com/CkdvAS1.jpg
― 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