I have skillz. Nobody gets hurt but they do get mad at me! Stand the evil box on end with its door opened. Lower them in carefully, tail end first, with all flying legs secured. Quickly shut door. Mischief managed! The backwards approach seems to discombobulate them long enough to do it quickly. I never get scratched, either.
From watching Bonnie I get the feeling that she's been a house-cat that's been re-wilded (sorry, don't know the proper word for that in english). She's got some of the mannerisms of a tame cat, but the awareness and poise of a wild animal.
Also, shouldn't it read: "...her time out in /her/ Jeep out back."?
I don't think she used to live with people, although she may spend some time around other people sometimes when she disappears for a bit. She was super super young when we first came across her -- but she DOES spend a lot of time with G and "socializes" like he does.
She also doesn't trust other people, even the ones who occasionally feed her.
Too much cuteness at your house! G looks great - how is he doing? Bonnie looks like a sweet little floof. Pets to them from me and purrs from Chloe and Persephone!! Thanks for the update!!
G is doing good but he's spending a lot of time at home after being "missing" for almost a whole day. The day before I was going to make him a vet appointment, he coughed up the nasty hairball that was bothering him. Coincidence I'm sure, but funny nevertheless.
Natasha the border collie says cats are *never* off topic, and then she winked!
Hmm...but I think it telling that she asked me to post this for her, instead of waiting for me to take a break from my over-posting.
Maybe she loves Minou Boris sooo much that she secretly *wants* to be trans-feline.
I would support her in this, because she is of the age of doggie consent, and I am a Classical Liberal, so I assume my (smartest) dog is, too. (And we all know dogs and their owners start becoming the same animal, in looks and mentality, as opposed to cats, who rule our world.)
I was cruising youtube a while back and I happened across something rather weird. Imagine a cross between John Lovitz, Uncle Fester, Nicola Tesla and a Biker Named Tiny. No really, has anyone watched any videos by Ken at Theoria Apophasis ? https://www.youtube.com/@kathodosdotcom/videos
I have been watching here and there for about a year now, here are a couple recent examples that are not sciency at all, but he does those too.
Trust me, initially it is just too much weirdness, but if you power through the first impression, it rather grows on you. Turns out he is smart as a whip and multi interest/multi talented to boot.
I have a stray that showed up and after a yr of him hanging out, I invited him in. Last Aug we decided he needed to be indoors full time. It took him a few weeks but he’s adjusted nicely. I was afraid he’d get hit by a car and I worried about him constantly.
It's basically a zoo around here, but there's only the one dog that ever bothers the cats. (The others are smart enough to realize if they don't start nothin, there won't be nothin.)
See, most dogs are smart like that (and smart about little else!).
Look, I know dogs (successful dog-walking business for 4 years back in the day), and here's how you do it.
Get dog as puppy.
Raise 1 (one) dog to be very friendly, i.e. model friendly behavior (*all* animals sense this) and socialize it (sometimes hard to do with a non-border-collie, trust me, but many techniques).
Have *only* that pet until it is mature adult (~3 years). (Unfortunately, in my experience, a certain amout of "lonliness" helps.)
Get young kittie, the younger the better, and *not* abused (unfortunately, this might eliminate most "rescue" kitties as candidates).
Spend quality time treating kitty as child in dog's presence.
Warning: pay attention and give equal attention to doggie while in kitty's presence. Don't let jealously in either animal (can be hard to apprehend) manifest and fester.
Foster play.
If this doesn't work, it wasn't meant to be. Like people, mutual attraction is *never* assured.
Now to bring this home. Either you succeed in making both canine *and* feline into Classical Liberals, or your barking up the wrong political endpoint, because in the end,
the cat decides who the boss is.
Can you tell I love animals, especially the human kind?
My old german shepard/golden retriever mix liked cats.
Until my parents-in-law's cat snuck up on him while he was asleep and smacked his ball-sack.
After that, he looked at cats - all cats, sadly - the same way he did rabbits: things that goes crunch.
So, no cat for us. Dogs we have now display the same behaviour. Cat = intruder = terminate. Good thing the nearest house with a cat is a ways off, plus the cats who live here and don't learn that the forest is full of things that consider them prey? They don't get to pass on their genes.
Harsh, but no harsher than how cats treat prey themselves, yes? Nature is amoral.
Funny story: When I was a kid we got a puppy that had vary large paws. He was so small he could crawl from the back seat floorboard to the front floorboard, under the seat of an early 1970's Japanese station wagon, I think it was based on the B210. Within a year he was YUGE. Turned out he was a cross between a Yellow Lab and a Great Dane !! He wasn't skinny like a Dane though, just Large like a super sized Lab. One day Mom brought a cat home and put the cat into the small back yard with the dog who was sleeping at the time, just to see what would happen. The cat, being a kitten, didn't know any better and walked right up onto the dogs rib cage and started fluffing a comfy napping spot. (You know, just like your cat does to your head at 3:30am) and the kitten woke the dog up and he jumped up, swiveled around and gave the kitten a SNIFF and a mild growl (Unpleasant waking experience no doubt) the kitten reared back and hissed and planted a very sharp claw into the dogs nose which drew blood after he yelped. After that initial experience, the cat could be seen on any given day, ..... sleeping on the ribs of that Very large dog. There was never an issue after that, .... OR ELSE !! lol True story, not even making it up.
Watching that transpire is where I learned to deal with bullies no matter their size. Effective first strike !!
That's sort of how gangster got his name. The aforementioned puppy came to sniff the new addition, and *whack whack whack whack* quickly learned his place in the hierarchy.
Except it was more comical than that, since the puppy was just over a year old and by then a Huge Dog and the Kitten was very very small, barely weened. There was also no "Whack, Whack, Whack" either, just One swack with a Strategically placed claw. It was SO funny, but I still felt bad for my dog, because he wasn't attacking the kitten, just inspecting the disturbance. He got tuned up right quick though and somewhere buried in the family archive is a Polaroid picture of that same kitten as a fully grown Cat, sleeping ON that Dog's side. It was a near daily occurrence.
Mine got used to our dog. When he was outside he would want to come up on the porch to eat while our dog was on guard. Food or the dog? He chose the food. 😄
She's out there probably 1 out of every 2 or 3 days, she just had an uncanny way of dodging the recording device! I don't worry unless her food goes untouched for 2 or 3 days at a time.
I've tried to bring her inside a couple times and she wasn't having any part of it.
She knows the dogs live here, but I'm not 100% she understands that G lives here, too.
Edit: realistically, having an outdoor cat is about the same as having an indoor cat -- you get about 5 minutes of attention a day. (more if you're the current nap spot of choice)
She's got a cat bed up in the front seat that I catch her curled up in at least once a week. Sometimes in the morning she crawls out from under the trailer, but I dunno if she sleeps there or just hangs out there after she wakes up (many hours before I do).
Sneaky little shits that are extremely hard not to love.
Disagree with heading. Cats are NEVER "Off-Topic"!
I think her brother lives with me. Same face.
Oh my gosh, she is so adorable.
She really is.
SC - about damn time, and does it get any better?
I'm glad he's better now! You know how they are - that may not be a coincidence! Going to the v-e-t is never a fun idea. We spell it. Just in case.
just putting them into the prison box is a gruesome task
I have skillz. Nobody gets hurt but they do get mad at me! Stand the evil box on end with its door opened. Lower them in carefully, tail end first, with all flying legs secured. Quickly shut door. Mischief managed! The backwards approach seems to discombobulate them long enough to do it quickly. I never get scratched, either.
From watching Bonnie I get the feeling that she's been a house-cat that's been re-wilded (sorry, don't know the proper word for that in english). She's got some of the mannerisms of a tame cat, but the awareness and poise of a wild animal.
Also, shouldn't it read: "...her time out in /her/ Jeep out back."?
I don't think she used to live with people, although she may spend some time around other people sometimes when she disappears for a bit. She was super super young when we first came across her -- but she DOES spend a lot of time with G and "socializes" like he does.
She also doesn't trust other people, even the ones who occasionally feed her.
Too much cuteness at your house! G looks great - how is he doing? Bonnie looks like a sweet little floof. Pets to them from me and purrs from Chloe and Persephone!! Thanks for the update!!
G is doing good but he's spending a lot of time at home after being "missing" for almost a whole day. The day before I was going to make him a vet appointment, he coughed up the nasty hairball that was bothering him. Coincidence I'm sure, but funny nevertheless.
Natasha the border collie says cats are *never* off topic, and then she winked!
Hmm...but I think it telling that she asked me to post this for her, instead of waiting for me to take a break from my over-posting.
Maybe she loves Minou Boris sooo much that she secretly *wants* to be trans-feline.
I would support her in this, because she is of the age of doggie consent, and I am a Classical Liberal, so I assume my (smartest) dog is, too. (And we all know dogs and their owners start becoming the same animal, in looks and mentality, as opposed to cats, who rule our world.)
Does this make any sense?
I see you are wasting time on Spawn of Satan again.
Haters gonna hate..........hate, hate, hate, hate.
Mr. Heath, or cats? [devil emoji here]
I was cruising youtube a while back and I happened across something rather weird. Imagine a cross between John Lovitz, Uncle Fester, Nicola Tesla and a Biker Named Tiny. No really, has anyone watched any videos by Ken at Theoria Apophasis ? https://www.youtube.com/@kathodosdotcom/videos
I have been watching here and there for about a year now, here are a couple recent examples that are not sciency at all, but he does those too.
04/28/2023: 😨 They're LYING TO US! 🧐 Seeing LIFE more clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SL8mdMp-Y
04/25/2023: 🤔 GETTING SERIOUS about our situation 🧐: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r8m83msAE8
Trust me, initially it is just too much weirdness, but if you power through the first impression, it rather grows on you. Turns out he is smart as a whip and multi interest/multi talented to boot.
Wow. It's almost enough to get me to learn how to cruise youtube!
Happy kitty, happy life !
"Everything a kitty needs…..food, water, shelter, and toys!"
And a Jeep.
Just in case she wants to go off-roading!
I have a stray that showed up and after a yr of him hanging out, I invited him in. Last Aug we decided he needed to be indoors full time. It took him a few weeks but he’s adjusted nicely. I was afraid he’d get hit by a car and I worried about him constantly.
Bonnie will sometimes hang out in the backyard, but we have a rather enthusiastic puppy who doesn't yet understand he is the kitty's servant.
You have a dog too?!
My dogs love my cat. I was worried initially. But she definitely is the boss.
It's basically a zoo around here, but there's only the one dog that ever bothers the cats. (The others are smart enough to realize if they don't start nothin, there won't be nothin.)
See, most dogs are smart like that (and smart about little else!).
Look, I know dogs (successful dog-walking business for 4 years back in the day), and here's how you do it.
Get dog as puppy.
Raise 1 (one) dog to be very friendly, i.e. model friendly behavior (*all* animals sense this) and socialize it (sometimes hard to do with a non-border-collie, trust me, but many techniques).
Have *only* that pet until it is mature adult (~3 years). (Unfortunately, in my experience, a certain amout of "lonliness" helps.)
Get young kittie, the younger the better, and *not* abused (unfortunately, this might eliminate most "rescue" kitties as candidates).
Spend quality time treating kitty as child in dog's presence.
Warning: pay attention and give equal attention to doggie while in kitty's presence. Don't let jealously in either animal (can be hard to apprehend) manifest and fester.
Foster play.
If this doesn't work, it wasn't meant to be. Like people, mutual attraction is *never* assured.
Now to bring this home. Either you succeed in making both canine *and* feline into Classical Liberals, or your barking up the wrong political endpoint, because in the end,
the cat decides who the boss is.
Can you tell I love animals, especially the human kind?
My old german shepard/golden retriever mix liked cats.
Until my parents-in-law's cat snuck up on him while he was asleep and smacked his ball-sack.
After that, he looked at cats - all cats, sadly - the same way he did rabbits: things that goes crunch.
So, no cat for us. Dogs we have now display the same behaviour. Cat = intruder = terminate. Good thing the nearest house with a cat is a ways off, plus the cats who live here and don't learn that the forest is full of things that consider them prey? They don't get to pass on their genes.
Harsh, but no harsher than how cats treat prey themselves, yes? Nature is amoral.
It's a good thing my first girlfriend didn't...
Or, just get lucky.
Thanks, M. Sim.
Did you like this because getting "lucky" with individuals of any species *is* Classical Liberalism on a personal scale?
(As usual, I ask rhetoricals, so no response or heart necessary, you know that!)
Funny story: When I was a kid we got a puppy that had vary large paws. He was so small he could crawl from the back seat floorboard to the front floorboard, under the seat of an early 1970's Japanese station wagon, I think it was based on the B210. Within a year he was YUGE. Turned out he was a cross between a Yellow Lab and a Great Dane !! He wasn't skinny like a Dane though, just Large like a super sized Lab. One day Mom brought a cat home and put the cat into the small back yard with the dog who was sleeping at the time, just to see what would happen. The cat, being a kitten, didn't know any better and walked right up onto the dogs rib cage and started fluffing a comfy napping spot. (You know, just like your cat does to your head at 3:30am) and the kitten woke the dog up and he jumped up, swiveled around and gave the kitten a SNIFF and a mild growl (Unpleasant waking experience no doubt) the kitten reared back and hissed and planted a very sharp claw into the dogs nose which drew blood after he yelped. After that initial experience, the cat could be seen on any given day, ..... sleeping on the ribs of that Very large dog. There was never an issue after that, .... OR ELSE !! lol True story, not even making it up.
Watching that transpire is where I learned to deal with bullies no matter their size. Effective first strike !!
That's sort of how gangster got his name. The aforementioned puppy came to sniff the new addition, and *whack whack whack whack* quickly learned his place in the hierarchy.
Except it was more comical than that, since the puppy was just over a year old and by then a Huge Dog and the Kitten was very very small, barely weened. There was also no "Whack, Whack, Whack" either, just One swack with a Strategically placed claw. It was SO funny, but I still felt bad for my dog, because he wasn't attacking the kitten, just inspecting the disturbance. He got tuned up right quick though and somewhere buried in the family archive is a Polaroid picture of that same kitten as a fully grown Cat, sleeping ON that Dog's side. It was a near daily occurrence.
Mine got used to our dog. When he was outside he would want to come up on the porch to eat while our dog was on guard. Food or the dog? He chose the food. 😄
We don't deserve cats!
Really not much nicer than having strays show back up! Heartwarming:-)
She's out there probably 1 out of every 2 or 3 days, she just had an uncanny way of dodging the recording device! I don't worry unless her food goes untouched for 2 or 3 days at a time.
Is she so ungonverable that she doesn't want to be part of family?
I've tried to bring her inside a couple times and she wasn't having any part of it.
She knows the dogs live here, but I'm not 100% she understands that G lives here, too.
Edit: realistically, having an outdoor cat is about the same as having an indoor cat -- you get about 5 minutes of attention a day. (more if you're the current nap spot of choice)
Do you know where she sleeps or calls "home"
She's got a cat bed up in the front seat that I catch her curled up in at least once a week. Sometimes in the morning she crawls out from under the trailer, but I dunno if she sleeps there or just hangs out there after she wakes up (many hours before I do).
Shoot. That cat has finished half her day before you get your butt out of bed...lol...;)