Is this a shadow? A ghost? An air draft? This question shall forever remained unanswered. It feels as if dear Mimi Siku was still there looking at me. Chilling! Ah, the sweet bite of nostalgia. His scratch wan't half as sweet, we still bear the marks. But I miss you, oh rodenticidal friend. And I can testify of this : having a black cat is good fortune. Having ANY cat is.
hmmmmmmmmm, well that's your choice. i prefer dogs. cat's are too sneaky and have known to kill infants. their eyes are spooky. they carry fleas around like the billions of stars that hang overhead. ewww wee! i think they are like knats. who needs them? lol.
"cat's are too sneaky and have known to kill infants." This is an urban legend, imagined to explain the infant's sudden death syndrome. No case like you mention has ever been proven, to my knowledge. A cat who wants to kill would use its natural weapons (claws and fangs), not some sneaky suffocation. They're no danger to infants by themselves.
Unlike dogs, who are known and documented in modern press to have killed children out of "pack jealousy". When they don't know their proper place in the family of course, otherwise they're full of qualities. It is usually the master's mistake, but... a dog can commit manslaughter. That's a sad fact.
Eerie glowing eyes and fleas are just the same in dogs. I have a dog, I know. Plus, dogs smell. It doesn't mean they are dirty, I know it's just their biology, but I find it unpleasant. A clean cat has practically no smell at all.
As for cats being sneaky, I can tell you this for an established fact : a person who really knows cats will never find them deceitful, or even puzzling. In reality, cats are simply discreet. A dog is a social animal, living in a pack, and naturally needing to express as much as possible for group communication and cohesion. Cats are loners by nature, so they're far more reserved. But they feel just the same. They're just... sort of shy. If a cat chooses to give you its friendship, it's for life. Even with the most incredibly rebellious ones, like my Mimi Siku.
I won't deny it, I'm a cat person. While admitting that dogs are an excellent friend of man. Except that a dog can eventually be trained to attack and kill people, which makes me uneasy. You won't find Stephen King writing Cujo with a housecat!!! To be honest, what makes me prefer cats to dogs, is that dogs are by nature submissive. They love you as a leader, an order giver. I don't fancy submission, even when it's toward me. When a cat loves you, in its mind, it is as an equal, not as a chief. I prefer to have my friends see me as an equal, not a master. Animal friends as well as human friends. Behavioral abnormalities are by far more frequent in dogs because of this huge importance of authority in their vision of the world...
I've never heard the word "knat" before. Neither has Wiktionary. What language is that?
I'll tell you what : the day a dog picture is posted here, feel free to praise their kind and I promise I won't object. (As long as you stick to the truth.) I loved the wolf post a few months back. Now, please be silent and let me concentrate, because I'm going to worship the altar of Bastet, the cat goddess that freed the sun-god from the bowels of the greedy Nile crocodile.
"Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral." -- (Garfield, epicurean cat.)
Last year at 4 a.m, four dogs mauled a cat just under my window. I shouted and they ran off, but the cat was nearer death than alive. (I called Pet Rescue, they came and took it, and probably finished it.) I have never heard of cats attacking a dog except in self-defence.
I suspect extroverts like dogs, and introverts (like me) like cats.
"I suspect extroverts like dogs, and introverts (like me) like cats."
I suspect you're right.
A cat will never attack without reason if you leave it in peace. Self-defense, preys to eat, and very rarely for territorial domination. I once saw in the street the fascinating scene of two cats furious at each other. More like seething, in fact. Face to face, growling, and shrieking, hair standing up and ears all the way down and backwards... I watched it for a few minutes, and nothing else happened. Not a single blow was dealt. Only vocal and bodily intimidation. Seeing this, I wondered why humans couldn't be as angry at each other and at the same time show such wise restraint more often. The attitude of these two cats was clearly extreme mutual intimidation and explicit threat. But in most cases, they settle it without harming each other. Except for food or when blinded by the rut.
Imagine the "noble spectacle of war", if imitated by cats or dogs. How disgusting would it appear to us, thousands of animals gathered for the single purpose of slaughtering each other?
Who's the true beast? Sometimes I really wonder. Nature can be very cruel. Man can be far worse.
"To know the truth about someone, do not look at how they deal with their equals, but how they treat their inferiors." (J.K. Rowling)
"He who doesn't like animals doesn't love people." (French proverb.)
"The man who deals the first blow in a dispute is admitting he is all out of arguments." (Chinese proverb.)
Here is a brief version of the Egyptian legend of Bastet. I find it very beautiful:
The greedy Crocodile one evening swallowed the setting Sun descending over the water, to have its warmth all to himself. The next morning, Egypt remained in darkness. Life could not prosper this way. Nobody was daring enough to face the Crocodile, except the cat-goddess Bastet. She confronted the beast, forced him to open his jaw wide, and the Sun escaped, back in the sky to shine upon all. During its escape, the fiery Sun passed very close to the Cat, and this brush left traces on her. To this day, the Cat's eyes in bright light are full golden discs like the Sun, and sparks of light will come out of her fur if you rub it.
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I like that pussy :)
hey by the way........where's that sweetheart pascal at?
"where's that sweetheart pascal at?"
He's got a severe power shortage in Lebanon right now. I'll be back at blogging as soon as reasonably possible.
Gotta go now, I'm on my UPS batteries.
Is this a shadow? A ghost? An air draft? This question shall forever remained unanswered.
It feels as if dear Mimi Siku was still there looking at me. Chilling! Ah, the sweet bite of nostalgia.
His scratch wan't half as sweet, we still bear the marks. But I miss you, oh rodenticidal friend.
And I can testify of this : having a black cat is good fortune. Having ANY cat is.
Having ANY cat is.
hmmmmmmmmm, well that's your choice. i prefer dogs. cat's are too sneaky and have known to kill infants.
their eyes are spooky. they carry fleas around like the billions of stars that hang overhead. ewww wee!
i think they are like knats. who needs them? lol.
"cat's are too sneaky and have known to kill infants."
This is an urban legend, imagined to explain the infant's sudden death syndrome. No case like you mention has ever been proven, to my knowledge. A cat who wants to kill would use its natural weapons (claws and fangs), not some sneaky suffocation. They're no danger to infants by themselves.
Unlike dogs, who are known and documented in modern press to have killed children out of "pack jealousy". When they don't know their proper place in the family of course, otherwise they're full of qualities. It is usually the master's mistake, but... a dog can commit manslaughter. That's a sad fact.
Eerie glowing eyes and fleas are just the same in dogs. I have a dog, I know. Plus, dogs smell. It doesn't mean they are dirty, I know it's just their biology, but I find it unpleasant. A clean cat has practically no smell at all.
As for cats being sneaky, I can tell you this for an established fact : a person who really knows cats will never find them deceitful, or even puzzling. In reality, cats are simply discreet. A dog is a social animal, living in a pack, and naturally needing to express as much as possible for group communication and cohesion. Cats are loners by nature, so they're far more reserved. But they feel just the same. They're just... sort of shy. If a cat chooses to give you its friendship, it's for life. Even with the most incredibly rebellious ones, like my Mimi Siku.
I won't deny it, I'm a cat person. While admitting that dogs are an excellent friend of man. Except that a dog can eventually be trained to attack and kill people, which makes me uneasy. You won't find Stephen King writing Cujo with a housecat!!!
To be honest, what makes me prefer cats to dogs, is that dogs are by nature submissive. They love you as a leader, an order giver. I don't fancy submission, even when it's toward me. When a cat loves you, in its mind, it is as an equal, not as a chief. I prefer to have my friends see me as an equal, not a master. Animal friends as well as human friends. Behavioral abnormalities are by far more frequent in dogs because of this huge importance of authority in their vision of the world...
I've never heard the word "knat" before. Neither has Wiktionary. What language is that?
I'll tell you what : the day a dog picture is posted here, feel free to praise their kind and I promise I won't object. (As long as you stick to the truth.) I loved the wolf post a few months back. Now, please be silent and let me concentrate, because I'm going to worship the altar of Bastet, the cat goddess that freed the sun-god from the bowels of the greedy Nile crocodile.
"Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral." -- (Garfield, epicurean cat.)
Last year at 4 a.m, four dogs mauled a cat just under my window. I shouted and they ran off, but the cat was nearer death than alive. (I called Pet Rescue, they came and took it, and probably finished it.)
I have never heard of cats attacking a dog except in self-defence.
I suspect extroverts like dogs, and introverts (like me) like cats.
"I suspect extroverts like dogs, and introverts (like me) like cats."
I suspect you're right.
A cat will never attack without reason if you leave it in peace. Self-defense, preys to eat, and very rarely for territorial domination. I once saw in the street the fascinating scene of two cats furious at each other. More like seething, in fact. Face to face, growling, and shrieking, hair standing up and ears all the way down and backwards... I watched it for a few minutes, and nothing else happened. Not a single blow was dealt. Only vocal and bodily intimidation. Seeing this, I wondered why humans couldn't be as angry at each other and at the same time show such wise restraint more often. The attitude of these two cats was clearly extreme mutual intimidation and explicit threat. But in most cases, they settle it without harming each other. Except for food or when blinded by the rut.
Imagine the "noble spectacle of war", if imitated by cats or dogs. How disgusting would it appear to us, thousands of animals gathered for the single purpose of slaughtering each other?
Who's the true beast? Sometimes I really wonder. Nature can be very cruel. Man can be far worse.
"To know the truth about someone, do not look at how they deal with their equals, but how they treat their inferiors." (J.K. Rowling)
"He who doesn't like animals doesn't love people." (French proverb.)
"The man who deals the first blow in a dispute is admitting he is all out of arguments." (Chinese proverb.)
Here is a brief version of the Egyptian legend of Bastet. I find it very beautiful:
The greedy Crocodile one evening swallowed the setting Sun descending over the water, to have its warmth all to himself. The next morning, Egypt remained in darkness. Life could not prosper this way. Nobody was daring enough to face the Crocodile, except the cat-goddess Bastet. She confronted the beast, forced him to open his jaw wide, and the Sun escaped, back in the sky to shine upon all.
During its escape, the fiery Sun passed very close to the Cat, and this brush left traces on her. To this day, the Cat's eyes in bright light are full golden discs like the Sun, and sparks of light will come out of her fur if you rub it.
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