Political correctness and your "pet" dog or cat.

[Mkitty is pro kitty]

My cat leaves a 'to do' list for me, stuck to the refrigerator with a "Hello Kitty" magnet.

1. Put me on the fridge
2. Put me on the windowsill
3. Leave a sweater out
4. Leave me alone when I'm having a bathroom conference
5. Leave some baking soda in the doorway
6. Give me back my kitten!
7. Throw lots of wrappers and papers on the floor

[Shirina]

1. Put me on the fridge (snip)

8. Let me wander and meow
9. Be the recipient of a sandpaper tongue
10. Stay out of the back room while we're plotting against you
11. Get into cat wars over me (Ronda and Dave)
12. Eat ice cream sandwich so I can claw at it (Pippin)
13. Remind everyone (again) that I'm a BlUeY!!
14. Report on what I'm doing during random phone calls
15. Keep my used kitty litter in a garbage bag next to the bed

[Bluerobin]

Tenn, I am a Native American, because I was born here, so get a new pc term for Indians.
Yes, I do own my dog.

[Deleted]

How DARE you speak in such an unPC way, robin!!!!!!

[floridayankee]

Political correctness is Bovine Excrement!

[cme1201]

May 2, 2011 9:00:36 GMT -5 floridayankee said:

Political correctness is Bovine Excrement!

Then it's a lot of Cow Sh*t, piled so high we could stand on it and touch the moon.

[Deleted]

Better stop saying God Dog It as a curse word and just go back to potty mouth.
;D

[Deleted]

Frankfurters will not work as that nasty meat could be seen as referencing Rocky Horror Picture Show and Dr. Frankenfurter-- and is therefore a slur against gays. You need to THINK before you speak, Dem!!!


I suppose weiners could be seen as a derogatory term some apply to a man's personal parts....
What to do, what to do???

BAN the unmentionable!!!!!

[Deleted]

MEAT is a derogatory commented often directed towards women, you know....
AND all God's ... oops.. the universe's creatures were born free and meant to roam wild.

BAN THE WORD MEAT!!!!

[floridayankee]

May 2, 2011 9:16:31 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

No more hot dogs please. The word is frankfurter.

Don't tell that to Oscar Mayer....

[cme1201]

May 2, 2011 9:41:23 GMT -5 @krickitt said:

Frankfurters will not work as that nasty meat could be seen as referencing Rocky Horror Picture Show and Dr. Frankenfurter-- and is therefore a slur against gays. You need to THINK before you speak, Dem!!!


I suppose weiners could be seen as a derogatory term some apply to a man's personal parts....
What to do, what to do???

BAN the unmentionable!!!!!

Dr. Frankenfurter was not Gay, he was a sweet transvestite from transsexual transylvania.

[Deleted]

I have been his #1 fan for 35 years!!!!!! I hope it is PC to say that when you vote conservative.....

[cme1201]

I HATE THAT MOVIE.

My wife loves it and for the first 11 years of our marrage I had to watch it at least twice a year.

did I mention,

I HATE THAT MOVIE?

[Deleted]

LOL-- must be a gurl thing!!
;D
Does she make you watch Dirty Dancing, too??
;D

[cme1201]

She tried it once, didn't like how I could tie just about every scene in that movie to Grease, she refused to watch it with me anymore, I never understood why.

[Shirina]

I HATE THAT MOVIE.

Seconded.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I share my home with my wonderful DH, our own cats, as well as (currently) six foster kittens. There's no doubt in my mind that I'm certainly not in charge. That being said, I think the cats keep me around because I have opposable thumbs and can open their cat food. And I think they appreciate having their litter box scooped.

[marshabar1]

Paranoid cat owners have always claimed that their cats manipulate them into doing whatever the cats want. According to a report in Current Biology, it's true — and scientists have identified one of their insidious feline tactics.

According to research by University of Sussex scientist Karen McComb, the combined purring-crying of a hungry cat triggers nurturing instincts in human beings. Hungry cat cries have a certain high-frequency component paired with a lower frequency purr, making the cry seem urgent to human ears.

The team used recordings of cat cries to see how they affected human subjects. Even people that had never owned a cat said the high frequency cries sounded more urgent, making them want to respond to the cries quicker.

Interestingly, the cats seem more likely to use this purr-cry combination primarily with a single owner, meaning that they learn to use it only on their primary source of food. Cats that interact with one person more than others seem to learn to exaggerate this cry to better manipulate the humans around them. I guess that means cats are better at training us than we are at training them. Next, maybe we should look into those little white mice...



io9.com/#!5313766/cats-can-train-humans-better-than-humans-can-train-cats

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I rather like the phrase "insidious feline tactics" and plan to use it as often as I can for the rest of the day.

[marshabar1]

Help for cats whose humans show behaviour problems.


This blog is devoted to the study of human behaviour. We cats, who live with this sometimes unpredictable and always feeble minded species, can benefit from seeing their behaviour in its proper scientific context. The study of feline dilemmas, training problems, and difficulties with humans, can only benefit all of us. All of us train our humans - to buy the right food, for instance, but many of us do not have knowledge of how to improve our training methods. The human species is obviously not as intelligent as the cat, but nevertheless can learn quite a lot - if properly managed. Topics of interest include the use of claw and order, purring as a human reward, rubbing your human up the right way, when to bite, spraying as a method of making our wishes known, ignoring the human, human harassment, human inattention and sheer human stupidity. I welcome your questions.

george-online.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-do-you-train-your-human-to-buy.html

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

;D

[Cookies Galore]

May 2, 2011 17:21:56 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

Paranoid cat owners have always claimed that their cats manipulate them into doing whatever the cats want. According to a report in Current Biology, it's true � and scientists have identified one of their insidious feline tactics.

According to research by University of Sussex scientist Karen McComb, the combined purring-crying of a hungry cat triggers nurturing instincts in human beings. Hungry cat cries have a certain high-frequency component paired with a lower frequency purr, making the cry seem urgent to human ears.

The team used recordings of cat cries to see how they affected human subjects. Even people that had never owned a cat said the high frequency cries sounded more urgent, making them want to respond to the cries quicker.

Interestingly, the cats seem more likely to use this purr-cry combination primarily with a single owner, meaning that they learn to use it only on their primary source of food. Cats that interact with one person more than others seem to learn to exaggerate this cry to better manipulate the humans around them. I guess that means cats are better at training us than we are at training them. Next, maybe we should look into those little white mice...



io9.com/#!5313766/cats-can-train-humans-better-than-humans-can-train-cats

Excrement! I've been outsmarted by an animal that enjoys running down the hall and sliding on the runner. She is damn cute, though.

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[❤ mollymouser ❤]

What a beautiful Tortie girls! Two of my current foster kittens are torties!

Jo (Josephine)


Beth


Amy and Meg aren't torties, but wanted to be included!

[marshabar1]

Okay, here's my cat story.

Our cat, Punkin, a male, started limping really badly when we brought our newborn son home for the first time. It was a horrible limp, as if his hind end had been crushed. We inspected his entire body for injuries but there was not a spot we touched that he reacted to beyond purring, he dragged himself around for days but his appetite was fine and his eyes were normal. It was just the awful, pathetic limp. He'd meow plaintively to be lifted into his favorite chair. He still wanted to go outside even though he could hardly make it down the stairs.

After about a week I was standing at the window looking out over the meadow of 3 foot tall grass that was our yard at the time. Suddenly I saw Punkin' leaping above the grass hunting a vole. He'd pop up and then back down, leaping and pouncing. I was relieved, I thought, "well whatever that was, I guess it's better now."

Pretty soon I heard him at the door so I let him in expecting a full recovery. Not so. He still limped pathetically, still looked like he'd been crushed, still looked like he felt sorry for himself.

I decided he was full of it, that he was pretending, that he was jealous of the baby and I told him so in no uncertain terms, shaking my finger at him while I told him off. At some point he almost looked like he shrugged his shoulders and then he just sauntered away to his water bowl and then a nap. He didn't limp any more and we never brought up the unfortunate incident again.

He went on to save my life a few years later.

[Cookies Galore]

LMAO! That's such a cute story!

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

;D Cats are sneaky ... and quite wonderful

[marshabar1]

Thanks, Meghan. Totally true.


Years later I was out in that same yard in my garden one evening. The garden had a really tall fence around it to keep out moose. But I had forgotten to close the gate behind me. I was squatting down pulling some weeds when I heard a sound and looked up. There was our resident mama moose with her 2 week old calf coming into the garden up the path right toward me. She hadn't seen me.

There is nothing more dangerous than a startled mama moose, they'll do a tap dance on you until you stop squirming.

I didn't know what to do, I was frozen, I wished I could fly, I wished the ground would open underneath me. The fence was impossible to get over, I had nowhere to run. I couldn't move anyway.

The moose with her baby behind was about ten feet from me when all of a sudden Punkin bounded through the fence and planted himself in the path between the moose and me. He was all drawn back in a full force hissing fit, his ears flat and his eyes blazing. He looked like a little demon out of hell.

Well the moose thought so too! She saw him and she reared back and then started turning herself in that little path, little frantic steps until she was turned and then she bolted out of there forgetting all about her calf who finally figured out he needed to follow her.

As soon as the moose bolted I stupidly called out for my husband who was in the house. He came running around the side of the house and came face to face with the moose. She was so freaked she just bolted off down the driveway, still not even thinking about her calf. Finally she stopped down the road aways on a little rise that put her about level with us as we stood on the front porch. Her calf caught up with her there and we all stood looking at each other. I got the feeling she was asking herself what the bleep was the matter with us crazy people.

She had come by our house every morning at breakfast time and stopped to look at us in the window. The morning her calf was born she stood looking at us and then she looked down toward her hind leg and there was her brand new calf. It was like she was showing him off to us. She didn't come by our house any more after her adventure with Punkin.



In Washington state I was standing on my neighbor's porch one day when I heard all this ruckus in the alley. I looked up to see her cat chasing a deer down the alley full tilt. Turned out the cat loved to hide under bushes and jump out to startle deer. It was his hobby.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

Cats will chase off bears, too ~ I've seen videos.

[zibazinski]

I like when mine waits for me to clean her litter box then proceeds to use it once it's clean. DF wonders why I clean them every day. Well, there are 4 cats now for cryin' out tears. I'm thinking small pool this summer and filling it with kitty litter and let all 4 have at it!!!

[floridayankee]

May 2, 2011 10:05:40 GMT -5 cme1201 said:

I HATE THAT MOVIE.

My wife loves it and for the first 11 years of our marrage I had to watch it at least twice a year.

did I mention,

I HATE THAT MOVIE?

I don't get the whole RHPS cult thing. Never saw it and frankly I have absolutely no desire to.