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The mission of a cat ...
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:28:10 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
I doubt anyone here is going to get touchy about it. It was a cute video. There's another one out there in which they're doing the same thing with a bowl of food and a much more contentious catitude, but that's buried somewhere in the middle of someone's half-hour long compilation and could take me hours to find again. However, Minnie does sometimes like to sit here and watch them with me, so if we happen upon it again, I'll post the URL here. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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On 1/19/2017 7:50 PM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 14:11:44 -0800, The New Other Guy wrote: There are people who THINK they can't do things, but haven't tied in the last 10 years, and there are (AND always will be) those who bitch and whine about anything they don't like, so to survive in Usenet, you need to develop a think skin, and ignore the trolls and a&^holes. That ESPECIALLY goes in the food group that you're already aware of. Even GLyN (Gato Loco y Negro) knows THAT. I know that too. I have been active on Usenet for more than ten years and know all about trolls and other commonly encountered annoyances, and how to deal with them. That's one reason I learned to read header info to begin with. ;-) I don't think Joy - or Jill, who is in that food group and who I know already looked at that video - are any of those things, so it doesn't hurt to be considerate, especially since I'm new to this group and would prefer for the regulars to consider me a welcome addition to this NG and not somebody they'd just as soon had stayed away. Absolutely. Until and unless you or any other poster says or does anything to make me want to killfile you... welcome. You love your cat Minnie, I can tell that. So hey, keep telling us about her. I love these kitten stories. The youngest cat I had was well past kitten stage, Persia was 2 or 3 according to the vet. Buffy is about 7 years old. I've never had a "kitten". Gato Loco y Negro - crazy black cat? I didn't take Spanish in school, so most of my understanding of Spanish came from the Hispanic woman next door, and that's all been verbal, not in print. I took Spanish in school and the only things I learned was how to ask where is the library and where is the bathroom. Neither of those phrases ever helped me. LOL John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:31:01 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
The youngest cat I had was well past kitten stage, Persia was 2 or 3 according to the vet. Buffy is about 7 years old. I've never had a "kitten". OMG...if you think adult cats are cute, you're really missing out on something until you experience one during kittenhood. There's just something about them that even people who don't like cats can't resist a kitten - they see one and they just HAVE to go, "Awwww..." John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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On 1/19/2017 10:39 PM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:31:01 -0500, jmcquown wrote: The youngest cat I had was well past kitten stage, Persia was 2 or 3 according to the vet. Buffy is about 7 years old. I've never had a "kitten". OMG...if you think adult cats are cute, you're really missing out on something until you experience one during kittenhood. There's just something about them that even people who don't like cats can't resist a kitten - they see one and they just HAVE to go, "Awwww..." John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY I never said I didn't say "awwww " when I see a kitten. Jill |
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On 1/19/2017 5:55 PM, Bastette wrote:
Joy wrote: No offense taken. The amount I understand about computers and their ilk is minute compared to what there is to understand. I frequently refer to my son or son-in-law for instruction, since they are both software engineers. Joy, there's so much information about computers to know and understand, that the amount I know is also minute compared to what there is to know, and I've worked in the software industry since the early 80s! You can't possibly know it all, it's too vast. Joyce Right. And I don't want to know it all. I just want to know how to do what I want to do, when I want to do it. Also, at 81, I don't learn new things as quickly as I used to, or remember them as well. joy |
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On 1/19/2017 6:06 PM, John Kasupski wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:28:10 -0500, jmcquown wrote: I doubt anyone here is going to get touchy about it. It was a cute video. There's another one out there in which they're doing the same thing with a bowl of food and a much more contentious catitude, but that's buried somewhere in the middle of someone's half-hour long compilation and could take me hours to find again. However, Minnie does sometimes like to sit here and watch them with me, so if we happen upon it again, I'll post the URL here. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY I have a couple of oval shaped dishes about six or seven inches long that I alternate for serving the canned food. I chop up the food and spread it out on the dish. A few times Pickles has wanted only a little bit, and I've seen them both eating out of the same dish, at opposite ends of the dish. Joy |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:21:29 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
On 1/19/2017 10:39 PM, John Kasupski wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:31:01 -0500, jmcquown wrote: I've never had a "kitten". OMG...if you think adult cats are cute, you're really missing out on something until you experience one during kittenhood. There's just something about them that even people who don't like cats can't resist a kitten - they see one and they just HAVE to go, "Awwww..." I never said I didn't say "awwww " when I see a kitten. Given what's in the quoted material above, I'm tempted to tell you not to have a kitten about it - but I wouldn't want you to take that comment the wrong way, so I'll just point out that I never accused you of saying any such thing grin. Kittens are the same cuteness we see in adult cats, but on steroids. Even if everything the kitten does is something you've seen an adult cat do half a million times before, it's still different, because to the kitten, everything is new - including you - and whether she's reaching out to bat your cell phone out of your hand or grabbing for the shoelace you dangle a few inches above her head, she'll eventually show you she's really even more interested in you than she is in the object she's reaching for. American poet Ogden Nash wrote, "The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat." For those of us who love cats, that's no trouble at all. |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:02:46 -0800, Joy wrote:
I have a couple of oval shaped dishes about six or seven inches long that I alternate for serving the canned food. I chop up the food and spread it out on the dish. A few times Pickles has wanted only a little bit, and I've seen them both eating out of the same dish, at opposite ends of the dish. I've seen another video where there are two cats eating out one of those plastic pet dishes that consists of two round bowls, one for food and one for water, and they're sliding it back and forth much the same way. One looks like a Siamese and the other is totally different. At one point a third cat - another Siamese a bit smaller than the other one - walks up and gets a quick drink from the water side before rapidly disappearing from the frame as if trying to get out of there without getting involved what the other two cats are up to. A friend of mine used to feed her two cats using one of those bowls, putting half the food in each of the two sides, and keeping a separate bowl nearby for water. Those two would do pretty much what you described your two doing. Meanwhile, on the floor below, her two dogs would sit there staring up at them as if thunderstruck by the sacrilege they were witnessing... John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 23:01:02 -0800, Joy wrote:
Also, at 81, I don't learn new things as quickly as I used to, or remember them as well. I'm still a few weeks shy of 59 and I already have that...much to the chagrin of my cat, who seems to think I'm doing it on purpose just to make her work that much harder to get me properly trained. John D. Kasupski Niagara Falls, NY |
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