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That's actually a cool idea. I wonder if the forum software would accept emoji in the username....
The poster formally known as Sandbox General.
Like Prince.
I dunno either but I think I'd rather keep reading the posts of SandboxGeneral, no matter if the author's name wraps in the side panel or if I have to squint to see it as a unbroken banner.
When I see SBG, I think first of Susan Glasser the New Yorker journalist (who is married to NYT's Peter Baker) and former editor at Politico, Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. She is sbg1 at Twitter...
Maybe we should just call him Sir the way I'm sure his cats do (?).
Hm.
Do cats call anyone "sir"? I would have thought that cats assume that the world and their humans exist to serve them. The Ancient Egyptians thought so, anyway.
Describing the difficult task of co-ordinating, or directing, or guiding a group of intractable humans as being "as difficult as herding cats" (the terms in which my brother described a Chief Whip's job last night on the phone) would seem to support that thesis.
Now, if your post referred to a dog, yes, possibly, as dogs do seem to have a respectful air to their would be masters.
Hah, you are right (and I was joking).
I would expect cats still pass down to their offspring all those legends of having been the equal of household gods, whereas dogs may instead pass along dire tales of having been outside and alone in the dark of winter. How else explain the clear difference in meaning when a cat or a dog waves its tail at a human?
I always thought a dog wagging it’s tail with a human was it’s way of saying “I love you my human master. Let’s play a game and bond some more!”
When a cat does it it felt more like “Listen up pathetic ignorant human scum, come any closer to me and I’ll rip your ******* eyeballs out and pee all over the new carpet...”
I once had a haughty and hardy indoor-outdoor cat with a couple pins in her leg, which pins she acquired after an adventure with a passing motorcycle at the age of nine months. The pins used to zing her when she'd come in from the -15º cold and hit a kitchen that was up to around 80º or better from the woodstove. I learned not to reach out and pet her as she savored the warmth in those first few seconds, because in the next instant she'd sink her teeth into my wrist, figuring I was who caused that sudden pain in her leg...
Wise words from your dad.
An old girlfriend once had a cat. The little b*****d scratched me on the nose so hard that I can still see the scar some 15 years later. My crime? I was sleeping in the bed. I'm sure glad he only deemed my nose worthy of damage, would've been really inconvenient to lose an eye, for example.
Still, I kind of liked the little furball.
Cats have retractable claws.
Thus, they choose when they think they might need to use them.
A possessive or jealous, cat, perhaps?
Perhaps. We had an interesting relationship, most of the times we were in the same space he'd lay on my lap or in very close proximity purring for hours letting me pet him, and then at the drop of a hat he'd think I was the devil, hissing at and avoiding me every chance he got. I'm really not that well versed in the behavioral aspects of being a cat so beats me what the reason ultimately was.
Never had the same kind of problems with dogs, though.
Did the hissing fits occur when you were perhaps displaying affection to the last in your life at the time, who was, after all, the cat's "owner" (insofar as a human can ever be described as a cat's "owner")?
Does it have to be life or death or will they bring them out if they're just moody?
Interestingly no. That's what was curious about the whole thing. I could be cooking, coming out of the shower, watching a movie, talking on the phone and pacing around the living room, stuff like that, so the reaction of the cat wasn't tied to any one specific scenario. Girlfriend at the time was also at a loss as to why it was happening since it pretty much only happened when I was there. Possibly some sort of primal reaction linked to territoriality, however sudden and infrequent.
It's cats we're talking about. There is no human logic that can be applied behind any of their moves, ideas, moods. They just do whatever they want to do, we cat owners are here just to serve them.
If it "pretty much only happened when you were there" you have your answer right there.
Not just territorial, but reminding you of just who this human female was supposed to answer to. And no, it wasn't you.
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