Posted on 09/12/2014 10:08:13 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
After years of refusing to have anything to do with cats, I remarried. My wife has two cats. They sit in my lap and I end up petting them for hours.
They sleep in bed with me. They purr. They prefer me over her.
I love my dogs, but I am being corrupted by cats.
Are cats liberal or conservative?
> Are cats liberal or conservative?
There’s a nice, non-controversial topic.
Congrats on entering the service of Our Feline Masters.
There is a world-wide feline conspiracy, to be sure.
Myself, I do not avoid cats, but I do deny them my essence.
Dogs dig us, but we all know cats are laughing at us.
I will not truckle to these cruel dwarf tygers.
Anarchists to the core.
If you’re going to truckle at all, do it privately and wash your hands afterwards.
“The weather had freshened almost to coldness, for the wind was coming more easterly, from the chilly currents between Tristan and the Cape; the sloth was amazed by the change; it shunned the deck and spent its time below. Jack was in his cabin, pricking the chart with less satisfaction than he could have wished: progress, slow, serious trouble with the mainmast-- unaccountable headwinds by night-- and sipping a glass of grog; Stephen was in the mizentop, teaching Bonden to write and scanning the sea for his first albatross. The sloth sneezed, and looking up, Jack caught its gaze fixed upon him; its inverted face had an expression of anxiety and concern. 'Try a piece of this, old cock,' he said, dipping his cake in the grog and proffering the sop. 'It might put a little heart into you.' The sloth sighed, closed its eyes, but gently absorbed the piece, and sighed again.Some minutes later he felt a touch upon his knee: the sloth had silently climbed down and it was standing there, its beady eyes looking up into his face, bright with expectation. More cake, more grog: growing confidence and esteem. After this, as soon as the drum had beat the retreat, the sloth would meet him, hurrying toward the door on its uneven legs: it was given its own bowl, and it would grip it with its claws, lowering its round face into it and pursing its lips to drink (its tongue was too short to lap). Sometimes it went to sleep in this position, bowed over the emptiness.
'In this bucket,' said Stephen, walking into the cabin, 'in this small half-bucket, now, I have the population of Dublin, London, and Paris combined: these animalculae-- what is the matter with the sloth?' It was curled on Jack's knee, breathing heavily: its bowl and Jack's glass stood empty on the table. Stephen picked it up, peered into its affable bleary face, shook it, and hung it upon its rope. It seized hold with one fore and one hind foot, letting the others dangle limp, and went to sleep.
Stephen looked sharply round, saw the decanter, smelt to the sloth, and cried, 'Jack, you have debauched my sloth.”
See post #17
You have been won over by the good side. Cats well cared for can change you life for the better.
From one biologist: "Sloths STINK and you would never want one as a pet, plus, its a wild animal. Anyone who owns one as a pet needs to sort their issues out, scum."
LOL..Love the author and books, but am equally impressed you could call that passage up will!
The cutest animal on earth is the Slow Loris (next to the cat, of course)
Stay classy, biologists!
The cats and sloths are really cute and attractive.
However, our AG looks exactly like the sloths.
Can’t get over the resemblance. See a sloth,
think of the AG... Can’t help myself.
Not the fault of the sloths, either.
Does your AG have moss growing on him?
I was talking about OUR AG, Eric the Red Holder.
And he looks mossy enough to me! He looks like a
rat or a sloth, depending on the angle.
Ah! I was thinking state AG, for some reason.
And yes, he does look like a sloth or a rat. (My apologies to both for the comparison.)
Aw..I felt sorry for the poor sloth.
;-)
Yes, no self-respecting rat would claim any relation to him.
Even sloths are higher class and more honest.
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