Posted on 02/11/2013 11:33:51 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
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Why is everyone hating on cats? Some guy in New Zealand wants them banned from his country. Some other guy in England says they're destroying the planet. And now a study in the U.S. has earned cats the title of "cold blooded killers."
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Is this really grounds for all the cat hate? Perhaps, fellow cat lovers, we've forgotten why these pets exist in the first place: to perch in teacups and fill our calendars with joy. Really--cups or no--they're actually good for our emotional and mental health.
Cat owners have better hearts. Their babies have sturdier immune systems. And everyone's generally more relaxed than they would be if they were being woken up by a particularly loud bird, or if they were being asked in dog-face "why would you abandon me again?" every time they left for work.
Cats use their vocal cords efficiently and systematically. They don't require all of your energy, because they're not as emotionally needy as other pets. That means they're energy-savers. How's that for green?
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Let's stop the anti-cat sentiment before someone tries to ban kittens here. We owe it to our cats. Not just because we've exploited them, and not because they care about what we think (most of them don't even keep up with the news), but because they're smarter than us. At least those 80 million feral cats killing birds put the work in before they feast. You know what mine does when he's hungry? He points his face at me in between naps. Someday these creatures are going to rule the world--if they don't already.
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I'm not seeing the problem......
Here’s some extreme cuteness from a very demanding, er, polite cat....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQS0DsfGLYc&feature=player_embedded
my cat practices and stores for future use both vocalizations and activities designed to make us go “awe, baby, let me pet you”. Then that trill of triumph!
Sneaky lil’ sods, aren’t they? ;^)
Insistent Cat is Insistent.
One of mine is Vomit Cat. And she wonders why she's always hungry.
I have her distant cousin.
We started out [as most parents do] with hamsters. The *rule* was they had to take care of them...and *NOT* to let the males in with the lone female. {How dumb is that?] well, one morning, we're sitting at breakfast and one of the boys asked: *where is *Kissing-Lady-On-A-Bridge-With-A-Mustashe*? [Yep, that was her name!]....we looked under a mound of cedar shavings...and there they were.....21 little pink pencil erasers!...just like your kitts, only much, much smaller. Oy!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane FW. :)
Cats not only are our companions, but they keep the rodents away, which would if left unchecked spread bubonic plaudge. :)=^..^-
I can testify that, since I first owned cats, I have not had the bubonic plague.
Is that a “catio”? :-)
Yes - ‘catio’ is a good word for it. The lounge chair, treehouse and director seats are for the cats.
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