Posted on 06/18/2013 5:41:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To cleanse the palate. I was going to do another post on the disappointment that is Rubio and how the “American workers can’t cut it” quote from his aide looks even worse in context, but neither of those topics depressed me enough. I needed something more eeyorish, something to make me despair about the judgment of the electorate at large, not just a bunch of Beltway RINOs who aren’t even smart enough to pander to the right constituency. And then, thanks to PPP, I found it.
I can accept defeat on this question but I can’t accept a landslide. Every day, on various topics, I find commenters tweeting “America is finished.” Only now do I realize that they’re right.
No daylight between the RINOs and true conservatives there, my friends. This is why we lose elections.
The partisan split is surprising. Not the Republican numbers, but the Democratic ones:
I thought there’d be a stronger feline showing among both Dems and women. Nope. Both top out at 26 percent. In a world of partisan gaps and gender gaps, the population errs on this one uniformly.
In fact, unless I missed something in PPP’s crosstabs, there’s only one demographic that puts cats within double digits of dogs. It’s landslide after landslide when testing for sex, race, ideology, geography, even vegan/vegetarianism. Only one group makes a contest of it. The free-thinkers, the contrarians — the young adults:
Gay marriage, pot legalization, opposition to intrusive government, and cats (almost). Second look at the brightness of America’s future?
Update: On second thought, Jay Cost figured out a way to make me sufficiently depressed about Rubio.
It is hard to distinguish Rubio's approach on this from *exactly* what everybody expected Charlie Crist to do …
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) June 17, 2013
… Deal with Dems, make himself look good, make his own party look bad.
— Jay Cost (@JayCostTWS) June 17, 2013
Bzzzzt! Wrong. I can walk my cats on a leash, and several of them will go for a walk with my wife WITHOUT one.
57-19? Really? Many nursing homes and ‘extended care’ facilities have cats on site for the residents. It would be nice if shelters would pick upon this and expand such programs...the lives of many kitties could be spared.
The difference between cats and dogs...I think this explains it pretty well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTbbYLvhDSM
My mother used to use a baking soda & water paste to remove the smell. Can’t remember if that worked.
White vinegar mixed in with the soap and water helps.
I’ve got a similar problem, although they do pee on almost everything in my basement. I’ve got 9 cat pans positioned all over, not sure if some are missing on purpose, or just missing. My husband bought Nature’s Miracle, and not sure if that works, cause I’m still cleaning up every day. If I figure out who’s doing it, I swear I’m going to throw them out the door. We live rural, woods, they can fend for themselves. Not a high traffic area, just raccoons and foxes to deal with...
Cats are nice, I had cats all my life until a couple of years ago when they started making my eyes itch.
Dogs, on the other hand, are AWESOME! I hope I never have to live without dogs.
Back when my living circumstances were different we had multiple cats. Often, we’d take an evening stroll and the cats came too, sans leashes, as we were on a farm. One in particular, the older of the pack, would meander off by himself, and situate himself a little ahead of us, and he would yowl and yowl at the top of his lungs...as if screaming...*I’ve had enuf of this...let’s go home. NOW!* And if we got ahead of him, he bound like a gazelle in the tall grass and start yowling again.
Part of this *pack* was a fluffy guy who loved the snow and he’d follow us out the door and walk in our footprints. He’d follow us out of the yard when we X-C skied and keep to the tracks from the skis to ease his walkie. I was on my skis and he jumped in my path...I tried to avoid him and fell and dislocated my wrist. Oh well.
Good memories....mostly. ;)
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL we have added another to the menagerie since last we posted to a Kitty Ping thread.
Walked into one of the major chain pet stores over in whatchamacallit Valley to pick up some dog kibble for the ancient ones, and they had a doggie rescue going on. That was a week ago Saturday. There on the floor of one of the cages lay this wierd looking dog that was obviously part Schnauzer, and the good Lord only knows what else.
I said to Mrs. RQSR “I want that dog”, and turned to walk out of the place before I had him. Last thing we need is another dog. Mrs. RQSR said to me “I want that dog”. I thought “Oh no”.
We cancelled all the other shopping destinations for the day, and took that dog home.
We’ve had all the usual bad things that happen with a new critter the first few days, but now the dog acts as though he owns the place, and we are freeloaders.
Everything is fine. He gets along with the cats well, and with the other indoor dog. He obviously had a good home at one time, but something happened I’m certain was not his fault, and he was dumped.
So now we are up to four dogs again, but as I said before in other kitty ping threads the other three being extremely old will be going to the great doggie park in heaven soon. We keep them as comfortable, and loved as possible until that day.
In staying with the theme of this thread we are compelled to state our preference of either cats, or dogs I s’pose, and that would be cats over the dogs, but we do love them both.
FAR too many people abandon their animals when they pass that cute 'kitten/puppy' stage...those people are insensitive, animal-abusing bast*rds; in my humble opinion. I care for them, but I do not appreciate getting stuck with their tab.
I live near a mom and pop pet store, which I shop in. a few weeks after Easter the shop is full of rabbits who need homes. People buy bunnies for Easter and they get rid of them. It’s a shame.
I have a friend who rescues those rabbits and finds them good homes.
Btw, I’m a cat person. I had a cat who is now at the rainbow bridge but she peed on everything too. I had two boxes for her. She would only use the box once. Had to use a clean box, if it was dirty, she would use the floor. Te carpet, the bed, anywhere she liked.
I too. I like male cats, but also female dogs. The opposite everyone tags each species as when discussing, or advertising, etc.
I don’t get the animosity of some people toward 1 of the species. I like them.
Congratulations on your new addition! Post a pic, please?
Buy a CHOCOLATE rabbit, for crying out loud. :-)
I wish people would too
Sorry on the pic as I don’t know that procedure, and although I was learning about it at one point when Kodak declared their bankruptcy they sold a division of their works to some outfit, cancelled out the program of theirs we had to download from our camera to the ‘puter, and I can’t use my camera for that purpose now. I have to purchase a new one, or find out how to get the program back with they who purchased that from Kodak. It’s all very frustrating to this ‘puter novice.
I believe the best bet for us is to get a new camera not involved with Kodak that we can deal with whomever we want whenever we want. It’s a shame as the little camera we have took very nice pictures, and was simple enough for us disinterested types to use.
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