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Chessie2

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My son said that I'm going to own ten cats when I'm an old lady. Then he laughed.

Is this what he thinks of me?! That I'm a crazy cat lady?! Half of the cats in this house belong to his father!
 

skip.knox

toujours gai, archie
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No one ever says crazy dog man. Nor, I should hasten to add, do they speak of a sane cat lady.

I wonder when older woman owning far too many cats became a trope.
 

Chessie2

Staff
Article Team
I wonder if it's because dogs are pack animals and cats are generally solitary in nature.
Not entirely accurate, I'm afraid. Cats live in colonies of individuals related to one another. They are social creatures but also supremely territorial. New cats who are not recognized by the other cats in a colony will be alone because they are not part of the group. The feral colony in our neighborhood shunned a stray who appeared one day back in the spring (he has since been adopted by our neighbors). When we fed the ferals, they would either allow him to eat first and kept their distance, or he ran when they were already eating first. They never interacted except to run away from one another. The stray is social with us while the ferals are social with one another. Think of a lion pride. It works the same way.

At home as pets, it works differently. The cats, not often related, will like certain individuals vs others because they are then housemates instead of family. This is why you'll see them fight even though we consider them to be part of a (human) family.
 
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I've got a thing for common garden snails. Whenever one came inside on a lettuce leaf from the garden (usually so tiny we almost didn't notice them until they were drowning in vinaigrette) I'd save them, raise them in a makeshift terrarium then release them back into the wild after they became egg producers. Used to give them the run of the place at night because they never seemed to wander far from their home/food source and you could always find them by the glimmering snail trail they left behind. Most took a turn around the desk or up the wall or a plant and came back or settled in for the night on the underside of a leaf. But then one did venture off somewhere and we never found it and I started to wonder what might happen if one of them got lost inside and then laid their eggs (usually they produce 100 or more at a time) where we could not see/find them. See, like spiders and people, I love the company of one or two. . . but not a hundred.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Saw this picture this morning...
Storm King
SHORPY-41913u.jpg

And I want to WRITE A STORY!!!
 

Ban

Troglodytic Trouvère
Article Team
Blue dude, you viewed the lewd food feud queue? Woo... Who threw two ewe shoes through Wu's roux?


Who designed English and can I speak to the manager?
Bloody great vowel shift.
 
It's now exactly one month since I moved into my college dorm. I feel slightly more sane than I did initially. It took me a while to figure out how to find time to eat, sleep, and shower.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Probably sharing WAAAAAY too much but I wanted to tell some people a strange thing that happened to me this morning.
For the first time in a long time I drank coffee and it tasted nice... it didn't hurt to drink it... I was enjoying the Ethiopian blend and not needing a caffeine fix. I've been dry for 10 days and that is the first time in longer than I can remember that that has happened.
The two may [ahem] be related.
Along with that it is a Friday, so winning all round.
And as an aside - You have to try Ethiopian coffee. It is like no other coffee you have tasted, sweet, soft, gently, mellow but still strong.
And I don't think that is the sobriety talking.
 

Svrtnsse

Staff
Article Team
And as an aside - You have to try Ethiopian coffee. It is like no other coffee you have tasted, sweet, soft, gently, mellow but still strong.
Once you start getting into the finer points of specialty coffee, there's a lot of interesting tastes and varieties to discover.
 

CupofJoe

Myth Weaver
Once you start getting into the finer points of specialty coffee, there's a lot of interesting tastes and varieties to discover.
I am lucky enough to work with people that travel the world and often they [are very kindly] bringing back a small bag of coffee for me.
But this coffee is on a different level. I've got to find a UK source as the air-fares to Addis are likely to be pricey...
 
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