Yep. Cats are fricking weird
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lizkat
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Yep. Cats are fricking weird
Cool that they've been around humans for millennia, but compared to dogs have become "domesticated" only on their own terms.
That’s such a cat thing lol
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That sounds like it was looped out of something by The HU.
lizkat
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Wow the game Kitty Collector+ really does have one named Joe DiMeowgio. Finally got a photo of him "at bat".
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Did you look up stillsuit as well?
The slow claw penetrates the shield. It's only a matter of time before someone attaches a weirding module to a cat.
lizkat
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Yeah. Gross.
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Also not theoretically feasible, but hey, if you can travel across the galaxy in spaceships powered by worm poop, it doesn't seem like such a stretch.
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I am wondering how our boy Gismo is going to handle the time change. In another thread we were discussing how we as people handle/don't handle it and I have to wonder about him.
He has an internal clock that is as accurate as any humans. He comes down with us in the evening to watch TV and within 5 minutes of 10 o'clock he is pacing and fussing because he wants to go up and have his "dinner" ( we can't free feed the boys because they would be bigger than they are). He was a mess Tuesday because we were watching the election returns, the game and a recorded program. So at about 10:30 the wife finally got tired of him and went up and fed them. Fifteen minutes later he was back down fussing because his routine got messed up.
So I have no idea what is going to happen Sunday evening. He is going to want to be fed by his clock at 9, which isn't going to happen otherwise he will be waking me up to feed them breakfast. So I guess we will have to listen to him fuss for an hour or so.
Anyone else have cats with internal clocks?
He has an internal clock that is as accurate as any humans. He comes down with us in the evening to watch TV and within 5 minutes of 10 o'clock he is pacing and fussing because he wants to go up and have his "dinner" ( we can't free feed the boys because they would be bigger than they are). He was a mess Tuesday because we were watching the election returns, the game and a recorded program. So at about 10:30 the wife finally got tired of him and went up and fed them. Fifteen minutes later he was back down fussing because his routine got messed up.
So I have no idea what is going to happen Sunday evening. He is going to want to be fed by his clock at 9, which isn't going to happen otherwise he will be waking me up to feed them breakfast. So I guess we will have to listen to him fuss for an hour or so.
Anyone else have cats with internal clocks?
I suspect our cat has an internal clock, but if he does, he's never been particularly forthcoming about it. He does tend to be more active at night, when he runs up and down our stairs and periodically visits our bed. We haven't noticed any behavioral changes during time transitions. But we don't feed him at fixed times — we just fill his bowl once a day and he eats when he wants. I know this is frowned upon, but he seems to self regulate and his weight is good.
lizkat
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Oh yeah. when I lived in California, the matriarch of the three Siamese cats the family had was about 20 years old and belonged to the grandma of the household. Everyone was to gather in grandma's sitting room at 11pm for the late news. Cat would then settle on grandma's lap and be fed kitty treats during the news. Whoever resisted the roundup was pursued by that old cat and treated to verbal abuse like only a Siamese cat can dish out, probably 120 decibels.
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Fascinating.
Actually, I have known cats with astonishingly accurate internal clocks.
At the risk of quoting myself, I'll simply cite a post I wrote a few months ago.
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Both? Cats have a keen sense of … spacetime? Well, that would explain why Erwin put a cat in the box, rather than some other creature.
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Wow!
That guy is brilliant. The compositing work is really good too. He did it roughly as I would have expected, but that must have taken an incredible number of hours.
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We are picking our British Short hair up on the 18th November. My daughters are adamant the name of this kitten is going to be ‘Beau’ as they like the name, however the kitten is female and this is a male name. We are thinking to get around this we’ll spell it ‘Boe’ or something like that. What do you guys think? I’m staying out of it as much as I can and just buying the accessories I’ve been told to buy [emoji2359]
This is the kitten we’ve gone for:
This is the kitten we’ve gone for:
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We are picking our British Short hair up on the 18th November. My daughters are adamant the name of this kitten is going to be ‘Beau’ as they like the name, however the kitten is female and this is a male name. We are thinking to get around this we’ll spell it ‘Boe’ or something like that. What do you guys think? I’m staying out of it as much as I can and just buying the accessories I’ve been told to buy [emoji2359]
This is the kitten we’ve gone for:
Since you are in the UK, wouldn't that simply be a "short hair"?
Sweet looking kitty.
The female version of Beau is Belle.IIRC, the guy who does his is a video editor. My favorite one is from The Matrix, with Home Alone a close second, but all of them are good.
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Ahh yes.. the movie that made drunk boxing into science fiction. Also the Home Alone one is pretty believable.
