Last night, this beast nearly cost me a lot of money.
She decided to jump up on my desk, but she is not a sinuous, agile feline — she is an inept, clumsy idiot. She landed on my webcam and sent it flying, and then tried to recover badly by leaping up and back, ending up between the wall and my computer, where there’s nothing but a tangle of cables which did not provide a solid purchase. She scrabbled frantically at the cables, disconnecting most of them, and hurled herself at the wall, then bounced into the back of the monitor.
I don’t know what she did next because all I saw was that my computer shut down and the monitor was toppling forward into my face.
Anyway, if anyone needs a demolition cat I’m willing to throw her into a box and pay for the postage.
This is the typical cat personality that make them so ‘charming’. Now imagine you have adopted a big cat from a circus or something, to give it appropriate veterinary care.
I know two examples from eastern Europe (a puma and a black leopard).
Fortunately those big cats are much more well-behaved. Maybe this is like the thing with small dogs vs big, calm dogs?
Maybe you could sneak her into the White House, PZ, and have her deal with Trump. Of course the notorious Pumba the caracal, star of many YouTube videos, would be a better choice. He might actually eat Trump, pleasing his many fans who keep expecting him to kill the person behind the camera of his videos.
http://www.youtube.com/shorts/wTVko_qMsuo
Sorry, I already have two cats. One is a beautiful but stupid Norwegian forest cat, the other is a young and flighty mixed breed. Just yesterday, I had the windows and doors open because it was 83F. The forest cat was at my office window, begging to be let in. I yelled, The fucking door is open! No good. I had to go to the door and wave at her before she caught on. While the other one begs for food, rejects what I put down, then returns 30 minutes later and begs for something else. When I say beg, I mean she yells at me. If not for my cat loving wife, I’d be done with them. Oh, did I mention I’m allergic to them, too?
Dear John Watts. You have my sympathies, but you also sound like the perfect cat owner. Maybe you should get a third?
Just kidding
Throw it into a box? No need, most cats will box them selves up if you just leave the box out. And you can claim it was the cats fault.
PZ, we had cats for decades. While they were reasonably well behaved, we had to ‘cat proof’ certain rooms. In one house, we put a sturdy screen door on our ‘art studio/tech room’ so the cat couldn’t wreak havoc on the equipment or eat the paint out of the tubes.
Remember, even though it is your nemesis, the ‘evil cat’ is a member of the family, Don’t pull a Schrödinger on it.
As Jackson Galaxy put it: A cat is a toddler that can reach your ceiling. Just like childproofing, you gotta cat proof.
Also: I’d take your evil cat, but I’m trying to introduce my two without a potential bloodbath. My established girl is open but my rescue boy? He’s been hissy faced about the entire process.
@7 Autobot Silverwynde wrote: A cat is a toddler that can reach your ceiling. Just like childproofing, you gotta cat proof.
I reply: reminds me of the ‘proof statement’ that said: if the world was flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge by now!
@3: Forest kitty wants to be carried. Seriously. You’re supposed to pick the poor helpless baby up and carry them. Because that’s why you exist.
The finicky kitty may be asking for wet food if you left them kibble. Or they may not necessarily like the protein of that particular food; my rescue boy doesn’t like chicken unless it’s pulled from a McDonald’s McCrispy. Then he wants to devour the entire filet.
I’ll take cats over dogs ANY day: my mother had a spoiled princess of a show quality purebred dog that drove me insane during my teenage years. That dog was finicky beyond finicky–two weeks of a dog food and she’d refuse to even sniff it–and dumb as a post. (She. Ate. PAINT. Off our. WALLS!!) Quite literally the dumbest animal I have ever had the displeasure of knowing.
Then my parents bred her and her puppies were even stupider…!!
Not everything sucks. Yet.
Delta will fly nonstop from MSP to the Bahamas next winter
@8: Exactly!
@John#3: Weegies are the best. We had a spoiled 12lbs 3 colored hairball that owned the world. She had a habit of opening doors and walking in to neighbors homes to visit their cats.
If I didn’t have a mild allergy I’d consider a cat. Much easier than dogs, except the furniture gouging thing. And the claw kneading into your skin while they purr thing. Bengals look interesting. Though large, Maine Coons typically have doggish dispositions I think.
@13: Maine Coons are fairly dog like and Siamese cats, though extremely talkative, are trainable. My old Meezer cat knew “Sit” and “Crate up”. He was a smart little boy. I miss him.
I found the perfect pet for PZ. 30-40 lb of muscle jumping 6 feet straight up.
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be grateful
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