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Good Cat?
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Ours is exceptionally good. Take this: like many, we eat our main meal seated in our favourite armchairs with a cushion on our laps.
Come mealtimes, Black Cat is always curled up on one armchair, which is also HIS favourite. I hold up one of the mealtime cushions, say “Time now puss,” and 99% of the time up he gets, stretches, and pads off into the evening.
His only reward is to be called “Good Cat.”
I’ve always found black cats to be very sensitive.
BillB
Come mealtimes, Black Cat is always curled up on one armchair, which is also HIS favourite. I hold up one of the mealtime cushions, say “Time now puss,” and 99% of the time up he gets, stretches, and pads off into the evening.
His only reward is to be called “Good Cat.”
I’ve always found black cats to be very sensitive.
BillB
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People are prone to anthropomorphise (fabulous word!) animal behaviour, which is why they like to think that some animals kill for 'fun'.
I doubt that any animal understands the concept of 'killing for fun' - they kill because it is in their survival instinct to do so.
The most popular misconceptions is that foxes run riot in hen houses for 'fun', but as Sir DA advises, an fox undisturbed will take away all the kills and bury them for future consumption.
Cats 'toy' with prey to hone their hunting skills, not for the sadistic pleasure of torturing another animal.
People need to remember that animals are not like us in many ways, at all, even though we would like to pretend that they are.
I doubt that any animal understands the concept of 'killing for fun' - they kill because it is in their survival instinct to do so.
The most popular misconceptions is that foxes run riot in hen houses for 'fun', but as Sir DA advises, an fox undisturbed will take away all the kills and bury them for future consumption.
Cats 'toy' with prey to hone their hunting skills, not for the sadistic pleasure of torturing another animal.
People need to remember that animals are not like us in many ways, at all, even though we would like to pretend that they are.
I was not anthropomorphising, Andy. I used the words 'for fun' to show that there was no necessity for it. As a rule, domestic cats do not kill because they are hungry.
All I am asking is that, if possible, cats are kept indoors at night. I would not leave my dog outside, at night, to make a nuisance of itself.
All I am asking is that, if possible, cats are kept indoors at night. I would not leave my dog outside, at night, to make a nuisance of itself.
No, Tilly, cats may not kill ‘because they are hungry’, but they DO kill as part of the food/survival/instinct pattern. Not for fun.
Mind you, one dear cat who lived with me for 15 years would not kill anything, even carrying a mouse 40 yards up the garden in his lips so as not to harm it. (I think he might have been a reincarnated Buddhist).
Mind you, one dear cat who lived with me for 15 years would not kill anything, even carrying a mouse 40 yards up the garden in his lips so as not to harm it. (I think he might have been a reincarnated Buddhist).
