Friday Cat Slagging

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Previous Entries:

October 31   "Hallow Kitty"
October 24   "So Cute..."
Sept 12   "Post-Convention Bounce"
Sept 5   "Speechifyin'"
August 29   "Bathing Beauties"
August 8   "Almost too tired to yawn..."
July 25   "I was in SUCH a good mood this morning..."
July 11   "EVERYBODY must get stoned"
June 20   "...and the livin' is easy"
June 13   "We are Siamese, if you please"
June 6   "Everybody into the pool!"
May 30   "Alley Cats"
May 16   "Pissed-off Democats"
May 9   "Sportin' Cats"
May 2   "Belling the Cat"
April 25   "Spring! When a young tomcat's fancy....."
April 18   "A Face Only a Mother Could Bear"
April 11   "Mad Cat Disease"
April 4   "Eat Drink Cat Dog"
March 28   "Danger Cat"
March 21   "Toilet water - it's not just for dogs anymore"
March 14   "Cat Naps"
March 7   "Stuck"
February 29   "Leap Day Republicats"
February 22   "The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry." - French Proverb
February 15   "A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to." - Louis J. Camuti, D.V.M.
February 8   "One cat just leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway
February 1   Cruel, but composed and bland / Dumb, inscrutable and grand / So Tiberius might have sat / Had Tiberius been a cat. - Matthew Arnold
January 25   "I think my favorite thing in the house has to be the cat... mainly because she's just like a big piece of noisy Velcro when you toss her at the sofa." - Michelle Argabrite
January 18   "Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish." - James Gorman
January 11   "In the middle of a world that had always been a bit mad, the cat walks with confidence." - Rosanne Amberson
January 4   "Maybe I fed the cat. Maybe I didn't." - overheard at the Schroedinger household
December 28   "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

Rick November 6, 2008 - 11:30pm

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Christ, those are the ugliest cats...

How come they didn't get de-selected from the gene pool? Were their parents just not very picky?

Mr. Flibble January 11, 2008 - 11:39am

Cute puppies and kittens

can grow up to be butt-ugly dogs and cats.

On the other hand, I have friends who always adopt homely pets because they don't want them left behind.

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Rick January 11, 2008 - 12:13pm

No....

These are the ugliest cats!

John Carter January 20, 2008 - 3:59pm

It never fails

to amaze me Rick how you can find the fugliest kitties ever.

Tina February 8, 2008 - 2:29pm

It amazes me

how many people take pictures of their fugly cats and post them on teh internets. They're easy to find!

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Rick February 8, 2008 - 4:20pm

here here to all cat slagging

obsidian wings might object to material used without permission.

here is an item for next friday:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/02/cat_hunting_robot.html

Disclaimer: All my cats are stained glass, there are several advantages over live cats
no allergy problems
no scratched furniture
no dead-mouse or barfed up trophies on the rug
no litter box

I am trying to think of disadvantages but none come to mind.

greensmile February 15, 2008 - 7:57pm

They might indeed,

but they'd have to go after the thousands of web sites that have that image. I have no idea who created it.

Tina does like to take things without askin' :D

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Rick February 15, 2008 - 9:14pm

Something to purr about: cats reduce heart attack risk

The Canadian Press, February 22

A U.S. study suggests having a cat at home could cut your risk of a heart attack by almost a third.

The finding suggests that the stress relief pets provide to humans is heart-healthy.

Researchers analyzed data on more than 4,400 Americans, age 30 to 75, who took part in the U.S. government's second National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, which ran from 1976 to 1980.

A little more than half of the study participants either owned a cat or had owned a cat in the past while the rest had never done so.

Researchers tracked the rates of death in the entire group from all causes, including heart and stroke.

The cat owners had a 30 per cent reduction in heart attack risk than participants who didn't own cats, said the study's lead author, Dr. Adnan Qureshi of the Minnesota Stroke Institute.

But dog lovers shouldn't feel left out, he stressed.

Dogs would probably bring people the same kind of benefit, Qureshi said, but the numbers of dog owners in the study wasn't big enough to count statistically.

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Raja February 22, 2008 - 7:26pm

The cat's out of the bag: Felines stave off heart disease

The Globe and Mail, By Paul Taylor, February 22

A new study should have cat owners purring with delight. It suggests they are somehow partly protected from the ravages of heart disease.

"Over a 20-year period, people who never owned a cat faced a 40-per-cent greater risk of death due to heart attack than previous or current cat owners," said the lead researcher, Adnan Qureshi, a professor at the University of Minnesota.

Dr. Qureshi, who presented the findings at a medical conference in New Orleans yesterday, is at a loss to explain his study, which involved 4,435 volunteers.

"The best theory we can come up with is that ... cat ownership leads to reduced stress levels which, in turn, lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease" he suggested. On the other hand, it is possible that cats don't directly shield people from heart attacks. Instead, cat owners as a group may share specific personality traits that reduce their chances of suffering from heart disease at an early age.

The study also produced another surprising and perplexing result: Dog owners did not have the same level of protection against heart disease as their cat-owning counterparts.

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Raja February 22, 2008 - 7:54pm

Since we have

four cats perhaps I can start selling cardiac credits rather than carbon credits, or maybe open a cardiac cat B&B where you get to stay at the house and let the cats out at 4:30 AM, wrestle for space on the bed with whichever 2 or 3 cats that decide to sleep there, and of course there would also be therapeutic litter box cleaning designed to increase one's ability to hold one's breath.

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Scott M February 29, 2008 - 12:19pm

Lung capacity *is* very important.

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Raja February 29, 2008 - 12:32pm

stuck kitty

LINK

from All Cute Cats

Tina March 7, 2008 - 2:50pm

Iowa Town Offers Bounty on Stray Cats

Iowa Town Offers Bounty on Stray Cats

By MELANIE S. WELTE
Associated Press Writer

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Attention, cat haters: There's money to be made in Randolph, which is offering a $5 bounty for each feral feline turned in.

Those not claimed will be destroyed.

Mayor Vance Trively says that the southwest Iowa town of 200 people is being overrun by dozens of feral cats and needed to do something.

"You can't just let them keep multiplying in town," Trively said Tuesday.

Town officials approved the bounty after receiving numerous complaints, ranging from a cat attacking a small dog to a dozen cats showing up at the bowl when a resident tried to feed his own cat.

"One guy threatened to shoot all of them. I told him he couldn't do that in town. Other people talk about poisoning them, but you can't do that in town," Trively said.

Under the new policy, stray cats without collars will be taken to a veterinarian in the nearby town of Sidney - Randolph has no vet clinic - where they'll be kept "for a time for people to claim them," the mayor said.

If no one does, they'll be euthanized and buried.

John Snyder of the Humane Society of the United States said he doesn't have a problem with humanely killing a stray cat, but said the money spent on the bounty and the vet expenses would be better spent hiring someone who knows what he or she is doing.

"I'm concerned about children, people trying to capture these cats that don't have knowledge of what they're doing, being scratched or injured or inhumanely handling these cats for five bucks. Is it worth it?"

The mayor said several suggestions have been made, including neutering, trapping and asking for donations.

"You couldn't get a donation to save a cat in this town for the life of them," Trively said.

Since the bounty went into effect March 1, two cats - one of them pregnant - have been turned in.

Tina March 12, 2008 - 11:05am

Very sad.

We trap feral cats and turn them in to the Humane Society, knowing the adults are likely doomed to euthanasia. The kittens are cool, but there is already a hugely disproportionate ratio of cats to dogs there. I can't foresee a lot of happy endings there.

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Rick March 12, 2008 - 12:53pm

Town Finds Alternative to Cat Bounty

By MELANIE S. WELTE
Associated Press Writer

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- After causing a stir with plans for a $5 bounty on wild cats, the tiny town of Randolph is ready for Plan B.

The City Council on Thursday signed an agreement with animal rescue groups to catch, neuter and release the cats.

"We are full steam ahead," said Sherry Haftings of Feline Friendz, based in Omaha, Neb.

Mayor Vance Trively, who suggested the $5 bounty, said he's satisfied with the plan.

"I think we've got the problem solved. It will be good for the community as well as taking care of the cats," he said.

Haftings said she expected the program to take several weeks, if not months. Pet cats are also included.

"Everybody will get spayed and neutered," she said.

Haftings said some cats will return to town, while others will be put up for adoption. She estimated the cat population, including pets, strays and feral ones, at about 150.

"That could go up because we're in the middle of kitten season. Each day this is delayed, kittens are being born. We want to get in there next week and start surgery," Haftings said.

The City Council approved the $5 bounty after receiving numerous complaints about dozens of feral cats in the southwest Iowa town of 200 people. Under the initial policy, which went into effect March 1, stray cats without collars would be taken to a veterinarian, and if they weren't claimed, they'd be euthanized.

That caused an uproar. The city scratched the idea on March 13 and agreed to work with animal rescue groups to solve the problem

Tina March 22, 2008 - 7:26am

cat naps in Italy

~~cute~~ sucky! :) - ed.

Tina March 14, 2008 - 11:22am

'Cat confession' pensioner cleared of murder

'Cat confession' pensioner cleared of murder

Friday, 14 March 2008

Pensioner David Henton, who was accused of killing his partner then confessing to his cats, was cleared of murder and manslaughter today.

Mr Henton, 73, a former lorry driver of Neath, south Wales, was accused of brutally bludgeoning Joyce Sutton to death after "snapping" in January 2006.

But a jury at Swansea Crown Court cleared him after a seven-week trial in which they heard that police secretly bugged his home and car and apparently caught him confessing murder to pets Twinkie and Pudsey.

There were gasps from the public gallery as the forewoman of the jury declared that Henton was not guilty of murder and the alternative charge of manslaughter.

Tina March 14, 2008 - 12:05pm

Twinkie and Pudsey entrapped him.

It was a setup. I've known cats like that.

Chickadee March 21, 2008 - 6:56pm

This just got to me.....

must see video

-5.75,-4.05
"We're all fucked. It helps to remember that." --George Carlin

justadood March 28, 2008 - 5:24pm

from the 1700's

Christopher Smarts' poem Jeoffry the Cat, and happy b'day to Mr Smart too! :)

Graham April 11, 2008 - 7:43pm

Humane Society: Cats Make You Crazy

Who's next in the extremist war against animal owners ?

Brace yourselves, cat lovers. Your 15 minutes of fame, or infamy, is coming soon.

Living with "too many" cats threatens your mental stability, according to the Washington (D. C.) Humane Society.

After trashing the reputations of millions of loving dog owners and arranging the forced sterilizations and deaths of uncounted innocent dogs and other pets, Wayne Pacelle's HSUS and their accolytes move relentlessly forward.

Like sharks.

The rest at: http://bluedogstate.blogspot.com/

KayseJ April 12, 2008 - 9:52am

fugly cat page

Knutz the ugly cat

Tina April 18, 2008 - 8:18am

The Mayor of the Neighborhood

Puffin Did someone say squirrel?

Michael Collins April 26, 2008 - 6:17pm

Iraqi cat rescue/ bad priorities

Operation Pet Rescue by warzone Cat Woman

The mission of a pet lover who takes strays from Baghdad to a Midlands semi

* Audrey Gillan
* The Guardian,
* Saturday May 3 2008

They have dodged bullets and bombs and the other associated dangers of a life lived in Baghdad. One was smuggled over the border from Iraq to Kuwait - the taxi narrowly avoiding being taken out by an improvised explosive device - and the others were flown straight out of Baghdad airport.

But they are not refugees fleeing a warzone. They are stray cats who have been relocated from Baghdad to a semi-detached house in a small town just north of Birmingham.

Their rescuer Louise - she does not want to give her surname or the name of her town for security reasons - has been nicknamed the Cat Lady of Baghdad because of her penchant for picking up the feral strays, domesticating them, then flying them off to what she believes is a better life. MORE

I love cats but I imagine there are Iraqis that deserve her attention more. ~ Tina

Tina May 3, 2008 - 10:33am

Siamese markings

Siamese have a weird gene where the higher the skin temperature, the lighter the fur. The "points" are dark because there is little blood flow there. They darken as they age because their skin slowly dumps less heat. (The brown one in the guy's arms is maybe 10 years old.)

So, if you shave a Siamese, the fur will grow out dark. You can thus decorate your cat with appropriately placed insults to the pelt.

“The Playboy reader invites a female acquaintance in for a quiet discussion of Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex.” - Hugh Hefner

Tonsure Wimple June 14, 2008 - 12:50am

Cool info, thanks.

I find Siamese very interesting...um, cats. Abyssinians as well.

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Rick June 20, 2008 - 3:21pm

Siamese converse

Other cats may be talky, but they only listen to themselves. Siamese will actually converse with you, ping/pong.

Abbies (a Somali in my case) are crazy smart&fast.

“The Playboy reader invites a female acquaintance in for a quiet discussion of Picasso, Nietzsche, jazz, sex.” - Hugh Hefner

Tonsure Wimple June 20, 2008 - 9:34pm

camping kitty is ready to go

link :)

Tina June 20, 2008 - 9:57am

...and so is her mistress (next pic in series :)

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Rick June 20, 2008 - 9:59am

for

you or your son?

Tina June 20, 2008 - 10:28am

LOL

...too young to be interested in me, too wise [I would hope] to go statutory on my son.

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Rick June 20, 2008 - 3:16pm

This is gonna hurt …

canuck June 20, 2008 - 3:45pm

I hope this helps Rick

Tina July 25, 2008 - 11:27am

Passles o catz

'Cat Lady' Wins Fight To Keep 150 Pets At Home

Chickadee August 16, 2008 - 12:42am

whacked

http://kevorich.com/index.htm?contentpage=whacked.htm

Tina August 16, 2008 - 2:21am

cat age test

Based on your cat's health, risk of disease, and
behavior, the new CatAge Test calculates your cat's biological age in people years. Take the test today!

Tina September 5, 2008 - 2:17pm

Onion: Brave Mountain Lion Fends Off Group Of Hikers

an alternative POV, especially if you are in a misogynistic mood:-) ....

The Onion - local mountain lion came face-to-face with a group of hikers and made it out alive, sources reported Monday. Wildlife officials are crediting the courageous cougar's quick thinking, catlike reflexes, and 150 pounds of coiled muscle with successfully fending off the human foot travelers.

The quick-thinking cougar managed to escape by going for his attackers' vulnerable torsos.

The mountain lion was reportedly enjoying a quiet afternoon walk around Redwood National Park, on the same path it had taken almost every single day for the past three years, when it heard a rustling sound emanating from the underbrush. Upon investigation, the large feline noticed that a pack of hikers—one adult male, two young children, and an adult female that it instantly recognized as the mother—had crossed into territory that the cat had clearly marked as its own via tree scrapings and urine.
full story at link :-)

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nymole September 14, 2008 - 8:02am

OMG

Please don't click through to Bitch PhD's cat slagging entry. You'll regret it.

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Raja September 14, 2008 - 10:07am

My God.

Is it alive? It looks like a scrotum with claws.

"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch September 15, 2008 - 3:23am

Very, very alive. Joyfully so.

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Raja September 15, 2008 - 5:51am

Ninja cat!

Lesly October 24, 2008 - 10:03am

ROFLMFAO!

*oh* *whew* that's fantastic. I love playing hide & seek with my dogs like that. This clip is the classic nightmare, where every time you take a peek out for the Monster, he's closer. Excellent!

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Rick October 31, 2008 - 6:46pm

carving kitty