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Cats remind us that not everything in Nature has purpose.

It seems I don't get the joke. :-)

Does the author assume cats are purposeless?


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Cats remind us that not everything in Nature has purpose.

It seems I don't get the joke. :-)

Does the author assume cats are purposeless?

Possibly. My experience with them is that many pet cats have a tendency to
do a lot of things that either don't seem to have purpose, or that are done
out of spite.

On the other hand, for a while I had a neighbor who had a cat that was a
very good mouser. He kept the small rodent population down. My opinion of
him is that he certainly had purpose. ;)

Mike


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Mike Powell wrote to GLEB HLEBOV <=-

On the other hand, for a while I had a neighbor who had a cat that was
a very good mouser. He kept the small rodent population down. My
opinion of him is that he certainly had purpose. ;)

I'm in a semi-rural area. We have a rodent population and two
neighborhood cats who like hanging in our back yard. I'm OK with that.
:)



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Mike Powell wrote to GLEB HLEBOV <=-

On the other hand, for a while I had a neighbor who had a cat that was
a very good mouser. He kept the small rodent population down. My opinion of him is that he certainly had purpose. ;)

I'm in a semi-rural area. We have a rodent population and two
neighborhood cats who like hanging in our back yard. I'm OK with that.
:)

Oh, yeah, I miss that cat. AFAIK, he is still living just somewhere else.

Mike

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Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

Oh, yeah, I miss that cat. AFAIK, he is still living just somewhere
else.

We had a neighborhood cat that belonged to one owner, but was an outdoor
cat. Another neighbor started feeding him, not knowing who he belonged
to, decided he liked the new house better, and moved in.

Fickle, they are.

The old owner would walk by and see the cat, he'd respond with a feline
"meh".



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Hi Kurt,

Sat 22 Feb 2025, 08:16, you -> Mike Powell:

We had a neighborhood cat that belonged to one owner, but was an
outdoor cat. Another neighbor started feeding him, not knowing who he belonged to, decided he liked the new house better, and moved in.
Fickle, they are.
The old owner would walk by and see the cat, he'd respond with a
feline "meh".

Funny as it may seem, humans have this idea that a cat can "belong" to someone. It's the most common misconception with outdoor cats. On the other hand, we had a cat who never even thought of walking outside the apartment door (100% confirmed indoor cat).


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Re: Tagline 2/18
By: Gleb Hlebov to Kurt Weiske on Sun Feb 23 2025 10:32 pm

Funny as it may seem, humans have this idea that a cat can "belong" to someone. It's the most common misconception with outdoor cats. On the other hand, we had a cat who never even thought of walking outside the apartment door (100% confirmed indoor cat).

There are stories about dogs traveling thousands of miles to get back to a family that moved, and a cat that traveled the same distance to get back to the house the family moved from.

My sister moved into two houses and inherited a cat with each.
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Hi Mike,

Wed 19 Feb 2025 09:44, you wrote to me:

Cats remind us that not everything in Nature has purpose.

It seems I don't get the joke. :-)
Does the author assume cats are purposeless?

Possibly. My experience with them is that many pet cats have a
tendency to do a lot of things that either don't seem to have purpose,
or that are done out of spite.

At least, there are Youtube channels like "cat-brain.exe" or "meow-funny" (I'm sure there'd be more of those in the recommendation panel). Now who's gonna say "cats don't make sense"? They're the funniest animals on the planet. :-)


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At least, there are Youtube channels like "cat-brain.exe" or "meow-funny" (I'm >sure there'd be more of those in the recommendation panel). Now who's gonna say
"cats don't make sense"? They're the funniest animals on the planet. :-)

They are pretty funny. Somewhere out there, there is a video of a mountain lion (large, wild cat) playing with someones outdoor swing.

There are also several with housecats reacting to printers, toasters, etc., that are also funny.

Mike


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Hi Mike,

Tue 25 Feb 2025 09:13, you wrote to me:

At least, there are Youtube channels like "cat-brain.exe" or
"meow-funny" (I'm sure there'd be more of those in the recommendation
panel). Now who's gonna say "cats don't make sense"? They're the
funniest animals on the planet. :-)

They are pretty funny. Somewhere out there, there is a video of a mountain lion (large, wild cat) playing with someones outdoor swing.

BTW, there's a YT channel of some rich dude who owns a mountain lion and a cheetah as house pets. And a few others who own bobcats. Looking at those beasts, they behave just like regular housecats, except a regular small cat is unlikely to bite your head off in case something goes wrong... :-/

There are also several with housecats reacting to printers, toasters, etc., that are also funny.

Several? More like "thousands". :-)


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They are pretty funny. Somewhere out there, there is a video of a mountain lion (large, wild cat) playing with someones outdoor swing.

BTW, there's a YT channel of some rich dude who owns a mountain lion and a cheetah as house pets. And a few others who own bobcats. Looking at those beasts, they behave just like regular housecats, except a regular small cat is
unlikely to bite your head off in case something goes wrong... :-/

This one was supposedly a wild cat that someone happened to pick up on a security or nature cam. We have actually had some reality TV shows about people who own wild cats. A lot of them really do act like housecats but,
as you point out, if something goes wrong the magnitude of what happens
could be increased dramatically.

There are also several with housecats reacting to printers, toasters, etc., that are also funny.

Several? More like "thousands". :-)

Well, yeah, it is difficult not to run into them. ;)


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Gleb Hlebov wrote to Mike Powell <=-

BTW, there's a YT channel of some rich dude who owns a mountain lion
and a cheetah as house pets. And a few others who own bobcats. Looking
at those beasts, they behave just like regular housecats, except a
regular small cat is unlikely to bite your head off in case something
goes wrong... :-/

There's a guy on YouTube who lives in the woods and has a pit bull, a
raccoon, and a coyote that all co-exist on his land and in his house.

The alpha? A cat he's named "Murder Mittens". He chases them all around
and terrorizes them.



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Re: Re: Tagline 2/18
By: Kurt Weiske to Mike Powell on Sat Feb 22 2025 08:16:30

We had a neighborhood cat that belonged to one owner, but was an outdoor cat. Another neighbor started feeding him, not knowing who he belonged
to, decided he liked the new house better, and moved in. Fickle, they are.

Maybe he got better food.

My Sister has a cat like that. Besides food, she got him a heated bed to sleep in on those cold, Winter nights. Oddly enough, despite the grand treatment, it won't go into the house or let her pet it.
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