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I actually use this trick all of the time now and it's actually pretty effective. A slow blink when looking at a cat signifies that you don't see them as a threat. So it can help relax strange cats, and it is also a cue from the cat that they are okay with you approaching them.
I use this trick for years, in my experience yawning theatrically gets the same result
Smiling is also important. Most animals I encounter seem to understand a broad smile as friendly and non-adversarial, especially cats and dogs.
Smiling without teeth, at least for dogs. Smiling with teeth is a sign of either aggression, or very rough play.
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Smiling without teeth, at least for dogs. Smiling with teeth is a sign of either aggression, or very rough play.
I wonder when they will understand that in Hollywood :)
So never.
I do this all the time to my cats. Sometimes the cat will trill back like "oh, got it", which is about equal parts interesting and cute.
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I wonder when they will understand that in Hollywood :)
Around the same time they realize breaking formation and running a half marathon charge against the enemy, while screaming at the top.ofnyour lungs, is a bad battlefield tactic. So never.
As methods go, they took the town with the loss of 31 of their men .. earlier the same day British troops failed to take the town using conventional tactics at the cost of some 171 lives.
[1] https://anzac100.initiatives.qld.gov.au/remember/battle-of-b...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Beersheba_(1917)
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Around the same time they realize breaking formation and running a half marathon charge against the enemy, while screaming at the top.ofnyour lungs, is a bad battlefield tactic. So never.
FWiW the Australian light horse charged flat out across four miles of open ground (ie. broken formation) into machine gun nests and snipers to take the Battle of Beersheba, the charge was with rifles slung across backs while holding reins and bayonets. As methods go, they took the town with the loss of 31 of their men .. earlier the same day British troops failed to take the town using conventional tactics at the cos…
That being said, the Battle of Beersheba was a brilliant use of cavalery, because walking in close formation against entreched machine guns is just as stupid as charging an enemy in tight formation. Sometimes, there simply isn't a lot of choice, WW1 showed that problem every day.
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FWiW the Australian light horse charged flat out across four miles of open ground (ie. broken formation) into machine gun nests and snipers to take the Battle of Beersheba, the charge was with rifles slung across backs while holding reins and bayonets. As methods go, they took the town with the loss of 31 of their men .. earlier the same day British troops failed to take the town using conventional tactics at the cos…
There are no absolutes, are there? A pity the Australian light horse wasn't in the field during the great emu wars! That being said, the Battle of Beersheba was a brilliant use of cavalery, because walking in close formation against entreched machine guns is just as stupid as charging an enemy in tight formation. Sometimes, there simply isn't a lot of choice, WW1 showed that problem every day.
The 1932 "Emu War" took place in the Campion region of Western Australia .. a town (and farming surrounds) cleared and created as Soldier Settlement lots and farms given to discharged veterans.
Never forget that the Coolgardie Miner (23 August 1935) reported that although the use of machine guns had been "criticised in many quarters, the method proved effective and saved what remained of the wheat" [1].
[1] https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/217998228?searchT...
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There are no absolutes, are there? A pity the Australian light horse wasn't in the field during the great emu wars! That being said, the Battle of Beersheba was a brilliant use of cavalery, because walking in close formation against entreched machine guns is just as stupid as charging an enemy in tight formation. Sometimes, there simply isn't a lot of choice, WW1 showed that problem every day.
Oddly enough there would have been a fair number of Beersheba survivors present. The 1932 "Emu War" took place in the Campion region of Western Australia .. a town (and farming surrounds) cleared and created as Soldier Settlement lots and farms given to discharged veterans. Never forget that the Coolgardie Miner (23 August 1935) reported that although the use of machine guns had been "criticised in many quarters, the…
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I wonder when they will understand that in Hollywood :)
Around the same time they realize breaking formation and running a half marathon charge against the enemy, while screaming at the top.ofnyour lungs, is a bad battlefield tactic. So never.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_charge
Edit: I grew up quite close to Culloden and was shown the 1964 TV movie of the same name a few times at school.
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Around the same time they realize breaking formation and running a half marathon charge against the enemy, while screaming at the top.ofnyour lungs, is a bad battlefield tactic. So never.
Well it was a successful tactic until things like better discipline, improved bayonet design and cannister shot came along: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_charge Edit: I grew up quite close to Culloden and was shown the 1964 TV movie of the same name a few times at school.