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(Source: the ex-wife. I don't think the kitten contributed to the breakup of the marriage, though.)
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Loose an outdoor cat in a horrible, easily preventable way, and you'll quickly become an indoor-only cat owner.
Umwhat? If your cat is running away when you set it loose, you're not doing it right.
My wife's first cat died trying to beat a car across the road in front of their house.
Outdoor cats meet similar fates regularly.
I was put off by the following sentence: > ... 14.8 watts, or 129.65 kilowatt-hours - the metric commonly used by power companies ... It should say 129.65 kilowatt-hours PER YEAR. Without the time, it's like saying "a car goes at 50mph or 1000 miles". It's just nonsense.
I briefly found myself thinking that the cat was the metric commonly used by power companies.
The first time I took my cat camping it was much colder than expected. At bed time I filled a bottle with hot water and wrapped my cat up in a blanket with it. Being a cat, he immediately squirmed his way out of it and started walking around the freezing tent. I was starting to get worried until the little guy realized he could just barely squeeze into my zipped up sleeping bag. It was a big mess of fur and limbs all…
You took your cat camping?
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You took your cat camping?
'take' would appear to be the correct tense – this is apparently just about the first time . i recently discovered that cats can actually be trained, to a certain extent (mostly behavioural tricks as opposed to commands). i wonder if it's possible to guide certain cat traits for your own benefit. imagine Cat goes out hunting and returns, leaving a rabbit at your feet, while you are preparing the campfire. my guess is…
I think it helps to have a cat that's highly food motivated. While following orders comes naturally to a lot of dogs, training a cat feels more like a bartering system. He'll put up with my silly requests in exchange for treats that he likes. If the treats stopped coming I doubt he would keep following instructions for long.
I wonder... if you feed a cat more, it will become bigger, and so it will produce more heat.
Assume a spherical cat. As the cat gets bigger, the surface to volume ratio goes down, so the cat gets hotter. This will lower its metabolism, which means that the food calories increasingly go toward storage, which makes the cat get even larger. Asymptotically speaking, the cat tends to become a furry blob of melted lard.