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9-Jul-21 0:27

Among the other oddities is the cat - one dead mouse, one live mouse (those are fun, have you ever seen how fast the little buggers can move?) and his first Stoat.

Yes, the cat has branched out from prey to predators: one freshly killed, still warm Stoat (a type of large Weasel, normally eats rodents, birds, eggs, and rabbits)
I didn't even know we had them round here ... well, I guess we won't if he's got a taste for them. Sigh | :sigh:

Thankfully, they aren't an endangered species!

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Rich Leyshon9-Jul-21 0:29

Rich Leyshon

9-Jul-21 0:29

OriginalGriff wrote:
Thankfully, they aren't an endangered species!

Yet ...

Daniel Pfeffer9-Jul-21 0:30

Daniel Pfeffer

9-Jul-21 0:30

OriginalGriff wrote:
Stoat (a type of large Weasel)

Being a cat, he would naturally go for the greater of two Weasels.

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OriginalGriff9-Jul-21 0:31

9-Jul-21 0:31

Boom tish!

jsc429-Jul-21 4:02

jsc42

9-Jul-21 4:02

Q. What is the difference between a Stoat and a Weasel?

A. They look stoatally different from each other so are weaselly distinguished.

Sorry - not original. I first heard it before England won the World Cup (never mind the local derby that is in progress).

Slacker0079-Jul-21 0:47

Slacker007

9-Jul-21 0:47

Welcome to the club.

I have 4 cats (2 males, 2 females) and 2 dogs. All cats come and go from the house as they please.

both my male cats kill on a regular basis: squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, gophers, rats, mice, birds, snakes. They bring body parts into the kitchen, and lay them on the floor as gifts for my family.

my female cats rarely go outside and hunt.

it is what it is. Java | [Coffee]

Slow Eddie9-Jul-21 1:41

Slow Eddie

9-Jul-21 1:41

We had a Scottish Terrier that used to catch and kill mice then proudly bring them to show us. No stoats here but I bet some of the Norwegian wharf rats are big as stoats.

We'll be getting another Scottish Terrier as soon as we get over the loss of our long time pet a "Westie".

Terrier lovers, Unite!

OriginalGriff9-Jul-21 1:57

9-Jul-21 1:57

I'm sorry to hear that - they leave such a big hole in a home, don't they? Rose | [Rose]

Wastedtalent9-Jul-21 2:49

Wastedtalent

9-Jul-21 2:49

Coincidentally, I just read this on the BBC website:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210707-the-evolutionary-reasons-for-our-pets-most-annoying-habits

rnbergren9-Jul-21 3:41

rnbergren

9-Jul-21 3:41

used to have a problem with ground squirrels around my house. Son got an Aussie Cattle dog a few years ago. Haven't seen a ground squirrel or rabbit or pretty much anything that goes about on the ground for the last few years. Thankfully he does not bring them in as gifts. Herself would probably have histrionics if that happened.

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charlieg11-Jul-21 10:42

charlieg

11-Jul-21 10:42

Please ship cat to me - moles are tunnelling my yard. Moles must die.

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OriginalGriff11-Jul-21 11:25

11-Jul-21 11:25

Oh, he catches those - normally alive - and brings 'em in. I try to get them separated and release them a good distance away but that doesn't always work ...

They do however make weird noises, moles. A bit like a very angry kettle with a whistle built in.

But shipping cats doesn't really work: I think Schrödinger put the whole species off the idea.

pTerry wrote:
Technically, a cat locked in a box may be alive or it may be dead. You never know until you look. In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.

charlieg11-Jul-21 15:42

charlieg

11-Jul-21 15:42

Okay, I was pissed at the moles trashing my lawn and left my self wide open - salute! Laugh | :laugh:

Victory?

honey the codewitch9-Jul-21 0:02

9-Jul-21 0:02

My truetype rendering engine is sort of working.
Dumping to console as ASCII for now for testing

If I drank I'd crack a beer right now. This is amazing.

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Forogar 9-Jul-21 2:07

Forogar

9-Jul-21 2:07

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

musefan9-Jul-21 2:12

musefan

9-Jul-21 2:12

honey the codewitch wrote:
If I drank I'd crack a beer right now.

If you drank, you probably wouldn't have gotten this far in the first place! Laugh | :laugh:

Nelek9-Jul-21 3:05

Nelek

9-Jul-21 3:05

No worry...
I will drink it for you Beer | [beer]

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jsc429-Jul-21 4:07

jsc42

9-Jul-21 4:07

Can you generate a jsc42 for my signature block please? I assume that your testing with '42' is the same as why my sig ends with '42'. The ultimate answer?

honey the codewitch9-Jul-21 6:03

9-Jul-21 6:03

Yes 42 comes from Douglas Adams.

I said works "sort of" because of this - I need to actually alpha blend the BMPs for each letter because they're overlapping and wiping each other out with certain letters. Watch:

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See how the "j" is obscured? It's still a work in progress.

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jsc429-Jul-21 6:54

jsc42

9-Jul-21 6:54

Brilliant. Thank you. I will update it when you have refined it in the future.

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honey the codewitch9-Jul-21 7:54

9-Jul-21 7:54

It's going to take me a bit. I've got a lot to do before I tackle that rendering issue. I have to retool the loading code to work in a constrained memory environment, and since it changes the footprint of it, I have to then change the rendering code to work with it, after which I can fix the rendering issues. It might be a week or even two. This code is hairy.

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Forogar 9-Jul-21 8:10

Forogar

9-Jul-21 8:10

Not just rendering but kerning the letters as well?

- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.

honey the codewitch9-Jul-21 9:24