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Argonia wrote: -for some time you don't need to worry if your cat is fed, but is good if you provide her with additional food.
Except that the vet bills for all the worm infections your cat'll get nomming on mice will end up costing more than the bag of kibble you didn't have to buy. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Worming tablets as a precaution: it costs me £1.70 per month to worm Dij, and £2.50 per month for flea treatments. You couldn't feed Victoria Beckham for that! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Don't forget several days in the hospital on IV anti-biotics after the cat bites you in protest for trying to shove a pill down its throat.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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He's pretty good - grab cat, open jaws, insert pill, swallow, and gone.
We've had some that involved full biking gear, including the boots and helmet...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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My mom's cats have mostly fallen into the too stupid to realize there's a pill hiding in the lump of cheese category and the full leathers would have been a good idea category. The multi day inpatient course of IV antibiotics wasn't a hypothetical; for a while they were threatening to go in surgically to clean the wound out better. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Mom works in healthcare, so she knew what needed done. Cleaning puncture wounds is elephanting hard though and she obviously didn't get everything that one time. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Three cats that stay mostly in, one cat that only comes in to eat and a dog.
We have very few issues with... unwanted wildlife like rodents (mice, voles, moles, rats) and snakes.
In living here for almost 15 years, I've only seen one large (2 foot plus) snake.
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What about coyotes? You should not let your cats out during the night. Its dangerous.
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Many neighborhood dogs; so they stay scarce.
And as for the cat that only comes in to eat? He chooses to live outside and has done so for 3 years.
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Cats are indeed smart animals. If he really likes to live outside you cannot do much for him
I once saw what a man had done for his cats. He build a large cage (it sounds bad but its for the good of the cats) in his back yard and inside he made few wooden places for the cats. The cage is connected with his dog door and the cats walk though a small tunnel( made from the same material like the cage) and reach the inside of the cage. That way they are protected and outside.
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Friend had a cat that would catch snakes and bring them to the front door to show off.
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Argonia wrote: the mice will sense the danger after some time and go to your neighbors if they don't have a cat
...and your cat will bring them back and release them, live, in the kitchen!
That's what Dij does, anyway...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I find it more fun if they bring in birds...
especially those that are a bit bigger (like a blackbird) and release them inside
We had to collect the feathers in the whole appartment and that damn bird was too dumb (or probably scared) to realize that a window only lets through the light...
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I prefer gathering feathers to entrails...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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When I bought my house, the previous owners couldn't get their cat into the carrier to go with them. They said they would come back for him, and warned to stay away from him "he's a killer".
He turned out to be the sweetest cat...
Fast forward, we kept finding live birds in the house. Some hiding in closets, some downstairs. We thought they were flying in through the chimney or something.
Yeah, it turns out the cat kept bringing them in. It was probably hilarious to watch both that cat and I chasing after the birds seeing who could catch it first.
The cat finally learned his lesson and started catching smaller birds. The feathers and what was left was not much fun to clean up.
To know and not do, is not yet to know
http://www.codeofthedamned.com
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This is his(or hers i didn't encounter such name before) way of saying : i am bringing you food human slave, you suck at hunting.
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Probably is, but it's the way he drops it, looks at it, looks at me, slaps it, and strolls off with his nose in the air... 
Then I get to hunt the damn thing down and fish it out of whatever tiny hole it has found before it poos, breeds, or dies...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Oh, cute little Dij he(or she still not sure) is training you into hunting. Such a good pet.
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Dij is a boy - it's "short" for Digital: when we got him as a kitten he was either ON (and doing a Wall-Of-Death round the room) or OFF (asleep and you could do anything to him you liked and he wouldn't wake up)
He is a member here and visits occasionally: http://www.codeproject.com/Members/Dij-The-Cat[^]
He predecessor was also a member, but he developed a virulent strain of Feline Infectious Peritonitis and we had to let him go. Bill[^] was a lot more active here, since he sat on my keyboard a lot more than Dij does.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm a Boy! And I'm not a pet: the Pink Blobs belong to me and do my bidding.
Obligatory Dilbert[^]
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Argonia wrote: The bonuses are
The downside being that you indeed have a cat.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Friend has two indoor cats and a mouse problem. Cats watch the mice but given it is a old house the mice do not need to come where the cats are.
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- The environment doesn't suffer
Try telling that to the birds in the area.
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Almost every mail received today (announcements, updates, even spam): listen to our radio station because is VD; buy this because etc.
I wonder if Windows Updates will install a valetine.s.day.interop.dll, or congratulate with a system modal dialog, or something.
Today I'm also going to dentist in the evening; if one more human being will stop me with something like this, it will be something like Protoss praetor Fenix assaulting the Zerg cerebrates.
Nuclear launch detected
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