By request. An open post for cat people.
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Don’t know about cats. Not safe for wildlife. I’m more into the HAL 9000 m’self http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA4iPFsEW0I&mode=related&search=
I apologise. That was really crass and it should be removed.
Cat proximity equation
(From a dedicated Cat Person who has made plenty of inane comments in his time…)
I’m not sure the image of a mummified cat will exactly endear you to those of us who love cats. I might take umbrage with the ancient Egyptian practice of killing cats and being intombed with them to ensure a pleasant afterlife
Cats are cool, they don’t need you, but yet choose to bestow you with their charm and affection, and I hope, not just because you feed them and give ‘em a saucer of milk on occasion.
I miss having a pet cat. A single foot loose life in London just doesn’t seem to be fair on a critter.
More kitiku.
If you were my size
My teeth would be in your neck
Let’s deal, can opener
I am a stomach
Covered by fur and optimism
Quite illogical
What cat isn’t writing
A definitive treatise
on car transmissions
Do you mind, I’m busy
Crap, vomit and furballs?
Some other fucker
I have so much hair
That I’m quite willing to share
Summer’s in the air
What’s on the TV?
What’s up on the internets?
You talking to me?
But I wish I’d written this one, courtesy of PC’s anon friend.
There’s no dignity
in being sick, which is why
I don’t tell you where
I suspect that this comment will be stuck in moderation hell for a while given the number of links. That’s cool. I’ll just have a snack, a wash and a nap.
Details on the photo?
15 photos of the very aptly-named Kali.
This one has figured out that paper is in some way important to humans, and has the less-than-delightful habit of ripping it up as a way of saying “Get out of bed, lazy giant monkey, and let me out of the house”.
Comment spaminated, I think. Only a single link this time…looks like we are on an elevated spam alert.
I’m guessing Bast.
Indeed. But, for instance, the provenance of this particular piece?
Open the Cat Bay doors, Chris!
I’m sorry, Kim…… I’m afraid I can’t do that.
( Firedoglakers went through a phase like this about 6 months back. Then TRex started banging on about his killer bowled goldfish. The catspell was broken. Fitz swoons resumed. Bloglife continued unabated. In cyberspace, no one could hear you scream, all over again. And it was good.)
Sumer, Amanda.
I lurve cats, but environmentalist husband won’t buy it.
I guess he has a point:
Neighbours Cat ate Lorikeet at my house.
Neighbours cat ate blue tongue lizard at my house.
Neighbours cat tries to kill my chooks baby chicks.
hmmmm Christine, i think you have a point.
Feline Friday – WAHAY!!!
Just wanted to say, I was late to work this morning because my cat jumped on my lap as I was putting my shoes on.
I’m sure you’ll understand that I then had to sit with him for about 10 minutes.
Sumer? This creates more questions. Any more detail? Time period?Context? Not trying to be difficult but I would generaly like to know.
Is that Johnny Depp’s cat?
Woof.
Dear LP Cat Agony Aunties,
My cat has taken to waking up my child. He goes in to his bedroom and meows. Child gets annoyed and tells cat ‘go away’. Cat refuses. Child goes to watch TV. Cat follows and stands over child (by jumping on a side table) as if to say ‘give me your lap’. Child says ‘go away’. Cat completely refuses. Child is too scared to push cat away as remembers dim dark days of toddlerhood when got many a warning bite. Cat knows I am the one with the can opener, but lets me sleep, when he normally hassles me stupid. Cat now asleep on child’s bed.
What gives?
Dog owners generally have the courtesy to confine their beasts to their property. Why don’t cat owners? Arsewipes.
Sorry, Amanda, I can’t be of much help. I just googled “cat goddess” in images. The pic, now that I’ve looked, actually turns out to be from a commercial buy Bast thingies site, and I was just assuming Sumer because the file name suggests so. I was looking more for a pic of the right size rather than for one that illustrated Bast as such.
The only good cat is a diseased cat… but they do make dam fine bait in crab pots
Then again if cooked right, one domestic cat can feed a family….
I’ve tried to get my cat to feed the family but he feigns ignorance at the sight of the can opener. Then again, he doesn’t have opposable thumbs, so it would be hard for the widdle iddle boy.
My Tina does try, LSP, but I don’t think she quite gets that we don’t like eating rats. I mean, good on her for killing them, but not on the carpet thanks luv.
Thanks Kim. I had done various google images searches buit not that one. I found the site.
It always amazes/amuses me the popularity of ancient egyptian religion in new age circles since it has to be one of the absolute least democratic, least egalitarian, least touchy feeling world views going round.
Around my place if a cat and a fox are spotted at the same time, the cat goes first closely followed by the fox. The damage done by wild cats has to be seen to be believed .
Not seen my cat chase and kill a wallaby yet. Can’t say the same for the local (non-feral) dogs.
You could say much the same thing about the popularity of Knightly and Chivalric costumes/recreations at Ren Fairs and SCA meets. The attraction seems to be imagining oneself to be part fo the mover/shaker elite, surrounded by all this tradition and aesthetically pleasing accoutrements, without needing to reenact the misery of the peasants/serfs/slaves that underlay the whole system.
At least SCA types have the excuse that waving around big swords is just damned cool. The ritual mysticism of the neo-Egyptians isn’t very exciting by comparison.
Yeah but the SCA is just a nerd dating agency and an excuse to frock up, hit stuff and get drunk. Whereas the touchy feely we’re all the universes children cosmic harmony you-are-some-one-special ethos is central to the New Age thing — believe me, you are nobody special at all to Isis. Isis does not give a shit about you.
You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. You’re quite right, a harmless excuse for drunken rollicking is quite different from the mystical fabrications which just decide to create their own mythology around ancient deities because they like the look of them but not the existing mythos.
Not that there isn’t an awfully long tradition of religions being rebadged in exactly this way.
ObFeline: oldie but goodie – Cat Chases Bear Up Tree
Geez I wish I could upload images into my comments.
I beg of you to click this link though.
Best.
Cat.
Ever.
Heh.
Here you go!
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