House cat looks like a Siamese, or Siamese derivative. Siamese cats fear nothing. Gotta love ’em.
Had four over the span of sixty years. (The first was old fashioned with crossed eyes and kink in her tail. Guess they bred that out. She endured 10 major moves by car or plane, and never complained. But, when her tail puffed up she was ready to take on the world.)
This is so funny. The Mom’s first thought … and the Dad’s response.
Mom: “Where are the kids?”
Dad: “Oh, they’re out back.”
Mom: “WHAT!!!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????”
Dad: “Shhh, you’ll scare the cat. They’re still sleeping.”
When I show this to my wife, she’ll have the same response, and I’ll still get hit because it’s what I would have said.
Not too wonderful if considering nice walks with the family later in the day. 🙂 But the dad’s comment was funny!
My 12 year old male cat is often out front greeting all passers by. The neighborhood dog walkers who know him generally pass on the other side of the street, as Teddy is not friendly to any non-human.
And I’ve cringed more than once when I see couples pushing toddlers in strollers who stop to pet Teddy. Teddy likes people, but it’s all on his terms. I saw a mother holding her crying kid, presumable because Teddy decided he’d had enough, and, well, you know how cats let you know. My wife and I have seriously thought of putting a ‘don’t pet the cat’ sign out there.
As my friend says – cats are armed and dangerous.
I (charitably) think of the Dad as having already thought of the kids and realized that they are safe.
It was mean to tweak the Mom though 🙂 🙂
“As my friend says – cats are armed and dangerous.”
Here’s a video made by a letter carrier stalked by an angry cat– he says in a note about the video, ” As I was walking down one side of the street, Socks was stalking me on the other. The video starts when I crossed the street to deliver the mail. Socks is now an indoors kitty, after his owners saw the video. They were afraid he might try to cross the street to kill me!”
We had a very large cat who would follow us on walks, crossing the street to beat up dogs and returning to us, victorious.
JimNorCal, obviously that dad knew his kids were safe. It was a joke. I’m sure she realized it promptly; after all, with multiple kids they’ve been married a while.
Wow. If there were large cats like that nearby, I would be worried about the children constantly.
A Mountain lion killed an adult trail runner in the California Sierra Nevada foothills about 10 years ago. Last year there was a video of a Mountain lion actively pursuing a trail runner in the Wasatch mountains of Utah after he had gotten close to it’s cubs. It’s not just the children to be concerned about when out and about in their habitat.
Maybe if we had a subdiscipline of urban geosciences? Petrology of concrete and asphalt?
The mountain lions show up in my neighborhood (on the San Francisco peninsula) fairly regularly. They live in the nearby hills and new generations are pushed out to seek new habitat. There are a lot of “Ring” type videos showing them strolling around at night in peoples’ driveways. They are normally nocturnal animals. and there are certainly sufficient numbers of deer in the area so they should not be looking for more food, but there have been some very scary and sometimes fatal daytime encounters. I always have bear spray with me when I’m biking, just in case.
Shortly after we got our kids a kitten, I heard some hissing at the back door and found him facing down a curious raccoon about 5 times his size.
He was named “Tiger” for his few creamy-brown stripes; pure serendipity, as his attitude wasn’t known at the time.
A few years later, he would jump into the guinea pig’s territory, an open aquarium, and try to get Pig to play, but was rebuffed on pretty much the same terms as he gave the raccoon, with the same size differential.
AMartel; om:
The song’s not as old as he says, but here it is:
Here’s a good read on the topic. And I agree with the reviewer who said “Reads like a crime novel”.
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator’s Deadly Return to Suburban America
Kitty: “I blasted him with my eyes on stun, and he retreated. All is safe now.”
Years ago I was living in Ventura, Calif. The local paper had a story about an incident with a mountain lion in Fillmore, a very small rural town about 30 min. east of Ventura.
About a year before, a small development was built on the outskirts. Semi-desert environment, much cheaper land than on the coast.
In that development, a woman’s pet, a full grown husky dog was lounging on her porch. She just happened to look out her living room window as a mountain lion leaped over her porch railing, seized the dog in its jaws and, with the dog firmly in its jaws… easily leaped back over the railing . She watched as it ran off with her dead pet. They’re big, powerful animals. Next to a powerful handgun, rifle or shotgun, bear spray is the least you should have on hand. I call BS on the PC “they were here first!” idiocy.
BREAKING NEWS — Tucker Carlson has been exposing Frank Luntz, the GOPee’s official pollster, recently.
Now we learn why this Google lobbyist may be so influential with the GOPee: Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader of the GOPee rents his DC home from Luntz. In effect, they are roommates or maybe landlord-tenants.
Well. it’s all fun and games until somebody’s kid gets mauled.
JUST AS I’VE BEEN THINKING — John Tierney links at Insty
“ THE CLUES LEAD TO A LAB IN WUHAN: Origin of Covid — “Following the Clues. Nicholas Wade, one of the best science journalists in the world, meticulously reviews the structure of the Covid virus and the evidence for the competing theories of its origin. He concludes that ‘proponents of lab escape can explain all the available facts about SARS2 considerably more easily than can those who favor natural emergence.’
‘People round the world who have been pretty much confined to their homes for the last year might like a better answer than their media are giving them. Perhaps one will emerge in time. After all, the more months pass without the natural emergence theory gaining a shred of supporting evidence, the less plausible it may seem. Perhaps the international community of virologists will come to be seen as a false and self-interested guide. The common sense perception that a pandemic breaking out in Wuhan might have something to do with a Wuhan lab cooking up novel viruses of maximal danger in unsafe conditions could eventually displace the ideological insistence that whatever Trump said can’t be true.
House cat looks like a Siamese, or Siamese derivative. Siamese cats fear nothing. Gotta love ’em.
Had four over the span of sixty years. (The first was old fashioned with crossed eyes and kink in her tail. Guess they bred that out. She endured 10 major moves by car or plane, and never complained. But, when her tail puffed up she was ready to take on the world.)
This is so funny. The Mom’s first thought … and the Dad’s response.
Mom: “Where are the kids?”
Dad: “Oh, they’re out back.”
Mom: “WHAT!!!!!!! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?????”
Dad: “Shhh, you’ll scare the cat. They’re still sleeping.”
Animal Translations
JimNorCal,
When I show this to my wife, she’ll have the same response, and I’ll still get hit because it’s what I would have said.
Not too wonderful if considering nice walks with the family later in the day. 🙂 But the dad’s comment was funny!
My 12 year old male cat is often out front greeting all passers by. The neighborhood dog walkers who know him generally pass on the other side of the street, as Teddy is not friendly to any non-human.
And I’ve cringed more than once when I see couples pushing toddlers in strollers who stop to pet Teddy. Teddy likes people, but it’s all on his terms. I saw a mother holding her crying kid, presumable because Teddy decided he’d had enough, and, well, you know how cats let you know. My wife and I have seriously thought of putting a ‘don’t pet the cat’ sign out there.
As my friend says – cats are armed and dangerous.
I (charitably) think of the Dad as having already thought of the kids and realized that they are safe.
It was mean to tweak the Mom though 🙂 🙂
“As my friend says – cats are armed and dangerous.”
Here’s a video made by a letter carrier stalked by an angry cat– he says in a note about the video, ” As I was walking down one side of the street, Socks was stalking me on the other. The video starts when I crossed the street to deliver the mail. Socks is now an indoors kitty, after his owners saw the video. They were afraid he might try to cross the street to kill me!”
The mailman obviously has a sense of humor, as you can hear him chuckling at several points:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jyF9zlHXU&ab_channel=wardog07delta
We had a very large cat who would follow us on walks, crossing the street to beat up dogs and returning to us, victorious.
JimNorCal, obviously that dad knew his kids were safe. It was a joke. I’m sure she realized it promptly; after all, with multiple kids they’ve been married a while.
Wow. If there were large cats like that nearby, I would be worried about the children constantly.
A Mountain lion killed an adult trail runner in the California Sierra Nevada foothills about 10 years ago. Last year there was a video of a Mountain lion actively pursuing a trail runner in the Wasatch mountains of Utah after he had gotten close to it’s cubs. It’s not just the children to be concerned about when out and about in their habitat.
Off Topic for the Open Thread:
Wah! Wah! Science must be rescued!
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-geoscientists-action-tackling-racial-inequality.html
Maybe if we had a subdiscipline of urban geosciences? Petrology of concrete and asphalt?
The mountain lions show up in my neighborhood (on the San Francisco peninsula) fairly regularly. They live in the nearby hills and new generations are pushed out to seek new habitat. There are a lot of “Ring” type videos showing them strolling around at night in peoples’ driveways. They are normally nocturnal animals. and there are certainly sufficient numbers of deer in the area so they should not be looking for more food, but there have been some very scary and sometimes fatal daytime encounters. I always have bear spray with me when I’m biking, just in case.
Shortly after we got our kids a kitten, I heard some hissing at the back door and found him facing down a curious raccoon about 5 times his size.
He was named “Tiger” for his few creamy-brown stripes; pure serendipity, as his attitude wasn’t known at the time.
A few years later, he would jump into the guinea pig’s territory, an open aquarium, and try to get Pig to play, but was rebuffed on pretty much the same terms as he gave the raccoon, with the same size differential.
AMartel; om:
The song’s not as old as he says, but here it is:
Here’s a good read on the topic. And I agree with the reviewer who said “Reads like a crime novel”.
The Beast in the Garden: The True Story of a Predator’s Deadly Return to Suburban America
https://www.amazon.com/Beast-Garden-Predators-Suburban-America/dp/0393326349
Kitty: “I blasted him with my eyes on stun, and he retreated. All is safe now.”
Years ago I was living in Ventura, Calif. The local paper had a story about an incident with a mountain lion in Fillmore, a very small rural town about 30 min. east of Ventura.
About a year before, a small development was built on the outskirts. Semi-desert environment, much cheaper land than on the coast.
In that development, a woman’s pet, a full grown husky dog was lounging on her porch. She just happened to look out her living room window as a mountain lion leaped over her porch railing, seized the dog in its jaws and, with the dog firmly in its jaws… easily leaped back over the railing . She watched as it ran off with her dead pet. They’re big, powerful animals. Next to a powerful handgun, rifle or shotgun, bear spray is the least you should have on hand. I call BS on the PC “they were here first!” idiocy.
BREAKING NEWS — Tucker Carlson has been exposing Frank Luntz, the GOPee’s official pollster, recently.
Now we learn why this Google lobbyist may be so influential with the GOPee: Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader of the GOPee rents his DC home from Luntz. In effect, they are roommates or maybe landlord-tenants.
I’ll report, you decide. This is Uniparty creepy. Details here
https://nationalfile.com/breaking-tucker-reveals-kevin-mccarthy-secretly-lives-in-apartment-with-frank-luntz/
Well. it’s all fun and games until somebody’s kid gets mauled.
JUST AS I’VE BEEN THINKING — John Tierney links at Insty
“ THE CLUES LEAD TO A LAB IN WUHAN: Origin of Covid — “Following the Clues. Nicholas Wade, one of the best science journalists in the world, meticulously reviews the structure of the Covid virus and the evidence for the competing theories of its origin. He concludes that ‘proponents of lab escape can explain all the available facts about SARS2 considerably more easily than can those who favor natural emergence.’
‘People round the world who have been pretty much confined to their homes for the last year might like a better answer than their media are giving them. Perhaps one will emerge in time. After all, the more months pass without the natural emergence theory gaining a shred of supporting evidence, the less plausible it may seem. Perhaps the international community of virologists will come to be seen as a false and self-interested guide. The common sense perception that a pandemic breaking out in Wuhan might have something to do with a Wuhan lab cooking up novel viruses of maximal danger in unsafe conditions could eventually displace the ideological insistence that whatever Trump said can’t be true.
‘And then let the reckoning begin.’
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/nicholas-wade/
COVID was indeed deployed by the CCP as a bio-terror weapon, which — as noted in the Daily Mail one year ago — is an act of war.