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19 May 2008, 7:43 pm

http://www.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl ... /805190347

How long before the term "Asperger's" enters this discussion? Aspies tend to hoard cats, after all.



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19 May 2008, 8:13 pm

Oh Grief. More association games used by journalists. They sure know how to... :roll:



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19 May 2008, 8:15 pm

My cats have killed the occasional mouse. They don't normally speak to me, except to demand food and/or attention.


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19 May 2008, 8:20 pm

I believe cats want Meow Mix all the time, they ask for it by name after all. lol They also want their litter changed and to be stroked. Cats are pretty simple minded animals. I wonder if this guy knows that his cats just want their litter changed. If David Berkowitz knew that his neighbor's dog Sam was howling at the moon because that's what dogs do, lives could have been saved.



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19 May 2008, 9:23 pm

My cat is just lonely and feels abused when I don't give her wet food.


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19 May 2008, 10:20 pm

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Do your cats ever tell you to kill people?


No. They usually just sing old show tunes.

There was one time that Tommie talked me out of a murderous rage though. I owe her one for that.



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19 May 2008, 10:29 pm

My cat is always trying to kill birds. He gets angry and annoyed if he doesnt get his tuna on time.


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19 May 2008, 11:04 pm

My cats often convince me to open cans of wet food that I don't want to open and rub there belly by sneaking under my hand while I am reading...I have no will of my own and no one is fooled by my claims that I am the boss of them.


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19 May 2008, 11:06 pm

My cats control my thoughts sometimes, but they've never told me to kill.



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19 May 2008, 11:43 pm

this topic begs the question, if your cat told you to kill people, why would you listen to him?

now a dog, on the other hand...



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19 May 2008, 11:47 pm

yeah, ya' gotta watch those dogs. . .remember
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19 May 2008, 11:54 pm

jrknothead wrote:
this topic begs the question, if your cat told you to kill people, why would you listen to him?

Because we humans are slaves to the superior feline species. We don't like to admit it, but it's true.


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20 May 2008, 12:54 am

Orwell wrote:
jrknothead wrote:
this topic begs the question, if your cat told you to kill people, why would you listen to him?

Because we humans are slaves to the superior feline species. We don't like to admit it, but it's true.


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20 May 2008, 6:53 am

My cats tell me to pet them! and if I stop, she will set my soul on fire!



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20 May 2008, 9:51 am

I have always communicated very well with felines, most of my animal friends have been cats, and I don't know that cats have a concept of killing something as large as a person. Cats think that only edible things can be killed. Larger animals - ones too big to eat - need to be fought off or fled from. This is why lions, tigers, jaguars, and pumas are so dangerous, we are food-sized. No way a cat told a person to kill a person, someone doesn't know about cat psychology...


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21 May 2008, 1:10 pm

My cat the late Cuddles was a real hunter, be caught weasels , ducks, birds, rats, shrews, and mice, he was 16 years old when he caught his last Weasel


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