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I caught a cat!
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That's an American and Southern/Eastern European (Roman Catholic) thing - in the British Isles, it's lucky to have a black cat cross your path, and the same goes for seeing a hare.
Really? So humans never had triplets, quads, or more before IVF?I thought there was usually a natural maximum of offspring dictated by how many nipples the mother animal has
Frank Merton
Active Member
Will any rabbit do?
Frank Merton
Active Member
Thanks, but could I impose on you to explain.
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Definitely not! Hares are native to the British Isles, rabbits were introduced (and naturalised) by the Romans. Hares live above ground, rabbits below. Hares are sacred to several ancient goddesses, rabbits (even wild ones) are not.
I have a black cat and he crosses my path so often he is constantly tripping me up.I only have to see a black cat to feel lucky .... if it crosses my path that is even more luck ......
In fact I have thought of getting a black cat so I could see it every day and every day have good luck !!
I haven't won the lottery yet
Maybe I have good luck in lots of ways that I now take for granted though
Frank Merton
Active Member
Thanks.
Since we are on lagomorphs, there are a couple other words. I take it a "bunny" is a baby rabbit? Do the British have an Easter Bunny or is that just American? What about the American custom of keeping a rabbit's foot as a key chain for good luck. What do British think of that? I'm getting an education here
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Thraex
Needs to posh up his pants
Rabbits do have some mythology (some Aztec (?) God had 400 or so, or something 
) but it doesn't tend to be European. Then again, there's always the 'lucky' Rabbit foot . Sorry for continuing the derail . Like the tagline Greebo .
Anyways, firky how's she doing? I think we all need more pics of the cat-you-caught, as opposed to other, random, albeit lovely, felines. Have you wormed her?
) but it doesn't tend to be European. Then again, there's always the 'lucky' Rabbit foot . Sorry for continuing the derail . Like the tagline Greebo .Anyways, firky how's she doing? I think we all need more pics of the cat-you-caught, as opposed to other, random, albeit lovely, felines. Have you wormed her?
"Bunny" is the childish/affectionate word for rabbit. Yes, we have an Easter Bunny, in Europe they have an Easter Hare (in a lot of Europe "hare" is used almost interchangeably with "wild rabbit". Baby rabbits (and cats, and squirrels) are kittens.
The rabbit's foot is AFAIK believed to be lucky over here, but I wouldn't do it as I'm not fond of carrying bits of dead things around with so little respect.
There are still a lot of lucky rabbit's foot brooches to be found at flee markets and collector's fairs. They are usually made of silver with a small foot and mounted on a pin. I have one somewhere that my brother in law bought for me but I haven't seen it for years.
They are not popular now and I can't remember the last time I saw someone wearing one, they were common about 50 years ago though. Mine was bought for me because I like to collect dead things
They are not popular now and I can't remember the last time I saw someone wearing one, they were common about 50 years ago though. Mine was bought for me because I like to collect dead things
Frank Merton
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I've been told that Americans use to eat rabbit meat but after Disney invented Thumper in the movie "Bambi," they got a case of Thumper-guilt and rabbit meat disappeared from stores and the rabbit's foot key chains are now made of rubber and things like that.
Over here, myxomatosis almost killed off the popularity of eating rabbit (as well as the wild rabbits themselves).
American, again. But while we're at it, the Elarairah legends in "Watership Down" also deserve a mention.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
African American, at that. Yes, I know it's not from here but I was just thinking about rabbits I suppose
Day 3,
Arry (from Arya Stark, one of my favourite heroines) has taken her first shit in the house and much to my surprise she shit in the shit tray provided. Although I have been locking her in the kitchen I let her have the freedom of the kitchen and hallway last night. Must have forgot to close the bathroom door because that is where I found her this morning, on the window ledge eyeballing me. Reciting the words 'valar morghulis' as I picked her up. She still is refusing to eat cat food, preferring lambs liver, chicken breast and such - at room temperature too (as thought t was her own kill
) so I am not going to give her anything like that today, she can have some posh gormet cat food until I get my arse together buy some Oscars. If she doesn't eat, tough. There's food there if she wants it the stuck up little git 
I don't think that is the case. I had a cat, the one posted above, who'd catch salmon that were resting in the shallows and cross the stepping-stones over the river. He's also quite happily sit out all day in the rain and snow, get soaking wet. He did not care for the rain, he did not care for the snow, for none of them could quell the thrill of the rabbit hunt. My theory is that they don't like to get wet is because they don't look their best when wet. They're a vain thing.
Arry (from Arya Stark, one of my favourite heroines) has taken her first shit in the house and much to my surprise she shit in the shit tray provided. Although I have been locking her in the kitchen I let her have the freedom of the kitchen and hallway last night. Must have forgot to close the bathroom door because that is where I found her this morning, on the window ledge eyeballing me. Reciting the words 'valar morghulis' as I picked her up. She still is refusing to eat cat food, preferring lambs liver, chicken breast and such - at room temperature too (as thought t was her own kill
) so I am not going to give her anything like that today, she can have some posh gormet cat food until I get my arse together buy some Oscars. If she doesn't eat, tough. There's food there if she wants it the stuck up little git I don't think that is the case. I had a cat, the one posted above, who'd catch salmon that were resting in the shallows and cross the stepping-stones over the river. He's also quite happily sit out all day in the rain and snow, get soaking wet. He did not care for the rain, he did not care for the snow, for none of them could quell the thrill of the rabbit hunt. My theory is that they don't like to get wet is because they don't look their best when wet. They're a vain thing.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
She's probably not used to cat food if she's been living feral. Perhaps you should be giving her cat food with the liver etc mixed in then gradually make it more cat-food-ish.Day 3,
Arry (from Arya Stark, one of my favourite heroines) has taken her first shit in the house and much to my surprise she shit in the shit tray provided. Although I have been locking her in the kitchen I let her have the freedom of the kitchen and hallway last night. Must have forgot to close the bathroom door because that is where I found her this morning, on the window ledge eyeballing me. Reciting the words 'valar morghulis' as I picked her up. She still is refusing to eat cat food, preferring lambs liver, chicken breast and such - at room temperature too (as thought t was her own kill
Frank Merton
Active Member
I use a water pistol to discourage unwanted behavior, such as sharpening claws on furniture rather than cat pole. It works; all I have to do is reach for it and no cats in sight.
I don't know that cats are vain, though. I would merely call them dignified. A cat is the best I know of at pretending whatever stumble has just occurred was intended all along.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
My old neighbour caught a cat once - in a trap! It was a box held up by a stick, the cat went into the box and and the stick collapsed trapping moggy in the box - I think he was pissed off with cats shitting on his vegetable patch. I heard a cat meowing but couldn't see where it was coming from...
then someone rang the bell
a bloke from the flats opposite , bit of a stoner hippy type
Stoner 'have you seen my cat ?'
me
your cat ?
Stoner - 'Yeah man, my cat is missing and i can hear a cat crying man, a cat crying'
me - I think there may be a cat 2 doors away
Stoner - ' thank man, I need to rescue my cat '
I hung about as he knocked on Arnold's door (He was an old Jamaican guy)
Stoner - 'excuse man, have you seen my cat? I think he's trapped somewhere man
Arnold - no I haven't seen your cat
Arnold slams door in Stoner's face
I then went to look out the back garden - Arnold goes out, lifts the box, and cat shoots away
then someone rang the bell
a bloke from the flats opposite , bit of a stoner hippy type
Stoner 'have you seen my cat ?'
me
your cat ?Stoner - 'Yeah man, my cat is missing and i can hear a cat crying man, a cat crying
'me - I think there may be a cat 2 doors away
Stoner - ' thank man, I need to rescue my cat '
I hung about as he knocked on Arnold's door (He was an old Jamaican guy)
Stoner - 'excuse man, have you seen my cat? I think he's trapped somewhere man
Arnold - no
I haven't seen your cat Arnold slams door in Stoner's face
I then went to look out the back garden - Arnold goes out, lifts the box, and cat shoots away
A Cat pole is a tube of cardboard wrapped in twine that people pay an absolute fortune for. I think they're mainly for bored housecats who long for the outdoors but can't go outside because of XY and Z. Never used one, I wouldn't get a cat to keep it indoors (unless it was already used to it / had no legs kind of thing), they much prefer to roam about - all regal like.Frank, not liking being shot at by a water pistol isn't the same as not liking water
what's a cat pole?
My new cat, had him about 5 months now, hates going outside. If the weather isn't too bad and the door is open he will sit outside the door or if he's feeling really adventurous he will walk down the steps and back. Otherwise he just won't go outside.
I'm hoping that once spring comes he'll start to follow my older cat into the fields and discover the joys of the great outdoors
I'm hoping that once spring comes he'll start to follow my older cat into the fields and discover the joys of the great outdoors
purenarcotic
Conveniently Pocket Sized
Ours really doesn't anymore. It seems keeping her in after we moved has made her terrified of the outside world. She goes out for about 20 mins a day.
I feel sad for her cos she used to adore being outside. And now she refuses to shit outside and for over a year we had the joy of never ever having to clean a litter tray.
