My cat snores really loud

[susieqz]

i'd never let my cats out if there was traffic, but i'm 3 miles from pavement.
here's something interesting.
one day, there was a rattler in my garden. the 7 12 week old kits formed a circle around it at 8'.
mom wasn't there to tell them the snake was dangerous, but somehow they knew.
they didn't even mess with it after i shot it.

mom did most of the training tho. she brot them a live mouse every day, to chase.
they knew all about mice before they ever left the house.
i didn't much like live mice in my house, but drifter thot it was important, so i allowed it.
i had kits galloping thru the house at full chase. trumpets blairing, at all hours

 

[Doffy]

I'm Australian. So think cats should stay inside to protect things like pygmy possums and birds.

Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats

 

[Letitia]

When June can't find a mouse to catch she brings the fur kids the fake mouse toys several times a day.

 

[Punk In Drublic]

When June can't find a mouse to catch she brings the fur kids the fake mouse toys several times a day.

That is sooooo adorable!! When my cat can’t find a bird, usually in the fried form, she brings me my phone to order Uber Eats

 

[bsidb]

I wake in the morning to that night's slaying of toys in my bed

 

[Letitia]

I wake in the morning to that night's slaying of toys in my bed

My old girl Beana used to do that, she just watches the mice run across the floor now.

 

[susieqz]

my cats kill mice rats n ground squirrels.
the value of the fig crop they protect from fig loving vermin is more than the cost of their food.

on the fig forum, people sometimes report losing 90% of their crop to vermin.
that makes my guys very valuable.

this isn't australia n cats are welcome.
coyotes are not killing enow pests.

 

[stols001]

Well, that is what Australia gets, for that genetically modified virus that killed off ALL the rabbits.

I get they were bad and all, but you know, you get rid of all the rabbits, cats are gonna go looking for something else.

Also, OZ is DEADLY serious about the "no outside biological things." Like even a daisy, looped in your kids hair on the plane, they will SHOOT it.

No lie.

Also, like OZ is like this delicately balanced ecosystem that was doomed by being like, a part of civilization. I mean when the last batch of non-acculturated Aboriginal peoples quietly leaves for the desert, vowing never to return..... and they don't??

It's sort of time to leave that island.

Annna

 

[Doffy]

But seriously. Pygmy possums.

We have this rep of deadly stuff. But lookit him...

 

[Anise]

But seriously. Pygmy possums.

We have this rep of deadly stuff. But lookit him...

He's so cute! But what's his purpose? What does he eat? He's still cute tho!

 

[Doffy]

He's so cute! But what's his purpose? What does he eat? He's still cute tho!

I think similar to your hummingbirds. Flowers n stuff?

 

[stols001]

My parents are from OZ and neither they (nor myself) ever got bit by ANYTHING. You have to work at it and I used to bathe in the seas, and like, go riding out in the bush all the time.

I have seen/been bitten by/been nearly bitten by a JILLION more things in Tucson. Although I hear the most deadliest infestation yet is the swarm of homeless. They're BEGGING for money after not quite wanting to be called a sanctuary city oh except THEY ARE.

I'm a bit like Cartman when it comes to the homeless. I don't have a TON of sympathy. If you want to become NON homeless there are a LOT of routes to do that and yes it is hard work and you have to listen to various sorts of religious screens sometimes and even OH read the Bible which homeless people in college I read that sucker in ONE WEEK in Comparative religion, etc.

To be fair, there is that one generation that Obama told everyone and his brother to go to college and take out massive debt and there were no jobs, except for plumbers and whatnot. Dude, in retrospect (which is how I like to evaluate my presidents) that guy was just the WORST. Like, really totally awful. But I have some sympathy for them although Tucson has free plumbing school programs and stuff, they could pay their loan back and buy a house.

Perhaps I am being unfair so I will stop, but yeah the scariest thing I ever saw in OZ (other than a couple of like funnel webs at the bottom of the pool which was not scary, you just did not go in) was a mutant Huntsman spider that had grown bigger than a dinner plate by a FAIR amount. Even my dad was terrified and like, he went and got a broom shaking his head, muttering "That thing should not be allowed to exist," in this kind of dire tone. It actually did battle.

Anna

I will stop. . Sorry

 

[Nermal]

But seriously. Pygmy possums.

We have this rep of deadly stuff. But lookit him...

Oh, okay. Not everything in Australia will kill you. That doesn't mean it doesn't want to.

 

[susieqz]

dof, killing all those kitties is evil.

 

[Doffy]

dof, killing all those kitties is evil.

you'll kill a squirrel over a fig, but not a cat over endangered species?

 

[stols001]

I'm sorry but feral cats (not the domesticated kind) are just yet another horrifying species of vermin that carry disease and whatnot.

If you are a responsible pet owner there now, you take care of it, give it an enclosure, WHATEVER.

You ever see a nasty cat bite up close? I have. It's not pretty. It's not FUN. Not all cats are loveable joys just because (insert your pet's name here) is.

I love animals, but I am also not a card carrying member of PETA and just because YOU love YOUR cat, it doesn't mean ALL cats in the universe should be fed an endless supply of cat food.

Learn to prioritize. To Categorize.

Anna

 

[susieqz]

yup. that thing you showed looks like an orchard pest.
it would eat my figs so my kits are supposed to kill it.
please keep them in australia.
you can't grow figs here, so i work hard for a crop.

mice n rats are disgusting. kitties are cute n necessary.
never forget the black death.
there are 27 rodent carried diseases here, right now.
you may pay for exterminating our traditional helpers.

 

[susieqz]

my drifter was n is feral n she's adorable.

 

[Doffy]

yup. that thing you showed looks like an orchard pest.
it would eat my figs so my kits are supposed to kill it.
please keep them in australia.
you can't grow figs here, so i work hard for a crop.

mice n rats are disgusting. kitties are cute n necessary.
never forget the black death.
there are 27 rodent carried diseases here, right now.
you may pay for exterminating our traditional helpers.

Our possums probably would be a pest species there. They have no place there.
They are native animals here, that belong here. So are quolls, who are omnivorous.

Glad your cats help you.

 

[stols001]

NVM