Shiny After Hours Chat

[ShowMeTwice]

according to scientists, house cats are not ambush hunters

Not at all true. Feline species, including house cats, are by nature ambush predators.

Look it up.

she will creep up as close as possible to bunnies playing, then freeze in place.
she will not move for hours n hours til a bun hops close.
only then will she spring.

Creeping up (stalking), sitting in place and waiting for the opportune moment to strike is the very definition of an ambush predator.

ETA: BTW, rabbits and hares have been native to the plains since like a very very long time ago. They were not imported.

 

[Zazie]

Moles seem like they might be easy pickings. Or am I wrong to think they're slower than mice?

 

[ShowMeTwice]

Good morning ShinyChat's !!!

 

[ShowMeTwice]

Moles seem like they might be easy pickings. Or am I wrong to think they're slower than mice?

I agree, they look like easy pickings. However, moles can tunnel at a rate of 15ft per hour.

After watching this I would say they are pretty darn slow. Very easy pickings for a cat or dog.

Perhaps we need to organize a mole and mouse race?
I don't have any moles here and folks with outdoor cats keep the mice under control.

This guy, Matty Molenation, might know.
Matty Molenation

 

[ShowMeTwice]

Rabbits are quicker bro.

Only yours are.

And surprise surprise... Carli has stopped killing and eating them. Last couple days she only chased them. Was more than close enough to snag them but she didn't.

This most recent development must be due to her watching (from on my bed) while I view your bunny videos.

 

[Letitia]

Moles seem like they might be easy pickings. Or am I wrong to think they're slower than mice?

They have to have better than average hearing to hunt moles. Most of Beana's kills came from digging out the underground nests.

 

[stols001]

I really think it's time for everyone to remember: things are born to die. Also ,some testosterone pills are in order . I like hummingbirds too, I have yet to met anyone that hates them but if I had a cat that ate one, I would be required to give that cat a high five. Because that cat is awesome.

I'm sorry cats are natural predators, yes, even the ones confined to houses. I actually think it's cruel to do that because it is taking some of their nature from them. They are natural predators and the only cat I ever had that wasn't was the LAZIEST cat you ever met. He would go outside... to lay in a patch of sunlight. He was really more like a freaking plush toy than a cat. He would have made a great house cat but a LOT of them don't.

They get depressed, they get fat, they get fed too much. Don't. If you are going to do that to a cat, buy a bunny or a chipmunk or something that is PREY To live in your home. Dude. It's not hard to figure out.

Anna

 

[AngeNZ]

Saw George take off after a squirrel this morning, fingers crossed he develops an interest in mole hunting.

or @Skunk! s

 

[Nermal]

I really think it's time for everyone to remember: things are born to die. Also ,some testosterone pills are in order . I like hummingbirds too, I have yet to met anyone that hates them but if I had a cat that ate one, I would be required to give that cat a high five. Because that cat is awesome.
Anna

I won't go so far as to say I hate them, but I met one while backpacking a few decades ago. One of them got in front of me, pointed that wicked little beak at my right eye, and flew backwards to maintain station for a hundred yards, or so. The experience did not fill me with the warm fuzzies.

 

[Letitia]

I won't go so far as to say I hate them, but I met one while backpacking a few decades ago. One of them got in front of me, pointed that wicked little beak at my right eye, and flew backwards to maintain station for a hundred yards, or so. The experience did not fill me with the warm fuzzies.

Apologies but I got a chuckle from the pic in my head.

 

[ShowMeTwice]

My huntress cat, Angel, jumped up and swatted a fly out of the living room airspace the other day. Then played with it for a bit before eating it. She was stalking it for about an hour as it flew around the house irritating us. Dog tried to bite it out of the air a few times. She even barked at it.

Cat 1 - Dog 0

 

[chanelvaps]

My cat Julie kills the occasional baby frog these days. Neighborhood is loaded with them. My big guy Joe used to hunt and lived for it. He is mostly relegated to inside these days as he is older and not fast and there is danger to cats outside. On the West Coast, kitties got eaten nightly by coyotes and it is not a pretty site to find your meow in your yard having succumbed to this type of death. Here in south it is dogs and cars to worry about. He goes out but stays close to home and is always home (as is Julie) by dark and bedtime.

 

[Zazie]

I really think it's time for everyone to remember: things are born to die. Also ,some testosterone pills are in order . I like hummingbirds too, I have yet to met anyone that hates them but if I had a cat that ate one, I would be required to give that cat a high five. Because that cat is awesome.

I'm sorry cats are natural predators, yes, even the ones confined to houses. I actually think it's cruel to do that because it is taking some of their nature from them. They are natural predators and the only cat I ever had that wasn't was the LAZIEST cat you ever met. He would go outside... to lay in a patch of sunlight. He was really more like a freaking plush toy than a cat. He would have made a great house cat but a LOT of them don't.

They get depressed, they get fat, they get fed too much. Don't. If you are going to do that to a cat, buy a bunny or a chipmunk or something that is PREY To live in your home. Dude. It's not hard to figure out.

Anna

I find it easy both to congratulate my cats on their kills and to commiserate with their victims.

 

[stols001]

I find it easy both to congratulate my cats on their kills and to commiserate with their victims.

OMG me too, especially when my cats would leave me the respectful bits of one on the welcome mat and I'd be stepping out barefoot, coffee and cigarettes. I not only felt for them, I FELT them.

It usually required me to like, both love my cat and hate it. Also required washing of the feet and the welcome mat LOL.

Eventually I was just like,, "Look before you leap." You can only step on so many "respectful bits" my cat left for me although I liked that it respected me. I was like, "Cat ,you know, you could also respect my WAKEUP time and not BAT at my features until I get UP." Neither respectful behavior ever changed, either.

It's kind of what I like about cats, they do not exist to please you.
Anna

 

[Zazie]

Re death, I know it is inevitable and necessary, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

 

[AngeNZ]

Sis and family and all their friends, had an end of lockdown party last night. Their place is 250m from mine. 16yo niece was obviously in charge of music and volume - she did herself proud and very very loud

Antisocial me and Luna tried to sleep, and gave up at 11pm and I just read instead and listened to the 'duff duff' vibrations. At 8.30am I may've woken up a few people, by putting on my load of laundry

 

[f1vefour]

My huntress cat, Angel, jumped up and swatted a fly out of the living room airspace the other day. Then played with it for a bit before eating it. She was stalking it for about an hour as it flew around the house irritating us. Dog tried to bite it out of the air a few times. She even barked at it.

Cat 1 - Dog 0 [emoji38]

I don't need a fly swatter, my dog is proficient at snapping them out of the air and drives me absolutely insane until she gets it. She quivers when she hears a fly, I don't know why but they drive her crazy.

 

[stols001]

I have found my life to be better by making friends with death. It happens to be a favorite subject of mine, and yes, I have had several relatives die.

While it certainly can be tragic, and I certainly am not requiring you to like it, well, I am pretty okay with death. It was a part of my life from the moment of my birth, why would I not investigate it fully.

I have seen strangers die, often when working in a hospital. I can't say if a hummingbird feels a moment of peace before being eaten, but I do feel many humans, nearing their end, do appear and talk about a feeling of peace for them.

There are many that I have loved and lost to death, and of course I miss them. I see no reason to rail and cry against death, however. It comes for us all, and making my peace with it early (you also need to remember I CRAVED death every winter for about 13 years and only my kid kept me alive) so yes, I have spent long and hard moments with death, and it's fine for anyone to feel differently but I have my belief in death and in what come after and while it may be sad to be left behind on earth, I have also had some interesting experiences that offer me hope and joy in what comes afterward. Wrong or right, they are also MY experiences and I believe in them as vividly as anything else on the planet.

I don't believe I exactly "Like it" but I have certainly conversed with it on many occasions, experienced it, watched it and I am at peace with death.

You of course can do what you like. The fact remains we are all on this earth, to die.

Frees up more time for life. I remember being very scared of death as a child. I understand that feeling too and the thoughts of what might happen. I decided to embrace it /Part of my mindfulness practice (not every day but some martial arts people do it every day) is imagining my own death and experiencing it in multiple situations.

Anna

There are a few persons I would hate to lose, I would miss them so much and grieve them very deeply. But I would also understand death come to us all, so I wouldn't fight it.

 

[Zazie]

Sis and family and all their friends, had an end of lockdown party last night. Their place is 250m from mine. 16yo niece was obviously in charge of music and volume - she did herself proud and very very loud

Antisocial me and Luna tried to sleep, and gave up at 11pm and I just read instead and listened to the 'duff duff' vibrations. At 8.30am I may've woken up a few people, by putting on my load of laundry

Turnabout is fair play.

 

[Ricky Vapes]

I have found my life to be better by making friends with death. It happens to be a favorite subject of mine, and yes, I have had several relatives die.

While it certainly can be tragic, and I certainly am not requiring you to like it, well, I am pretty okay with death. It was a part of my life from the moment of my birth, why would I not investigate it fully.

I have seen strangers die, often when working in a hospital. I can't say if a hummingbird feels a moment of peace before being eaten, but I do feel many humans, nearing their end, do appear and talk about a feeling of peace for them.

There are many that I have loved and lost to death, and of course I miss them. I see no reason to rail and cry against death, however. It comes for us all, and making my peace with it early (you also need to remember I CRAVED death every winter for about 13 years and only my kid kept me alive) so yes, I have spent long and hard moments with death, and it's fine for anyone to feel differently but I have my belief in death and in what come after and while it may be sad to be left behind on earth, I have also had some interesting experiences that offer me hope and joy in what comes afterward. Wrong or right, they are also MY experiences and I believe in them as vividly as anything else on the planet.

I don't believe I exactly "Like it" but I have certainly conversed with it on many occasions, experienced it, watched it and I am at peace with death.

You of course can do what you like. The fact remains we are all on this earth, to die.

Frees up more time for life. I remember being very scared of death as a child. I understand that feeling too and the thoughts of what might happen. I decided to embrace it /Part of my mindfulness practice (not every day but some martial arts people do it every day) is imagining my own death and experiencing it in multiple situations.

Anna

There are a few persons I would hate to lose, I would miss them so much and grieve them very deeply. But I would also understand death come to us all, so I wouldn't fight it.

You’ve made friends with death?

I always knew you were secretly a serial killer psychopath female buffalo Bill. Don’t go up to the mountains with Anna. Or Mabye don’t go up there period

Speaking of death the other day a woman gave birth and not long after she drove to the lookout at the top of the mountains where my girlfriend jumped to her death and jumped as well. The malahat view point trestle is a tall one .

Supposedly she had bad post partum depression from giving birth.

Same cop that watched my girlfriend jump was first on scene as well.