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Cats are Carriers. It is now official.

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pcgeek11 said:
Good. However I think you deserve a cat.
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Um, why? Shots, hairballs, hair, cat food, howling, catfights, scratched furniture, worry if I leave town, 1/2 dead animals it brings in. Plus coronavirus. OTOH, if I have an SO who wants a cat, I'm there.
 
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Muse said:
I don't understand people not liking cats, feline domesticus or whatever it's called. They'll scratch the hell out of you, it can happen, but usually they are gentle, very graceful creatures and if they've imprinted on you can be very friendly, in their odd catty way.

A GF I had always had a cat or two and she suspected I harbored a cruel streak when it came to cats, but it was entirely her bent imagination. I've never mistreated a cat for a second. Certainly never hated one either. Now, dogs are another matter. It's very very easy to hate dogs:

They stink
They hump your leg
They will shit almost anywhere and don't have the decency cats do to bury their shit
They can bark until you go insane
If they aren't yours they can and will often treat you like you are The Devil
Yes, they will bite you. I had a job many years ago working for the Office of Workman's Compensation Programs in the federal government. A pretty fair percentage of the applications I saw were by mail delivery federal employees (i.e. postal workers) who were bitten by dogs.

Very very easy to hate dogs.
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If dogs were humans they'd all be locked up as pyscho-nutters. They combine pointless aggression with intense stupidity.

You quietly walk past the garden or house they are in and they go berserk leaping at the fence or door and barking at you, effectively screaming at you in their stupid dog-language "'**** off get out of here or I'll **** you up, you hear me you ****, I know you are going to break in and attack everyone, I'm onto your game you *******!, go on **** off out of here, I'm a psycho I am, I'll have you, I'll rip your head off!!!" like a Joe Pesci mafiosi character only not so easy-going.

Then when you just carry on past as you were always going to do, as every single person the stupid mutt has ever barked at has done, multiple times a day for years, the stupid canine hooligan sits back and thinks smugly to himself "ha, saw him off, I'm the man, I am, no-one messes with me"
 
pmv said:
If dogs were humans they'd all be locked up as pyscho-nutters. They combine pointless aggression with intense stupidity.

You quietly walk past the garden or house they are in and they go berserk leaping at the fence or door and barking at you, effectively screaming at you in their stupid dog-language "'**** off get out of here or I'll **** you up, you hear me you ****, I know you are going to break in and attack everyone, I'm onto your game you *******!, go on **** off out of here, I'm a psycho I am, I'll have you, I'll rip your head off!!!" like a Joe Pesci mafiosi character only not so easy-going.

Then when you just carry on past as you were always going to do, as every single person the stupid mutt has ever barked at has done, multiple times a day for years, the stupid canine hooligan sits back and thinks smugly to himself "ha, saw him off, I'm the man, I am, no-one messes with me"
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Actually, dogs, like chimps, can understand plain, simple English.

And unlike some component of the human race, they're mostly capable of loyalty and unconditional love.

They are capable of communicating with humans merely by facial expression and their eyes on an emotional level.

Of course, people who see dogs panting with their mouths open and tongues hanging limply think the mutts must be smiling and happy, when they're simply doing something toward metabolic balance attributed to sweat glands.

There is a joke about dogs and cats, which might give some insight into the differing nature of canines and felines.

A dog looks at his master, and thinks to himself "You must be a god!"

And the cat sits there, also thinking to himself "I am a god!"

Perhaps you should entertain yourself with a recent film, extrapolating what is known about human pre-history, entitled "Alpha". In the end, the Alpha turns out to be a female.

Also, it seems that one of Jack London's most popular books has now shown its third or fourth remake, featuring Harrison Ford. Of course, Buck, the canine hero of the story, has a lot of CGI enhancement in the film. Having glimpsed some of the interviews and background for the film, it may impart too much cerebral capability to the main animal character, but I'll have to see it for myself. It may not be that farfetched. Of course, this was fiction dreamed up by London, based on his adventuresome excursions in the Klondike gold rush, and probably infused with the affection London had for his childhood dog, Rollo.

Rollo was a very good boy -- good boy, indeed!
 
When I was a younger man I took my Puli into the back mountains of Yosemite park, (no lectures please) unleashed of course, and one morning I collapsed the tent and made breakfast for us. My Puli went and laid down on the tent while I clean up and made ready to hike on. When it came time for the tent I told my dog, get off the tent and go sit under that tree and she did. That dog was a genius individual among a genius breed of dogs.
 
Only one solution now... eradicate all cats.


[more seriously, given the more roaming nature of a cat compared to dogs, this could mean the damn thing defeats any "perfect" human isolation measures. A dog is more likely to be confined to the house or house & garden and thus keep the virus inside that boundary.]
 
Atari2600 said:
Only one solution now... eradicate all cats.


[more seriously, given the more roaming nature of a cat compared to dogs, this could mean the damn thing defeats any "perfect" human isolation measures. A dog is more likely to be confined to the house or house & garden and thus keep the virus inside that boundary.]
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Everyone should keep cats exclusively indoors anyway, considering their impact on wildlife and the likeliness to die or catch FIV.

Dogs have to go outside multiple times per day to poop/pee. Cats just use the litter box.
 
Ichinisan said:
Everyone should keep cats exclusively indoors anyway, considering their impact on wildlife and the likeliness to die or catch FIV.

Dogs have to go outside multiple times per day to poop/pee. Cats just use the litter box.
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This it is very simple to keep cats inside. Very little effort is required.
 
Cats are out to destroy humanity and take over. 😱

Glad I have a dog to keep them bastards out of my yard. 😛
 
Atari2600 said:
Only one solution now... eradicate all cats.


[more seriously, given the more roaming nature of a cat compared to dogs, this could mean the damn thing defeats any "perfect" human isolation measures. A dog is more likely to be confined to the house or house & garden and thus keep the virus inside that boundary.]
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Just wear a cucumber or maybe pickle.

Or:
 
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