Have cat

[Uglav]

Maybe a bit too young as she is hyperactive. Not sure if such a good
thing as I have so little time to spend with her at mo, but she is
cute.

[Elf]

"Uglav" wrote in message
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Maybe a bit too young as she is hyperactive. Not sure if such a good
thing as I have so little time to spend with her at mo, but she is
cute.

It is always good that a kitten is cute. Being hyperactive just means she
is healthy and well rested. How would a cat catch a mouse if she were slow
and just plodded around like an old fat dinosaur? Come to think of it, how
did dinosaurs catch lunch? Maybe that is why you can not have a T Rex for a
pet? Would the Meadow survive it?
Congratulations on finally getting your kitty. What does she look like?
Does she get to live indoors on your bed or does she have to be an outdoors
cat?
I am sure she will enjoy every minute you can spend with her and will be
happy to help out on the key board.

-- Hugs
Elf
Carrier of a Tickle Sword, long bow, and magic.
The magic is in Meadow and Dream Tree.

[Uglav]

She us all black except for a small white tuft under her chin. Haven't
heard of any dinosaurs in the meadow. Maybe they are sleeping. Kitty
likes being outdoors but still sleeps inside at night so far. Will
have to wait for the key board as the piano is still in the mail. Oh
you mean computer keyboard... she has shown zero interest in my room.
Computers are boring, and my room is predominantly blue and I think
she is a cat who prefers red

[Elf]

"Uglav" wrote in message
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Possibly. One of the Facebook pages I noticed had a dinosaur skeleton
picture that looked just like a crouching cat. I wondered if it might be a
distant ancestor. Both cats and dinosaur were very elegant. Cats require
more food however.

Kitty
likes being outdoors but still sleeps inside at night so far.

Safer for little kitties I bet. It would be around here but we have tons
more types of animals than you do running around wild. It is hard to
imagine such a safe place.

Will
have to wait for the key board as the piano is still in the mail. Oh
you mean computer keyboard... she has shown zero interest in my room.
Computers are boring, and my room is predominantly blue and I think
she is a cat who prefers red

A flashy kitty?
Elf pours a bowl of milk for her and gives Squirrel some cookies each topped
with half a walnut and a cup of tea to help enjoy them.

[Uglav]

Thanks for cookies and tea, they are very nice. Rosalyn likes milk
very much too, though I don't give it to her very often
Squirry

[Elf]

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I am glad she is enjoying herself and is building strong bones and teeth.
Cats can smell and sense things we can't and her scent we can't smell but
things afraid of her can. Maybe that is why the Egyptians liked cats.
What did the original New Zealanders think of cats or did they get to meet
them before the last century?
I am pretty sure cats were not in Australia because they had lots of mice
but I do not know about New Zealand.

-- Hugs
Elf
Carrier of a Tickle Sword, long bow, and magic.
The magic is in Meadow and Dream Tree.

Squirry

[Uglav]

New Zealand was a flightless bird paradise. Then came the humans who
brought rats, mice, stoats, possums, dogs and cats... of which stoats
and rats are probably the worst after humans

[Elf]

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On Apr 1, 4:27 pm, "Elf" <quillandinkonm...@inbox.com> wrote:
> "Uglav" wrote in message

It sounds as though your cat can earn her keep catching rats at least. As
long as they do not put a bell on her.
You have read the stories about rats and mice belling the cat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_cat "Belling the Cat is a fable
also known under the titles The Bell and the Cat and The Mice in Council.
Although often attributed to Aesop, it was not recorded before the Middle
Ages and has been confused with the quite different fable of Classical
origin titled The Cat and the Mice. In the classificatory system established
for the fables by B. E. Perry, it is numbered 613, which is reserved for
Mediaeval attributions outside the Aesopic canon.[1]"
"One of them proposes placing a bell around its neck, so that they are
warned of its approach. The plan is applauded by the others, until one mouse
asks who will volunteer to place the bell on the cat. All of them make
excuses."

[Elf]

"Uglav" wrote in message
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> Thanks for cookies and tea, they are very nice. Rosalyn likes milk
> very much too, though I don't give it to her very often
>
> I am glad she is enjoying herself and is building strong bones and teeth.
> Cats can smell and sense things we can't and her scent we can't smell but
> things afraid of her can. Maybe that is why the Egyptians liked cats.
> What did the original New Zealanders think of cats or did they get to meet
> them before the last century?
> I am pretty sure cats were not in Australia because they had lots of mice
> but I do not know about New Zealand.
>
> -- Hugs
> Elf
> Carrier of a Tickle Sword, long bow, and magic.
> The magic is in Meadow and Dream Tree.
> Squirry

New Zealand was a flightless bird paradise. Then came the humans who
brought rats, mice, stoats, possums, dogs and cats... of which stoats
and rats are probably the worst after humans

After I read this yesterday there was a show on the local PBS station
showing a little tiny grey opossum from Brazil being kept as a pet. The
little female was being kept in a fish tank minus the water of course. Her
owner picked her up and put her on the table still on her little mat and she
sat there during a part of the show very alert and quiet watching everyone
watching her.
The interesting thing they said about her kind is that while she is a
marsupial she does not have a pouch so her young crawl to her teats and
latch on and are carried that way as they grow and she goes about daily
life. It seems as though a pouch would make life a lot easier but
apparently their system works for them.
I am glad that there are still flightless birds in New Zealand with their
own ways of doing things as well. This sure is an interesting complicated
world with a lot to learn about. It must make learning how people live and
lived in the past complicated.
I saw a news story the other day about sharks no longer around who are known
only because their teeth were used in weapons. If we are too learn from the
past those finding the story have their work cut out for them figuring
things out.

[Uglav]

Humans are very damaging to the survival of other species. For the
record the possums in this country (emigrants from Australia) are
brown furred; as in vary from cream thru golden brown to brown to
black, but not at all grey. Their fur is a very soft fur, very warm...
almost like they have built in heaters in each hair, and the fur makes
a very good knitted jersey (if you want to put on a furnace). Possums
are also very damaging to habitats - they ringbark and kill trees,
they eat insects (nobody seems worried about those) and eggs, and
small critters. The trees are prob the worst damage they do =
deforestation. We have 70 million plus of the wee beasties here.
Apparently they are a protected species in Aussie. I am all for
shipping the majority of them back, but they haven't to my knowledge
lodged any kind of request. That said I quite like possums apart from
the damage they do. um.
Oh yes bells and cat. I did put a lovely red collar on my cat with a
bell on. I had two bells on it, but took advice that two bells made a
cat and its humans crazy, and took one off. I put the collar on after
I took off the paper collar they put on her when I got her and which I
knew she didn't like. I very considerately made sure the new collar
with its little bell was not too tight. It soon became clear that the
bell was driving her bonkers so I took off the second bell. She very
sweetly allowed me to do all this without a fuss or any bother, a bit
to my surprise. The next morning she went out into the garden. Not so
long later, there was no lovely red collar on her neck anymore. In
fact it hasn't been seen since. The mice would have been very foolish
if they had dared to impose the bell on Kitty. She prob would have
sweetly acquiesced but pinned it back with a hair pin so it didn't
jingle, or stuffed toilet paper or her tail around the dinger, and
they wouldn't have heard a thing