OT - An Engineer's Guide to Cats

That's even funnier than the newsgroup musketeers trying to converse with the adults.

I like this one better.

You *like* it? The cat was scared stiff & was flung against the wall. :-(

Cathy

The cat wasn't even real. It was a computer animation.

The cats own the engineer's WHAT? What possession of the engineers is owned by the cats?

Mr. "Owns everybody" is still at it? Incredible.

Everybody know's that folk's that own's cat's is owned by the cat's themselve's.

This thread brings to mind the old gag about the difference between dogs and cats.

A dog thinks of his owner as "master".

A cat thinks of its owner as "staff".

I think it's more than merely a gag.

Nah - cats get a bum rap.

Natalie

We have two. I think you're wrong.

Definitely more than a kernel of truth, although there's quite a spectrum invovled. As in: the cat who would come running every time I called her, vs. the one who studiously ignores me when I call him.

Cathy

Ah, but WHY did you call her? Food time?

Both of ours will come when called for food. We're still "staff".

Nope, just if I hadn't seen her around for a while & called her - she'd coming flying, for some pets or ear scritches. Although she did live to eat, that one. ;-) If I so much as walked into the kitchen & she realized it, there she'd be, meowing away...

Cathy

So you're staff just the same.

But it struck me more as a doggy thing; so excited if she heard someone call her - no aloofness; just running when she heard her name, all excited, knowing she was getting some attention.

Cathy

Cats are too arrogant to do "doggy things".

Lobotomize the cat and you'll have a dog.

Right. Apparently you've missed intelligence tests for both.

Typically Boxers have the intelligence of a two year-old human. I've never owned or seen a cat that smart.

Even parrots are smarter than cats.

Not Debbie cat. No arrogance at all. Zilcho. She was a super-benign, quintessential lapcat.

Cathy