This looks like Nebula's dream job. ...She always just swallows whole mice without playing. And steals other mice from cats. And one time had a tug of war match with our much bigger dog over a mouse. Won.
I recall seeing a Garfield cartoon where he asked Jon to unwrap a slice of cheese. I don't know why I need to mention it, but it just seems to make a nice contrast.
I enjoy coming across moments like these: Proof that some things really never do change. No matter how much time passes, cats can still be found doing their thing in conjunction with humanity. ...Which means speculative fiction needs to start finding ways to justify ship cats in space-faring civilizations.
Just kidding. My cat isn't fat, but he *is* eighteen, so he can be excused, but he was never much of a hunter even in his youth. Meanwhile, the rats who have taken up residence on my back porch are driving me nuts. I tried setting out humane no-kill traps and they use them as obstacles in a fitness course while eating his cat litter (it's made of wheat), even saturated with pee. I set out poison, and they sprinkle it on the litter as a seasoning. I've set traps and they've run off with them.
I wonder what the instinct is to carry so many at a time without eating? waiting for them to die?? or maybe KEEPING them from dying so more fresh for litter later???
It's a mix of a lot of things. The area where you eat may not be 'safe' so grab what you can and take it to your hideout - they could be saving them for babies too.
Imagine being a mouse, and seeing that cat come after you with a mouth full of your dead and impaled friends, lol poor fucker would just have a heart attack and keel over.
Not gonna eat, gonna deliver. Just like people like to carry all their groceries at once from the car. Cat doesn't want to waste time on trips back and forth from pile. That could have been time spent hunting.
One of the animals that helped civilization. Dogs, horses, oxen, goats. Cats kept stored grain rodent free ( or at least over whelmed). I wonder about aliens n did they have partner animals?
I am wondering what features of their environement they are use we wouldn't even think about. While we have animals from which many are vertebrates, and have 5 types of vertebrates with one being mammals which we belong to, other planets might have evolved completely different.
When creating aliens for gaming, I always try to imagine what long term pets they might have. Usually modeling it on things such as diet, predators, or other dangers of their evolutionary history.
2 predators in symbiosis with us. We may have other pets, but those two are a major major deal. (ferrets are a minor) Other pets are mostly food items.
Dogs are great because they excel where we lag, olfaction, speed, and alertness. Cats really only became important after agriculture. Horses were eventually great for transportation, but probably domesticated initially/partly for food.
It is probably as a very general rule easier to start domesticating predators with easier to get food. Skittish prey may only be enticed with safety unless they have very specific diets, I suppose.
This exactly why cats earned special “friend of the human species” status. The don’t eat the corn, the wheat, the rice, the fruits or the vegetables. If they did, they’d be considered vermin. Instead, they eat the vermin.
I read something that it's a misconception Egyptians worshipped cats, back then people were paid frequently with grain and mice are grain. Cats killing nice basically were protectors of food and money and treated with such esteem. Not sure how true but I thought it was fun
I got a new phone and the auto correct is unbearable, it corrects into I'm, live into love and a bunch of other words my old phone corrected differently it's been pretty frustrating since the only other option is type slow and or turn it off and that's worse. New phone has a smaller keyboard and I think that's mostly the problem.
I feel ya brother. Of all the cursed technologies in just the last few decades, predictive text/autocorrect wins the award for most cursed. I swear some days it fucks with me extra hard because it knows I'm in a bad mood. I corrected seven errors errors in this post alone.
It wasn't bad on my previous phone an S10, I think I'm going to move to a pixel fold once they come out with a 2md one and the current one drops a lot in price.
It wasn't bad on my previous phone an S10, I think I'm going to move to a pixel fold once they come out with a 2nd one and the current one drops a lot in price.
Maulbert
Good kitty.
TCGView
Grade A mouser right there.
celestedrake
celestedrake
Crokkodrill8
1st farmer 10,000 years ago: you are hired.
thedamned
This one honors the ancient pact.
StarscreamAndHutch
Gotta catch them all!
GreenMnM
You think she carries the bodies of fallen comrades to intimidate those who still dare to encroach on her turf?
thatwoodguy
Probably as kittens to feed.
LilyBellGiantess
Good cat
IPKOB
Just like a dog trying to get all the tennis balls
AdrianDunne
I think that might be what they call a target rich environment.
frischcode
Mousekeeping!
lofaith13
Mouse burgers!
JoeT85
I recall seeing a Garfield cartoon where he asked Jon to unwrap a slice of cheese. I don't know why I need to mention it, but it just seems to make a nice contrast.
Vergenbuurg
"You want mint for pillow?"
Monkeytron
”Mouse for pillow?”
WeAlreadyHadThisWar
"biscuits for pillow?"
migratingotter
I didn’t know cats could hold several rodents in their mouths at a time. Probably momma cat bring home the “bacon” for her kittens.
Trinik
I enjoy coming across moments like these: Proof that some things really never do change. No matter how much time passes, cats can still be found doing their thing in conjunction with humanity. ...Which means speculative fiction needs to start finding ways to justify ship cats in space-faring civilizations.
SnekID87
You're looking for the Shipscat short stories by Mercedes Lackey. There's also several more like them in the Catfantastic anthologies.
littlecoatfatguy
Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life
PineappleLoopsBroether
Can confirm. How're ya now?
littlecoatfatguy
Not so bad.
PineappleLoopsBroether
TheMouseOfMadness
I demand to speak to the manager, my family and I are never coming to this buffet again... mostly because they're now in the cat's mouth
RancidFlakes
I love cats so much
SeanSC400s
The original Mouseketeer!
PrincessRaiden
Whatever she's hunting isn't going to make it, and shall be added to the collection.
Grizabellakat007
The first three are for food. After that, it’s just the joy of the kill 😂
KalliJ
Meanwhile, MY cat:
KalliJ
Just kidding. My cat isn't fat, but he *is* eighteen, so he can be excused, but he was never much of a hunter even in his youth. Meanwhile, the rats who have taken up residence on my back porch are driving me nuts. I tried setting out humane no-kill traps and they use them as obstacles in a fitness course while eating his cat litter (it's made of wheat), even saturated with pee. I set out poison, and they sprinkle it on the litter as a seasoning. I've set traps and they've run off with them.
RuricOrhlandis
Gotta catch 'em all
Zainadin
Just waiting for the idiots to say "ThIs IS wHY CaTS neED tO Be InDOors aLL ThE TiMe."
LiterallyAnOpossum
Barn cats aren't quite the same as fully domesticated suburban housecats who kill birds for funsies.
StewedTomaters
If it were birds, yeah.
MrHappySmiles
Where’s that that was groaning to be let out while it’s human whacked at a rat..
kaneinencanto
svga
I wonder what the instinct is to carry so many at a time without eating? waiting for them to die?? or maybe KEEPING them from dying so more fresh for litter later???
Stonewall008
It's a mix of a lot of things. The area where you eat may not be 'safe' so grab what you can and take it to your hideout - they could be saving them for babies too.
manystripes
I'm guessing it's the same instinct that causes us to hold way too many grocery bags before accepting we need to make more than one trip
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
NoQuestionMarksInDeclarativeSentences
happywalker
might have a chance at the record
funone77
Finish what you've got in your mouth!
nastynate666
That's what she said?
ShiftingPattern
She's picking up happy meals for the kittens.
dabbycats
Thinking same thing
YourFriendlyNeighbourhoodEcologist
Imagine being a mouse, and seeing that cat come after you with a mouth full of your dead and impaled friends, lol poor fucker would just have a heart attack and keel over.
1PoorThor
Not gonna eat, gonna deliver. Just like people like to carry all their groceries at once from the car. Cat doesn't want to waste time on trips back and forth from pile. That could have been time spent hunting.
ShiftingPattern
Almost. The time it takes to hunt enough is the time it takes to hunt enough. The free time they save is time for lounging and playing.
Merky600
One of the animals that helped civilization. Dogs, horses, oxen, goats. Cats kept stored grain rodent free ( or at least over whelmed). I wonder about aliens n did they have partner animals?
isitmyturn
Unintended consequence - grain-eating rodents declined, and pet-predators multiplied. Result: decimation of songbirds.
Merky600
An other filter in the Fermin Paradox?
pointsForNothing
I am wondering what features of their environement they are use we wouldn't even think about. While we have animals from which many are vertebrates, and have 5 types of vertebrates with one being mammals which we belong to, other planets might have evolved completely different.
pointsForNothing
Or not, but we will see when our successors meet them. At least when we somehow don't all die during the climate change phase.
Kbantar
When creating aliens for gaming, I always try to imagine what long term pets they might have. Usually modeling it on things such as diet, predators, or other dangers of their evolutionary history.
belindashort
I always think about gravity and how that would affect life
Feralkyn
That's brilliant!
hiyo365
I've never thought of that!!
Fuzzysteve
2 predators in symbiosis with us. We may have other pets, but those two are a major major deal. (ferrets are a minor) Other pets are mostly food items.
Kbantar
Dogs are great because they excel where we lag, olfaction, speed, and alertness. Cats really only became important after agriculture. Horses were eventually great for transportation, but probably domesticated initially/partly for food.
Kbantar
It is probably as a very general rule easier to start domesticating predators with easier to get food. Skittish prey may only be enticed with safety unless they have very specific diets, I suppose.
MidoryMoon
whatever she's being paid, it's not enough.
NewTitaniumCorvid
They kill for fun, no remuneration required.
AussieNotNamedBruce
Being paid all you can eat buffet of fresh meat.
nope999999
Paid in scritches
crimpitdown9001
Tried to get my company to hire my cat. "Oh? We got mice... Trust me, I could give you references, but they're all dead."
AlrightlyThen
Mice
decomposingcomposers
She's being payed the mouses she catches, and pets ofcourse
BubblesTheFish
She's being paid in exposure.
Talbotous
And it's not enough. More Pets! More scritches
SalmonTheWise
But no more than three. Or it gets the claw again!
goetzz5772
This exactly why cats earned special “friend of the human species” status. The don’t eat the corn, the wheat, the rice, the fruits or the vegetables. If they did, they’d be considered vermin. Instead, they eat the vermin.
newsguycraigevans
I remember seeing a study years ago that stated an adult male cat given unlimited access to mice will on average kill 15 before becoming bored.
DeusExSpockina
So what you’re saying is more cats
echoawoo
I imagine if it's just a ton of mice in a box with a cat with no hidey holes, then yeah, there's no hunt.
VodkaReindeer
goetzz5772
Yeah if you cover it in salty butter they’ll eat it. But when was the last time you saw a cat attack a cornfield?
anarchoFeline
he monch
UsernameUndeclared
They also don’t eat the rocks that a small number of humans may have briefly thought were tortoises.
cfbshank36
What? My friend doesn’t understand, could you enlighten them?
Shovi
I wonder who thought that...
Sensiblyinteresting
I read something that it's a misconception Egyptians worshipped cats, back then people were paid frequently with grain and mice are grain. Cats killing nice basically were protectors of food and money and treated with such esteem. Not sure how true but I thought it was fun
Guilgamesh
Cats were killing nice in a good way :)
Maaatth
These typos have an intriguing poetic quality.
Sensiblyinteresting
I got a new phone and the auto correct is unbearable, it corrects into I'm, live into love and a bunch of other words my old phone corrected differently it's been pretty frustrating since the only other option is type slow and or turn it off and that's worse. New phone has a smaller keyboard and I think that's mostly the problem.
Ultratoxic
I feel ya brother. Of all the cursed technologies in just the last few decades, predictive text/autocorrect wins the award for most cursed. I swear some days it fucks with me extra hard because it knows I'm in a bad mood. I corrected seven errors errors in this post alone.
Sensiblyinteresting
It wasn't bad on my previous phone an S10, I think I'm going to move to a pixel fold once they come out with a 2md one and the current one drops a lot in price.
Sensiblyinteresting
It wasn't bad on my previous phone an S10, I think I'm going to move to a pixel fold once they come out with a 2nd one and the current one drops a lot in price.
Infinias
Just in case
Jokerstamp
That's cool. Canceling the Ambo. Not stroke going on here.