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- Em
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Re: DOGBLOG: Last of the Doghicans
I had a cat who used to catch mice (we lived on the edge of a woods on Onondaga Hill), bring them in the house and put them in the bathtub. He would play with the dang things, whacking them every so often if they tried to escape.
Smart cat. And there I had gone and spent money on cat toys. Silly me.
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- Magpie
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Gandalf has been seen killing mice. But I don't think he's understood he can eat them. Although, with his weird eating habits, he would refuse to eat them even if he knew he could.
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- Pilgrim
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one of our cats snatches dragonflies and eats them alive,mice she always wants to play before eating,and the other cats steal the mice from her:D
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- Firsfron of Ronchester
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Em wrote:Our cats think palmetto bugs (really beeeeg cockroaches that we get down here and, like Kudzu, are unkillable and unstopable) were invented for this amusement.
I come downstairs some mornings to find bug legs. Nothing else, just the legs.
I guess the cats don't like dark meat?
Hee!
One of my cats (not sure which one) once killed a rat and brought it into the house for me. Neither one was interested in eating it, so they brought it to me. How loyal.
Aside from this rat, both of them always had great difficulty even killing bugs, so I was quite surprised to find a dead rat in front of my couch.
- Firsfron of Ronchester
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xavia wrote:I prefer the fly swatter. It just feels more... satisfying.
Same here. I've never gotten seven at one blow, but I've gotten four or five in one blow... when I worked retail.
- Em
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The reason the cats brought you the rat is because they consider you are part of their family.
Our cat on Onondaga Hill used to bring in slightly dead moles. He was trying to teach us to hunt.
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My son's cat brought us a snake, once. That was a fun thing to chase around the house.
I'm sure the cat had fun, too.
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My aunt's cat once brought in a squirrel without bothering to kill it first. She discovered it hiding behind Christmas presents...
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
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- Firsfron of Ronchester
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Live moles, snakes, and squirrels. I'm beginning to appreciate the dead rat more now.
- Sahi
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Heh, our neighbours cat gave us quite a scare the other night. We were inside with the curtains drawn. He turned out to be playing in our garden, quite probably trying to catch some fly or other, when suddenly he jumped against our window with all his legs. (Which isn't so bad, unless, like us, you had no idea he was there.)
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- Tad
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Re: DOGBLOG: Last of the Doghicans
Em wrote:I had a cat who used to catch mice (we lived on the edge of a woods on Onondaga Hill), bring them in the house and put them in the bathtub. He would play with the dang things, whacking them every so often if they tried to escape.
Amazing -- that's EXACTLY what I do. On weekends I can keep myself occupied for hours that way.
Hee hee! Damn mice.
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- Em
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Tad wrote:
Amazing -- that's EXACTLY what I do. On weekends I can keep myself occupied for hours that way.
Hee hee! Damn mice.
You can do the same thing with kids, a empty swimming pool and skateboards. *sage nods*
However, to be humane, make sure they have helmets, knee pads and elbow pads.
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- IndigoAK
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Hmm, that's a great idea. Plenty of neighborhood kids around here I'd like to whack a few times with a skateboard. Now...about that swimming pool.
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- Em
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Here's a little hint I should pass along, Jonathan:
Do not try it with a blown-up swimming pool.
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- Pilgrim
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i've found a very effective way of killing flies. when it lands on a flat surface, clap your hands together about 2-3 inches above it. it will see you coming and try to fly away - and get smashed between your hands.
-course, then ya got fly guts on your hands. :P
and i just recently got a new cat. his name is petey. he's just 1.5 years old, and he's very kittenish still. he catches all kinds of flying bugs and happily crunches and swallows every one of them.
good source of protein, i guess.
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- Stuart
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Good grief, I ask a simple question about hair styles and get a page an a half of animal torture that looks like the readers tips section from Serial Killer's Digest, win a dungeon make-over in our free draw.
Still raining by the way, bad news for those who missed last months article on the best locations for shallow graves.
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Stuart wrote:I ask a simple question about hair styles and get a page an a half of animal torture that looks like the readiers tips section from Serial Killer's Digest, win a dungeon make-over in our free draw.
Still raining by the way.
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- Em
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Stuart wrote:Good grief, I ask a simple question about hair styles and get a page an a half of animal torture that looks like the readers tips section from Serial Killer's Digest, win a dungeon make-over in our free draw.
Obviously, your search engine cannot tell them difference between "mousse" and "mouse." And if you ever tried to put a mouse in your hair instead of mousse, you'd know the diff.
I'm surprised you didn't get dessert recipes as well!
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- Genisis X
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Em wrote:
Obviously, your search engine cannot tell them difference between "mousse" and "mouse." And if you ever tried to put a mouse in your hair instead of mousse, you'd know the diff.
I'm surprised you didn't get dessert recipes as well!
Do you use chocolate or strawberry mousse?
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- Magpie
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ooh, I just remembered, my biology teacher once told us that flies' eyes are placed so weirdly that while they can see everything that's going on behind them and on the sides, they can only see shadows from the front - thus if you want to swat one, do so from the fron and try not to cast a shadow. Been a long time since I tried that, though. *looks around for flies*
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- Em
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Re: DOGBLOG: Last of the Doghicans
Genisis X wrote:
Do you use chocolate or strawberry mousse?
-X
I'm quite sure if you used EITHER in your hair, you would attract mouses.
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- Stuart
- Pilgrim
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Meeses, shirley?
You all know that to catch a mousse unawares you must be able to walk on rice paper without leaving a mark, or is that for catching a grasshopper?
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- Em
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Someday will find you.
- Em
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... and don't call me Shirley ...
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- IndigoAK
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Did someone say moose? Those big sexy muscular animals that are so freaking cute and wonderful? Can you tell that I love moose?
Alaska <3
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