Grumble Thread

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh dear just think of all that itinerant hair....what it can do if said cats spend an afternoon laying unheeded on your black/white mohair jumper (you may not have one [sic])....i just think of how many wraps around fingers of sticky tape might be needed to render said jumper (of the first part) to some level cat hairlessnessness - dab dab dab dab wonder while life is so banal....I'll say swine - because feline does have the same ring....

.... I'd love to have a pet crow....

Those skinny hairless grey cats some people seem to love so much though.. which look as if they've been subjected to nuclear fallout?

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm in family and street WhatsApp groups and at one time every other photo was of someone's cat: Jeremy, Milo, Dixie, Cheetoh, SnorkMaiden, Sheba ...

Thereby lending an air of swank to your neighbourhood!

[Old Grumpy]

Not sure I would wish to live in a neighbourhood full of swankers!

[Serial_Apologist]

Not sure I would wish to live in a neighbourhood full of swankers!

They can always be smoked out by Swan Vesters!

[LMcD]

They can always be smoked out by Swan Vesters!

After their numbers have been checked, and found to be excessive, by Swan Uppers.

[french frank]

Thereby lending an air of swank to your neighbourhood!

Whatever happened to Tiddles and Smudge?

[Old Grumpy]

Whatever happened to Tiddles and Smudge?

SnorkMaiden is snot swanky - eugh!

[Dave2002]

No, I should have said 'anti-social' behaviour! At one point we were quite tolerant of a neighbour's cat stalking in and going upstairs to sleep on one of the beds. It went home to be fed. I wouldn't want a cat but I do understand that other people become very fond of their cats. Why they do so is more problematic.

Some [most?] cats are greedy, and will go round several houses pretending that they haven't been fed.

Cats may also be quite fierce predators, and wreak havoc with the bird populations, though following a theme here - why should we care? Why should we be more concerned about Cock Robin than Tiddles, or Nemo the goldfish in your neighbour's pond?

[Dave2002]

.... I'd love to have a pet crow....

.... Mozart had a pet starling.

[french frank]

Cats may also be quite fierce predators, and wreak havoc with the bird populations, though following a theme here - why should we care? Why should we be more concerned about Cock Robin than Tiddles, or Nemo the goldfish in your neighbour's pond?

I'm not sure I understand your entire point. Cats are predators and kill wildlife even when they (the cats) have been fed. In densely populated urban areas, the only place where there are borders for plants, incl. vegetables, and grass is in neighbours' gardens.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

.... Mozart had a pet starling.

Hmm... I've read the book. I'm not convinced.

[Dave2002]

I'm not sure I understand your entire point. Cats are predators and kill wildlife even when they (the cats) have been fed. In densely populated urban areas, the only place where there are borders for plants, incl. vegetables, and grass is in neighbours' gardens.

On point is that if we do care about any animals, why should we care about some over others. OTOH if we don't care about any of them, then it surely doesn't matter!

What makes us care about some at all?

Now think about crocodiles!

[french frank]

On point is that if we do care about any animals, why should we care about some over others. OTOH if we don't care about any of them, then it surely doesn't matter!

What makes us care about some at all?

And of course, it depends what you mean by 'care'. Maybe it's in-built in us to care about the destruction of one form of life by another for 'sport', especially if the prey does no harm to us as humans, or may even, like birds, enhance our lives with their cheery song! .
so we seek to protect them. Unlike mosquitos: they can cause discomfort and illness when in the presence of humans.

Now think about crocodiles!

In their native habitat, what harm do they do?

[cria]

.... Mozart had a pet starling.

... and it invented the queen of the night's song and sang it every morning

[Pulcinella]

... and it invented the queen of the night's song and sang it every morning

I hope it sang it better than Florence Foster Jenkins did.