silly fat pussycat

Enclose · Post by **Enclose** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:21 am

come on kids, stop the mudthrowing.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:32 am

Enclose wrote:come on kids, stop the mudthrowing.

Mud? It sure feels like rocks that's hitting me! It's two-against-one here. I'm just trying to hold my own against them without breaking the rules.

But I digress.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:53 am

Cranberry wrote:But I digress.

It's a way of life.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:56 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:
Cranberry wrote:But I digress.
It's a way of life.

And hard to learn, but very useful.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:02 am

Damn. You load up on sangria and paella and go to bed early and look what you miss.

I stand by my original assertion -- The "Everybody else is doing it" defense is best left to 12-year-olds, politicians and Enron executives. It is to be expected of them; it distinctly unflattering among more polite company.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:11 am

What an awful thread. Amidst all the whining and hurt feelings and
accusations of peurility and admissions of poor familiarity with British
sitcoms, we've lost sight of the important point:

That cat is hilariously corpulant!

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:33 am

lovely episode thank you both

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:35 am

Denny wrote:lovely episode thank you both

You're very welcome, I guess.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:33 am

Cranberry wrote:One time a very educated woman told me that when a dog smells another dog's butthole, it's like people hugging. It's a way to establish contact and acknowledge the other's presence, basically. It makes sense.

Just for the record, "very educated" doesn't necessarily make someone right. It just makes them very educated, and education can have altogether spotty results. I've known some dead-wrong very educated people. Not that your very educated source on canine buttsniffing is necessarily wrong. I'm just saying that it's probably better to leave out things like "very educated". In a lot of ways, it doesn't really mean that much.

Cranberry wrote:Do cats do the same thing?

C'mon. You're kidding, right?

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:38 am

A good rule to live by - "Take not the bait." The hooks are sharp and leave you with a bleeding lip, or worse... gutted and sizzling in a pan of hot grease.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:52 am

Nanohedron wrote:I'm just saying that it's probably better to leave out things like "very educated". In a lot of ways, it doesn't really mean that much.

quite right....I'd think that the bigger question would be what does.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:40 am

Nanohedron wrote:C'mon. You're kidding, right?

No, but now I feel really stupid the way you asked that question. I'm going to have to find some cats to watch to see how they greet each other.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:08 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:C'mon. You're kidding, right?
No, but now I feel really stupid the way you asked that question. I'm going to have to find some cats to watch to see how they greet each other.

Usually they hunker down and hiss or growl warnings, if they're not housemates. More usually they make a point of avoiding each other if they're not bent on asserting dominance.

If they're housemates on good terms, they might touch noses or butt heads or groom each other. Stuff like that. Sometimes there's no discernible greeting at all. "Oh, you're here. *lies his head back down to snooze some more*"

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:11 pm

Cranberry wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:C'mon. You're kidding, right?
No, but now I feel really stupid the way you asked that question. I'm going to have to find some cats to watch to see how they greet each other.

Yes, my cats sniff each other's bottoms regularly.
I think rather than a "hug", it's part of how they identify each other.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:14 pm

fearfaoin wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:C'mon. You're kidding, right?
No, but now I feel really stupid the way you asked that question. I'm going to have to find some cats to watch to see how they greet each other.
Yes, my cats sniff each other's bottoms regularly.
I think rather than a "hug", it's part of how they identify each other.

I'd agree with the identification part, but I have to say I don't recall ever seeing a habit of buttsniffing-as-greeting among cats. Maybe I just don't get the right ones.