Earth-shatteringly important question
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Earth-shatteringly important question
Is there a scientifically professional term for "catloaf"?
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
In the veterinary world they call it: "Why did you cut your cat's legs off, you monster?"
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
Ask this guy. He's been around the world and seen it all.
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
"Be not deceived by the sweet words of proverbial philosophy. Sugar of lead is a poison."
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
Surely there is a more technically-minded term other than "loaf".
Isn't there a feline branch of veterinary kinesiology, or something?
Isn't there a feline branch of veterinary kinesiology, or something?
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
You took the words right out of my mouth (and saved me cruising the net looking for this cartoon).I.D.10-t wrote:
My daughter has drawn distinctions among the different types of meat loaf positions and devised a scoring system for them. The one Nano posted at the beginning of the thread would be a perfect 10 lazy meat loaf. This is because there's no visual evidence of any limbs. The not-lazy meat loaf displays just the toes of the forepaws.
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
And the Earth trembled beneath his feet.MTGuru wrote:Ask this guy. He's been around the world and seen it all.
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
My wife's DVM has provided her with no such term.Nanohedron wrote:Surely there is a more technically-minded term other than "loaf".
Let's make one up.
Feline Isothermic Reaction?
Whole-body Cremasteric Reflex?
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
Nyuk.fearfaoin wrote:My wife's DVM has provided her with no such term.Nanohedron wrote:Surely there is a more technically-minded term other than "loaf".
Let's make one up.
Feline Isothermic Reaction?
Whole-body Cremasteric Reflex?
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of the fact that "crouch" doesn't cover it. To me a crouch is a more hunched, tensed condition, very ready to move. No, the loaf posture is a relaxed, if contained, position. And "sit"? Cats have a number of positions you could call that. There's the upright sitting,
the hunkering (close to a crouch, true, but it's matter-of-fact, without the wariness),
and the "sphinx" sitting postures
(to say nothing of those that sit like humans).
I really think Anglophone catfanciers need a more precise nomenclature for the various aspects of feline repose. Chas's daughter, for one, seems to have arrived at an intuitive grasp of the import of this deficit. I suppose "loaf" could do for the pic in the OP, but the word seems so...I dunno...over-fanciful. Too Food Network. Or something.
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
Kind of similar to a nesting chicken.
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
Totally creeped out. Thank God there's a beagle at the foot of my bed.
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Re: Earth-shatteringly important question
It has never bothered me. I must admit, "over-fanciful" is not a term that I've ever applied to anything feline related.Nanohedron wrote:I suppose "loaf" could do for the pic in the OP, but the word seems so...I dunno...over-fanciful. Too Food Network. Or something.