Pete & Stinky

Sister Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection: /who got the green?
//earliest Caturday evar, IIRC
///hurry up, baka and Pogo! ;)

i thought this article deserved special treatment.
and that i'd better get it in the queue
... just in time for Caturday.

my first Caturday greenlight EVAR! yay.

/subby


aaaaannnd some pics of LittleOne
and his semi-stray friend Gary
(we can has captions, please?)

LittleOne curious as to WTF i'm doing


nom nom nom ... LittleOne eating a bird
(ask me about raw feeding and it's health benefits)


LittleOne prowling the yard


zzzzzzzzzz..... LittleOne CRASHED out


zzzzzzzz .... LittleOne again crashed out


"go out?!" LittleOne at the gate


nom nom nom .... Gary eating his favorite, a chicken leg
(ask me about raw feeding and it's health benefits)

Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
An endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature;
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses
Contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses.

I find myself intrigued by your subvocal oscillations,
A singular development of cat communications
That obviates your basic hedonistic predilection
For a rhythmic stroking of your fur to demonstrate affection.

A tail is quite essential for your acrobatic talents;
You would not be so agile if you lacked its counterbalance.
And when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
It often serves to illustrate the state of your emotion.

O Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array.
And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

/my new kitten Kif
//my first lolcat
///my first fark pic post

entropic_existence: So its still up in the air whether this will become a good cat thread or a good evolution thread. Personally I am betting us evo-critters will be overrun by postings of moar kitty pics and antics.

It is actually quite a good article though on the evolution of cats.

even though i'm with ya being in teh evo-crowd,
i'll be putting my money on teh "overrunning. :-)

perhaps some of THE best parts of the article are the
comments, all dozens of them. choice one as case in point:

Lauren in Mountain View at 06:47 PM on 05/22/09
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Anyone who shares a house with these fickle creatures knows that cats adopted humans as pets long ago, not the other way around. Our opposable thumbs make us useful for getting the lids off food cans, changing litter pans and making sure the back door is opened in a timely fashion. The human/cat burial you show (Cypress, 9,500 years ago) is an obvious case of human sacrifice, so the cat would not have to go without its accustomed room service in the afterlife. The popular bumper-sticker simply states the truth: "Dogs have [owners,] cats have staff."

also, the comments point to the seemingly out-of-place "dog bias"
of the article's authors, which i noticed as well. *snicker*

glomar at 12:10 PM on 05/26/09
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Methinks the article's author has a bias against cats. I am alive today because of my cat(s).
I call BS on the article.

and the hilarious:

rightly at 07:17 PM on 06/10/09
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Bookish nonsense. Everyone who has shared a home with Felinis divinis has learned the Homo sapiens is the adopted species.

things I do to my cats...: Sister Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection: /who got the green?
//earliest Caturday evar, IIRC
///hurry up, baka and Pogo! ;)

i thought this article deserved special treatment.
and that i'd better get it in the queue
... just in time for Caturday.

my first Caturday greenlight EVAR! yay.

/subby


aaaaannnd some pics of LittleOne
and his semi-stray friend Gary
(we can has captions, please?)

LittleOne curious as to WTF i'm doing


nom nom nom ... LittleOne eating a bird
(ask me about raw feeding and it's health benefits)


LittleOne prowling the yard


zzzzzzzzzz..... LittleOne CRASHED out


zzzzzzzz .... LittleOne again crashed out


"go out?!" LittleOne at the gate


nom nom nom .... Gary eating his favorite, a chicken leg
(ask me about raw feeding and it's health benefits)

Congratulations, Tid!

Subby, great Caturday link! :) I has not pics of cats today, but I wanted to say thanks anyhow! Great article.

/Works with archaeologists

FTFA: a number of investigators suspected that all varieties descend from just one cat species-Felis silvestris, the wildcat


/hot

TommyymmoT: AMAZING PERFORMING CIRCUS CATS!

Thanks for the link, very nice!

Andric: Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
[snip]
I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.

yay Data!

Biggsie has absolutely no idea of what to do about this duckling. Seconds later, she bolted and hid so the evil ducklet couldn't find her. She is totally mental. Sigh. I miss Kimbi.

logic523: /my new kitten Kif
//my first lolcat
///my first fark pic post

good for you! and a great caption it is. i lol'd.

baka-san: Congrats!

*bellybump*

Ricksha Shiksa: Congratulations, Tid!

Evil Canadian: Subby, great Caturday link! :) I has not pics of cats today, but I wanted to say thanks anyhow! Great article.

/Works with archaeologists

thank you thank you thank you all. :-)

when that came across my google homepage, i just KNEW it HAD to be a Caturday. and the words just flowed. (for "LOLus CATus", i thank falcc).

Robert1966: FTFA: a number of investigators suspected that all varieties descend from just one cat species-Felis silvestris, the wildcat
[pic of Sylvester]
/hot

i lawl'd at that moniker as well. :-)

deepyell: TommyymmoT: AMAZING PERFORMING CIRCUS CATS!

Thanks for the link, very nice!

agreed. very nice.

TommyymmoT: AMAZING PERFORMING CIRCUS CATS! (new window)

Seriously it's a pretty cool clip.
I wonder if what he's doing at :56 could be defined as cat juggling?

That is truly amazing. I've never owned a cat, sadly I'm allergic because I love them. Do any of you guys have cats that do stuff like this?

Pittsburgh Farkers:

HELP! My friend's little white and black cat with deep blue eyes named Stanley is missing. He was last seen inside his house on Buena Vista St. on the Northside. I think someone stole him. :( If anyone sees him please contact me. mlcolosimo*at*hotmail*dot*com



http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/laf/1218818895.html

This picture is begging for a caption:

sherpa18: for baka-san and Pogo
very Q&D

Good thing you enabled voting on that otherwise we coulda missed an opportunity to honor such valuable work.

"The fifth lineage, however, included not only the fifth known subspecies of wildcat-F. s. lybica in the Middle East-but also the hundreds of domestic cats that were sampled, including purebred and mixed-breed felines from the U.S., the U.K. and Japan. In fact, genetically, F. s. lybica wildcats collected in remote deserts of Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia were virtually indistinguishable from domestic cats. That the domestic cats grouped with F. s. lybica alone among wildcats meant that domestic cats arose in a single locale, the Middle East, and not in other places where wildcats are common."

IANA evolutionary biologist, but couldn't this just as easily imply that the Middle East wildcat population descended from cats domesticated elsewhere? Or that they're the key to the only weapon that can stop Evil from destroying all life?
/Me... Fifth subspecies... supreme being... me, protect you...
//not obscure

MangoPie1569: TommyymmoT: AMAZING PERFORMING CIRCUS CATS! (new window)

Seriously it's a pretty cool clip.
I wonder if what he's doing at :56 could be defined as cat juggling?

That is truly amazing. I've never owned a cat, sadly I'm allergic because I love them. Do any of you guys have cats that do stuff like this?

have you thought about getting a cat like a siberian? they are "naturally hypoallergenic" cats! my husband is SO allergic to most cats but not to the siberians!

here is a picture of ours, Kisa: