To: TimF who wrote (35) | 9/13/2006 8:23:45 PM | From: TimF | | | Dogs have owners, cats have staff. --(Unknown)
Avoid dogs whenever you can. Remember... Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. --Anonymous
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. --Joseph Wood Krutch
People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life. --Faith Resnick
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food which they take for granted--but his or her entertainment value. --Geoffrey Household
If a dog jumps into your lap it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing it is because your lap is warmer.--A. N. Whitehead
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the leash. That one is the cat.
If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. --Mark Twain
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.--Joseph Wood Krutch
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.--Unknown
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.--Jean Cocteau
With the qualities of cleanliness, affection, patience, dignity, and courage that cats have, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?--Fernand Mery
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me? --Montaigne
There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. --Dan Greenberg
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.--Hippolyte Taine
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.--Leo Dworken
Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.--Roger Caras
Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow. --George F. Will
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose. --Garrison Keillor
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. --Barbara Holland
A meow massages the heart. --Stuart McMillan
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. --James Gorman
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. --Martin Buxbaum
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. --Winifred Carriere
If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.--Will Cuppy
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.--Wesley Bates
The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. --P. G. Wodehouse
Cats' hearing apparatus is built to allow the human voice to easily go in one ear and out the other. --Stephen Baker
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. --Jean Burden
The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.--Lynn M. Osband
Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailingly ingenious in that respect. --James Mason
Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything. --Hank Ketchum
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.--Missy Dizick
As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. --Ellen Perry Berkeley
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. --Robert A. Heinlein
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. --W. L. George
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. --Cleveland Amory
Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. --Emile Auguste Chartier
Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog.--Eleanor Clark
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days,take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives. --Stephen Baker
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. --Ernest Hemingway
If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. --Mark Twain
The smallest feline is a masterpiece.--Leonardo da Vinci
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. --Albert Schweitzer
You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners.--Sir Harry Swanson
There are no ordinary cats.--Colette
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.--William Lyon Phelps
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.--Warren Eckstein
There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.--Tay Hohoff
One reason we admire cats is for their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing, or pretend they do. --Barbara Webster
The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. --Jules Reynard
Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner.--Stephen Baker
Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.--Andrew Lang
The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends...--Saki (H. H. Munro)
We cannot without becoming cats, perfectly understand the cat mind.--St. George Mivart
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.--Louis F. Camuti, DVM
The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. --George F. Will
By associating with the cat, one only risks becoming richer.--Colette
Intelligence in the cat is underrated.--Louis Wain
Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. --Jim Davis
Her function is to sit and be admired.--Georgina Strickland Gates
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. --Jules Verne
Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. --Andrew Lang
There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. --Jules Champfleury
If a cat did not put a firm paw down now and then, how could his human remain possessed.--Winifred Pierriere
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. --Margaret Mead
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.--Unknown
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.--Jeff Valdez
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. --English proverb
One cat just leads to another.--Ernest Hemingway
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.--Mary Bly
There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats--Anonymous
The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. --Ernest Menaul
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
Time spent with cats is never wasted.--Colette
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.--Colonial American proverb
Cats aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit.--John S. Nichols
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From: TimF | 9/13/2006 8:45:47 PM | | | | A Cat's Diary
Day 183 of my captivity.
My captors continued to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while I am forced to eat dry cereal. The only thing that keeps me going is the hope of escape, and the mild satisfaction I get from clawing the furniture. Tomorrow I may eat another house plant.
Today my attempt to kill my captors by weaving around their feet while they were walking almost succeeded. Maybe I should try this at the top of the stairs.
In an attempt to disgust and repulse these vile oppressors, I once again induced myself to vomit on their favorite chair. I must try this on their bed.
Decapitated a mouse and brought them the headless body in an attempt to make them aware of what I am capable of, and to try to strike fear into their hearts. They only cooed and condescended about what a good little kitty cat I was. This is not working according to plan.
There was some sort of gathering of their accomplices. I was placed in solitary confinement throughout the event. However, I could hear the noise and smell the food. More important, I overheard that my confinement was due to my powers of inducing something called "allergies." Must learn what this is and how to use it to my advantage.
I am convinced the other captives are flunkies and maybe snitches. The dog is routinely released and seems more than happy to return. He is obviously a half-wit.
The bird, on the other hand, has got to be an informant. He speaks with them regularly, and I am certain he reports my every move. Due to his current placement in the metal room, his safety is assured. But I can wait.
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To: TimF who wrote (23) | 9/23/2006 4:34:43 PM | From: Stan | | | I am using Opera due to IE problems, and I got the same error. I wonder if too many people from SI are trying to access it at the same time, though, because I have seen that problem before from links from SI. |
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To: TimF who wrote (39) | 11/16/2006 8:15:47 AM | From: SIer formerly known as Joe B. | | | Cat Dogs?
news.yahoo.com
Brazilian student Cassia Aparecida de Souza, 18, holds her cat Mimi together with what Cassia claims are Mimi's own offsprings born with dog traits last Friday, three months after mating with a neighbour's dog, in the southern Brazilian city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul state, November 15, 2006. A geneticist from the Passo Fundo University plans t o take blood samples from the animals to verify the claim by Cassia and her husband Rogerio that the puppies are part of Mimi's litter of six, of which the three that were born with cat features died soon after birth, leaving the surviving three dog-like offsprings. REUTERS/Edison Vara (BRAZIL) |
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From: TimF | 12/6/2006 11:14:56 AM | | | | Feline Alzheimer's found by study
Cats can suffer from a feline form of Alzheimer's disease, according to new research by scientists.
It has long been known cats can suffer from dementia, but the study identified a key protein which can cause mental deterioration, similar to humans.
The research was carried out at the universities of Edinburgh, St Andrews, Bristol and California.
The shorter lifespan of the cat may make it easier for scientists to uncover how the condition develops.
Scientists already thought cats were susceptible to dementia because previous research identified thick, gritty plaques on the outside of the elderly animals' brain cells, similar to those found in humans...
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