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I saw this story a long time ago. I’m not much of a cat person and I applaud a cat that is finally doing something for someone else. Yet I can’t help but think that this cat doesn’t have some self centered motive, like getting written into the will or getting first dibs on the uneaten entree or something.
Maybe we can learn from Cats one day…
I have already, cats are a common dissection subject in mammal physiology.
What’s the big secret ?
turns out they are actually just very small and selfish dogs. 
The two cats around here can be very “beautiful” housemates. Charming.
They have taught me the value of, er, Pragmatism.
Yah. Pragmatism. That’s the ticket.
… how to be both narcissistic and sadistic. Oh, did I forget sociopathic?
Sometimes I wish they’d teach that to themselves. Take the instructive potential of the consequences of greed, for example. Once again my cat has overindulged, and she just horked up an impressively large and steaming bellyload of kibble and water a couple of feet away from me, and then went off to sulk about it. It’s always a big chowdown followed by a big drink, and a lesson in moderation that doesn’t seem to have sunk in after all this time. Or else it’s supposed to be performance art. I can’t figure it out.
Fortunately it’s not a common occurrence.
This is why it is good to have both cats and dogs. The cats in this household always throw up on the edge of the oriental rugs and the ancient hardwood floors. Their production soaks into the rug and strips off what little finish is still on the floors. The dogs, thank goodness, clean it all up. What is unfortunate is their inabillity to tell where the presents the cats leave ends, and the oriental rug begins. I find the remains in the backyard when I scoop.
Cats, who practice the gluttony/ralphing rite, are deep into organic felicity.
Dogs, who eat the barf/rug combo…not so much?
Yum. Kitty left me a treat.
Saw it on House. The cat lays on the people before they die because they’re extra warm and cats like warm spots to sleep.
Waidaminnit. People NOT at death’s door are chillier? Doesn’t make sense. I’m inclined to think there are other factors - like perception, comforting and sympathy - involved, here. Unthinkable and astounding as it may be to some of y’all, trust me: cats are entirely capable of such things. And no, I’m not hallucinating.
So there.
get 'im big guy!!!
Pfft. Just striking a blow against willful ignoramity.
Is that a word?
aren’t we allowed to make 'em up?
wazza word?
If Will Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll could, so can I or anyone else, and in unapologetic good health. To be honest, the question about “ignoramity” was kinda faux-rhetorical. But you knew that, didn’t you.
When humans are dying of natural causes, over a span of time, a number of physological changes occur that result in a whole host of things that could attract cats. Most likely an odor. Dogs ability to detect some types of cancers, through smell, in humans is about as good or better than our own diagnostic tools and a heck of a lot less invasive. Cats have nothing but scorn for humans, most of them don’t even think we can catch our own food.
Scorn? A fat lot you know. And by the way, mine thinks all food comes from shopping bags.
“All these health nuts gonna feel stupid one day, lyin’ in bed dyin’ of nothin’.” – Redd Foxx