Comments on: The Ultimate Slackers

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:03:00 +0000

The danger of polydactyls is that they are more likely to master a can opener.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:53:22 +0000

i once drove [well, somebody else did the driving] from here to key west for a scuba diving trip. in a leaky convertible in the rain. i was sorely tempted to stay there, just to avoid the ride back.

an exchange program… i could send them a couple of tailless cats to go with the extra toes. i’ve always liked polydactyls. i wonder how long it would take that gene to migrate through the cat population to this end of the state.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:38:25 +0000

Or jogging down US-1. If you had a cat that would put up with the trip to Key West, you wouldn’t abandon it, but some may have decided to leave boats or cars rather than make the return trip. In any case, there can’t be much genetic diversity. In addition to TNR, they should cut a deal with a mainland program to exchange toms.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 02:16:53 +0000

people abandon their pet cats everywhere else in this country. no reason to believe that key west is immune. but, yeah, probably not many cats swimming over there from the mainland.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:42:31 +0000

She might be buying something for Tabitha as a bribe for the sunny spot.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:09:15 +0000

Hmm. Samantha does like the comfy computer chair… OTOH, if she were following a high-stakes auction on eBay, would she do that herself? Wouldn’t she instead assign it to her highly paid professional staff? 🙂

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:28:12 +0000

Steve, Sam needed to use the computer to check EBay and wanted you out of the way.

It’s an island, Hipparchia, there isn’t likely to be a lot of new blood showing up, and the females would stay in the “hunting” territory.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 06:32:17 +0000

sounds like they are doing some population control on the hemingway cats now, though the faq is a bit vague on the exact amount of inbreeding that goes on.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:50:43 +0000

“To a dog, you’re family. To a cat, you’re staff.” – MB

At the very moment I was reading that, Samantha brushed my right foot to remind me that it’s late and time to stop messing with the computer and go to bed. Samantha has plenty of food and water available at the moment, but nonetheless returned about a minute later to remind me again. If family isn’t about mutual comfort and looking out for each other, I don’t know what family is. Staff, MFA.

G’night, all; I’m going to follow Samantha this time.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:14:26 +0000

They really need to impose some controls on those cats, MB. They are over populating and inbreeding. That isn’t any better for cats, than people.