Is there any point to "Lost Cat" signs?

Awsi Dooger wrote:

Other than cat trapping videos an always hilarious activity is to read actual studies about cats, like the ones spotlighting the small undeveloped brains and determination to kill their owner. Naturally every study is met by desperate denial, until the next study is essentially the same thing only worse.

Cat loving is one of the great litmus tests I'm aware of. We have one addict in the family. More than $250,000 has been absolutely wasted on her treatment, with no benefit whatsoever. She is also a life long liar, cheat, thief, sneak, and cat lover.

I immediately distrust anyone who is a cat lover. Subjectivity is an absolute killer. Simply too difficult to run the table...evaluating everyone perfectly on a case by case basis. I know if I assign poor judgment and value systems to each cat lover I'll be correct far more often than not.

Here's a guy who has a problem with p*ssy.

Ghost of igloi wrote:

... We had him chipped ...

You mean like in Fargo?

CapnPerv wrote:

John Utah wrote:

You won’t see them. There were eaten by coyotes.

+1

My ex-gf had three cats in our tiny one bedroom. I hated them and now her, so just for fun I call those poster numbers and say I just saw your cat.

Namaste, btches.

I can't imagine why she left you.

jake rrr wrote:

thejeff wrote:

What is arbitrary judgment of others a mark of?

That wasn't an arbitrary judgement. Hatred of pets and expression of joy when they are maimed or killed is a sign of antisocial disorder.

Actually cats are amazingly athletic and many (not all) are very aware and interactive with select people.

There is a lot of room between Disliking Cats and "expression of joy when they are maimed or killed." I think your statement says a lot more about you than it does about others.

boredatwork wrote:

The greatest lost cat poster saga of all time:

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

This made posting this thread worth it all. Thank you.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Cats like these people back and hang around expecting good things.

Great things, surely?

63 wrote:

Acquired idiocy wrote:

Give jeff a break. He destroyed most of his brain with alcohol and now he's trying get rid of the remainder by training as a moran.

I would say the training is complete

I forgive you both.

I tried to contact an old friend, but did not know the number had changed. Long story short, the guy who now has the number was a total dick to me, so now I use lost cat posters with his number on them just to anger the guy. The posters have SOME use after all.

furry tailed rats wrote:

gray squirrel wrote:

A house cat could kill a squirrel??

Um, why not?

They would have to be able to catch it first

gray squirrel wrote:A house cat could kill a squirrel??

"Cat Found" signs are helpful for reuniting cats with their owners.

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The domestic cat[1][5] (Felis silvestris catus or Felis catus) is a small, typically furry, carnivorous mammal. They are often called house cats when kept as indoor pets or simply cats when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines.[6] Cats are often valued by humans for companionship and for their ability to hunt vermin. There are more than 70 cat breeds, though different associations proclaim different numbers according to their standards.

Cats are similar in anatomy to the other felids, with a strong flexible body, quick reflexes, sharp retractable claws, and teeth adapted to killing small prey. Cat senses fit a crepuscular and predatory ecological niche. Cats can hear sounds too faint or too high in frequency for human ears, such as those made by mice and other small animals. They can see in near darkness. Like most other mammals, cats have poorer color vision and a better sense of smell than humans. Cats, despite being solitary hunters, are a social species and cat communication includes the use of a variety of vocalizations (mewing, purring, trilling, hissing, growling, and grunting), as well as cat pheromones and types of cat-specific body language.[7]

Cats have a high breeding rate.[8] Under controlled breeding, they can be bred and shown as registered pedigree pets, a hobby known as cat fancy. Failure to control the breeding of pet cats by neutering, as well as the abandonment of former household pets, has resulted in large numbers of feral cats worldwide, requiring population control.[9] In certain areas outside cats' native range, this has contributed, along with habitat destruction and other factors, to the extinction of many bird species. Cats have been known to extirpate a bird species within specific regions and may have contributed to the extinction of isolated island populations.[10] Cats are thought to be primarily responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds, and the presence of feral and free-ranging cats makes some otherwise suitable locations unsuitable for attempted species reintroduction.[11]

Since cats were venerated in ancient Egypt, they were commonly believed to have been domesticated there,[12] but there may have been instances of domestication as early as the Neolithic from around 9,500 years ago (7,500 BC).[13] A genetic study in 2007[14] concluded that all domestic cats are descended from Near Eastern wildcats, having diverged around 8,000 BC in the Middle East.[12][15] A 2016 study found that leopard cats were undergoing domestication independently in China around 5,500 BC, though this line of partially domesticated cats leaves no trace in the domesticated populations of today.[16][17] A 2017 study confirmed that domestic cats are descendants of those first domesticated by farmers in the Near East around 9,000 years ago.[18][19]

As of a 2007 study, cats are the second most popular pet in the US by number of pets owned, behind freshwater fish.[20] In a 2010 study they were ranked the third most popular pet in the UK, after fish and dogs, with around 8 million being owned.[21] -WIKIPEDIA

theJeff wrote:

jake rrr wrote:

That wasn't an arbitrary judgement. Hatred of pets and expression of joy when they are maimed or killed is a sign of antisocial disorder.

Actually cats are amazingly athletic and many (not all) are very aware and interactive with select people.

There is a lot of room between Disliking Cats and "expression of joy when they are maimed or killed." I think your statement says a lot more about you than it does about others.

True, this should have been directed at other posters not you.

Sorry

VoR wrote:

gray squirrel wrote:A house cat could kill a squirrel??

An American squirrel maybe, but not a European squirrel, that's my point.

American squirrels are much bigger.

theJeff wrote:

I forgive you both.

You weren't given that power.

Racehorse wrote:

furry tailed rats wrote:

Um, why not?

They would have to be able to catch it first

Some times they do. I have a tiny female cat that worked her way up from chipmunks and now she sometimes catches squirrels. Similar to a lioness taking down a zebra.

Fox and Grey wrote:

VoR wrote:

An American squirrel maybe, but not a European squirrel, that's my point.

American squirrels are much bigger.

It's not a question of weight. Can it be captured?

What is the average foot speed velocity of an unladen American squirrel?

VoR wrote:

gray squirrel wrote:A house cat could kill a squirrel??

An American squirrel maybe, but not a European squirrel, that's my point.

The coyotes aren't competing with cats to eat European squirrrels. FYI, cats don't kill rats, that's why coyote populations are booming in urban areas. Unlimited food source.