Do cats ponder (think) ?

[JohnRoberts]

It looks like my "scooter" experiments may have ended. Scooter has not been seen for well over a week. I asked my neighbor and he said Scooter has not been showing up for feeding time. Odds are that he either got hit by a car, or killed by loose dogs.

The water dish I put out for Scooter still gets emptied but I suspect some other of the too many stray cats around partake. This morning I saw a different cat hanging around, but he(she) ran away from me.

JR

 

[cyrano]

We blame its obvious metal issues on too much catnip when he was growing up.

So the cat is a metal freak?

 

[Ó Draighnáin]

Typographical parapraxis maybe? It is hard to know about the cat's music tastes, we don't play metal here but he might be getting into the catnip and sneaking over to the neighbour's for all I know... I wouldn't put it past him.

 

[JohnRoberts]

The ghost of Scooter is still emptying the water bowl I keep filled...

(it may some of the other strays but they remain scarce when I am around).

JR

 

[NOON]

Cats are much the same as any other critter including us bald monkeys, there's a wide spectrum of intelligence ranging from nothing much going on behind the shades through to evil genius. My current cat is somewhere in the middle ground but the previous pair I lived with for nearly 18 years had one at each end of the spectrum. One was extremely pretty but thick as a plank, the other one was black and about as intelligent as a smart toddler human.
Moods and emotional range is another interesting viewpoint to look at.

 

[JohnRoberts]

Today's question is do cats go to Valhalla? I just gave a dead cat a viking funeral on my dead branches burn pile. The cat died last weekend and besides being inside a tightly closed garbage bag, inside my trash bin with the lid closed the smell of dead critter was inescapable. The smell and the cat is now gone.

This is the second cat killed by neighborhood dogs in the last couple weeks. One dead cat was found in my neighbor's yard last week and he disposed of it out in the country. This second one ended up dead in my yard so I dealt with it.

Neither one of these two recent dead cats were my neighbor's pets. But they were strays attracted by the free food. My kinder/gentler neighbor who feeds all the cats is now aiming to kill the dog(s) before they kill one of his actual pets. He has identified a pack of three dogs that run loose at night.

JR

 

[JohnRoberts]

My next door neighbor reports that dogs killed two more cats in his yard this week. So far the dogs have not killed any of his pet cats, but the inevitable trend is disturbing. He is now keeping a loaded shotgun handy by his door. If he sees those dogs at night hunting in his yard (reportedly there are three of them running together in a pack), it could end badly for them.

I generally like dogs better than cats, but not dogs that kill cats, away from their own property, for no reason other than that they are cats.

JR

 

[boji]

Meow would you know?