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1. Mike Mueller says:

   September 9, 2009 at 5:09 pm

   Can’t we just have one single day without Cats?

   Let’s give the “little claws of hate” a day off!

   I’m the first to admit it.  It’s tough being a cat. They have to spend every moment of every day ignoring humans, concentrating on not wagging their tails or looking like they care.  Try being incredibly picky about what you’ll eat today.  That’s tough enough.  Don’t forget you’ll have to remember what you didn’t like yesterday (and the weeks before) so you can change it daily and repeat the process.

   Cats have to have a great imagination as well.  Always asking questions. No day off from thinking.  “What new furniture can I shred today?”  or “How high can I climb up the drapes before they tear?” or “How loud can I scream bloody murder in the middle of the night just cause I’m in the mood?”  Tough questions.

   And what about those furballs? You know… the ones that your cat has to hold on to and wait to choke on until you are in the middle of your conference call? That’s a lot of work!

   And this riding of an imaginary bike?
   Give me a break! What’s that? Some piss poor imitation of a cheap French Mime? "Ooooh, Look I’m stuck in an imaginary box. Now look, I’m pulling on this imaginary rope…"   A real pet would take it upon themselves to learn to ride a REAL bike. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roJzWYiXFtg

   And would it really be too much to ask that you help nurture something else besides yourself for a change?  "Dog nurses three female puppies along with a newborn squirrel”

   No.  I wouldn’t expect you to save the family from a house fire, or bark at me tell me that Susie was stuck down a well.  Nobody ever named their cat Lassie have they? 

   Maybe there’s a reason for that?  You have to protect your delicate 9 lives, eh?  I mean, if something did make you ill and you had to take a pill – that wouldn’t be a good thing would it? (How to give a cat a pill)

   Hey, it’s just one day and it’s already half over.
   Ok, we still need to get thru the dinner refusal, the furball hacking, the midnight howling – but it’s almost over.
2. HeyAmaretto says:

   September 9, 2009 at 5:41 pm

   Okay- I agree with the bike-riding thing. Only a dog would humiliate himself in such a fashion. A cat would drive a car rather than subject himself to that kind of indignity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2Q8OGezhk
   And there is nothing like the sound of Mister Boots hawking up a hair loogie to make that three-way go from zero to sixty in no time flat.
   But it’s specism to suggest that cats can’t be as nurturing to baby squirrels as their canine counterparts can. Here’s a cat nurturing a teeny bunny as if it were her own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04RZrf3-Mgo&feature=related Okay, the cynics out there might suggest that she is raising it to feed to her brood, but I can’t think like that. And then there’s this:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MepWPMjHO3U&feature=related
   There’s just something about a squirrel that brings out the best in everyone, don’t you think?

   (Thanks for the world’s best comment, and for linking in Clint’s post!)
3. Rufor says:

   September 12, 2009 at 3:48 pm

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