by Vitriola » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:36 pm
I am a firm believer in a whack on the butt. I was actually talking about this today! I happened to open a book in someone's office about prairie dogs. But not about prairie dogs, per se, but about keeping them as pets. I saw the one picture of the prairie dog chewing through someone's wires and thought that was the funniest thing ever, and we all got talking about that. I said that I may smack cats on the butt, and it's hard enough that they won't do that things around me again, but, at the first instance of chewing on wires, I beat them to within an inch of their lives.
This isn't far off the truth, but, in a household where at least one cat will try and eat the wooden railing to show his solidarity as we are eating dinner, or maybe as a cruel juxtaposition of his diet and ours, or to protest his chosen brand of cat food, no cat will touch a wire, and they never have. They will drag the cable from it's nails on the wall, but they do not open their mouths anywhere near wires. I applaud you, Ben, for being not only behind, but ahead of your time. And also for retarding evolution. And just for smacking helpless animals who will just do this thing anyway, take pictures of themselves doing it, and laugh at you.
I am a firm believer in a whack on the butt. I was actually talking about this today! I happened to open a book in someone's office about prairie dogs. But not about prairie dogs, per se, but about [i]keeping them as pets[/i]. I saw the one picture of the prairie dog chewing through someone's wires and thought that was the funniest thing ever, and we all got talking about that. I said that I may smack cats on the butt, and it's hard enough that they won't do that things around me again, but, at the first instance of chewing on wires, I beat them to within an inch of their lives.
This isn't far off the truth, but, in a household where at least one cat will try and eat the wooden railing to show his solidarity as we are eating dinner, or maybe as a cruel juxtaposition of his diet and ours, or to protest his chosen brand of cat food, no cat will touch a wire, and they never have. They will drag the cable from it's nails on the wall, but they do not open their mouths anywhere near wires. I applaud you, Ben, for being not only behind, but ahead of your time. And also for retarding evolution. And just for smacking helpless animals who will just do this thing anyway, take pictures of themselves doing it, and laugh at you.