http://thesop.org/story/20160430/ca...translates-meows-into-human-speech-video.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/subur...s/ct-evr-sassone-tl-0126-20170119-column.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/...to-owners-fondest-wish-a-chat-with-tabby.html I wasn't sure whether to post this in Techforge or here. For some reason the Green Room seemed like a better place to post this topic. This reminds me of that "SIMPSONS" episode with Homer's half-brother, played by Danny DeVito, who invents a baby sounds/noise translator.
"Hey! Hey! Pay attention to ME! ME!!! ME!!!!". "Seriously, I'll knock your shit down. Okay, here we go...". "Pat me or I'll cut you". "Here's my bunghole".
Pandora died about a year ago. Around then we realized our finances were not aligning as well as we'd like so we started renovating our daylight basement to AirBnB. Which meant litter box upstairs. Literboxes and infants don't mix. We had to lay chairs down sideways to make a wall so Rio couldn't get to the cat box. And to be quite honest, Lilith was a bad cat. Now, I've only had 2 cats and maybe Pandora was just awesome, but Lilith was... not awesome. I honestly think she might have frozen a couple nights before we rescued her from the parking lot of Caraba's. It was winter and had been freezing the couple nights before she begged us for our leftovers as we walked to our car that fateful night. Anyway, Lilith was a decent cat, but just scared as hell. After... 4 years she got to where she trusted that it wasn't all a ruse and Anne and I weren't going to kill her at any moment. But then the children came. And then she went back to a bedroom kitty. Now. A bedroom kitty is fine if that is your thing. Not fine when you have to block off half your usable living room space for a litter box. Luckily my aunt-in-laws cat died. At Thanksgiving listening to her talk about how she wanted another cat, but she didn't want a young cat b/c it would outlive her, but she couldn't afford an old cat b/c of the medical bills, I had a genius idea. Take my middle aged cat! I'll pay for an medical bills and when you die I'll take her back b/c I won't have an infant anymore (hopefully). So yeah. I am actually catless at the moment. Which is a good thing, as much as I miss Pandora. 1100 sqf is tight enough as it is w/out having to wall off half the living room space to keep your daughter from eating cat turds.
Our dog likes cat turds. We put the litter box on top of a folding table along with their food. Dog thwarted.
I'd go nuts without a cat around. They literally inspire me.....quiet as a church mouse, light as a feather, smart as a whip, fast as lightning - just straight up killing machines. 1/3 of what they hunt they eat - 1/3 they bring home to share with their loved ones - 1/3 they leave for nature to claim. Oh yeah, they got it like that.
