[Magdalen] If they were only bigger, they'd eat you

[Rick Mashburn]

I've never lived with a cat so I can't comment directly on this thread.
But, I do live with Malcolm and I can confirm that he doesn't have an
empathetic bone in his canine body.  I keep thinking that one of these days
he will learn to identify with an emotion or one of my aches & pains. He's
7.5 years old and it hasn't happened yet!

He's very sweet and loving but I think he only does it because he knows if
he starts, it will lead to tummy rubs!

Peace, Rick
On May 3, 2016 4:24 PM, <thedonboyd at austin.rr.com> wrote:

A two-year-old takes affright when a visiting cat licks her face.

Mother:  "Did the kitty bite you?"

Child"  "(Sniff) No, but she tasted me."


---- James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> I noticed a conservative and very angry columnist pick up on some
> reasearch, if that's the correct term in which some animal behaviorists
> discovered that in fact if your cat were large enough, he or she would
> actually eat you.
>
> The other day, having some work done on the house which opened up the
> subflooring, I herded (yes it is possible) our cats over to my office,
> where they would be safe.  I put down some food in a bowl for Nancy.
>
> She went over to the bowl and sniffed it, and then walked over to me,
> hopped into my lap and started giving me kisses, and eventually nested on
> my arm, as she so often does, and settled down in my lap.
>
> My study concludes that the other guy's study is full of horse manure.
>
> I think I've told the story of my cats and my migraine, and how they all
> made pax with each other and lay quietly on me, purring curative purrs,
> slowly bidding my migraine depart.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy