Surprised the scratching section didn’t mention clipping claws.

To dissuade a cat from repeating unwanted behavior, gently blow in its face. The younger it is, and the closer you are to having adopted it, the more likely it is that this will work. Essentially, it’s the human take on how kittens train each other as they rumble. I saw it in the book Psycho Kitty, which I read before…

Well, now I’m afraid I may me a psychopath. I had a cat before I met and married my wife, and the cat and I got along famously. My wife tolerated me (mostly) but actively disliked the cat. The cat and I would regularly gang up on her and cause mischief, together or each on their own, whenever we got the chance. I do…

“If cats looked like frogs we’d realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That’s what people remember.” - also the late,  great Terry Pratchett

A cat’s behaviour is at least partially related to the behaviour of the humans around them. Have a crazy unpredictable house with lots of little humans running around doing weird things? Expect that cats will be more “psychopathic.”

“In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.” ― the late,  great Terry Pratchett.

You don’t get to deal with it other than understanding where your pecking order is. Hint: It’s not at the top. That’s where your cat sits. Just submit to the fact that your in his domain and he will do with you and your stuff as he pleases. He's not your pet, you're his human.

I’ve never understood what the correlation between the size of a cat’s brain and anything you could consider measurable intelligence is or why it keeps getting brought up. I’ve seen cat’s solve problems that I’ve seen humans fail at (opening childproofed cabinet doors is the best example). They have far greater…

who wrote this -- a dog? it’s anti-cat propaganda, it is.

My cat would be surprised to know he’s supposed to be solitary because he thinks he needs to be with me every moment of the friggin day.  

It does make cannibalizing the family during hard times easier, though.

Yeah, don’t get me started on the interest rates. The government should not be in the business of making money off kids backs. They’re basically screwing over their own future generations. Make gov’t loans as close to 0% as humanly possible or tie them to the prime rate which is basically nothing currently. Capped at…

The issue is the interest rate.  I took out my loans with the full intention of paying them back, and I’m a few years of low payments away.  But talking to a younger co-worker, his loans are at like 10%!!  That is outrageous for a boat loan much less tuition for college.  Gov’t backed loans should be interest-free or…

I think the less time you spend chatting on the apps, the better. That way you don’t have so much time to build up that “social media persona” we are all guilty of. No one is ever really as good (or bad, I guess) as they are without the media filter. Spend too much time chatting and you’re building for a letdown.

See my other comment

Wood gasification, a decent tar filtration system between that and a generator that can run on liquid fuel, lp can be run off of a gasifier.

every time i see speculative information on this kind of event, it’s always from a very ableist perspective. i can be prepared for a little while without power (i live where i get both bad hurricanes and outages due to ice and snow), but not months. if/when this happens, millions will be seriously harmed and millions…

The purpose of an english muffin is to carry butter to your mouth, and cutting a muffin compresses the surface, hiding pockets which you should rightly be filling with butter.  

I’m not proud to know this, but on an episode of Everybody Loves Raymond, Frank and Marie have an argument over the proper way to split a muffin, and one mentions how using a knife destroys all of the nooks and crannies. 

• The Dark Knight (2008)