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Vegetarian here, who liberally slathers her darling kitty with cute little rabbits (gasp!) and chickies. Well, my Sabrina (who is a muscular cat with a very thick coat) IS DEFINITELY a carnivore. I also make certain that her cat food is high protein, grain-free and rich in taurines. The nasty commercial stuff is loaded with grains.

I don’t understand misguided folks who try to make their cats vegetarians. Oh, my cat is also Guardian of the Home. If it moves or lives, she is on it in a New York Minute.

Since nutrition for us vegetarian humans is tricky, I’m quite careful about it. One super benefit of not eating meat is that my cholesterol is never a problem. But I would never consider expecting my cat to go meatless! That would indeed be abusive.

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@Davis and ALL who have answered my post. Thank you for your concern and perceptive viewpoints. I will NOT advocate for change. I will not be co-opted into the joke of building a kinder, gentler Ebola. If I could burn the whole rotten system down (metaphorically speaking) and replace it with something clean, I would. Since I cannot, I consider it a civic duty to warn any unlucky “normal” newcomers that in this place the police have conspired with management to frame normals for the wrongdoing of the criminals and corrupt corporationists and religious fanatics that pass through here and/or inflict themselves upon us. Therefore, abandon all hope ye who enter….etc., etc., etc.

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Black widow spiders are my phobia, since one bit me, also since they overran the place I long ago rented.

I have a lovely rescue cat (Sabrina) who looks like a little girl polar bear (chunky and muscular with super thick snowy white fur). She is more like a dog than a cat, very smart, eager to please, teases and plays rough, however very cuddly and lovable. She makes a sweet little chortling sound whenever she happens to see me.

I also have a wild bird friend who visits my window, a little black phoebe who happens to also be the alpha phoebe in the local phoebe population. How do I know that? Because I watched him win the alpha competition myself! They didn’t hold another lek (a get-together of about 20 phoebe alpha candidates held annally) this year because they obviously still considered him to be alpha. And he’s the tiniest black phoebe alpha I’ve ever seen. Wow…what a bird, though! The real birding name is “tyrant flycatcher”. He will swoop right at your face in a territorial display if you do something he doesn’t like, such as staring at him too long through the window screen (which my cat did, and yes he swooped at her). Hence the name TYRANT.

I no longer keep a dog because I’m too old to walk one. But I think Olive is right. The dog whisperer tells you what a dog needs. When its needs are met (exercise, crate training, proper eating and elimination habits, and vet care, etc.) then you can more easily think about discipline.

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@ Daniel: You’re so right. I’ve had all sorts of doctors. But I’m a romantic. I remember what Mr. Rogers said. He said, “Look for the helpers. They will be there.” Eventually they are. I say that even after I have just washed my hands of another not-so-great medical person. I just keep on keeping on until I find another real helper.

And @BELLE … the liars and betrayers will in time be washed away and you will find the helpers. Don’t settle for less.

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Um, no. This person was not your orphan/victim type. He and his brother were adopted by an ultra-rich couple of folks who indulged Cruz. As he informed the cops, the poor little guy is inheriting $800,000 at age 22 from mommy’s estate. His attorney will no doubt be living quite well in the meantime. Do you really think that this person, a flaming sociopath, hasn’t plotted and planned each step including how to live comfortably in cushy prison-for-the-mentally-ill? You said it, Robert.

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@Belle … Yep.  Anti-intellectualism is “breaking bad” in your home area.  Our children in California are a little safer (but only for a while) because this state controls/creates its own textbooks.  The rest of the country pretty much gets its books from the only other supplier, Texas (obviously tainted by fundamentalist doctrines).  Unfortunately school vouchers will probably eventually cash starve public schools and they’ll go under.  Then we’ll lose control of what our children read in the private school texts.  When our area doesn’t do science anymore, we will be both commercially and intellectually dead in the water.  You can thank religion for that.

 

 

 

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@Belle ….. It can happen to any of us unwary ones.  I only accidentally stumbled on Laurie doing Wooster on TV.  By the way, none of us deserves to live if we let this bookish forum die.

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