A kiss is just a kiss ...

unless it's a love bite.

From here. Thanks to WentRogue.

Apologies to Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Vote me ...

OW!

Britain has a referendum on voting.

Cats rule!

Oh. Wait.

Grand merci to brebis noire for the above.

Taliban Hates Hockey and Cats

I just turned on computer -- not enough coffee yet -- and approved two new comments.

From the Hockey Fans for Peace post:

nkaulius said...

Im so angry by this. A hundred of my fellow citizens died in 9/11 because of terrorists. I fully support the war against this terrible crime. These bleeding hearts should be ashamed of them selves. Who else in Canada supports these brave men and women as much as don? What a Joke. He's a GREAT Canadian and you should all show the man the respect he deserves.

From the Feral Cats post:

croghan27 said...

"Kill the cats.

But the obsessed cat people -- almost all women -- go bananas. Beeeg trouble at the civic level."

crogh is a cat person and if someone undertakes some .... ultra legal actions against cats near him he will respond with a similar ultra legal reaction.

Now my under-caffeinated brain is trying to figure out how to combine the irrationality of the pro-DonCherry camp with that of the pro-cat camp and get them to support the troops by replacing them in Afghanistan.

Maybe spread the word that the Taliban has kidnapped Don Cherry and is torturing cats?

Feral Cats v. Endangered Birds

I have a dear friend who is deeply involved in the feral cat capture-neuter- return campaign and, somewhat ironically, also an avid birder.

So I watched Cat Crazed on Doc Zone tonight on CBC. I can't find the program online but here's the trailer.

Simply put, it's cats versus birds. Even neutered, they hunt. The oft-repeated number of 50 million feral cats versus some very tenuous bird numbers makes this one a no-brainer.

Kill the cats.

But the obsessed cat people -- almost all women -- go bananas. Beeeg trouble at the civic level.

Calgary to the rescue! As the doc drily points out, in the land where licensing guns drives people batshitcrazy, licensing cats is no biggie.

And seems to work.

I'm looking forward to hearing what my catlady/birder has to say about the doc.

Dogs Rule!

And you thought the silly season was over.

Cats are "nasty, stinking creatures," says Mark David of Warrensburg, Mo. And dogs? They're noisy, disruptive and "lick you and themselves," counters Sanford Reikes of Louisville, Ky.

Clearly, there are dog people and there are cat people. But it's not much of a contest: 74 percent of people like dogs a lot, and only 41 percent like cats a lot.

Cats win the dislike vote handily, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll. Fifteen percent of the adults questioned said they disliked cats a lot while the number who said they disliked dogs a lot was just 2 percent.

Cats on Dimitri Soudas: Why Does He Hate Us?

Fur flew, the claws came out and by the end of it all, a large hairball had been coughed up.

Though it all started innocently enough with a text message, not even a tweet.

"Thatcher has died".

That texting triggered a cascade of embarassing communications which ended with an ailurophobic remark.

Had it not actually happened, one might assume it was a brilliant Monty Python sketch, just as memorable as the dead Norwegian Blue parrot.

But it did and it was reported by the BBC in its characteristic pithy style.