Overmod Paul of Covington I recently heard that a study had determined that contrary to popular belief, cats do recognize their name. I don't understand how there is any confusion. My cats respond individually to their names, when called, including raising their head out of the feeding dish while the 'others' keep eating. The difference is that a dog comes when called in order to obey. Cats come because they want to be with you.
Paul of Covington I recently heard that a study had determined that contrary to popular belief, cats do recognize their name.
I don't understand how there is any confusion. My cats respond individually to their names, when called, including raising their head out of the feeding dish while the 'others' keep eating.
The difference is that a dog comes when called in order to obey. Cats come because they want to be with you.
In my experience the cats call YOU when they want you to be with them. Or they want food. Or they want to go outside. Or they want to come inside.
There is a different tone of meow for each instruction. Cat people learn to distinguish them.
When I was younger we had a particularly smart one who just had to have exactly what he wanted exactly when he wanted it. If you were sleeping he would sneak up behind your head, extend one (and only one) claw, and start poking your forehead.
"hey, hey, hey, hey, are you awake?"
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Thank You.
This bear walks into a bar. Then he sits down and orders a beer.
The bartender, amazed that this bear can actually talk, gives him a beer.
The bear says, "What do I owe you?"
The bartender stops and thinks for a moment.
"Even though this bear is smart," thinks the bartender, "he probably hasn’t been in many bars."
So the bartender says, "That'll be ten dollars."
The bear forks over the money and starts drinking his beer.
After a few minutes, the bartender can't restrain his curiosity, so he walks back over to the bear and tries to strike up a conversation.
"You know, we don't get many bears in this bar."
The bear looks up from his beer and says, "Well, at ten bucks a beer, I'm not surprised."
An old lady is rocking away the last of her days on her front porch, reflecting on her long life, when--all of a sudden--a fairy godmother appears in front of her and informs her that she will be granted three wishes.
"Well, now," says the old lady, "I guess I would like to be really rich."
*** POOF *** her rocking chair turns to solid gold.
"And, gee, I guess I wouldn`t mind being a young, beautiful princess."
*** POOF *** she turns into a beautiful young woman.
"Your third wish?" asks the fairy godmother.
Just then the old woman`s cat wanders across the porch in front of them.
"Ooh--can you change him into a handsome prince?" she asks.
*** POOF *** there before her stands a young man more handsome than anyone could possibly imagine.
She stares at him, smitten. With a smile that makes her knees weak, he saunters across the porch and whispers in her ear:
"Bet you`re sorry you had me neutered."
Overmoda dog comes when called in order to obey. Cats come because they want to be with you.
A dog walks into a butcher shop with a purse strapped around his neck. He walks up to the meat case and calmly sits there until it's his turn to be helped. A man, who was already in the butcher shop, finished his purchase and noticed the dog. The butcher leaned over the counter and asked the dog what it wanted today. The dog put its paw on the glass case in front of the ground beef, and the butcher said, "How many pounds?"
The dog barked twice, so the butcher made a package of two pounds ground beef.
He then said, "Anything else?"
The dog pointed to the pork chops, and the butcher said, "How many?"
The dog barked four times, and the butcher made up a package of four pork chops.
The dog then walked around behind the counter, so the butcher could get at the purse. The butcher took out the appropriate amount of money and tied two packages of meat around the dog's neck.
The man, who had been watching all of this, decided to follow the dog. It walked for several blocks and then walked up to a house and began to scratch at the door to be let in. As the owner opened the door, the man said to the owner, "That's a really smart dog you have there."
The owner said, "He's not really all that smart. This is the second time this week he forgot his key."
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One day a cat dies of natural causes and goes to heaven. There he meets the Lord Himself. The Lord says to the cat, "You lived a good life and if there is any way I can make your stay in Heaven more comfortable, please let Me know." The cat thinks for a moment and says, "Lord, all my life I have lived with a poor family and had to sleep on a hard wooden floor." The Lord stops the cat and says, "Say no more," and a wonderful fluffy pillow appears.
A few days later, six mice are killed in a tragic farming accident and go to heaven. Again, there is the Lord there to great them with the same offer. The mice answer, "All of our lives we have been chased. We have had to run from cats, dogs and even women with brooms. Running, running, running; we're tired of running. Do you think we could have roller skates so we don't have to run anymore?" The Lord says, "Say no more," and fits each mouse with beautiful new roller skates.
About a week later the Lord stops by to see the cat and finds him snoozing on the pillow. The Lord gently wakes the cat and asks him, "How are things since you got here?"
The cat stretches and yawns and replies, "It is wonderful here. Better than I could have ever expected. And those 'Meals On Wheels' you've been sending by are the best!"
Paul of CovingtonI recently heard that a study had determined that contrary to popular belief, cats do recognize their name.
Phoebe Vet Dark humor is a psychological coping mechanism to help protect themselves from the horror they are exposed to regularly.
Dark humor is a psychological coping mechanism to help protect themselves from the horror they are exposed to regularly.
Indeed. "You wouldn't understand" is the standard disclaimer - and many people wouldn't...
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
JPS1 Sounds like you may be owned by a cat or two.
No, but I've always admired an independent spirit.
I recently heard that a study had determined that contrary to popular belief, cats do recognize their name. I guess they just choose not to respond.
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Come here, Dog!
Here I am! Here I am! pant, pant.
What do you want? What do you want? pant, pant.
Come here, Cat!
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Why?
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
In regards to cat dog comment, saw a sign post on you tube, stating Dogs have masters, Cats have staff....Oh so true!!! Have a Great Day!!!
3 cats and 1 dog here the cats run the house the dog is their whipping boy.
Paul of Covington A German Shepherd, a Doberman and a Cat Have Died and Gone to Heaven All three are faced with God who wants to know what they believe in. The German shepherd says: "I believe in discipline training and loyalty to my master." "Good," says God. "Then sit down on my right side. Doberman, what do you believe in?" The Doberman answers: "I believe in the love, care and protection of my master." Ah," said God. "You may sit to my left." Then he looks at the cat and asks, "And what do you believe in?" The cat answers: "I believe you're sitting in my seat."
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Shadow the Cats ownerYes my driver's have a very twisted sense of humor at times. I have heard some things that even an undertaker would puke.
EMS humor is often quite dark.
Like the motorcyclist who was riding in cold weather, so he turned his leather jacket around as a better shield from the cold. Unfortunately, he had an accident. It was later said that he probably would have survived had rescuers not tried to turn his head back around...
OTOH, one of the speakers in an EMS class I attended this weekend put a slight twist on a hazmat "rule" we often joke about.
The "rule of thumb" is commonly cited for firefighters - if your thumb can cover the hazmat scene, you're far enough away...
For law enforcement, it's always been the donut hole rule - if you can see the entire hazmat scene through a donut hole, you're far enough away. The new twist is that it has to be a powdered donut. That way, you know that if the powdered sugar is blowing away from you, you have your back to the wind...
This one is from one of my acid tank driver's. What do you get whenever a load of SO4 and bleach get mixed in an accident. A self cleaning hazmat spill that cleans up anything caught up in the area of the spill.
Yes my driver's have a very twisted sense of humor at times. I have heard some things that even an undertaker would puke.
Yeah, I forgot about that guy. In which case, I'll take the 1949 Sophia Loren. Pretty sure that she was single at the time.
This is a true story!
About ten years ago, Sophia released her cookbook. She was signing copies at a book store in Toronto. I bought one and stood in line for over two hours. When she signed my copy I said, "Mille grazie." She looked at me and smiled.
@54light15: You might have to be chaperoned by her husband, Bob Waterfield, UCLA and Rams, Football Hall of Famer, etc.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
My first wish is a night with the 1945 Jane Russell. Second, a type 35 Bugatti. Third, 1,000 more wishes.
Ah, yes! Be careful what you wish for.
Johnny
Bob was homeless. He was living in a pile of old cardboard boxes near the beach. One day, he was trudging along the beach, and he stubbed his toe on something hard. He reached down and saw that it was an ancient brass lamp. He picked it up and started to brush it off when, POOF! out popped a genie."I have been trapped in that lamp since the age of Hamurabi," the genie said in a stentorian voice. "To thank you for letting me out, I'll grant you three wishes. Use them wisely!" POOF! The genie was gone."I must be seeing things" thought Bob. So he tossed the lamp in his bag and trudged back towards his encampment. When he saw the pile of cardboard boxes he called home, he mumbled to himself--no doubt for the thousandth time, "I wish I had a nice home."
POOF! The boxes disappeared and were replaced by a rambling mansion terraced into the hillside above the beach. Bob looked down and saw a key in his hand. He walked in and stuffed himself from the well-stocked refrigerator before his brain completely froze up from shock and he passed out in the kitchen. The next morning he woke up and was surprised to find himself still in the mansion and the house still solid. On the off chance that it wasn't an hallucination, he said to himself, "I wish I were rich."
POOF! Not much happened, actually, but when he checked the mailbox, there were statements from a number of investment accounts that gave him an income that while nowhere near that of Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, was substantially more respectable than several major sports personalities'. Bob remembered the genie's last words to him, "Use them wisely," and decided to hold off using his third wish until he really needed it. About a year later, he was cruising up the coast highway in his vintage Bentley roadster, listening to a seventies rock station and singing along. A jingle he remembered from his childhood came on the radio and he absent-mindedly joined in: "Oh I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Wiener..." POOF!
A Sweet Young Thing and a Big Man on Campus are out for a drive.
SYT: "Use both hands!"
BMOC: I can't; I need one to drive."
I called the Tinnitus hotline. It just kept ringing...
I was behind a man at the ATM. The whole time while at the machine, he was standing on one foot, wildly flailing his arms. When asked what he was doing, he replied: "I'm just checking my balance!"
I'll show myself out.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer, any other railroad, company, or person.t fun any
A woman in a supermarket is following a grandfather and his badly behaved three-year-old grandson.
It's obvious that he has his hands full, what with the child screaming at the top of his lungs for sweets in the sweet aisle, biscuits in the biscuit aisle, and for fruit, cereal and pop in the other aisles.
Meanwhile, Gramps is working his way around, saying in a calm, controlled voice: "Easy, William, we won't be much longer ... easy, boy."
Another outburst and she hears the grandpa calmly say, "It's okay, William, just a couple more minutes and we'll be out of here. Hang in there, boy."
At the checkout, the little terror is throwing items out of the cart, and Gramps says again in a controlled voice, "William, William, relax buddy, don't get upset. We'll be home in five minutes; stay cool, William."
Very impressed, the woman goes outside where the grandfather is loading his groceries and the boy into the car. She says to the gentleman, "It's none of my business, but you were amazing in there. I don't know how you did it. That whole time, you kept your composure, and no matter how loud and disruptive he got, you just calmly kept saying things would be okay. William is very lucky to have you as his grandpa."
"Thanks, lady," said the grandfather, "but I'm William ... the little bastard's name is Charlie."
Q: What do you get when you take the sun and divide its circumference by its diameter?A: Pi in the sky.
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Q. Why should you never start a conversation with Pi?A. It'll just go on forever.
Q. Who was the roundest knight at King Arthur's round table?A. Sir Cumference. (Too much Pi.)
Two atoms meet on the street. One says to the other, “How are you?”The other says, “Terrible. I’ve lost an electron.”“Are you sure?”“Yes. I’m positive.”
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A neutron walks into a bar. He asks the bartender, "How much for a beer?" The bartender offers him a warm smile and says, "For you, no charge."
A Priest and a Rabbi buy a new car together. The Priest splashes the car with holy water; the Rabbi asks why. Priest says "to bless our new car". So the Rabbi cuts 2" off the tailpipe.
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Two blonde women were talking; one says, "I had sex with a Brazillian". The other says, "Wow! How many is that?"
A man walks in to a psychiatrist's office wrapped only in Saran Wrap. The doc says, "Quite clearly I can see you're nuts".
The first five days after the weekend are the toughest.
CShaveRR...I resemble most of these...,
This one is from my hubby and should show the humor he had to keep when dealing with some of the many people that made his days way back when Hell. Now remember he was an OTR driver so nothing is railroad related.
You know you're going to have a bad day at the Banning scale house when you pull into it the scalemaster goes around back and hands you a tube of vasoline and says relax.
You're delivery schedule is blown up when you pull into the Tyson plant and they go your chicken is still at the farmers barn 200 miles away and your wanted in California in 40 hours.
Time to get a hotel for the night when you hear on the CB radio well that's going to leave a mark you ask what happened and find out a fuel tanker and LOX tanker played bumper cars ruptured both and the road is closed for 40 miles.
Hey, I thought this was a humor thread...I resemble most of these, and don't think they're funny!
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
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