By the time we got our cat, way back when, I think it was past that point, sara.

I was around when cousins got theirs, though, and it was an adorable fuzzball of ineffective savagery.

Not sure what happened to it in the end. I hope they just gave it away.

it was an adorable fuzzball of ineffective savagery.

But probably incredible destruction....kittens are like that.

They are pretty little when I've seen it happen, not weaned. Well, there was another who was close to 6 months, but he was raised by humans from the time he was a week old. It wasn't until he was accepted by the other (older) cats we had that he began to pick up some normal cat behaviors.

But probably incredible destruction....kittens are like that.

Destruction of the stationary, sure. But not a good enough stalker to get close to the unwary human.

There are flowers and candles piled up around the fire hydrant on my corner. What a fucked up thing.

But not a good enough stalker to get close to the unwary human.

Well, if the human is stationary this can happen...

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(I think that's the right link)

They can cause an awful lot of chaos when you aren't looking. Cats too.

Gawd, that's the worse place... because it tickles there.

There are flowers and candles piled up around the fire hydrant on my corner. What a fucked up thing.

I read that article this morning. How awful, brenda. Glad you weren't home.

Those on-the-spot memorials bother me. We don't see them around here too often, but they're just not my thing.

We don't see them around here too often, but they're just not my thing.

Really? I can think of two in my town off the top on my head, and a third only disappeared when they bulldozed the intersection as part of road reconstruction.

Of course, we also have the former site of the Station, which has dozens of memorials on it.

Last summer, I was visiting my cousin in Reno, and a few of us took a twisty-turny road in the mountains to Virginia City (which was kitschy tourist heaven, but very fun). We passed by more crosses laid out in the ground on the side of the road than I have ever seen in one strech of pavement.

I have a whole rant on memorializing the terror-and-pain-filled physical spot where someone died. There's usually a gravesite, where it's accepted custom to leave flowers and other memorial tokens. Tending those roadside and sidewalk shrines is ghoulish to me, attention-seeking more for the tender(s) than the deceased. And it seems to me that devotion and whatever money is spent shrine-tending would be a better memorial spent on something the deceased loved doing, or was active in--a scholarship in the deceased's name to a cheerleading camp, or an art school, or funds for team uniforms for kids who might not be able to afford them, and otherwise couldn't play.

Flowers, photographs and candles on a public thoroughfare do nothing meaningful to memorialize the deceased. I think it's better to celebrate their life than the instant of their death.