If he does, you'll want to get him fixed. It'll cut down on the inclination to mark.
Never send a minion to do a god's work.
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Jul 25, 2013 4:42:23 pm PDT #353 of 30000
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 25, 2013 4:46:24 pm PDT #354 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
In that case, outside he stays. I want him to continue fathering broods of feral and predatory little kittens that will keep mice far, far away from my building.
meara - Jul 25, 2013 4:53:28 pm PDT #355 of 30000
Jesse, adding on to the yay your dads friends thing. Dang, I hope I've got friends like that when I'm old.
Also, y'all with the heat issues should move to Seattle.
Kat - Jul 25, 2013 5:28:21 pm PDT #356 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Jesse, the dessert thing is simply adorable.
I feel moderately bilious today.
JZ - Jul 25, 2013 6:26:48 pm PDT #357 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Matt, if it makes any difference, you can get him fixed, keep him mostly indoors, and he'll still drive the mice away. When I had two fixed cats in my apartment, I never, ever, ever had a mouse problem. The rest of the building? Oh hells yes. My apartment and the apartment of the one other cat owner? Totally mouse-free, and one of the neighbors offered to have my cats over for a playdate just so they could stink her apartment up with their cattiness and the mice would leave.
(eta, and yes, I realize this makes me sound like someone in a Matt Groening cartoon: My cats in fact smelled very nice! Just not to mice.)
Mind, this may make it slightly worse for your neighbors, as it doesn't eliminate the mice, just makes them prefer other people's places to yours. But, fine, they can go get their own alley cats.
sarameg - Jul 25, 2013 6:35:09 pm PDT #358 of 30000
Yeah, I was biting my tongue on the cat-fixing-over-feral-population-better-for-cat-and-cat-population thing (my parents curate a feral colony, all are fixed or on BC, it's made for a more healthy colony,) and JZ enabled me to continue to do so. Also, my complex was completely mouse infested. In the 12 yrs I lived there, I encounter...what? 3? Presence of catsmell alone does it.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2013 7:45:05 pm PDT #359 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
More feral cats is pretty much always a bad choice, isn't it?
Ungh. Had pain therapist tonight. Exhausted. Night, night!
Zenkitty - Jul 25, 2013 8:45:05 pm PDT #360 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
A successful trap-neuter-release program in my neighborhood reduced the stray cat population drastically. This summer there have been more songbirds and butterflies and little wildlife like skinks than I've seen here before. It's nice. And no mice, because I have three cats indoors and there are still a couple ferals moseying around outside.
Typo Boy - Jul 25, 2013 8:47:46 pm PDT #361 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Meeting another deadline, but a belated thanks Trudy. Anyone who liked the Wendy's video, can you please link on Facebook, twitter and other social media? It is hard to find a way to be funny about an issue as serious as this, and humor can reach people a more straightforward approach won't.
Theodosia - Jul 26, 2013 2:15:06 am PDT #362 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Our cats produced three dead mice over a single weekend just recently. First mice seen in the house in years, so I'm confident that a mouse invasion was stopped dead in its tracks, so to speak.
I still miss Butchy, the next door neighbor's outdoor tomcat, who would leave "offerings" on our doorstep in the hope that somebody would finally appreciate what a splendid hunter he was.