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What is the point of cats?

What is the point of cats?

Posted - January 16, 2017
Tags : cats vermin birdkillers

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  • Cats are.
      January 16, 2017 12:46 PM MST
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  • 44619
    They give one an excuse to buy new furniture every three years.
      January 16, 2017 12:47 PM MST
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  • 496
    Nice to see you here, Ray.
    Entertainment, they have high entertainment value.
      January 16, 2017 12:49 PM MST
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  • Nothing, if people keep them inside, and do the right thing and get them spayed/neutered. They can control pests, but also (noting from your tag) will kill songbirds, etc.
      January 16, 2017 12:49 PM MST
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  • 2500
    Control pests? In your wildest dreams. Ours thinks those mice are putting on a floor show when he's chowing down on his Purina.
      January 16, 2017 4:16 PM MST
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  • 17261
    What's the point of humans, or any other species on earth?
      January 16, 2017 12:51 PM MST
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  • 44619
    To entertain you, oh Sapphic one.
      January 16, 2017 12:55 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Oh. Hmm. Well, not all of them are as entertaining. 
      January 16, 2017 2:34 PM MST
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  • 18
    Good point!
      January 16, 2017 1:19 PM MST
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  • 17261
    Thank you. :-)
      January 16, 2017 2:33 PM MST
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  • 7280
    Here's somebody's opinion.  Well stated as a position, but perhaps not entirely accurate:..


    The domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, is quite probably the most useless animal on the planet and we have an estimated 10.3 million of them in the UK.

    They spend 85 per-cent of their lives doing nothing, sleeping or dozing...

    Eating, drinking, killing, defecating and mating take up just four per cent of their time and 11 per cent just getting around...


    http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/letters/2012/06/21/letter-what-is-the-point-of-cats/
     This post was edited by tom jackson at January 16, 2017 2:06 PM MST
      January 16, 2017 12:58 PM MST
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  • Hmmph, I like my cats.
      January 16, 2017 1:20 PM MST
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  • 7280
    I am neutral on cats, horses, parakeets, canaries, hedgehogs and everything else below humans---except dogs---on the phylogenetic scale.

    Not against them, I just really love dogs.
      January 16, 2017 1:26 PM MST
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  • Walking around with litter caked paws and spreading the smell of aged urine. Oh and they are important for the life cycle of toxoplasmosis.
      January 16, 2017 1:19 PM MST
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  • 22891
    i think theyre cute, thought of getting one except ive been out of work
      January 16, 2017 1:24 PM MST
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  • Kind of makes you wonder, huh?
      January 16, 2017 1:32 PM MST
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  • Duh!  A member of the food chain.  Why didn't I think of that!  :)
      January 16, 2017 1:37 PM MST
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  • Never been to Southeast Asia, have you?
      January 16, 2017 1:40 PM MST
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  • Nope ...  never watched ALF?




      January 16, 2017 1:42 PM MST
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  • Yep! Liked Alf!
      January 16, 2017 1:43 PM MST
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  • "It looks like this."

      January 16, 2017 1:34 PM MST
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  • 23577
    Wait --
    I think it took me a long time to figure your answer out - -
    Is this cat "pointing?"
    :)
    Ha!
    :)
      January 16, 2017 2:30 PM MST
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  • Yes, that's right WQ. I hope you are well.
      January 16, 2017 2:42 PM MST
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  • 23577
    Other than being in a crappy state of mind I'm OK.
    :)

    I'm glad I caught your answer -- it's good!
    :)
      January 16, 2017 2:46 PM MST
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