Preparedness for when

jk0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34901765

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ivyleaf

GreyQueen wrote: »

:eek: They worry me!

Are you imagining the Queen of Sheba with thumbs, GQ?

grandma247

I have just checked and our dryer is on the list. We bought it in January

GreyQueen

ivyleaf wrote: »

Are you imagining the Queen of Sheba with thumbs, GQ?

And bigger. I sort of imagine her as a Bond villaness, truth be told. As in, holding a human on her lap..........:rotfl:

I've known lots of cats but this one is.......... different.

moneyistooshorttomention

But give them their due and I've just been reading an article online this morning about intelligent cats and one of them even made sure she accompanied her owners young son on his first walk to school to reassure him - and has been doing the school run ever since. Another one (a Maine Coon admitted) likes playing hide and seek with their family - and tells them when its their turn to hide again.

GreyQueen

When we were kids, our next door neighbour's cat used to accompany us half way to school (about 200 yards). And I've known cats who've realised you can't hear them miaow through double-glazing so have mimed miaowing. Lip-synching.

We've seven cats in 50 years, two have been as thick as two short planks, two have been ferociously intelligent and the other three were more average mogs.

The Queen and her sister Wild Thing are siblings and rescue cats. Neither knew how to open an internal door by hooking their paw around the edge. My brother demonstrated once to The Queen and she got it. Her sister is firmly of the cute-but-dumb school and has never grasped the method, despite repeated demonstrations and watching her sister.

Both are exceptionally good hunters, though.

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

When we were kids, our next door neighbour's cat used to accompany us half way to school (about 200 yards). And I've known cats who've realised you can't hear them miaow through double-glazing so have mimed miaowing. Lip-synching.

We've seven cats in 50 years, two have been as thick as two short planks, two have been ferociously intelligent and the other three were more average mogs.

The Queen and her sister Wild Thing are siblings and rescue cats. Neither knew how to open an internal door by hooking their paw around the edge. My brother demonstrated once to The Queen and she got it. Her sister is firmly of the cute-but-dumb school and has never grasped the method, despite repeated demonstrations and watching her sister.

Both are exceptionally good hunters, though.

Do you imagine that if things really got tough that they would share their kills with you? Or would they leave, saying look we showed you how to do it and even brought a few live ones for you to practice killing but you were useless. So you're on your own!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Karmacat wrote: »

Noooooo, GQ, why?


But thats part of their charm!


And in current news, the Belgian police have just tweeted a pic of a bowl of dry food, to say thank you to all the kitties who helped them last night. And no, I'm not making it up :rotfl:

I think that's great!!! At the very sensitive time in belguin,

thriftwizard

I have no doubt that our cats would happily share their "kills". Words cannot express the shock of opening your sleepy eyes to see a pair of dead fish eyes gazing solemnly at you across your ex-starched & snowy pillow-slip...

The chickens, however, would not. They are very efficient little killers - velociraptors at the end of the garden - and tend to kill small mammals with a swift strike to the back of the neck, then gulp them straight down before any other bird can get their beak near it. Sharing is not part of their ethos!

Frugalsod

thriftwizard wrote: »

I have no doubt that our cats would happily share their "kills". Words cannot express the shock of opening your sleepy eyes to see a pair of dead fish eyes gazing solemnly at you across your ex-starched & snowy pillow-slip...

The chickens, however, would not. They are very efficient little killers - velociraptors at the end of the garden - and tend to kill small mammals with a swift strike to the back of the neck, then gulp them straight down before any other bird can get their beak near it. Sharing is not part of their ethos!

The thing with chickens is that as long as they have enough space to forage you could almost leave them to their own devices as long as you can keep the predators out. So good SHTF animals to have. Plus small and light enough to take with you.