Excitement for the Day

Jim Thompson wrote: .....

Unless the threat was to the president, et al.

The DW can get a restraining order, no sweat.

Laws leave a tradeoff between free speech and harassment and threats. However if there is a record/witness to the treat it may be actionable, but that's just a holding pattern. This is why many DW pack heat.

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Well, it's a matter of how you look at it. To those in the U.S., the Norwegian rat came from Norway. Whether or not it originally came to Norway from Asia is another matter. ;-)

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Rich Grise wrote (in ) about 'Excitement for the Day', on Sat, 26 Mar 2005:

They were probably named 'Rattus norvegicus' by Linnaeus or a contemporary, so they may have been associated with Norwegian ships rather than Mediterranean.

Mice are a problem everywhere, no matter how clean you think your home is.

In my case, I've got two cats that are definite mousers. The champion is a 6.5lb female cat. The thing is, she catches them and rips them open but then doesn't know what to do with them after that, other than to either present for inspection or hide them somewhere and then trot them out once they're mummified.

I think it might have something to do with buying her those little toy mice stuffed with catnip. I suppose she's trying to find the catnip in the occasional mouse.

The other mouser is over 25lbs. When he pounces a mouse knows it's serious stuff.

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Tony P. wrote (in ) about 'Excitement for the Day', on Sun, 27 Mar 2005:

That's not a cat, it's a mountain lion!

And the creatures get real cavalier about living right beside us humanoids.

A few nights ago, sitting out on the patio having a glass of wine, a good-sized coyote strolled by on the lip of the hillside (you've seen it in pictures I've posted), as if we weren't even sitting there ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Nah, just a large sized house cat. I had a 19 lb-er that could easily put his paws on my waist, and I have a 34" inseam.

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I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Carl Zwanzig wrote (in ) about 'Excitement for the Day', on Tue, 29 Mar 2005:

I heard that many US house-cats do have a bit of bobcat or lynx blood, though. I see on the web that 25 lb is a good weight for a male bobcat.

Besides, living next to a mountain lion preserve here in California I know that a lazy lion prefers joggers and bikers to mice. Even the Coyotes eat German Shepard's and house cats. Mice are pretty safe in general.

Local Mountain lions are 90 to 125 pounds and 5 to 7 feet long.

Fortunately there are plenty of bunnies to snack on. (:>)

I have a big black Burmese who obliged this morning and stretched from the floor up to a mid-hinge on a door facing, giving me something to measure... 38"

He's heavy, but I don't know how much... hanging on to him long enough to weigh just doesn't happen ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I'd say that was a real tall tale you're telling. The Guinness record for the longest or largest cat (they don't do fat cats any more) is less than that.

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Prisoners in some jails are required to give DNA sample. All they do is swab the cheek inside the mouth with a sterile swab. Cat could just lick something and it would be enough.

Our neighbour had a cat weighing in at 23 kgs. Not fat either, just very, very big. All white, so he went under the name of "Snowwhite". There were no dogs in the neighbourhood that dared to challenge him. He was also inspected by a specialist in biology to make sure he was a cat, not a half-lynx or something. He was a cat all right.

-- mrr

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Morten Reistad wrote (in ) about 'Excitement for the Day', on Sat, 2 Apr 2005:

I think you'd need DNA to be sure. But who would volunteer to collect DNA from such a magnificent beast?

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"Snowwhite".

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Guinness is not much on reporting anything except those Items presented to them. My sister raises cats that average about 35 pounds and are very large, you can place your hand with the fingers together and not touch either ear.

I notice they show a record of seven toes for a cat too. I rescued a small cat once that had four paws on each front leg. It could pick up a ball and throw it. Since I have see others I let someone adopt it and its kittens were normal.

They also say the longest living cat was 25 in 2002. My sister had a cat that lived to 28 before she finally passed away. Not at all unusual for house cats.