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On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 18:40:31 +0100, Bod
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On 17/04/2017 18:15, Rod Speed wrote:
Mike Tomlinson wrote
tim... wrote
to come back when called, not so
All the kittens with the exception of one now come when
called.
They don't even recognise their own name.
It's a real rocket scientist cat that can do that.
They actually come when you make noises that indicate food
is
being
served.
I have 5 cats. If I yell one of their names, that one and
that
one
only
will run out of the cat flap. Mind you, maybe it realises
it's
the
one
that was misbehaving.
Yep, nothing to do with its name, everything to do with
your tone of voice and what it knows its been up to.
You can prove that trivially any time by
shouting YOU ****ER instead of its name.
Dogs are just as stupid, they don't come to their owner if they
don't
feel
like it.
Depends on the dogs. You'll never get cats to respond
to the commands of their owners like the best of the
herding dogs do. They don't ever ignore their owners.
My cats are about as obedient as the average dog.
Maybe, but not as obedient as the best of the working dogs.
In spades at long distances like the NZers do with their huntaways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntaway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDOx_O5zb2Q
That has a clear example of just one dog recognising its name.
And they don't make a noise
Corse they do when ****ing each other.
Every cat noise is a tenth of the volume of dog noises.
And they don't bark at passes by either.
And the ones that people have savaged by cutting off their
reproductive
organs don't ****.
They still make a noise when they come across another
cat they hate, or another animal they are warning off.
You can see plenty of that in the youtube someone
posted with them doing it with bears and foxes.
Yes my cats hiss at other cats, but they don't bark bark bark all
****ing
day like my neighbour's dogs.
Yeah, that's a massive downside with dogs, particularly
the ones that just bark because they are bored out of
their minds with the owner at work etc.
Mine never did that but would bark at any
visitors even if the one visitor showed up say
10 times in the one day for some reason as
they keep borrowing stuff to do some diy etc.
You seem to lend a lot of tools.
Yeah, I do. Mainly because since I build my house from scratch
on a bare block of land, I have a lot more tools than anyone
else does and don't mind lending them as long as its likely they
wont get buggered or will be replaced if they do get buggered.
Even now, because of the garage sales where the stuff is so cheap
that I always get something like a ladder or vice or still or beer
capper that is better than what I currently have, I have lots more
of almost everything than almost everyone I know.
I have something like 15 beer brewing barrel and so am the
obvious one to borrow one from if you need to borrow one.
You must be popular with your neighbours.
Yeah, I know them all and lend most of them quite a bit of stuff.
Respond first when their alarm goes off too, although another
of the neighbours is usually there pretty soon after I am.
I have a tradesman 3 doors along I can borrow stuff from.
I have a lot more stuff than any of my neighbours do. The other
one who built his house from scratch on a bare block of land has
moved to the countrys capital where one of his kids lives now.
They used to be off there often to look after the grandkids and
decided that they might as well move there permanently.
One of my other neighbours, the one who chose their bare
block of land next to mine because we were all living in the
block of flats when we decided to have our own houses,
claims that they moved out because they got sick of the
drunk that was living next door. The drunk has since died
just after they moved to Canberra.
And a ****ing loud bark too. One time I was over at
the shops around the corner which must be atleast
500m or more away and it was perfectly obviously
that a visitor had showed up at my place.
Remote burglar alarm.
Yeah, didn't work with work tho, much too far away to hear.
And no one was ever game to try stealing anything
with that ****ing great alsatian inside the house
going bananas at anyone stupid enough to try it.
Why are people scared of dogs?
Why are people scared of mice, spiders, snakes etc ?
It's the way we evolved presumably.
Same reason most cats are scared of cucumbers etc.
Pretty easy to kill/stun/scare off a dog using a heavy implement.
You wont do that with the big dogs.
Or burrrrglarrr alarrrrrum as they say in Glasgow.
And he had the cheek to report me for noisy parrots.
Yeah, they can be quite noisy. I have a long run of very
big gum trees etc down the 100' long side of the house
and we get big swarms of galahs, 50-100 birds in the
flock, show up and all camp overnight in my trees,
jabbering away to each other about the state of my jungle.
I blocked off my bedroom window with sound insulation so I can't hear
the
neighbours when I'm in bed.
I only have massive great 8'x8' patio doors instead of
windows in the bedrooms and the heavy armoured
glass is surprisingly effective against most noise.
Armoured glass?
Toughened glass so even if you try walking thru it by accident,
it doesn't break. Heat treated, not laminated like car windscreens.
Even a sledge hammer wont break it, but a sharp stone can do.
Doesn't stop it being obvious when there are 50-100 galahs
in my trees jabbering away to each other all night tho.
Not that's any problem for sleeping, I can sleep thru almost
anything.
Unfortunately I cannot.
Before I built the house, I lived in a block of flats
and one thing that did wake me was some stupid bikeys quite
literally throwing full bottles of beer at the brick wall in the flat
below, but its got to be something like that to wake me up.
I used to have a German neighbour with several kilowatts of music which he
played until 4am at parties.
I can sleep thru that fine.
I waited till he went to sleep then put equally powerful speakers against
the dividing wall. He moved out after only 1 year.
Can be interesting when you walk out of the
house and the entire crew all take off at once.
And **** all over my car.
I was thinking your head.
Nar, that's never happened.
I once had a seagull **** in some chips I'd just bought.
I did just the once have bird **** on me as it
flew past as a kid, but never any other time.
Lots of birds around currently, we had the wettest
5 months on record thru the winter here.
Been very dry up here. England is considering hosepipe bans. I ignore
those, they're pointless, 96% of water usage is industrial.
I mostly just notice the sillier calls some of them
have and make snide remarks about bird brains.
What is a "silly" bird call?
I'll record one. Remarkably silly.
His complaint failed, as by law the council had to tell me they were
going to make a recording, so I put them indoors :-)
That's when he poisoned the cats and they ended up so weird }-(
I didn't have them at that point. Another neighbour has reported me to
the SSPCA for having "15 underfed cats breeding out of control". They
came round and found 5 cats well looked after. I told them to fine them
for wasting the charity's time, but apparently it happens all the time
and
they don't care?
I've only ever had the one complaint to the council, when the
silly woman who I know so well that they chose to buy the bare
block of land next to me after we were all living in that block
of flats discovered a snake. Not even a poisonous one.
They complained about you because of a snake?!
Yep, I don't bother to mow my lawns and it's a bit of a jungle.
Did they think it was your pet?
Nope.
Did they not realise they are living wild in Australia?
It was just her, he's not that stupid.