On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 04:04:52 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote:

On Tuesday, 6 August 2019 22:12:52 UTC+1, T i m wrote:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:53:35 +0100, ARW
wrote:

Any recommendations for one?

Two cats and the owner wants no aliens in the house.

Isn't that a dichotomy? ;-)

The real pity / problem is that any owners let their companion animals
out unmonitored.

Cats are almost impossible to monitor they aren;t just pets they are animals and you can't order a cat top do something it doesn't want to.

No, really, good job you told me. However, I wasn't really talking
about the pet but their 'owners'.

snip cr*p

About the only exceptions I can think of could be
pigeon racers and tortoise owners?

I've had foxes at my cat flap and one next doors dog, which was taken away from them as they couldn;t loko after it.

As it should be. Shame the same doesn't apply to the owners of cats
who allow their 'pet' to trespass (and defecate etc) on other peoples
property. Whilst such may not be illegal, it *is* as antisocial as not
picking up after your dog or allowing it off the lead without being
'in control' or to bark incessantly etc.


A local friends neighbour had a dog and the dog suffered because they
don't know how to look after pets.

So they got rid of the dog and got a cat and now their neighbours
suffer instead. ;-(

I've yet to here of a cat killing a child or severly injuring them.

But then you don't really consider things that don't support your
blinkered cause do you? Never heard of toxoplasmosis?

Makes you wonder why the police train dogs and not cats doesn't it ?

It might make you wonder but it wouldn't make a sane person wonder.

If they wanted something to jump up onto the food preparation surfaces
and walk all over their droughts I guess they could get a cat?


I wonder if cats/dogs are left or right brained.

I'm sure you do (as it's completely illogical to wonder if there was
likely to be a bias in 'all dogs') ... If they experience brain
lateralisation (and there is no reason why they wouldn't) then there
is a good chance that they would experience the same things / issues
as humans do.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...66432810000100
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...76635702001614
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...03347211002284
https://link.springer.com/article/10...071-008-0199-3
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...03347211002284
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/....1002/wcs.100#

Dogs appear more stupid and are more inteligent generly speaking of course.

Both dogs and cats lick themselves clean but I don't think that would
be appropriate for test tubes. They can probably train Monkeys to do
that though.

Cheers, T i m