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I've never understood why cat food manufacturers keep flogging fish to cats. It just makes them hurl all over the floor.
Wild cats eat birds and small reptiles. Therefore we should capture pigeons and sparrows from the streets of our cities, can them whole, feathers and all and market them fresh
and live, as environmentally responsible catfood.
Moggies are blamed for doing untold damge to native bird populations. This way they can do something good, by helping rid our cities of these opportunistic vermin.
Nobody's Moggy Now
http://sniff.numach...GGY;ttNOBMOGGY.html
"Somebody's moggy by the side of the road, Somebody's moggy who forgot his highway code . . " [baconbrain, Jul 13 2005]
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My cat Gomez has a particular fondness for those very large (by UK standards) spiders. I'm sure he'd appreciate a can of spider, but he'd miss the bashing-it-around-first part. |
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Peter, you seem to have missed the fact that these are live, flapping vermin species, just pop the top off the can and Puss gets to do a live hunt in your home. Let the sucker work for a living. |
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Not quite the same ball of feathers, but I knew a fellow used to take a pellet gun down to the park and pop pigeons to feed his hawks. Same guy made a little vest of netting with a long dangling line attached, made to fit a pigeon, and he would drive through the sagebrush flats until he saw a Harris hawk then toss the stylishly clad pigeon out the car window. Sometime the hawk would see the pigeon struggling to fly and stoop on it, get its talons tangled in the mesh, and of course both would end up some distance away with the dangling line snagged on a sagebrush. |
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Would someone please tell me what a "mog" is? I just assumed "moggsie" was slang for "cat" but is it a special breed or configuration of feline? |
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Moggy (or moggie, or just mog) is UK for a cat of unspecifiable lineage, known in US, I believe, as a mutt. |
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I have 3 cats that live indoors, only going outside when I can supervise/ chaperone/keep small neighborhood children from being mauled by the big one.
So I sometimes bring home "play food" for them. A dozen cheap goldfish in a tupperware bowl will last about an hour. 15 frogs released in the kitchen lasted more than 24 hours, and I'm not sure if the one I stepped on in the middle of the night was dead or alive before it was flat and sticky.
I have often thought about getting a couple dozen chicks (that is, baby chickens) and letting them loose in the livingroom, or in a pen in the back yard.
If you can come up with canned, but live and frisky, bring-out-the-hunter "play-food," I would certainly be an avid consumer.
Besides, by having them canned and readily available in the local store, brightly labelled and innocuously surrounded by traditional petfood wares, the slight bit of PETA-ish guilt I feel would be assuaged. |
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haven't you heard of the barf diet? it's great for cats, considering that's what they should be eating instead of corn gluten. i really think i am going to start an organic mouse farm... i figure i buy those rabbit skinned mice, might as well use a real one and have some sort of nuttritional value. mice that is. rabbits are way too large. |
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I really must show off my dogs new trick, she is a mutt by the way. I came home yesterday and don't ask me how she did it but she had opened a tin of cat food of the ring pull variety. Only managed to get her tongue half way down the tin though. |
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angel & blissmiss - correct me if I'm wrong, but cats of mixed parentage are referred to as "Domestic short hair" in the U.S.of A. At least, that's what my vet puts down as the breed. (I kind of like "moggie" better.) |
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[TeaTotal] (or can I call you [TeaT]?): That's right; DSH is the official breed (or non-breed) designation. Moggy is a slang term for same.
There's a pet shop in Falmouth called 'Doggies and Moggies'. When I was in there one time, a USian visitor asked what a moggy is. After it was explained, she said that such a beastie is known as a 'mutt' in USA, hence my reply to [blissmiss] above. |
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Well, angel, I would prefer Tea instead of TeaT. As a shortened name, I might add. My calico DSH is tearing the house apart right now. Winter boredom. |
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Did you know: calicos and tortoise-shells are almost always female. |
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I think, strictly speaking, calicos and torties have two X chromosomes. (If they have a Y too, well.) |
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Y'all have wimps for kitties. The wild bunch here drag home big rats and the occasional neighbor's hen, so I try to keep them overfed (not that it helps if there are baby squirrels in the yard). Mice, voles, and flies are very popular, though, also; but I hate it when they try the catch and release program inside the house. Lizards are strictly play toys. And where I grew up a couple of the cats would bring home rabbits or hares to share. |
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The vet used to give me speeches about how cats naturally don't eat beef, but thinking of the terrors I've lived with, I'd counter with the theory that if they hunted in packs, like lionesses, a little veal could be managed once in awhile. Running a trawler for tuna is probably out of the question, though. |
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I am a little more sophisticated than your regular moggie. A McDonald's McMouse and regular fries please, no onion. |
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I thought you could only get the McMouse in a Kitty Meal, so that would mean small fries. |
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(I can't help myself:) Would you like catsup with that? |
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soo right, cats hate cold food, so keep buying the pouches!! |
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Apparently, canned cat food is formulated so as to have the same nutritional value and moisture content as a mouse. |
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Could someone please explain to me wht a 'vole' is? I'm either assuming it's a typo or a small animal? |
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Vole: n. any of various small rodents (Microtus and related genera) that typically have a stout body, rather blunt nose, and short ears, inhabit both moist meadows and dry uplands and do much damage to crops, and are closely related to muskrats and lemmings |
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Mutt: a mixed-breed dog. I've never heard the word 'mutt' applied to a cat anywhere in America--someone may have misunderstood. A cat of uncertain ancestry without a home can be referred to as an 'alley cat', but there is no term to rate with 'moggy'. And no song to rate with "Nobody's Moggy Now". |
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Thanks [corpo] have to admit velcro, my little big man, would find them mighty tasty. I thought the term for a moggy was an actual breed of cat? I was wondering if anybodys cat goes nuts over the smell of bleach? Have tried to do a google search on it but have come up somewhat empty handed. Velcro does and I can't work out why. Any suggestions? |
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Maybe he's confusing it with the smell of cat urine, but unlikely. |
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[Teatotal]: They may be refering to the American shorthair which was a purposeful mix of a burmease and american longhair cat to make a 'super-cat' which had the burmease's beautiful coat and the american longhair's beautiful face. This 'breed' was quickly banned from cat shows though as it was considered cheating in a sense. |
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My own Velcro brought home a rabbit head one fine day. The head was enormous; having raised rabbits I can tell you the animal it came from probably weighed a good ten pounds (when it was whole). |
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Velcro had gained a few pounds that day. Remarkably, she never threw up any of that catch. |
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I've heard, infrequently, a mixed-breed cat referred to as a mutt, but more likely the owner will call a mixed-breed cat a "cat," and if it's purebred will take the opportunity to identify it. |
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We have been raising mice. Culls become short-lived play toys. |
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Our cat used to bring live rabbits into the house, to show off. Very disconcerting, at 3am. |
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Let's go back to that [cats running a tuna trawler] idea. I wouldn't put it past the beasts. If chairs and controls were sized to their paws.... |
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I was initially afraid the "real cat food" would be canned cat. |
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[quarterbaker] That's terrible! I feel sorry for the frogs - a lot of species are becoming rarer these days, y'know. I like frogs. I would like to have one as a pet, but it would be difficult because of what they eat - so my bro and me got an axolotl instead. |
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My friend had a bowl of goldfish that she won at a local fete. They died of terror, we reckon, because her 3 cats would spend hours staring at them. She tried to keep them away, but a few minutes later, the cats were back there again, just staring at the wee goldfishies... |
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Anyways, bun if it gets rid of the flying vermin! |
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