Cats And Mice [NOT 11/1/24]

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The Spoiled Child, "Milk Is Played Out; Give Some Mouse"/ 1884 / source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2018694840/.

The Eternal Battle

A little while ago our cat started staring at the gap under a radiator, and before long snagged a mouse. He then started playing with it, letting the little thing go for a second before grabbing it again, over and over. I finally managed to catch the mouse, still alive, under a cup and let it go outside. Partly because I didn’t want the mouse to be terrified any longer, but also because the cat has a way of losing interest and letting mice escape.

So let’s talk cats and mice! Are you or have you ever been a cat owner? Or for that matter have you had pet mice? We have two cats, both of them grouches and stuck up, but still capable of turning on the charm. As pets they’re awfully easy, considering just how much they sleep.

Or maybe you’re not a fan of either. Maybe allergies make you avoid cats, or you may be (justifiably) grossed out by mice.

Cartoon Cats and Mice

There’s a good chance we have a favorite battle between cats and mice in cartoons. I was never a fan of Tom and Jerry. Even as a kid I always felt Tom was always too much of a dope, and Jerry was too smug.

But I loved Sylvester, especially when he got tangled up with a baby kangaroo who switched places with a mouse.

And of course there’s Itchy and Scratchy who usually hate each other and throw acid and hatchets back and forth, but not always…

Other Cats and Mice?

Or feel free to talk about other fictional cats and mice. In the kids book The Cricket in Times Square, a cat named Harry and a mouse named Tucker helped a lost cricket return to rural Connecticut. Lennie in Of Mice and Men famously had a bad tendency to be too rough on his pet mice. And of course Robert Burns inspired Steinbeck with his poem To A Mouse, which is referenced by the superintelligent mice in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy when their “best laid plan” to find the Question don’t work.

There are also all kinds of species of wild cats and mice, and if you have any favorites, talk about them. I’ve never seen either one. I’d like to see a truly wild mouse far from my house, but I’d especially like to see a wild cat – bobcat, lynx, tiger or mountain lion, although I think the last two would scare me to death.

Anything even remotely related is up for grabs. We all know that being a cat lady is normal – what’s weird is fixating on the animals people like.

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23 Comments

  1. cats are cruel and vicious sadistic wee bastards….

    and normally…you know i would maybe consider those things bad traits

    but you know what they dont do?

    uhhh…well mostly

    chew the fuck out of all my bread and wires and insulation……unlike fucking meeses

    i will take an asshole cat over finding surprise meeses

     

    (ill take surprise meeses over surprise cockroaches tho…..like…theres levels of hell)

  2. also in case anyone was wondering why im suddenly in all the duans and nots…..no i have not suddenly stopped sleeping

    least no worse than usual

    our daylight savings starts at least a week before yours

    coz why the fuck would you give bullshit the same rules for everyone right?

      • lol nah not even close

        its 25:10

         

        (but seriously its 01:10 here)

        how in the fuck do so many americans not understand the 24 hour clock tho?

        i knows you call it military time..but come on….think about it

        its actually fucking wierd yous struggle with this (not you personally mate)1

        at 16:00 we attack the enemy toast

        if you arent understanding… the fuck are you paying for?

        • I think everyone who ever watches military movies and TV like MASH know it. Also on a lot of watches and phones it’s easy to bump a button and switch and then not be able to figure out how to set it back, so it stays and you just deal with it.

        • i mean….its even simpler than the 12 hour clock

          which is a confusing thing you know… coz i can never remember if am means after midday..or pm means past midday

           

           

            • after mortem and pre mortem

              huh

              you know that only made sense in my head till i thought about it

              ….

              any drinker will tell you…..after death and pre death are a repeating cycle

              somewhat of a loop….like

          • its wierd mate…..ive known people that struggle with clocks

            but never one that couldnt figure out the 24hour clock

            our national rail service is a troll tho….post all times in military….only have analog clocks

             

            is a test!

  3. I like the cartoon mice underdog status because I can relate.

    However, I don’t like real mice because I have to call an exterminator to get rid of them in my parents house but I am also allergic to long hair cats.

    Mixed messages here.

  4. Not a Dodger fan, but that meathead Yankee fan trying to steal the ball and glove after the catch in foul territory is

    1 A dick move. Any fanbase should be ashamed to have assholes like that in their fanbase.

    2 Shows the kind of entitlement that some people have.

    3 I hope fuck face ends up remembered as the Steve Bartman of the Yankee fan base. I think that it was glorious karma that caused the Yankee defense and bullpen to shit the bed the next Game. I hope he becomes the new curse.

  5. I don’t care about seeing mice outside. I see them around my raised garden beds sometimes. They’re field mice, not house mice. I looked it up a while back to learn the difference.

    There’s a bunch of stray cats as well as owls and hawks, so you know, they got predators still.

  7. huh……i just woke up..on my keyboard with this playing

    i also has a surprise pizza

    nice!

    but seriously

    the fuck was i up to last night to do this to my playlist?

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