MisterVeritis (03-21-2023)
More like Joe Biden looking for the exit.......................
My Revenge will be Success! - Donald J Trump
There must be a Polish joke in there somewhere.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this cat's name is NOT "Houdini".
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Dr. Who (03-21-2023)
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi
We actually have a cat named Houdini. A beautiful big brown tabby with white markings. He got his name when he was about seven weeks old, and he, his mother and four siblings came to live with us. They'd been living in a big mail tub in a parking garage near my wife's work, and the maintenance man was threatening to kill them. We put mama and her kittens in a large kennel, and little Houdini, who'd never seen or been in a cage, immediately ran up the side of it and tried to squeeze himself between the bars. He became "Houdini" on the spot.
That was three years ago. Our cats are strictly indoors types, but they have a 10'x10' screened enclosure that they access through a cat door in a laundry room window, where they can lounge around, play and get fresh air. A couple of months ago the wife saw Houdini in the back yard; he'd found one corner of the enclosure where there was a small gap between the wire and the framing and had squeezed his way out. While we were looking around the yard for him, he apparently snuck back and managed to squeeze his way back in through the gap. We turned around and he was just sitting there in the middle of the enclosure with one of those "What?" looks.
One of Houdini's sisters is a smaller gray cat whom I named Mouser, after a character in a series of sword-and-sorcery stories by Fritz Leiber. True to her name, she spends hours out in the enclosure waiting to pounce on the small roof rats we have a problem with here. Mostly she eats them out in the enclosure, but once she left a larger than average cadaver on the floor behind the love seat, and the wife happened to glance back there the other night and let loose an expletive at volume. Never a dull moment.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Dr. Who (03-22-2023)
In quoting my post, you affirm and agree that you have not been goaded, provoked, emotionally manipulated or otherwise coerced into responding.
"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”
Mahatma Gandhi