Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
This is why I can’t decorate for Xmas. Boots has already made me have the satellite rewired (he chewed right through it) and I’m not letting him near a tree, lights, ornaments, or any of the decorations my mother passed down to me. I want to keep them. I also want to keep the cat alive and healthy. Sometimes, I’m not sure why. I look at other wires, many with patches of electrician’s tape and can’t believe he hasn’t been electrocuted. He’s now a healthy thirteen year-old.
One of my iron cords has about 6 repaired bite marks from a former kitty (Shaq was not electrocuted but rather coyote-chomped:-(
When Chairman Meow was a kitten he accounted for about $200 worth of Apple cables and connectors. He thought they were yummy.
This is why modern ship electricians react with horror to the idea of a ships cat. Even if they’d love one for the company or the rodent comtrol.
My poor sister-in-law had to induce vomiting to remove ornament fragments from the GI tract of her c*nid. Their tree has no ornaments below one meter. Today I watched the same c*nid gnaw his way through a bone, ingesting most of what broke off. It didn’t help that he did this while seated on the very couch I was on….
I have for many years now kept my precious old glass ornaments safely in a box. Were one to break, the thin glass could easily hurt my cats’ paws and mouths. No more big trees, alas, and anyway there is no room for one in my small apartment. A few decorations out of my cat’s reach is all I do now.
This is why I can’t decorate for Xmas. Boots has already made me have the satellite rewired (he chewed right through it) and I’m not letting him near a tree, lights, ornaments, or any of the decorations my mother passed down to me. I want to keep them. I also want to keep the cat alive and healthy. Sometimes, I’m not sure why. I look at other wires, many with patches of electrician’s tape and can’t believe he hasn’t been electrocuted. He’s now a healthy thirteen year-old.
One of my iron cords has about 6 repaired bite marks from a former kitty (Shaq was not electrocuted but rather coyote-chomped:-(
When Chairman Meow was a kitten he accounted for about $200 worth of Apple cables and connectors. He thought they were yummy.
This is why modern ship electricians react with horror to the idea of a ships cat. Even if they’d love one for the company or the rodent comtrol.
My poor sister-in-law had to induce vomiting to remove ornament fragments from the GI tract of her c*nid. Their tree has no ornaments below one meter. Today I watched the same c*nid gnaw his way through a bone, ingesting most of what broke off. It didn’t help that he did this while seated on the very couch I was on….
I have for many years now kept my precious old glass ornaments safely in a box. Were one to break, the thin glass could easily hurt my cats’ paws and mouths. No more big trees, alas, and anyway there is no room for one in my small apartment. A few decorations out of my cat’s reach is all I do now.