tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28772560414454661302024-02-08T10:46:51.933+08:00Blossom BootsTHE LOVE OF CAT'SAmaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-56401739721897890872013-02-04T18:37:00.000+08:002013-02-04T18:37:48.454+08:00SIGLINDA SCARPA an ARTIST and ANIMAL RIGHT ACTIVIST<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: large;">Heard about a woman who loves cats and fight for animal rights? She is </span><a href="http://siglindascarpa.com/about.html" style="color: magenta; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">SIGLINDA SCARPA</a><span style="font-size: large;">, an Italian artist based in North Carolina. She loves to make vessels and pots. But what makes her more admirable is the love she has for animals; especially </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">CATS</span></b><span style="font-size: large;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><b><a href="http://www.goathouserefuge.org/mission/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #274e13;">The Refuge would be a place where even cats that were unadoptable could live in comfort, with the care, attention and love they deserve. No cat would be refused due to age, illness or disposition. The ultimate goal for each cat would be adoption into a loving home. But the Refuge would be designed so that they could spend ample periods of time living comfortably, awaiting adoption. In fact, it would be designed so that a cat could spend years, or its entire lifetime, at the Refuge. This meant that the cats would be cage-free.~SIGLINDA SCARPA </span></a></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">I know some people hate cats; fear is probably made them hate cat's. But one thing I know about folks that loudly profess their hatred to cat's, the bigger the outcry, the harder they fall(you know what I mean here).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">It's been a while since I've been to YOGA CLASS. However I can still recall my last experience. For me Yoga is the best exercise for weight loss. But do you know that YOGA is not only for people? <a href="http://www.wired.com/magazine/" target="_blank"><b>Wired Magazine</b></a> both me to this video from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu1rGcLqu1E" target="_blank"><b>YOU TUBE</b></a> and I saw this cute cool cat.</span><br />
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Amaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-19809773026730925612012-11-24T17:15:00.000+08:002012-11-24T17:15:02.499+08:00DUSTY: THE KLEPTO CAT<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Saw this post at my friends' wall. Because I am a cat lover I would like to share it here on my blog. I found this cat so adorable and cute, though this cat was called a cat burglar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Pretty Boy, the Mayor of East Seventh Street, a dignified white cat who had a confident swagger — and a distaste for rainy weather. Thus the long-delayed memorial service to sprinkle his cremated remains along the path he once strutted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://thevillager.com/villager_318/prettyboythemayor.html" title="Villager story on the passing of Pretty Boy, published in June 3 - 9 issue">Pretty Boy</a>, believed to have been about 22 years old, was a local fixture for over a decade, making his rounds on the south side of the block between First Avenue and Avenue A, as shops opened and closed and renters moved in and out. His death last month, of natural causes, unleashed a storm of emotion.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A business owner broke into tears at his mention. One young resident wept through a rehearsal for her <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/e/education_preschool/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about pre-school.">kindergarten</a> graduation. And Herbie, a disheveled supermodel of a cat who used to live with Pretty Boy at Mikey’s Pet Shop, has retreated behind bags of cat litter to grieve privately.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“Every day I cry,” said Betty Knapp, who used to work at Mikey’s Pet Shop. Pretty Boy used to rest on her chest when her blood pressure rose, she said, and it helped to calm her down. Now, she bursts into sobs when she talks about him. “He knew he was the man. He was the man on East Seventh Street. Everybody just loved him.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">While accounts differ on exactly when Pretty Boy appeared on the block, Mikey Diaz, owner of the pet store, said he had strutted in and leapt onto the counter shortly after the store opened in this spot in 1998. Pretty Boy started sleeping in the shop at night and was later joined by Herbie. During the day, Pretty Boy ventured a few doors down to a hair salon called Chatsii, where he perched on the reception counter and leapt onto the laps of customers. Some days, Mr. Diaz said, he swaggered through a Swiss restaurant on the block.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But the turnover of shops on the block meant changes for Pretty Boy. Monique Simard, the previous owner of Chatsii, said that after she retired in 2004 Pretty Boy was no longer welcome in the space: The new owners were allergic to cats. And the Swiss restaurant closed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">So in 2004, Pretty Boy showed up at <a href="http://salon7nyc.com/" title="Salon Seven Web site">Salon Seven</a>, a little farther down the block, and began a friendship with the owner, Mark Dolengowski.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">It made for a good life: After waking to breakfast and a face-washing from Mr. Diaz at the pet shop, Pretty Boy headed over to spend the day with Mr. Dolengowski, sniffing hubcaps on the way over and meowing for water upon his arrival.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">He spent his day purring, sprawled on the appointment calendar at the reception desk and in the laps of clients having their hair washed. The cat’s love of hair salons made Mr. Dolengowski suspect that he was a reincarnated hairdresser.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When he returned to the pet shop at day’s end, Pretty Boy was less subdued, chasing Herbie around the store, Mr. Diaz recalled, and breaking into the catnip. When rats appeared, however, Pretty Boy typically stayed on the counter and let Herbie handle them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">At the tail end of his life, Pretty Boy was balancing a fairly demanding schedule. He spent Saturdays traveling back and forth, greeting clients at the hair salon and purring for fans and families who stopped by to visit him after services at a synagogue in the neighborhood. Sundays brought children from a Ukrainian church.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Daliyah Abdel-Rehim, who lives on the block, is struggling to accept that Pretty Boy, whom she calls her “best friend,” won’t attend her upcoming sixth birthday party. Her mother, Iryna Malytska, said that Daliyah cried through her kindergarten graduation rehearsal on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">“You get so hard living here,” he said in a gravelly, mournful voice. “But pets open up that heart center. There is something about the unconditional love; they clean the blues off of you.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://vetmedicine.about.com/cs/nutritiondogs/a/chocolatetoxici.htm" target="_blank">CHOCOLATE</a>. </span></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">While recent study show us that chocolates are beneficial to human health, but toxic and even fatal for animals. Why? Because chocolate is made from the fruit beans of CACAO TREE. Theobromine, a component of chocolate, that is very toxic compound in chocolate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Now I lay me down to sleep,</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> I pray this cushy life to keep.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> I pray for toys that look like mice,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> And some cushions, soft and nice.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> For grocery bags where I can hide,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> Just like a tiger, crouched inside!</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> I pray for gourmet kitty snacks,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> And someone nice to scratch my back.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> For window sills all warm and bright,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> And shadows to explore at night.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> I pray I'll always stay real cool,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> And keep the secret feline rule.</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> To NEVER tell the humans that,</span><br style="text-align: -webkit-center;" /><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> This world is really ruled by cats!</span></span></span>
</div>Amaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-27881411300864313462012-07-16T23:36:00.000+08:002012-07-16T23:36:06.407+08:00Alaska Town Elects Cat as Mayor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you think the current presidential election has gotten catty, know that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have nothing on Talkeetna, Alaska -- where a feline has been serving as mayor for the last 15 years. Stubbs the cat has been presiding over the sleepy Alaskan town since he was just a kitten.<br /><br />The Stubbs' political ascent<a href="http://www.webvet.com/main/2012/07/15/stubbs-cat-long-standing-mayor-alaskan-town" rel="nofollow" style="color: #990033; text-decoration: none;" target="" title=""></a> was the result of a dispirited mayoral campaign, when a majority of Talkeetna's 900 residents -- unhappy with the available prospects -- encouraged their neighbors to elect Stubbs as a write-in candidate.<br /></div>
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<i><b><a href="http://www.webvet.com/main/2011/11/14/cat-center-political-scandal-not-catching-mice" rel="nofollow" style="color: #990033; text-decoration: none;">Related: Cat At Center Of Political Scandal For Not Catching Mice</a></b></i></div>
<br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The </span><a href="http://www.webvet.com/main/breed/cat/manx" rel="nofollow" style="color: #990033; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-decoration: none;">part-Manx kitty</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">, who was only a few months old at the time, emerged victorious and has held the job ever since. Even though Stubbs' position is honorary, he's served a real function in the town: catapulting it into a tourist destination as word of his election steadily spread through the country. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><i style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b><a href="http://www.webvet.com/main/breed/cat/byletter/A" rel="nofollow" style="color: #990033; text-decoration: none;">Related: Find a Cat Breed!</a></b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Curious what a day in the life of a feline official is like? According to residents, Stubbs spends most of his time at Nagley's Store -- which now doubles as his town hall -- presiding over patrons and constituents from the countertop. Nagley's employee Lauri Stec told KTUU-TV that dozens of tourists stop in each day requesting a meeting with Mayor Stubbs -- and maybe even some cuddle time. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">With Romney on the prowl for a Vice Presidential candidate, who knows? Maybe Sarah Palin will lose her place as the most famous politician to come out of Alaska. </span><br style="font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">PLAYTIME......hey! Let's play...</span></div>Amaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-27475312331700698322012-06-29T21:31:00.001+08:002012-06-29T21:31:40.536+08:00A Cat's Prayer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>A CAT'S PRAYER</strong></span></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Although I am too proud to beg,</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">and may appear to be a very independent creature,</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I ask for your loving care and attention.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I rely on you for my well being much more than you may realize.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">This I promise you, my benefactor, that I will not be a burden on you</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">nor will I demand more of you than you care to give.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I will be a quiet peaceful island of serenity for you to gaze upon;</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">a soft soothing body to caress,</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">and I shall purr with pleasure to rest your weary ears.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Since I am a gourmet who appreciates different taste sensations,</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I pray you will give me a variety of nutritious foods and fresh water daily.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">You know dear friend, how I love to go.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Allow me, I pray, a warm sheltered place</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">where I can rest peacefully and feel secure.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">If I am wounded in battle or suffering from disease,</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">please tend me gently, and see that I am treated</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">by loving and competent hands.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Please protect me from the inhuman humans</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">who would hurt and torture me for their own amusement.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">I am accustomed to your gentle touch and am not always suspicious</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">nor swift enough to avoid such malicious acts.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">In my later years when my senses fail me</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">and my infirmities become too great to bear,</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">allow me the comfort and dignity that I desire for my closing days</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">and help me gently in my pain or passing.</span></big></b></div>
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<b><big><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Hear this prayer, my dear friend, my fate depends on you.</span></big></b></div>
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</div>Amaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-86104717802827021332012-06-27T18:04:00.001+08:002012-06-27T18:04:16.084+08:00THINKING CAT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A cat from Russia’s Siberian Krasnoyarsk region has travelled more than 70 km looking for his masters, who’d moved to another town.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The animal did not take up the long journey in vain and he was finally reunited with his lost ‘family’.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>They all used to live in the town of Divnogorsk, not far from Krasnoyarsk, but the family had to leave it to another town of Sosnovoborsk. In the rush nobody noticed the cat had gone missing.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: “, ”;">“We were searching for him for quite a long time but we never found him,”</em> says Sergey Minskikh.<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: “, ”;"> “The children were very unhappy. They loved the pet. He has been living with them for five years.”</em></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>To the family’s surprise and joy the cat appeared on the doorstep of their new apartment three months later, when everyone had lost any hope of seeing it again.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The poor animal was very skinny and looked worn out, but was apparently no less happy than his masters.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It has now become the talk of the town, receiving regular visits from the neighbors and friends of the Minskikh family. He enjoys the attention – without leaving the apartment, though.</b></span></div>
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</div>Amaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-1552322970424094932012-06-24T21:32:00.000+08:002012-06-24T21:32:45.102+08:00Cat denied access to phone after committing hooligan acts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The truth about how the cat, named Clasha, was amusing itself, came out only after an angry call from the city’s telephone service, Ria Novosti news agency says.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The operators told the stunned cat’s owner that somebody living in their apartment <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; quotes: “, ”;">“had been dialing the number of the local emergency gas leak service and staying silent”</em>, and added they were not going to tolerate “those telephone games” any more.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>As the woman had no reason to doubt the service workers’ words, she asked herself a question – who was inside the apartment at the moment of “crime”.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>And it appeared that only the cat had been.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The suspicion that Clasha could press telephone buttons with a paw soon confirmed, as the woman actually caught the animal in the very act of the crime.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Following the incident, the apartment dwellers decided to put the telephone beyond the reach of Clasha’s paws.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The cat though, switched over to another type of hooliganism, gnashing the unapproachable telephone cables instead.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The dwellers withdrew both the telephone and the cables.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>It’s obvious that the cat has the next move.</b></span></div>
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</div>Amaya Chikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05873811625939573377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877256041445466130.post-82605272797387727092012-06-24T00:09:00.001+08:002012-06-24T00:09:58.343+08:00Don't Worry I am Here Always<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I was a little girl I have so many cat's in our house, 24 cats as far as I can remember. I have to put them in a basket every time I go to school. And as soon I got home I run at the back of our house to see if they are still inside the basket and I count them again one by one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But before I got 24 cats, I only have one kitty cat named GLORIA. She is a gray cat and I love her so much. When Gloria had her 4 kittens it was that time that people kill cat's and eat them. Every time I saw stray cat's I adopt them because I am afraid people will kill them and eat them too. That is why I have so many cat's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, I am the owner of the 24 cat's and people are asking for permission to have my cats, they said they're going to pay me money. And I said NO. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, this a most complex legal issue, one that I am not qualified to discuss. I can only contribute an anecdote. In our place here in the Philippines, I passed through a market and I asked to look around. Dwarfish women in colorful folk dress were hawking exotic vegetables and baskets with small dogs, cats and other animals. Some people became excited and spent time choosing a cute fattened doggie. We stopped at a roadside hut where the dog was butchered and prepared and served with a big bowl of white rice. After politely refusing to join them, in a separate room, I was served rice with chicken. And I wonder why they eat dogs. Then later cat's.</span></span></blockquote>
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Virtually any discussion among pet owners is bound to reveal that there clearly are dog people and there are cat people. In some cases the depth of feeling for their chosen species can be quite intense. However, according to an Associated Press-Petside.com poll, there are a lot more dog people out there, since 74 percent of their test sample like dogs a lot, and only 41 percent like cats a lot.<br />
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The flip side of the coin is that some people seem to be quite exclusive in their preferences, liking either dogs or cats and loathing the other species. Apparently cats appear to be much easier to hate. Fifteen percent of the adults questioned said they disliked cats a lot while the number who said they disliked dogs a lot was only two percent.<br />
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There are sound reasons to suspect that the preference for dogs or cats<img alt="dog and cat owners" height="206" src="http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/u162/20789520.gif" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" width="215" /> reflects some underlying human <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/personality" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Personality"><span style="color: blue;">personality</span></a> differences. Certainly the relationship between cats and humans has always been quite different than the relationship between dogs and people. This reflects the behaviors that both species have kept from their heritage prior to domestication. In the wild, cats are usually solitary hunters and often are active mostly at night. In contrast, wild canines are usually sociable pack animals that work in groups and are active between dawn and dusk. Our domestic dogs retain this need for social interaction to the degree that without a master and a family, a dog seems unhappy--almost lost. Dogs will intrude on a person's ongoing activity if they are feeling lonely and want some company or play. Cats, on the other hand, are often invisible during the day, seeming only to appear in the evening, especially if that is when they are fed. Cats will occasionally engage in social activities or play with people, but their interest is limited. Usually, after only a few minutes, the cats will abandon the game and wander away. Dogs on the other hand, will often engage in play, like fetching a thrown ball, for hours at a time, and it is usually the human that quits the game first.
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Recently, Sam Gosling, a psychologist at the University of Texas in Austin and his graduate student Carson Sandy conducted a web-based study in which 4,565 individuals were asked whether they were dog people, cat people, neither or both. The same group was given a 44-item assessment that measured them on the so-called Big Five personality dimensions psychologists often use to study personalities.<br />
Gosling summarized his results saying, "There is a widely held cultural belief that the pet species -- dog or cat -- with which a person has the strongest affinity says something about the individual's personality, and this research suggests there are significant differences on major personality traits between dog people and cat people."<br />
Just on the basis of the nature of dogs being more sociable than cats, one might expect that the personalities of dog lovers would also reflect higher sociability. The results showed that dog people were generally about 15 percent more <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/extroversion" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Extroversion"><span style="color: blue;">extroverted</span></a> and 13 percent more agreeable, both of which dimensions are associated with social orientation. In addition to dog people were 11 percent more <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/conscientiousness" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Conscientiousness"><span style="color: blue;">conscientious</span></a> than cat people. Conscientiousness involves is a tendency to show <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/self-control" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Self-Control"><span style="color: blue;">self-discipline</span></a>, to complete tasks and aim for achievement. The trait shows a preference for planned rather than spontaneous behavior.<br />
In comparison cat people were generally about 12 percent more neurotic, however they were also 11 percent more open than dog people. The openness trait involves a general appreciation for art, emotion, adventure, unusual ideas, imagination, curiosity, and variety of experience. People high on openness are more likely to hold unconventional beliefs while people with low scores on openness (dog people) tend to have more conventional, traditional interests.<br />
Gosling's recent study seems to confirm the findings of some research that I did for my book "Why We Love The Dogs We Do." I used a different personality measure, namely the Interpersonal Adjective Scale, because I was mainly interested in items reflecting social interactions and social tendencies. It gives scores on four scales, extroversion, dominance, trust and warmth (which is close to agreeing on Gosling's measure).<br />
My study involved 6,149 people, aged 16 to 94. I attempted to get as many dog owners as I could, so this group included 3,362 dog owners, but also, 1,223 people who only owned cats and 1,564 people that owned neither a cat nor a dog.<br />
My results showed that people who owned only cats seemed to be somewhat different than dog owners or people who owned both dogs and cats in terms of their personalities. People who own both dogs and cats seem to be much like people who own only dogs. You should keep this in mind, since from here on, at least for the purposes of this discussion, when I mention a cat owner I mean someone who lives only with a cat, while when I mention dog owners I will mean a person who owns a dog or both a dog and a cat.<br />
According to my data, cat owners were one third more likely to live alone than dog owners and twice as likely to live in an apartment or flat. Being married, living in a house, and having children living in the home, are all factors that are most likely for dog owners than cat owners. A single woman was the most likely individual to have a cat. Of the people who grew up in a house with cats as<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/animal-behavior" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Animal Behavior"><span style="color: purple;">pets</span></a>, 47 percent were likely to have cats today, while only 11 percent of people whose <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/child-development" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Child Development"><span style="color: blue;">childhood</span></a> years were spent in a house with a dog have only a cat as a pet.<br />
<br /> Turning to the personality profile of the person who owns only cats, we find a reasonable overlap with the Gosling's recent findings. To begin with we find we find that people who own only cats tend to be relatively introverted<a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/introversion" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Introversion"></a> (low on extroversion) and also reasonably cool (low in warmth or agreeableness) which is the pattern confirmed by the more recent data.<br />
Looking at the other two measures we find that cat owners are relatively low in dominance. People who are high in dominance are generally described as being forceful,<span style="color: blue;"> </span><a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/assertiveness" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Assertiveness"><span style="color: purple;">assertive</span></a>, persistent, self-assured and self-confident. They are the people who stand out in social gatherings as opposed to people who are low in dominance that come across as being more timid, bashful, <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/shyness" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Shyness"><span style="color: blue;">shy</span></a> and unaggressive. The final dimension that I looked at was thrust, and cat owners appear to be fairly trusting. People high on this dimension are often described as obliging, modest, straightforward and "good <a class="pt-basics-link" href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/sport-and-competition" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; text-decoration: none;" title="Psychology Today looks at Sport and Competition"><span style="color: blue;">sports</span></a>." People low on this dimension can be more suspicious and manipulative.<br />
The general pattern that comes out of both studies is that dog owners are more social, interactive and accepting and cat owners (who own cats exclusively) are more introverted, self-contained and less sociable.<br />
<br /> Perhaps one of the most telling differences between dog and cat owners is illustrated by a single comparison. I asked people who own only cats "If you had adequate living space and there were no objections from other people in your life, and someone gave you a puppy as a gift, would you keep it?" The answer to this was compared to what I got when I asked people who own only dogs the same question about a kitten. More than two thirds of the cat owners (68 percent) said that they would not accept a dog as a pet, while almost the same number of dog owners (70 percent) said that they would admit the cat into their household. This suggests that most people who own only a dog or potentially dog and cat owners, while most people who own only a cat are exclusively cat owners.<br />
Stanley Coren is the author of many books including: <a class="ext" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Stanley+Coren+Dogs&x=5&y=26" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Modern Dog, Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses? The Pawprints of History, How Dogs Think, How To Speak Dog, Why We Love the Dogs We Do, What Do Dogs Know? The Intelligence of Dogs, Why Does My Dog Act That Way? Understanding Dogs for Dummies, Sleep Thieves, The Left-hander Syndrome</span></a><span class="ext"></span><br />
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