Kitty Stoke

[The AD]

Do Lynx have the right of way? I'm not sure if this is specifically delineated in the skier's responsibility code.

I was riding a lift at Whistler first thing in the morning a few years ago and a lynx darted across the lift line. He was there and gone quickly, though, not at all like this guy!

[nutmegchoi]

He wanted the first chair and you took it!

Not a cat, but I ran into an alpaca on a trail.



And a porcupine.

[wyeaster]

This is so cool, the cat is so unflapped:



What's really good is all the hysteria the Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy have pumped into the supposed negative impact of ski areas on Lynx habitat.

pretty amazing to bring all those people to a stop.

[wyeaster]

Do Lynx have the right of way? I'm not sure if this is specifically delineated in the skier's responsibility code.

I was riding a lift at Whistler first thing in the morning a few years ago and a lynx darted across the lift line. He was there and gone quickly, though, not at all like this guy!

looks like everybody thought he had the right of way

[wyeaster]

he looks toasty

[nutmegchoi]

he looks toasty

Rastafari Alpaca.

[KQ]

[mall walker]

Welp I just found this thread

[4matic]

That's a happy cat.

[nutmegchoi]

I saw a black cat at work parking lot.
This is my lucky day!

Black cat rocks!!

[refried]

Lucy wasn't feeling too good a couple weeks ago and the cold weather wasn't helping her old bones, A trip to Dr. Jerry has her feeling 100% better.


This is Chewie, She's not a cat, But she sleeps on the deck with them during the day. She snores just like all three cats

[KQ]

I saw a black cat at work parking lot.
This is my lucky day!

Black cat rocks!!

[nutmegchoi]

This is Chewie, She's not a cat, But she sleeps on the deck with them during the day. She snores just like all three cats

Chewie is close enough!

[refried]

Chewie is close enough!

Her mother died when she was young and she spent a lot of time living in the tree next to the house. She's about 8 now and still in good shape for her age.

[4matic]

My cats respect the raccoons. What's that old school stereo speaker? Looks fancy.

[refried]

My cats respect the raccoons. What's that old school stereo speaker? Looks fancy.

That's a Dahlquist DQ-20


She'd always bring her babies around and they learn not to bother the cats when they're young, when they get older they don't seem to notice each other

[4matic]

Nice. I got rid of my DQ-9's. Too much space.

You're a good man take care of those animals.

[mall walker]

[KQ]

When science finds out what we know already



Study: our cats understand us but they don’t really care

A recent study has confirmed what cat owners have long known: Cats understand when spoken to but they choose to ignore most of what people say.
We were intrigued enough by the headline to look up the the scientific paper to see if it supported the assertion.

And.. It does. Sort of.

Essentially cat boffins played some tapes to a few moggies of their owners voice calling their name and other voices, the cats would react slightly to voices they recognised but not come. Big surprise there.

Vocal recognition of owners by domestic cats (Felis catus)

Atsuko Saito , Kazutaka Shinozuka
Domestic cats have had a 10,000-year history of cohabitation with humans and seem to have the ability to communicate with humans. However, this has not been widely examined. We studied 20 domestic cats to investigate whether they could recognize their owners by using voices that called out the subjects’ names, with a habituation–dishabituation method. While the owner was out of the cat’s sight, we played three different strangers’ voices serially, followed by the owner’s voice. We recorded the cat’s reactions to the voices and categorized them into six behavioral categories. In addition, ten naive raters rated the cats’ response magnitudes. The cats responded to human voices not by communicative behavior (vocalization and tail movement), but by orienting behavior (ear movement and head movement). This tendency did not change even when they were called by their owners. Of the 20 cats, 15 demonstrated a lower response magnitude to the third voice than to the first voice. These habituated cats showed a significant rebound in response to the subsequent presentation of their owners’ voices. This result indicates that cats are able to use vocal cues alone to distinguish between humans.

Source: springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-013-0620-4

[4matic]

When the cats hear my car coming down the street they come running. They know.

[stuckathuntermtn]

Your car smells like tuna?

[KQ]

Your car smells like tuna?

[KQ]

[KQ]

[FLS]

Friday Cat.