This morning during the corpse-grey light that precedes daybreak, Lorin could not be comforted this side of the glass doors. He just had to go outside: there were a herd of large mule deer browsing on his grass. So finally I let him out.
Not ten minutes later, he returned through the cat-flap with his eventual kill.
A wee mousey whom he’d captured alive.
He was too quick for me to take his toy from him.
So I opened the door and told him he had to go outside with that.
Which he did.
He played with it for quite some time before it expired. At which point, Lorin let out a mewling cry of plaint, of a game ended before he was ready for it to end.
one of the most terrible things in the world to watch is a cat playing with his soon to be dinner. Like Hannibal Lecter, or that guy from Reservoir dogs.
@Mitch Except that it's the "circle of life", the most natural thing in the world for the cat (and the mouse). The problem is that we identify with the mouse and don't want to identify with the cat.
@tchrist Sure. I'm culturally Christian and so of course the narrative in my religious background is that only humans have souls and can sin; other animals are "dumb" and don't have hateful intentions behind what they do.
I don't buy that particular narrative but of course it's necessary to have one.
@MετάEd For the most part, I agree. Your animal friends will never betray you the way your human ones will. But mad dogs and Englishmen may take especial sport at cruelty.
few animals can pass the mirror test (show an elephant or chimpanzee a mirror and after a little while they'll (act like) they realize it's themselves instead of another animal (this isn't always true, only a few elephants and chimps do it))
You can only have one finite verb in a clause; did is finite, so you can't have a simple past heard. The participle heard is also impossible, because did is followed by an infinitive, not a past participle.
It's hard to say anything about this without context, but "the answer gives relevant information" is often enough to make it valid, even if it does not literally or technically answer the question as asked by the OP. This is partly because many OPs don't know how to properly formulate good questions, or because they simply don't know what it is they want to know yet (but the answerer does know).
While adding to an Answer to this question, I needed to use the above phrase, and I suddenly realised I was unsure whether to write "is" or "are".
There is more than one way to skin a cat.
If there are more than one species of cat, we will flay each species differently.
I don't think that sec...
Wesak commemorates the main events in the life of the buddha. it is celebrated in may the date varies during wesak buddhists reflect on the post year they make resolutions for the following year. some meditate
A. COMMON PROVISIONS
Section 1. The Constitutional Commissions, which shall be independent, are the Civil Service Commission, the Commission on Elections, and the Commission on Audit.
Section 2. No member of a Constitutional Commission shall, during his tenure, hold any other office or employme...
@MattЭллен I think their should be a whole set of MtG cards that are about Tarot cards. Not Tarot cards themselves, but about Tarot cards. So then you could simulate telling someone's fortune in a MtG game. Dangit..then in the Tarot card game you'd simulate a Turing machine, then Minecraft, then a 3D printer....I see where this is all going again.
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> Sure, some of the time you can ignore it. But every time I see it I die a little inside. xkcd is not just a webcomic. It's a disease, and it's reached pandemic proportions.
> Kimberley survived thanks to the sacrifice of her instructor Robert, who lost his life in the process. Robert and Kimberley didn't know each other before that day...
I hate conservative girls who want to save her "sex" for a very special guy. I strongly believe stupid religions inclined them to think "sex" is a devilish thing to do and might curse them with "pregnancy"
She's asks me questions like "Why did you call me up at night?" "Why are you interested in my ring?" "If you ask me a sexual question I'm gonna scream"
While adding to an Answer to this question, I needed to use the above phrase, and I suddenly realised I was unsure whether to write "is" or "are".
There is more than one way to skin a cat.
If there are more than one species of cat, we will flay each species differently.
I don't think that sec...
A. COMMON PROVISIONS
Section 1. The Constitutional Commissions, which shall be independent, are the Civil Service Commission, the Commission on Elections, and the Commission on Audit.
Section 2. No member of a Constitutional Commission shall, during his tenure, hold any other office or employme...
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