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By: A Rare Conjunction of….Cats! « The Second Discovery

A Rare Conjunction of….Cats! « The Second Discovery — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:29:47 +0000

[...] 29, 2008 by Georgia WARNING–THIS POST CONTAINS SARCASM!As many of you may know, today is Caturday. As many more of you undoubtably know, several shining things have been inching their way closer [...]

By: Chet Geiselman

Chet Geiselman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:25:27 +0000

Sport, who passed away about a year and a half ago, was healthy right up to the end when he started having kidney problems. One day, after some trips to the vet, he walked across my wife’s open lap top. Several hours later she saw what he had typed. The screen said only this: “19ok”. Sport passed a few months later at the age of 19. He was letting us know that even with his health problems, he was “OK”.
True story.

Sport was a male, black and white, tuxedo cat. His name came from the Laurie Anderson song, “Sharky’s Night”. All our girl cats loved him. He belonged to our neighbors who just threw him out the back door. We took him in and it was months before the college girls even missed him. He was just a frightened little kitten.

By: Mike Torr

Mike Torr — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:49:32 +0000

Dinger – that’s so cool! I like the way you name your pets.

Our family cat lived to the age of 19, and even moved house when he was fairly old without too much visible stress. His name was Midge (he came from a litter of three: Mary, Mungo and Midge – any Brits my age will probably understand that…)

By: Shroe

Shroe — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:19:18 +0000

Being from the developing world and having been with cats all my life, I find it very strange to see that cats in the US manage to live so long and lead completely indoor lives. Its unnatural. In my house cats were always wild. They would spend majority of their time outside hunting rats etc and come home only to rest and get pampered. When we used to go out on holidays we would just put the cat out and travel. When we got back it would just come back in as though we had never left.

Since there are a number of stray street dogs (as is common in most “3rd” world countries) cats i know would live to 7 or max 8 years and then get eaten by a dog usually. So it is very strange to see cats that have lived for 18 years.

By: !AstralProjectile

!AstralProjectile — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:08:47 +0000

(Not original, of course)

“The universew came to a junction
when Schrodinger collapsed his wave function.
He lifted the lid
and fouind that it hid
a kitty in need of last unction.”

By: Andrea Jones

Andrea Jones — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:39:21 +0000

D: As someone who frequents 4chan, where Caturday began, this fills me with amazing chagrin. But, at least the picture doesn’t say something about bad astronomy in catspeak.

Please, BA, don’t ever use catspeak. I’ll cry. Forever.

By: Buzz Parsec

Buzz Parsec — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:38:17 +0000

QD – Arghhh! Insulin shock! You’re paying my hospital bills.

By: shane

shane — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:51:10 +0000

Copernicus is my black and white cat. He’s just turned 9 and unfortunately he has had a bad year. On a rare trip outside in January he sat on a nest of ticks and became infested with hundreds of nymph ticks. Some generous care from the vet saved him that time. A couple of months ago a urinary blockage, a common problem for de-sexed males, caused problems – they can die within days if untreated. That has caused a change of diet that has to last a lifetime. And in the last couple of weeks a large lump has appeared on a bone in the foot. X-rays and biopsies have shown it to be benign tumour that will have to be intensively monitored but at this time last week we thought he was going to lose his leg – he still might eventually unfortunately. Poor little bugger.

Some photos on Flickr of the big doofus here (Including a couple of the big fella all bandaged up after the biopsy).

By: JB of Brisbane

JB of Brisbane — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:33:24 +0000

My sister and niece have a black-and-white short haired cat named Sylvester, so named because his colouring is identical to the cat in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons. He showed up on my sister’s doorstep one day back in 1991, I think; one of our neighbours claimed she had seen him being “dumped” out of a car. My sister had kept cats before, and they all felt it was time for another one. So they took him in, fed him, looked after him and relieved him of his manhood when the time came. He repaid the favour by sticking around, and developing a strong bond with my niece. He occasionally got into territorial/heirarchical fights with the other cats in the street, and would often follow the humans in his house up to the local shopping centre, possibly for fear of being left behind again.
That was nearly eighteen years ago, and he is still going strong, living with my niece who moved out of home last year (just to the other side of the same suburb). Sylvester is a bit stiff in the joints, and you can count each little vertebra when you stroke his back, but his eyesight and hearing still seem to be good, and he’s pretty healthy given his age. Considering how bleak his prospects looked when he appeared at the door, one would have to say he has done pretty well for himself.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:43:02 +0000

Rule 34 on cat.

Nice blog btw, read it everyday at work! Thanks.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:59 +0000

Nice info.
I lol’d your cat.

First, here’s a Schrödinger joke.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/2848/schrdingerjx9.png

Here’s the lolcat I made.
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/7409/dingerpi3.jpg
(The last three letters/digits in the file names have nothing to do with the image. Imageshack just adds them randomly. So don’t get excited about the filename ending in “pi3″. )

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:34:30 +0000

I wuz up all night looking thru your telescope

By: Jarrad T

Jarrad T — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:18:43 +0000

“im in ur astronomy, making false klaims”

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:17:28 +0000

Time for a catfession: I’m a cat person.

Unfortunately our current life-style does not allow us to have a pet, but when we settle down, a cat it will be.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:01:23 +0000

I just observed Phil’s cat…I hope its still ok.

Hey Phil did you ever see “Sunshine” ? I was watching and it wondering whether they actually got something right (I wouldnt know stuff like travel time to the sun..). What they got wrong would be obvious to my 7yo niece.

It did get me wondering though, how close could we get to the sun and still be able to communicate with a probe with our current tech? Is it a problem of noise from the sun or the probe melting first?

If you haven’t seen it..don’t. Seriously. This movie clearly saw your reviews of those B grade space movies and decided to take the title. (Actually I think its an “Event Horizon” clone but so dull you’d think the maker watched 2001, got bored and decided to make Hal nice and add a monster)

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:12:32 +0000

Hey, Heather, Dinger’s a calico. Calicos have black and red and white patches, tortoiseshells have only black and red patches and any white is mixed in randomly. Cat-geek nitpickery aside, I think I have to agree with the grumpy gene. My torties are 21 and 22 and too mean to die.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:26:26 +0000

She doesn’t look a day over 105.

By: Lugosi

Lugosi — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:34:00 +0000

I’ve got a 17 year old orange tabby named–appropriately enough–Orange Crate. Outside of some relatively minor health issues, he’s doing okay. I had another one who made it to 17 before his age caught up with him. I got T.C. when he was still a kitten back in ’88, so losing him wasn’t easy.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:17:31 +0000

In other news, a textbook launch of Discovery from the Cape today. The cat ran when the sound rolled over us.

By: bassmanpete

bassmanpete — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:06:18 +0000

You may have heard the saying “If you want the best seat in the house you’ll have to move the cat.” Well if you want ANY seat in our house you have to move a cat! See here:

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc94/bassmanpedro/P0001833.jpg

By: Supernova

Supernova — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:00:13 +0000

My graduate adviser’s cats were Regulus and Denebola (yes, for stars in Leo).

Dinger looks like a sweetie! Congrats on bringing her back into your life.

By: Kevin Conod

Kevin Conod — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:59:35 +0000

PS That must be the Fifth Basic Force of the Universe: the Meow Force. It is an attractive force between allergy suffers and cats. Its force carrier is of course the Felitron, which I’m sure the LHC at CERN will soon discover this elusive particle!

By: Kevin Conod

Kevin Conod — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:52:59 +0000

I love cats but I’m allergic to them. And they all seem to know it too! Never fails – they always want to rub up against me or sit in my lap.

By: slang

slang — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:27:36 +0000

Hope she’ll be with you for quite a while, Phil. We just had our first cat pass away two weeks ago.. little fella had been with us for over 13 years. Name was Whiskey.. so I am honoring him with every swig

My experience with cats of that colorscheme is that they tend to ‘speak’ a lot, more than other cats. Does yours?

Anyhoo, I refuse to LOL a lady of her age

By: Quiet Desperation

Quiet Desperation — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:10:20 +0000

Meh. Older guys like me are, of course, unaffected by such silly- ZOMG! KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s a kitten that is so cute it might make your head explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geF2wwPH7eY&eurl=http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/