I knew it!
This began right after we got Canises Major and Minor. She’s been planning this for quite some time.
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February 7th, 2009 at 8:54 am
I thought cats were burglars not murderers.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am
My cat is definitely not trying to kill me. She considers me beneath contempt and any attempt on my life would imply that my existence or lack thereof made some difference in the world.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:09 am
You need to sign up for a dating service to see the results of this quiz…don’t think my wife would like that very much…
Pete
February 7th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Ok, 87%!
Should I get worried?
February 7th, 2009 at 9:24 am
98%. I am doomed.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Canis is 3rd declension (female); it should be Canes Minor & Major.
This is why I don’t have a catflap. If Dummkatz kills me, he’ll starve (once he’s done eating me, of course).
February 7th, 2009 at 9:42 am
I’m not worried about my furry little girl doing anything rash, nor should you. Who would change the stinkin’ litter box on a regular schedule, and serve them daily good food and fresh water? Cats aren’t that ignorant. They value their personal maids and butlers.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:59 am
This is why, human…
more animals
February 7th, 2009 at 10:16 am
People as safe as long as cats need to be cared for. Once cats learn how to domesticate chimpanzees, we’re all doomed.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:24 am
“When you feed a dog, it thinks you’re god. When you feed a cat, it thinks IT’S God,,,”.
Fortunately, until some brilliant gene engineer creates functional opposable thumbs on cats, they’ll still need us to open their cans of tuna,,,
Gary 7
February 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
PJE, I didn’t need to sign up for anything to see the results. Did you miss a “skip this” button, or did they change things since I drafted this post?
February 7th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Canis is 3rd declension (female); it should be Canes Minor & Major.
Came in here to say this; glad to see I’m not the only Latin classification nerd.
Good show, sir and/or madam.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:34 am
“Skip This Button” at the bottom right PJE
I had to do my test based on my long passed away kitteh, but I was disturbed to discover that there was a 93% chance she was plotting to kill me
February 7th, 2009 at 11:19 am
78%. Ours is still a kitten. Hasn’t gotten the World Domination syndrome yet. That will come probably just after Monday when THE trip to the vet is scheduled…
JC
February 7th, 2009 at 11:47 am
“That will come probably just after Monday when THE trip to the vet is scheduled…”
Does your kitten know this? Make sure your bedroom door is firmly locked or else you’ll be killed in your sleep.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I have to seriously doubt this quizz. I don’t have a cat, and answered the quizz’s questions as such. (”How often does your cat give you the evil eye?” – never, since I don’t have one). Yet my non-existent cat has 67% chance of plotting to kill me. Hm.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Apparently I was distracted by flashing lights, shiny objects and so forth. I’ll try the quiz again. Thanks
Pete
February 7th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
There…only 85% chance that my cats are trying to kill me. One certainly has more evil tendencies than the other…
Pete
February 7th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Must have something to do with toxoplazma, may be.
February 7th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
I haven’t got a cat – and don’t want one – they are manky.
February 7th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
NMONNET wrote:
“I don’t have a cat, and answered the quizz’s questions as such. [...] Yet my non-existent cat has 67% chance of plotting to kill me. Hm.”
Yes, they’re sneaky that way.
February 7th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
mine are at 96%. i knew they were plotting against me. i’m doomed.
February 7th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
OH NOES!
93%!
February 7th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Only a 74% chance, but they didn’t ask about digging on the quiz. She loves to do that so much that she has a covered litter box. Not for her privacy but for keeping the litter in the box. She is also glad that she has taken to scratching at the sides of it on the way in and on the way out as well. I really do think that may increase my chances of meeting a cat related demise to 94%.
Did anyone click on this?
http://www.catswhothrowupgrass.com/kill.php
February 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Not only does my brother’s cat have 91% chance of killing me before I leave Tasmania the day after tomorrow, but I also only have a 13% chance of surviving a bear attack when I get home.
BTW, BA, do you need a pic of DFTS in Tassie?
February 7th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Ah, I’m relatively safe, only an 80% chance.
Neat-O
She’s a handful, though.
Oh, and her name is “Zombie.”
Hmm, now that I think about it, she often eats my hair. Nah, ain’t no bad intentions, there.
February 7th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I came home a couple of years ago to find the following on my answering machine:
Meow. Cliche I know, but I am a cat. I normally wouldn’t bother with this accursed instrument, but none of my humans seem to be around right now. (Unreliable breed, can’t for the lives of me think why I started raising them.) Since you must be a human (No cat would stoop to using one of these things.) and thus couldn’t possibly want anything of interest to me, I’ll start a recorder so you can tell mine whatever trivial nonsense you want. (pause) (beep) If you haven’t left your message, you had your chance. That’s my dinner. Ta ta. (click)
C. C. yawned at me from her window seat, then turned back to watching the bird feeder outside. I don’t know what had been in the microwave, but I had the devil’s own time scrubbing the splatter out.
February 7th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
I for one do not think my cat is planning on killing me, 78%, for she clearly loves to snuggle at night. Without me she wouldn’t have that extra warmth up here in Jackson, WY to stay warm during the winter. She greets me at the door every night and runs to the bedroom to get some serious rubbing and ….gaaa ARGHHHHH (slice slash chew-chew) MEOW MEOW……..
February 7th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Blast, too big, How do I delete?
February 7th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
91% eeeeek, Im so dooomed
Sidenote: got a kitten that is strangely fascinated by the toilet when it flushes
February 7th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I knew I hated cats for a reason
Dogs ftw !
February 7th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Kitty!!!
It’s actually the reputation of cats as cold hearted (yet fuzzy) killers that makes me like them.
February 8th, 2009 at 12:29 am
Only 80%…what are you doing wrong? Heck, I got 93% and that was just for *one* of my four cats! Heck, I’m lucky I’ve lived long enough to type this mes….
February 8th, 2009 at 12:37 am
So BA you do have two dogs & one cat?
Here’s a tip to save your life – try pushing the IAU for them to restore the constellation of Felis!
Yes that’s a real one – albeit long denied official status. Lalande came up with Felis back in the something hundreds .. He’d included it as a joke to let his kitty scratch the sky – it obviously needed something other than his curtains and furniture too!
Only seems fair theres four dogs in the sky already -CanisMajor, Minor and the two “Hunting dogs” of Canes Venatici. ‘Bout time a cat got put up there too!
February 8th, 2009 at 6:31 am
My thoughts exactly . I always feel My Miss Kitty looks at me as her next meal .
LarryD
February 8th, 2009 at 11:15 am
85% chance for my kitty.
I’d have to say, though, that she hasn’t swatted my legs in a while.
February 8th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
I have a 78% chance of being slain by my cute little kitty, which doesn’t bode well considering I tested the cat that actually likes me…the other one has “issues”.
Meanwhile there are other tests you can do through this site which are timed and one of them just happened to be “How many planets in the solar system can you name in 30 sec?”.
I got all bar 1.
Apparently they didn’t get the memo about Pluto.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Very lucky to have outlived my last furballer (19 yrs when he expired in the fall) – he came in at 96% chance, and I do not doubt it!
February 9th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Ha ha, I tried the bear attack one… only an 8% chance of survival. I think I’ll stay out of the woods for a while.
February 10th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Ariane wrote :
“Meanwhile there are other tests you can do through this site which are timed and one of them just happened to be “How many planets in the solar system can you name in 30 sec?”. I got all bar 1. Apparently they didn’t get the memo about Pluto.”
Or the general majority of people are just ignoring the IAU absurdity because they think – or even *know* – that the IAU got it wrong in their anti-Plutonian decree which hopefully will yet be reversed so that sanityprevails and Pluto returns along with its other “ice dwarf” planetary kin. (Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Sedna, etc ..)
Maybe they, like me, reckon the IAU can take a long walk off a short jetty when it comes to this issue.
As for my pets, they know when they’re onto a good deal!
February 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
OK, Phil, I give up. I’ve searched the web and various urban dictionaries of slang and cannot find an appropriate definition for your cretin-logisim “haz.” What is a “haz’ other than part of abbreviations for hazardous materials (haz-mat) or a word in Spanish related to ‘hacer”?
As I’ve stated here before, I love your commentary and I truly enjoy the great lessons and insights you provide, but please don’t keep trying to impress folks with idiotic internet slang (or whatever these cretin-logisms are that sprinkle your posts from time to time). They just aren’t appropriate and tend to obfuscate the actual opinion or science you’re trying to provide.
What’s with this compulsion to do this? You’re certainly old enough and educated enough to avoid falling into some strange “internet distortion field” that mandates use of words that must appeal to a very narrow group of readers.
/rant
February 10th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Tod, do a search for icanhascheezburger dot com. Does anyone else here hate, hate hate, HATE not being able to put relevant links in here without it being a major production or is that just me?
February 10th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Tod, just click on either the two cats picture or the word “animals” below it, at my post above, and all will be explained.