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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 07:53 PM
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Unfortunately, kitty alarm clocks don't have snooze buttons.
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:15 PM
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1. Not anymore -- pet owners can now sleep without the aggravation
when they're armed with one of these babies...


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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:17 PM
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2. But what if people *are* the nuisance animals?
;)


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RandomThoughts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:22 PM
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3. Actually that is pet doctrine.
Edited on Mon Dec-27-10 08:25 PM by RandomThoughts
There is a delusion that tries to get people to think they are the animals, and 'something else' are the owners. Pet doctrine is the more friendly version. 'livestock doctrine' is the version where people are considered owned as live stock.


When in metaphor there is an attempt to create that delusion to try to give the thought that things that claim to own people have some kind of power. Really interesting delusion. It is to try to take over a persons free will, by convincing them they are owned already.

See that tactic used in many places where a claim is made to get people to think the claim is valid so it becomes valid.

It is what is called a bluff.


If something says they own you, they are bluffing, and if you call their bluff they don't own you. If you do not call their bluff then you give yourself to slavery.
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:51 PM
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4. Get one of these at the hardware store to keep on your night table...



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Pool Hall Ace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:57 PM
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5. LOL!!
:rofl: really!!

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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 08:59 PM
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6. I thought you'd get a kick out of that!


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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 09:34 PM
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7. aw, cheeseburger, don't get me started
my 13 yr old kitty Clancy - when he was a kitten I had to make an emergency trip out of state and left him in the care of a stoner friend who fed him nothing but cheeseburgers - to this day, if I try to eat a cheeseburger Clancy will frantically climb all over me :o
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 10:33 PM
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8. Yep, my cat does that, on my face, with her claws out.
If I roll over, she walks around and does it again.

This morning I came back from Safeway with a couple of donuts that I got to go with my coffee, and as I sat down and took that first delightful sip of the day and my first bite of donut, I look over and there's the furry little terrorist pinching a loaf in the cat box.

So I can sit and eat the donuts and drink the coffee and know there's a land mine in the box (even though she is a very neat cat and covers it meticulously), or I can get up and clean the box. I always get up and clean the box. I think she watches and plans the worst possible time to pinch one out and then she STRIKES.



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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 11:02 PM
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-10 11:12 PM
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10. She's in that bag right now as I'm typing this, giving me that look
This cat has control issues. Maybe they ALL do, but THIS one...



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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 09:44 AM
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11. No, they do not.
Edited on Tue Dec-28-10 09:45 AM by The Velveteen Ocelot
And if your alarm clock has one, it's a signal to the cat(s) that it's time to roll. If the alarm doesn't go off at all, they decide for themselves when it's time. And they move in for the kill.

I don't have to go to work until this afternoon, so I thought I'd sleep in for awhile. Riiight...

I have three cats. They have learned to tag-team me. Cat #1 hops on the bed, hollers in my ear, walks on me and paws me. I pull the covers over my head and tell the cat to go away. There is a brief respite, but within minutes there is more meowing and pawing. I realize it's Cat #2. Hiding under the covers, I tell Cat #2 to go away. He does, but pretty soon Cat #3 appears. This one likes to chew on my hair. I pull the covers all the way over my head and tell Cat #3 to go away. She does, but then Cat #2 comes back and shoves the lamp off the table. I yell at him and he runs away. But then Cat #1 comes back, howling like the proverbial banshee. Defeated, I get up. All three cats are waiting. They follow me into the bathroom, wailing frantically as I take care of business, and they keep wailing all the way into the kitchen. They twine around my legs and whine and squeal as I stumble around looking for the cat food. I plop the stuff in their bowls and they fall on it like hungry lions on a freshly-killed wildebeest.

They are satiated now. I need some coffee.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 09:52 AM
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12. My old alarm clock was large enough for the kitties to sit on.
AND they figured out that sitting on it, turned the radio on....which they would do, at my normal wakeup time ON THE WEEKENDS. How helpful. Evil little brats. Happily that clock is long gone...
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 09:59 AM
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13. Mine will actually sit between me and my alarm clocks
He knows those clocks are the reason he isn't getting fed right this minute!
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pinboy3niner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 10:10 AM
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14. My brother had a cat that tried to wake him...
He tossed the cat off the bed, whereupon the cat leapt back on the bed, claws out, and landed on my brother's crotch.

Apparently, the cat was satisfied with the result, because that became his preferred method for waking my brother. :rofl:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 01:54 PM
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15. I can just hear your brother now...
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..."I have to get up for work in the morning, so I'm setting my alarm for seven-forty-OW-MY-BALLS!!!"
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-28-10 11:07 PM
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16. One of the first orders of business after acquiring my cat was to teach him
not to wake me up until the radio comes on.

I did it by shouting "NO!" and pulling the covers over my head if it wasn't time yet and petting and cuddling and praising him when he pawed me after the radio came on.

It took about a week.
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