Is This US democracy?

[cosmicB]

Better you don't read it... It would only hurt your head... Better you fall in to a deep hole, and cover yourself up, and have a long deep never ending sleep...

[ZiaAries]

My cats can paint beautiful works of art. I'm watching one of them paint as I type. I think it will become a masterpiece. She has learned to dip the end of her whiskers in the paint to add a little something special as her signature.

[Cambridge]

My can’s an absolute bitch, except when I feed her. That’s ok, tho, she’s my bitch.

[ZiaAries]

My can’s an absolute bitch, except when I feed her. That’s ok, tho, she’s my bitch.

I have 2 females and a male. The male cat is by far the most affectionate. One of the females do not hesitate to bite me anything she wants. She is 12 years and I never was able to break her from it. One time she got so mad at me she actually jumped up and bite my thigh. I was so mad at her. This may be very bad, but I've bitten her back once or twice.

I love them though. They are treated like royalty.

[Cambridge]

It does seem that male cats are more affectionate than female cats…especially toward male owners…but also, as you say, female cats can be bitchy to anyone. When I first got Bou her attitude was, ‘pshaw…who are you? Just make sure dinner is on time.” I've had her for five years, and yer…we had a big fight over food. One night early on I put out a New York Steak that I was gonna cook. She jumped up on the kitchen counter (where she’s never allowed) and started biting into the steak. When I tried to brush her away she bit the back of my hand. I simply took her by the scruff of the neck and slapped her back haunches one mighty slap and then threw her out the back door and wouldn’t let her back in for three days.

When she came back she’d learned who was not only the stronger, but also the smarter…despite the millions of varmints in Marin County, she’d never learned to hunt and she was hungry. Since then, she has learned a lot of lessons. At 4 am she would scratch on the furniture to signal that she wanted me to let her out. I would get up and go to the door, where she would be waiting, and I would grab a rolled up magazine that I’d put there just for that moment, and I’d give her a good slap. Then, importantly, I did not let her out. She soon learned that there was pain, and no reward, with that strategy.

Since, she has occasionally had the thought to bite me…but her memory quickly comes back and she hesitates. At times she has gotten close. I have never bitten her back, but on those occasions, I have taken her up close to my face and bared my teeth in a gesture that is universal in the animal world (see, the film Alien). She gets the point and gives me one of those ‘Ok…please back off’ kind of meows.

We now live a life of compromise. She is my cat, but I am her boy-toy. She will cuddle up to me when I am reading the newspaper with tea in the morning. And she gets all pissy if any female tries to come into the house. Other than that, she depends on me and I depend on her.

[Bushwalker]

My can’s an absolute bitch, except when I feed her. That’s ok, tho, she’s my bitch.

I have 2 females and a male. The male cat is by far the most affectionate. One of the females do not hesitate to bite me anything she wants. She is 12 years and I never was able to break her from it. One time she got so mad at me she actually jumped up and bite my thigh. I was so mad at her. This may be very bad, but I've bitten her back once or twice.

I love them though. They are treated like royalty.

I have a budgie (in an aviary big enough for him to actually fly..), a beehive and a vegetable patch in my backyard here at the moment..

[ZiaAries]

Hmm

Huh?

[Cambridge]

My can’s an absolute bitch, except when I feed her. That’s ok, tho, she’s my bitch.

I have 2 females and a male. The male cat is by far the most affectionate. One of the females do not hesitate to bite me anything she wants. She is 12 years and I never was able to break her from it. One time she got so mad at me she actually jumped up and bite my thigh. I was so mad at her. This may be very bad, but I've bitten her back once or twice.

I love them though. They are treated like royalty.

I have a budgie (in an aviary big enough for him to actually fly..), a beehive and a vegetable patch in my backyard here at the moment..

Very cool, BW. I once had a budgie. I also had two peach-faced love birds. Never had a beehive. We've got Africanized honey bees that have now reached the US. I once had a hive in a tree in my home in Tucson. Turns out, tho they are the most vicious of bees, they are the best producers of honey in the world. Go figure. Love the vegetable patch.

[cosmicB]

I had a bumble bee nesting in the outer foundation of this little house I am renovating.. and I had to build where she had her nest, but no matter what I did, she would always return to her little nest.. so I figured I'd try something a little different... I telepathed to her that if she didn't vacate the house, she would soon be buried alive... I telepathed that she could build her new home in my old truck, and left the window open enough for her to use as an comfortable and safe entry... But next miorning she was still nesting in the foundation.. so I telepathed to her a video that I was pulling off her wings and legs, squishing her under my shoe, if she didn't leave... Suddenly out of the nest came an absolutely huge bumble bee.. and extremely angry bumble bee.. attacking the two of us with gusto, non stop.. even at 50-feet away from the nest... The carpenter says, "I've owned bee hives, and this is the most aggressive I've ever seen a bee.." I didn't tell him about the telepathy... He knows that there is no such thing as "telepathy"...

Anyway.. I figures, if you've got bumble bees.. and a pesky salesman, or dog or cat, or cop, or whatever, in the yard.. just send the message to the bees like I sent to that bumble bee, and very soon you won't have pests in your yard... just an irritating hairless monkey running sreeming down the middle of the road with several extremely painful maxed-venom bumble bee stings...
Similar to what I did to a crazy psychotic neighbor, who found a pork chop bone on his doorstep, that a stray cat had pulled out of someone's trash, and chewed on it on his new porch carpet... I was standing at the side of my house, doing something, when I sees the irate neighbor place a cat chewed pork chop bone strategically on my top front step, right where it could easily cause a slip and serious fall down the steps onto cement...

It was obvious that he thought the pig bone originated from my garbage, and that my cat placed it on his step... Thing is I don't have a cat, and I don't eat pig... I came walking around the corner just as he had tur0ned around after settig his garbage on my step... He rushed away fast, not glancing back... He knew he was caught... I said nothing... That night, I poured a pound of honey under his front porch.. and another pound of honey all around his house... Man! did he ever have a lot of hornets around his place... When he came home from work, I telepathed to the hornets that he was pulling their wings and legs off, and stepping on their queens... Have you ever heard the term, "shidt hitting the fan"..?

[Kyuubi]

when I lived in the country, when I was about 5-6 years old, there was a huge bee hive in one of our barns. At that age I was afraid of bees though, so I mostly stayed away from it.

I wish I could telepath to them that I won't harm them.. maybe I wouldn't get stung should I ever venture near a hive.

[cosmicB]

The moment the bees smell your carbon dioxide breath they attack, because they know that to be smelling an animals breath means that its mouth is too close to the nest... Maybe if we had a breath scent that smelled like pine, or flowers, or poop, or something that doesn't threaten bees, maybe they would just ignore us... Maybe killer bees would too..?

Bees seem to understand English... I was painting a house, and a bee nest was too close, and a guard bee was parked on a leaf a foot from my face, checking me out, and likely primed and ready to sting me for being too close to the nest... I set my finger right beside the bee, and said,"Here, hop on, and have a little rest here. You are most welcome to rest here your majesty. I shall watch over your safety... Instantly the bee lowered its belly o my skin, and rested its beak on a hair on the back of my hand, and went dormant, or "asleep".. and remained there while I used my hands to finish the painting in that area... When I was finished the painting, I softly touched the bee's back, saying "It's time to leave, my little friend"... The little bee stretched its neck and legs, then its wings, looked up at my face, as if to be saying, "That sure was a short rest!"..
It preened a moment, then flew away...

Bees, wasps, hornets, and most venomous critters, are quite friendly if you just give them a little honest respect...
Maybe if we telepathed to a killer bee nest that we were tiny as the bees, hand feeding their queen royal jelly, and tenderly grooming her head hairs..? Maybe they would see you as friend..? Or maybe you would be stung to death..?

[Bushwalker]

I have maybe a dozen hives of honeybees at this time - one in the backyard and the others in an "out apiary" maybe 30 kms north of here...
I would have enough boxes to make up about 50 - 60 hives when I restock them..

As far as cats and dogs go, there have been several pets that have come and gone over the years - cats, dogs, birds, mice, rats, guinea pigs, et al - I have never bought a dog or cat, nor gone looking for them - it's always been more a case of them coming along when the time was apt.

Vege' gardens and fruit trees are the way to go, when you have the space and conditions - a lawn is one of the biggest wastes of space and energy if it isn't actually being used for something..

[Kyuubi]

Maybe they would see you as friend..? Or maybe you would be stung to death..?

I sincerely hope that it isn't the latter.

[cosmicB]

As a kid, I accidentally stepped on a huge hornet's nest, which was hidden under a pile of tree pruning branches... Then I heard a sound that resembled a laundry washing machine in operation... Then a yellow rope came out of the branches, and toward me... I was slapping at hornets the moment they landed on me, here, there, and anywhere, but too quickly there were too many to keep track of to slap.. so I shook them all off, and did a couple quick jumps away from the attack thread, and stood my ground, and held my hands at my sides, while the attack column of angry bugs came towards me, closer, and closer, and Closer.. I held, and held, and Held with all I had, without peeing my pants... The moment the attack point was two-feet from my face, I shot out my hands lightning fast, slapping the point bugs in a firm flat hand's clap, squishing the point's six bugs, then slowly opened my hands, and pushed them forward palms up and flat, slightly tilted toward the stream of bugs, with the squirming squished warriors showing, and locked it there, showing the rest what had just happened to their best warriors, while I telepathed to the queen that should even one of her warriors stung me, I would clap my hands over her whole nest, crushing her nest and her into quivering goo... Suddenly the whole line of bugs broke up, and they all went back to their home in the twigs... If my defense ploy hadn't been successful I probably would have received a couple hundred stings, more than enough to kill me... oh Yay Sorcery telepathy, and guts!..

If people could catch on to basic mental magic, there would be a lot less accidents with venomous bugs... You just gotta treat living things like they are your equals or better, then you'll get along with everything... Everything but humans that is... Most humes just can't bring themselves to see anything as equals... To most humes other living things are merely only threat, and something they needs to kill ASAP...

Most folks won't believe this, but you can set your finger near a huge garden spider in her nest, and she will taste you, and walk onto your finger, and press her belly to your skin just for the warmth... Venomous critters are as friendly as baby kittens... It just that should they feel threatened they Will defend themselves faster than you can blink...
You can approach a rattle snake, speak "greetings your majesty", and bow your head, holding the bow 8-seconds, then you may be permitted to pet its head and caress its throat... It might even curl up on your leg, if you're sitting with it... But just one tiny wee mistake, which shows even the slightest disrespect, and you are thus invenomated, and on your way to the hospital, or dead... On second thought, it's best humans just stay away from all the critters.. Most of you haven't got the slightest clue about what respect is.. and doing what I do with dangerous critters would only get you dead fast... Best you all stick to petting your pussies, if you've got nice furry ones that don't bite...

[Kyuubi]

I think I want to give this a shot with a snake that can't seriously hurt me first. If it goes well then I'll have the confidence to try it with something like a rattle snake. I will do my best to show respect and not do anything wrong.