Posts by Riddley Walker
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i always thought your avatar was a speedboat crashing
Che, you need to rest your eyes a bit more.
don't give up on human GP understanding
i know, i know, i should keep trying. i'm just annoyed with what they're doing with that new Straw and Woodshavings tax (like as if it will reduce our consumption), and they just don't get the pleasures of wallowing around in your own poo pellets. that's a discrimination i just don't know if we can get past.
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My advice: train them when they're kittens. Too late for that? Lock the bedroom door and ignore them.
that is good advice (if you can stand the scratches on the carpet, wallpaper, door until they get used to it). the trick with extinction is if you are going to open the door, then do it as soon as they let you know they want it opened. if you're not going to then make sure you don't whatever you do, or at least wait until they've stopped exhibiting the 'open the door, human' behaviour before you open it. the worst thing you can do is let them scratch/meow for ages and then open the door. that just trains persistence.
My cats come when I whistle
yeah, they're much more trainable than people think, but being cats they are happy to let humans think it's only dogs that can be trained.
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I am the cat whispering guinea pig. I can also wiggle my ears, eyes and nostrels, although with guinea pigs it's no big thing. Much as i would love to aid guinea pig-human understanding, our body language is too complex and subtle to even try and explain (this derives from the fact that we can really only sniff, struggle, squark and waddle - no Rodney Hide jokes please).
Che, tongue clicks are indeed the best mode of oral communication with cats (no other epithets for Rodney Hide jokes here either thank you), although like dogs they do respond to tone.
Damian, watch out your RD (it looks like a nice one btw) doesn't gnaw off long threads of wool, it can cause really serious problems with their gut (strangulated colon etc). As for 4am wake-ups, i haven't been able to fix that one myself, i hope they grow out of it. i know i did.
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herald is anything to go by Mr Key will have his work cut out
a fund to facilitate their migration to Australiamy thoughts precisely
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people may buy it
if you mean JK trying to be JFK, i really really hope he tries to push that one. even Goebbels acknowledged there are serious limits to what message management can achieve.
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m you are right as usual, i am humourless today.
i guess we do need bwian.
but i don't understand which system mora proves effective.
nor do i understand how mccormack demonstrates we're over tall-poppyism, or is that he is willing to cut down the short poppies too? -
mayor quimby accent = JFK accent
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oh and that magnificently well-informed astute armchair politician Simon Barnett. he has such nice hair
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Brian Tamaki seems to be saying it's a victory.
hmm, a victory for the status quo on the amendment, yes. but then again Brian seems to think he's a bishop so go figure.
i'm waiting for Jim Mora and Gary McCormack's u-turns
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yeah good post, thanks Eric. getting a ragdoll is also great advice, they're so placid you should consider one Damian.
most cats are pretty good at telegraphing when they're pissed with their body language. forget the tail (there are many divergent causes for wagging), just watch the ears.
the ears never lie.