The Mighty Fang finds out that you don’t get between Mencken and his ‘nip…
The cats had pretty much ripped their old SuperScratcher to shreds, so I put a brand new catnip-impregnated one down, and Mencken was getting wiggy with it. Until TMF came over and harshed his mellow. Mencken didn’t like that. At all.
– Badtux the Cat-owned Penguin
Made it through the hare krishna, but I don’t have it in me to watch a 3+ minute cat vid tonight.
Lo siento.
JzB
But there’s VIOLENCE!
Even cats can be assholes and I bet you would be an asshole if I wanted to drive your Jeep.
Tonight I will go to sleep in a bed covered by sheets and a vellux-type blanket. The blanket is about a year and a half old. It gets washed frequently to deal with cat hair buildup. It has vellux-material chunks missing from it. These correspond to where Rocky-cat lays, and rips up the blanket with his claws while holding on trying to clean his fat self.
Sigh.
Why is it that cat fights are usually funny and cute and a dog fight is scary and terrifying?
My kittens fight and I laugh, the other night two of my dogs got into it over some food ‘sharing’ and I picked up a chair and wished I had the circus mans whip.
Not to say the cats can’t scar me almost as deeply either.
w3ski
Karen, the SuperScratcher pretty much has ended the cats shredding other stuff, they enjoy shredding it so much that they rarely give attention to anything except maybe the occasional toilet paper roll. But it has to be on the carpet in my living room floor because if it’s on the dining room floor (much easier to sweep the shredded cardboard off of), it skitters around and the cats don’t like it.
Henry, I think it’s like watching WWE, the stuff they do in WWE would be frightening if it were real, but it’s so obviously scripted that it’s funny. The script in play here was “dominance script #1″, where the purpose was not to hurt the other cat but to assert dominance, especially when Mencken knocked TMF over on his side with that last surprise attack. No cats were hurt in the production of this dominance play, just some dignity. Not to say that there aren’t some *real* cat fights in the wild, where cats end up with nasty wounds, but this is a situation where five minutes later, TMF is humbly washing Mencken’s ears again.
You ever try to step between a cokehead and one of their lines? Just sayin…
The last time we gave our cat raw catnip (i.e. “the pure stuff”), he spent his time sitting around, looking really mean, and hissing at fence posts. To this day he believes he has intimidated them into freezing still.
Bukko, I don’t know any cokeheads, just potheads. Potheads tend to be real sharing and mellow when they’ve taken a few hits off their roach. Only pizzas need to fear when potheads are around
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Phoenician, Mencken was definitely giving TMF the stink-eye here
. The hilarious thing is that TMF outweighs Mencken by at least five pounds. But TMF is a teddy bear who has always lived in a loving home from birth, and Mencken is a former feral. Former feral for the win!