At 07:02 PM Thursday 5/18/2006, Deborah Harrell wrote:
> Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> So he is saying that Midnight started losing brain
> cells about the time he came to live with me?
No. Brain cell _connections_, which is very
different. We know that "pruning" takes place in our
brains as well, but characterizing it is difficult,
given that no one will volunteer their brains for
dissection at specific ages...can't imagine why! :P
But of course, what researchers don't know is that
cats have metaphysical brain cells in addition to the
physical ones; hence the many perplexing (to us
humans) cat feats, like how a ten-pound cat can
generate ~40# of force with one paw, or appear in
locked rooms...
Midnight may need to learn to disappear from
locked rooms: we were outside yesterday and
while I was busy with something he wandered off
(typical behavior) and ignored me calling him for
a few minutes (typical of any cat). When I saw
him he was coming out of the next door neighbor's
basement garage door. I hope he won't go in
there and get locked in when she hits the button
to close the door. I saw her this afternoon and
mentioned what he had done. (She is the one who
usually drives the car and parks in the basement
her husband drives a pickup which he parks
around back.) OTOH if he learns to escape from
locked rooms, there will be no keeping him inside the house at all . . .
Marrow Maru
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been
added to our country and two words have been
added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that
is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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