Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 29, 2023

Is Mr. Floof her pet mouse? Hopefully not.

Mr. Floof probably does understand a little Kidlish (English too, from mom most likely)… but only in context. And acts on that only when he WANTS to.

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Actually, what’s worse than the thought of a mouse in the house is the thought of somebody eating it.

It’s possible Mr Floof brought the mouse into the house….

Don’t ever tell a cat it’s irrelevant!

Her cat was relevant (or was not irrelevant). Without the cat, she may not have known about the existence of the mouse.

No, if you’ve ever watched a cat “play” with a mouse, you’d know that what’s disturbing is that your sweet little kitty is enjoying torturing another living creature. I don’t like mice, and I don’t want them in my house, but that was a horrible thing to see.

The mouse wants to be floof-proof

Because the mouse is alive and being tortured to death, maybe?

Nah, that couldn’t be it.

A cat specialist told me that this ‘toying’ is in fact making sure that there’s absolutely no danger of a wound for a cat. They are small solitary predators, a rodent bite could be incapacitating and potentially deadly, so they prefer to stun and beat the prey to death rather than risk a bite by going immediately for a kill. Having been bitten by a shrew I was trying to save, I do see the cat’s point of view. Those rodent teeth make a lot of damages.

Wild mice are wiley creatures, domestic cats are inbred human creations. We had a cat that was a useless mouser. I didn’t know we had a mouse problem until I removed the bottom cover of the dishwasher to apply a coat of varnish on our kitchen floor. When I did that, I found half a bag of cat kibbles underneath. The cat bowl was right next to the dishwasher…

Oh, a hairball in the shoe trick!

Next door neighbor had a cat name Bandit that went out their bedroom window after dark and came back an hour or two later. One night the neighbor heard the cat come in and got up to close the window. He stepped on what he thought was a sock, but it felt odd. Turned on the light and found he’d stepped on the mouse the cat had brought in. Messy foot and carpet too. Fun night cleaning that up, wife laughing all the way.

For anyone who disagrees with Pinkish’s (and my) assertion that cats are evil, allow me to posit this query: What is the only species (besides humans, of course) that tortures for fun?

I understand the young person’s dilemma. We can love a cat and kinda tolerate the hunter trait, but is it acceptable to applaud its predatory instincts vs seemingly innocent rodents? As she get older that question will come up in a different context.

if i had a mouse in my place, i’d end up feeding him and naming him

Cats are cool. And their predatory instincts kept mice and other vermin out of the granaries of the ancient world. Humans, Egyptians particularly, treated them as gods for saving their food from shrinkage due to pests. Later on humans, befuddled by religion went on a purge of cats, calling them evil. And because humans were cruel to cats in came the Black Death, the Plague, on the backs of mice and rats and killed off about ⅓ to ½ the population of Europe, deservedly so.

Shouldn’t it be because the mouse is an animal that can feel fear and pain just as you do, child?? Wow

Rewards of delayed gratification!!!!!

I should think the answer is obvious: The toy isn’t alive.

Floof? What kind of a name is that? A play on Fluff?