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Animals As Intelligent Beings

January 5th, 2010

Tuning into your pet’s needs – BlogPaws

My cat turned me on to a new blog for pet owners called BlogPaws. There is some mention of a conference for bloggers, writers and pet supply companies. The first emphasis brought to my attention was the SEO aspect of writing a blog.

kittehboi.com is a fun blog, and though we make sure to mention others’ blogs, etc. for google juice, I don’t want it to end up looking like a Peruvian circus, full of multicolored flashing and dancing adverts.

The first requirement for SEO is to have content that brings readers back. I’m trying to wrap my brain around it, to come up with an idea that goes further than “funny pictures of cats.”

I have a personal interest in evolutionary psychology and neuropsychology, so my personal focus is on animals as intelligent, rational beings. Cats and dogs have the IQ of young children, but much more impulse control.

“C’mon, admit it – we all do it. Some of us talk to them as if they can actually understand us (I’m one of those).”

Did you catch that? The writer said “as if they can actually understand us.” Apparently this person has some doubts.

Eagle is EXTINCT. So what?

Eagle is EXTINCT. So what?


Dogs (and probably cats) have a Broca’s brain or Wernicke’s area, meaning they are capable of understanding speech. In practice cats have a vocabulary of around 20-30 words while dogs may be able to understand 100 or more. Animal behaviorists will tell you it’s “training.” 40 years ago human psychologists were behaviorists too, and explained all human behavior as learned responses to stimuli. How different *are* training and learning?

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Video: Harapeko Neko Neko

December 14th, 2009

And others the [pe] it is dense the cat cat
Hungry Cats

Harapeko Neko Neko” (“Hungry Cats”) is a Japanese stop-action animation in which two cats are trying to tell their rather dim-witted owner what they want for dinner. They are rather strange cats, as tall as their owner, with expressionless faces and and zippers in the back. The overall impression I get from my limited exposure to Japanimation is that the Japanese conceptualize animals as being little people in fursuits.

Even funnier than the video is the geeky deconstruction on a NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) TV show “Digital Stadium.”

Engrish translation by Yahoo Babelfish.

The person of motif and this movie, cat the feeling which has been made foolish going hand in hand (in good sense,) the [te] it was good. When you look at the collapse of last set, when “the lie where entertainment and the movie were after all made” is, the thought [wa] it is done keenly, (you think too much kana? ). You think two writers thinks that the head and sense are good, that and, also degree of completion of the work itself is high. We want becoming “the Cohen sibling” of the doll animation boundary.

Although expression of the cat does not change, the feeling which is gotten angry having come out enormously, it was even the excessively funny work. Also song is good!

While the cat, is a little larger than the human which to do, the bull bull the place where it approaches in the uncle does not accumulate!!

It can enjoy everyone, “the [u] of everyone it is” PV of the wind. The song which has the agitation just a little to be lovely weirdness the humorous place. Betraying development expectation in [ii] sense, it was funny.

See more incomprehensible videos at NHK “Digital Stadium.”

Thanks to kittehboi.

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I noe haz nommed yet Honest!

July 28th, 2009

I noe haz nommed yet, Honest!

funny pictures
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PETA’s Sexy Striptease

September 4th, 2008

Learn Your ABC’s With PETA’s Sexy Striptease : Quiz : PETA


I got 100 percent on the ABC Striptease Quiz!

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How to Make a Cat Bed

May 6th, 2008

How to Make a Cat Bed from an Old Sweater – wikiHow

I have streamlined the process in the above WikiHow article. It saves a half hour and $5 per cat bed, and the cat likes it just as much.

  1. Throw an old sweater on the floor.
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Surfs Kitteh

January 31st, 2008

funny pictures
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Hangin’ twenneh!

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jebuskat

November 10th, 2007

funny pictures
moar lolcatz

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blocked!

September 29th, 2007

Meow Mix Blocked!

Screen capture of Meow Mix Sweepstakes error message.

They could give me time to get out to the kitchen for the UPC code plus feed whatever animals got in the way as I tried to get back to the computer with it.

Sheesh.

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