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Eesh, passing cats. Almost all mine/the family's have been strays of some variety. I'd probably wager... somewhere between two and four dozen, over the years. Maybe more if you count the kittens that don't live to open their eyes for whatever reason. I've never had a cat die of old age. Liked a lot of em but there's only so much you can do when you can't really afford a vet and live besides a road, particularly in, y'know, florida. Neurotoxin is a hell of a thing, and even if you keep them inside it takes all of one escape outside for a passing car to decide you don't have a cat anymore. Better than the alternatives, but eesh.

Got one that seems to be getting close, though. Last remaining of the zeppelin batch, iirc. Parent made the mistake of asking me to name a mother and the three surviving daughters of one litter, so they got Gen (short for hydrogen), Hinden, Burg, and Blimpie (the mother). Morbidly enough, the latter's the only one still kickin'. Has outlived... hell, I'unno, probably at least six or seven litters, at a minimum? Finally got fixed like last year, iirc. Bit of a mess from being an outside cat, but still alive. It'd actually be a little heartening to have one pass due to age, ha.

Heh, I've had similar stuff happen. Was one point a straight up rat got into the house. Cat at the time charged in from another room, sideswiped the thing, and then grabbed it in her jaws and we never quite figured out where it went after, at the time. Damn thing was near the size of the cat herself, too.

But yeah, then there's the times they're either playing or trying to teach kittens. Those times can get messy. The mess does usually get got rid of within a day or two if just kinda' nudged out of the way, but, well. Florida weather. Often you don't get a day or two before something needs to be done and leaving it up to nature is no longer much of an option.

Cats eat or kill pretty much anything that bleeds/is smaller than them, if they feel like it.

Eeeyup. Porch cats are pretty fond of moths, too. All sorts of insects, really. Anything that gets close enough to catch. If it moves and it's bigger than your average housefly but smaller than your average housecat, it better pray it's moving faster than the cats will, if it gets anywhere near the highest cat-accessible surface and one of the cats notice it. Or tastes really really bad, I guess, and the cat in question has tried to eat one before.

Mind you, that might not keep it alive, but it does make the thing less likely to be eaten.

... I'm pretty sure that if Venus is emitting enough light to substantially influence this stuff we've got considerably bigger issues than an equation that's slightly inaccurate.

That would be bundled into world peace, methinks. Either as a requirement or a results.

There was. Probably more than one, heh. Know big fight for beef had em, though.

Quote from: Cinder on September 24, 2016, 01:40:33 pm

SUNLESS SKIES: AKA: IT'S HAPPENING.

Ooh, cool. Definitely going to take a loot at that.

... I can't tell if that's a hook-handed freudian slip or just a typo.

They're definitely less impressive early on, save at station busting (where they're basically the safest but most boring way to kill them). Once you get some stuff rolling and the fire rate to something more respectable things... change. They're still not necessarily the best raw damage dealers, but they also start blowing stuff up from significantly further than just about anything but the bombs, and you don't have to aim, either. Do like to miss but when you've got dozens flying around it doesn't really matter all that much :V