Cats vs Fox

[pokerfan]

Gotta love cats...

This video sums up pretty much exactly why I am, at the end of the day, a cat person. The fox here doesn’t seem to know whose yard he’s in. These cats, though, know exactly whose yard the fox is in, and they waste exactly zero time passing on that lesson to the rather harried vulpine.

One of the most telling things in the video, though, is that the folks filming it are never concerned for the welfare of their cats. Instead, they just seem to feel bad for the poor fox who has obviously walked into a situation he is ill-equipped to manage. You can almost hear the inner monologue of the cat owners pitying the fox. “Oh, man, that fox is in the yard. He is going to be in so much trouble! We don’t even get to go out there!”

If you were an alien who knew nothing about cats, I feel confident that just watching this video would teach you pretty much everything important there is to know about them in record time.

http://www.geekosystem.com/two-cats-chase-a-fox/

[Moondog]

1. People who do not know domestic cats

do not understand that established "prides" of them will fight, and hunt, as a coordinated group. And that they will defend territory. And that they are damned effective at it.

[pokerfan]

2. "domesticated"

more or less...

[Moondog]

3. If you say so. But

I have never known a cat that was domesticated. They just pretend. I use the term to differentiate between ferals and, well, domestics. Just for giggles, try a google for "domestic cat".

[pokerfan]

5. That's what I meant

hence the quotation marks. Domesticated only in the loosest sense of the word.

[jakeXT]

4. He's smart enough to get another bite. /nt

[NV Whino]

6. Several years ago there was a little vixen that hung out in my yard

As far as my cats were concerned, it was live and let live. you could see the fox curled up asleep in one corner and the cats asleep in another corner. Her grumpy boy friend was another matter altogether, though.

[RILib]

7. any warlike invading aliens

would turn around and flee from the dominant species on the planet.