No preditor wants prey that fights back. If dinner kills you while you're catching it, you're doing something wrong.
-----Original Message----- >From: frank theriault <[email protected]> >Sent: Jan 29, 2009 10:56 AM >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Peso Birds, Boo and Snow > >On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:27 AM, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Most cats do. There's a special sort of noise that cats make when >> they are watching birds just outside the window - a kind of click >> or chirrup. I don't know why they do that, but it's a noise that >> I have come to know well. > >According to Desmond Morris in his book Cat Watching it's what many >"domesticated" cats do when they see prey but are unable to actually >catch it. The "teeth chattering" is them practicing severing the >spinal cord of their captured prey, thus disabling them. Sounds >cruel, but I guess when capturing large, vicious prey like rats, >immediate disablement is preferred... > >I've had several cats over the years that have made that noise, too. > >cheers, >frank > > > >-- >"Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow >the directions. -- I want to die peacfuly in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming like the passengers in his car... Will Shriner -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
