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yes, they're now Americans.
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news
and this helps explain a lot about the level of development they have
ascended to huh?
rick

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:41:56 GMT, Scout wrote:

Yep, I've been told that native Americans used their dogs as
bio-refrigerators. The dogs ate all the scraps and leftovers, thereby
storing and transporting the surplus calories quite nicely until they
were
needed elsewhere.
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Framk chided: Katy, you should know better. Blame it on your typing?

Nope...I cut and psted it out of the great Ph.D.'s posting....I try not =
to correct him on these things because it tears away at his ego so badly =
and I can't stand that kind of suffering.

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Good idea. Wouldn't want to mix Felix domesticus with Felis Catus would we?

:-P

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Framk chided: Katy, you should know better. Blame it on your typing?

Nope...I cut and psted it out of the great Ph.D.'s posting....I try not to correct him on these things because it tears away at his ego so badly and I can't stand that kind of suffering.


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So your cats were wet too? What is it with your household?

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My SIamese, Ginger, would play in the toilet and the kids wading pool
but never had access to a lake or stream. Jake, my tortie, would jump
in the bathrub with a person...quite disconcerting if you weren't used
to sharing your bath with a cat.


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How do you know that?

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they're not happy (felix) domestics




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MC replied: Good idea. Wouldn't want to mix Felix domesticus with Felis =
Catus would we?

Felis domesticus
Noun 1. Felis domesticus - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
domestic cat, Felis catus, house cat
Felis, genus Felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most =
wildcats


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MC asked:=20
So your cats were wet too? What is it with your household?

We're just all round water-lovers. I grew up on the water...we used to =
swim our horses in the gravel pit when I was in school, too....had to =
watch out that you didn't fall off, though, because they thrash a =
lot....all my kids were introduced to swimming before they could =
walk....What a strange question to come from someone that purportedly =
spends so much time on the water....
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Yes. The strange thing is that there thousands of references calling the
cat Felix Domesticus -even in a review in Nature. Could it be that the
cat is evolving into a happier creature?

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MC replied: Good idea. Wouldn't want to mix Felix domesticus with Felis Catus would we?

Felis domesticus
Noun 1. Felis domesticus - any domesticated member of the genus Felis
domestic cat, Felis catus, house cat
Felis, genus Felis - type genus of the Felidae: true cats and most wildcats


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Note "on the water" not in it Kook.

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So your cats were wet too? What is it with your household?

We're just all round water-lovers. I grew up on the water...we used to swim our horses in the gravel pit when I was in school, too....had to watch out that you didn't fall off, though, because they thrash a lot....all my kids were introduced to swimming before they could walk....What a strange question to come from someone that purportedly spends so much time on the water....


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MC mused:=20

-- Yes. The strange thing is that there thousands of references calling =
the=20
cat Felix Domesticus=20

Just semantics...that's all....
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