Cats that glow like jellyfish, now in labs, are just the beginning.Wait. What?
Yes. It hardly seems a sporting thing to do to an animal that likes to hunt at night.
I know I said I like innovation in resource use, but I don't believe cats are merely a resource for us to use as we please.
I don't know, that seems to be how they think of us. Maybe turnabout's fair play?
ReplyDeleteIf I get to judge my own morals by the standards of my cat . . .! Then, yes, it seems fair enough. But when cats perform vivisection, they don't use anesthesia.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, that image looks filtered, with a light shining on the cat.
ReplyDeleteEric Hines
Maybe so--I don't trust images from the Net not to be photoshopped, but that one came from Scientific American, which hasn't lost 100% of my confidence yet. (Close.)
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, they won't admit cats to anesthesiology school, so it's hard to blame them.
ReplyDeleteDang licensing requirements and their disparate impacts.
ReplyDeleteUnless the cat is hunting under the right lighting, you'd never know it "glows":
ReplyDelete"The result is visible to the naked eye (under blue light)."
Plus, if those cats are anything like mine, the only "hunting" they'll do is for bugs that get into the house.
Spd may beg to differ with your opinion.
ReplyDeleteAs for myself, is there anyway to make that glow form a crosshair target? Not that I dislike cats....just the one that currently resides on the Dark Side.
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Maybe it's just sporting.
ReplyDeleteSo Grim, you're saying I shouldn't adopt a third cat, because since my two girls only hunt bugs, the third would be a murderer?
ReplyDelete:P
Meet my cats...
ReplyDeleteSophie and Velvet
You can adopt a third cat if it seems prudent to you. I'm just saying, if it is a glowing cat the cardinals will have a sporting chance.
ReplyDeleteIf I install blue lights outside my house, at least. Or if birds can see in a different wavelength that lets them see the glow without the blue lighting. But either way, it was a lame attempt at a joke.
ReplyDeleteKind of like my Father-in-Law's explanation of why he only had four children. He heard that every fifth child on Earth was Chinese, and he didn't want to have to have his wife cheat on him just for another kid.
the cardinals will have a sporting chance.
ReplyDeleteSporting chances only run up the friendly casualty rates. No. No sporting chances.
And: spot on, Mike.
Eric Hines
Cats may be allies in the war on Order Rodentia, but I'm not sure how many of them are "friendlies."
ReplyDeleteAlthough I did meet a cat up in DC that was a functional service animal. Could do all the usual dog tricks, plus woke her owner up when the owner -- a 100% service-disabled vet with PTSD -- had nightmares.
So that's one.
I've never met a cat who wasn't at least potentially one. Including the bobcats I've encountered.
ReplyDeleteThere's also this. You can skip past the Baba Wawa nonsense and pick up the tale at around 0+28.
Unusual, certainly. But it's another.
Eric Hines
And now, here's the right link.
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