About Dogs and Cats and their Buddies. And some little jokes.

Previously posted on my Facebook Page.

CATS lack the cognitive skills to interpret human language, but they recognize when you talk to them. To put it another way, cats comprehend human language in the same way that we understand meowing. Meanwhile, in case you see your cat reading Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” and watching a bird video on YouTube with captions, like Fizz The Wiz here, that’d mean there are still many wonders that expert hoomans haven’t “studied” yet about cats. 🐱📖🐱

PANHANDLING is more often referred to as begging. Panhandlers are often assumed as homeless or extremely poor. Panhandlers in Asheville have increased in recent years. Not that Asheville is an impoverished city with no available jobs. Local chain Ingles is hiring all the time. I notice panhandlers who look healthier than I am, wearing new pairs of shoes, with a huge dog that refuses a Bojangles chicken leg. The panhandler/dog owner demands “organic, grass-fed 5 dollars.” 🧙🫴🧙‍♂️

CAT hunting is more about fun and entertainment. The mere sight and sound of prey triggers your cat's hunting instinct which is hardwired into their brains. Quite simply, your cat is powerless to resist the flapping wings of a bird or the scuttling feet of a small mouse. Ching though who watches a lot of bird videos on YouTube is learning a lot about those flapping wings or how birds are. She told me that she wants to date a bird one day soon. 🐱🐦🐱

TIME MANAGEMENT, the ability to use one's time effectively or productively, especially at work. My life’s time management  these days pretty much revolves around Arrow The Good Doog, Ching The Zing, and Fizz The Wiz. All the rest are mostly streaming TV, basketball TV, and Facebook. Uh huh. ⏰⏳⏱

WHY do cats break stuff? It's fun. Curiosity The Cat. They love to explore everything around them and find certain aspects of play entertaining to them. One of the biggest components of quality of life is pleasure, and cats receive untold rewards by knocking things over. Also, they want to know if those vases and glasses are made in China or made in Texas in factories owned by China and employ workers who look like Chinese from Mexico. (Did I satisfy your anti China fix now?) 🐈🏺🐈

THEORIES suggest that cats may be able to instinctively choose the right direction if finding themselves in a new place. Cats may be among a very select few animals that are able to sense the Earth's magnetic fields. The presence of iron in their inner ears and skin may also act as a natural compass. That is why Koofus The Koolcat invented the prototype to GPS or global positioning system a.k.a. Navstar GPS although Fizz told me cats don’t have anything to do with Mapquest or Google Maps. 🐈🛞🐈

WHAT happens when you lose your cellphone? Activate the “Find my device” feature right away so that you can locate and erase your phone if it gets lost or stolen. Lock your SIM card with a PIN so that thieves can't use it with another phone. Or ask your cat where she hid it. 📲👉😺

WHY do cats knock things off? Cats are natural born hunters, and their prey instinct is a big contributor to this behavior. Example: If that paperweight sitting on your desk was a mouse, your cat needs to investigate it. She needs to bat it around to make sure it's not a tiny ET. That’s good, if your cat studies the object first before, and not after, knocking it off the counter. Which is Fizz. If she finds a silly thingy in my room, like a Chucky doll, she’d knock it off, pronto. She already did. 🐱🏹🐱

WHY are pet cats so mischievous? Because they are fed and do not have to hunt their food to survive so they have a lot of unused energy. Their predatory drive urges them to seek out and chase anything that moves. Fizz The Wiz is different. She channels her energies, intellectually than physically. Fizz analyzes what Arrow finds in the yard like DNA traces of possible interpolators and what Ching recorded via her CCTV eyes. So when it comes to hacking computers? That’d be Fizz. 😺😹😼

POWER of OBSERVATION, the ability to notice and pay close attention to things. Example: “The dog's excellent powers of observation are evident in his book's detailed descriptions. It’s a good thing that his editor is a cat.” 🤔😕🤔