I did ask the vet about Molly's lizard-eating. He said that she might get a sick stomach but that it wouldn't really hurt her. His own personal cats confine themselves to eating the tails, so he has a lot of tailless lizards running around his house. For those of you unfamiliar with lizard physiology - they drop their tails pretty easily when they feel threatened, to distract predators, which clearly is sometimes a successful strategy. So it's not like his cats are partially eating live lizards, although I wouldn't expect a cat to care about the morality of such a thing at all.
Tomorrow I am off work. I think I'll probably go shopping.
I offer my readers this interesting graphic about the stimulus plan.
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Cats, like dogs will eat anything at times. Many year ago on my grandparents farm we had two cats--named Barney and Julie, after the local precher and his wife. Anyway they would catch small smakes and eat them. Year later, I learned that many early farmers kept cats just for that reason, and for the rats also. Had a poodle once that would catch and eat squirrels.
I hope the preacher and his wife appreciated the compliment.
My grandparents had barn cats to keep the rodent population down. They were feral for the most part, but I remember watching my uncle milk the cow, and the mama cat coming to sit nearby, and him occasionally giving her a squirt of milk.
I think that's why cats throw up so easily. That's a completely uninformed and unscientific opinion. Just an observation of over 50 years of cat ownership. As my former vet said, "Cats throw up. It's their thing."
Well, it sure is.
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