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Thread of Cute
« on: October 19, 2016, 09:37:51 am »
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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2016, 10:32:37 am »
Thread for cute/cheerful/happy stories only that don't rate a full thread of their own.

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Thank you.  goopo 888heartkitty

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2016, 11:24:25 am »
Thread for cute/cheerful/happy stories only that don't rate a full thread of their own.

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All right you sbroda. This means u.

Hey Freya. I need some cat advice. Our Sheena cat now insists she sleeps on my spot. Any any way to lure her back into to the old arrangement?
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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2016, 11:30:06 am »
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All right you sbroda. This means u.

Hey Freya. I need some cat advice. Our Sheena cat now insists she sleeps on my spot. Any any way to lure her back into to the old arrangement?

My own experience is either
A. You will need to find a new spot.
B. She will get bored in a week or so and you will have your old spot back.

Of course you can always go with the drastic solution.
Get a puppy and put him in that spot. Cat will never go these again but it will be the dog's forevermore.

Frankly, I think your cat will find a new spot soon. They are very fickle when it comes to things like that. I mean, they were once worshipped as Gods in Egypt. They don't want us to forget that.  8888sitting kitty
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2016, 11:31:56 am »
@bigheadfred , you can always ask @Hopalong Ginsberg kitty questions.

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2016, 11:51:34 am »
Ok. Here's one, just posted today on Cheezeburger. It's just a video link. The upshot is there's a lady in hospice who's dying and her last wish is to snuggle some kittens.

The kittens are adorable and the lady seems so happy snuggling with them. This would probably be my last wish too.

http://cheezburger.com/296711/video-great-plains-spca-grants-woman-her-final-wish-to-snuggle-some-kittens?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=FeedBlitzRss&utm_content=Great+Plains+SPCA+Grants+Woman+Her+Final+Wish%3a+To+Snuggle+Some+Kittens
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2016, 02:42:09 pm »
Thread for cute/cheerful/happy stories only that don't rate a full thread of their own.

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2016, 03:26:57 pm »
Bookmarking for later perusal. I spend a good portion of my evenings decompressing from the day by browsing cute stuff on the web.
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2016, 04:01:51 pm »
Bookmarking for later perusal. I spend a good portion of my evenings decompressing from the day by browsing cute stuff on the web.

We will need that after tonight too. Anyone want to post cute photos please do. As well.

@Sanguine that puppy is precious.
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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2016, 04:38:29 pm »
This is one of the most adorable gifs I've ever seen. I don't know how to post gifs here.

It's a baby penguin. I can't think of too many things cuter than a baby penguin.

http://http://cheezburger.com/5719287040

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2016, 10:40:11 pm »
Ok. Here's one, just posted today on Cheezeburger. It's just a video link. The upshot is there's a lady in hospice who's dying and her last wish is to snuggle some kittens.

The kittens are adorable and the lady seems so happy snuggling with them. This would probably be my last wish too.

http://cheezburger.com/296711/video-great-plains-spca-grants-woman-her-final-wish-to-snuggle-some-kittens?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=FeedBlitzRss&utm_content=Great+Plains+SPCA+Grants+Woman+Her+Final+Wish%3a+To+Snuggle+Some+Kittens

That was sweet enough to give sugar diabetes.

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2016, 02:08:47 am »
Time to ignore the "debate" and instead smile at a cute baby goat:

http://vine.co/v/OQ3UJBKI16v/
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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #13 on: October 20, 2016, 02:45:52 am »
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« Reply #14 on: October 20, 2016, 02:48:23 am »
No wait, it's a swarm of Goldens!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGE39IsemFw
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« Reply #15 on: October 20, 2016, 02:51:51 am »
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« Reply #16 on: October 20, 2016, 03:07:13 am »
Too cute!

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2016, 01:28:05 pm »
To beat off election malaise.

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« Reply #19 on: October 20, 2016, 01:30:21 pm »
Here's the puppy one from earlier this morning so you don't have to click the URL.

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« Reply #20 on: October 20, 2016, 10:54:18 pm »
“The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.” ― Louis L'Amour

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« Reply #21 on: October 20, 2016, 11:22:51 pm »
Best Southern dog names...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/best-southern-dog-names-174838926.html

Some good names in there. But "Hudson"?  Who names their dog Hudson?

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« Reply #22 on: October 20, 2016, 11:24:44 pm »
Some good names in there. But "Hudson"?  Who names their dog Hudson?
It didn't sound very Southern to me, but maybe they meant the old car co. not the river.
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« Reply #23 on: October 20, 2016, 11:28:05 pm »
OK, this isn't cute, per se, but it's funny as heck.  I got it today in an email.

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Why we Shoot Deer in the Wild

Why we shoot deer in the wild. (A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this)

I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.

I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up--3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold..

The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope .., and then received an education.. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.

That deer exploded. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a lot stronger than a cow or a colt. A cow or a colt in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it jerked me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined.. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.

A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.

I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual.

Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.

Did you know that deer bite?

They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a pit bull. They bite HARD and it hurts.
The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective.

It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.

That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.

Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.

This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.

Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed.. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.

I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!!

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Re: Thread of Cute
« Reply #24 on: October 20, 2016, 11:31:44 pm »
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Awesome story!!!