Rumpus asks
Did you notice that the movie Gremlins could be an allegory about cat ownership if you replace the mogwi with kittens and consider “feeding them after midnight” to mean not spay/neutering and just letting the population grow beyond the bounds of the environment to sustain them?
#1: No, that honestly had not crossed my mind before…
#2: I did not notice that, no. But now that you mention it…
Spay and neuter your pets everyone! And support spay and neuter programs!
December 23, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Isn’t the bigger message, if we compare cats to gremlins, to not feed cats after midnight, or they will become living terrors as you try to sleep?
December 23, 2011 at 2:02 pm
YES.
We have a timer on the food dispenser so we can say, “Big kitty, we don’t FEED you anymore.” Also: water-gun.
December 25, 2011 at 6:58 pm
That reminds me of a science fiction book I read a long time ago about someone teaching kids to dance whenever they saw a traffic light…which reminds me of Steve Martin’s “May I mambo dogface to the banana patch?” At least Pavlov just made the poor dogs drool all over the place…my cat will do that just from getting petted.
December 23, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Water-gun only works if your cats are actually detered by getting wet. One of mine isn’t.
December 23, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Very sad. :(
December 25, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Ha! That reminds me of http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/01/10
December 23, 2011 at 3:56 pm
Haha too funny. I’m gonna have to start calling you Bob Barker.
December 23, 2011 at 10:39 pm
F*cken goddamn inbred tonkinese motherf*cker just took a f*cken bite out of my mothef*cken hand. F*cken catteasse motherf*cken asshole.
December 25, 2011 at 9:50 am
I am always shocked when I meet folks who have not spayed/neutered their animals, especially if they don’t intend for their animal to breed. It’s not that expensive!