It works! It works!

[balmofgilead]

My theory that you can go on eating junk food forever as long as you alternate between the salty and the sweet? Totally accurate. Proved it (again) today with cheetos and markdown christmas chocolate.

Whether it's wise to do so is another issue entirely.

What is definitely not wise to do is to wake Miriam up at the asscrack of dawn every morning, if you are a cat that would like to continue to receive food and shelter and petting from her.

Comments

[calypso72]

This letter to the editor of NY Times made me think of you:

The Cat Owner Knows
Published: January 9, 2006

To the Editor:

Re "DNA Analyses Offer New Insight on Cat Evolution and Migration" (news article, Jan. 6): Your reference to "the most successful cat of all ... the cat that has induced people to pay for its board and lodging in return for frugal displays of affection" made me, as someone owned by two such cats, laugh out loud.

Joanie Siegel
New York, Jan. 6, 2006

[balmofgilead.livejournal.com]

Heh. I heard a similar idea once (maybe this)that dogs are "social parasites/manipulators" adapted to be able to display just enough of what seems to be humanlike emotion to get us to love and care for and get attached to them. I totally don't feel taken advantage of by dogs, though. To me it feels like they truly *are* loyal.

My cat doesn't really display affection so much, but he is cute. The dogs I work with display much more affection (one practically lay on top of me at naptime today, trying to get close to me.)

[calypso72]

I seem to remember learning (in an anthropology class?) that cats and dogs were so successful in domestication, in spite of their relative uselessness to us (we can't milk them after all) becuase of their large forward-facing eyes which distinctly resemble a human baby's facial features. Scary to think we are that easily manipulable, but I buy it 100%. I even named one of my cats "Baby" and cradled him in my arms like one all the time....

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

ROTFLOL! Yeah, you are definitely owned by a cat, now. Welcome to the club!