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News & ArtsFriday, March 9, 2012
Cats Spend Spring Break Losing Weight With Your Cat in the Wilderness
Posted by Cienna Madrid on Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Behold beautiful New Mexico, the Land of Encatment:
A woman who was missing for nearly a month in a New Mexico national forest was found emaciated Wednesday in a sleeping bag with her cat by her side, authorities said.
Authorities said Margaret Page, 41, took some food with her but ran out, and stayed alive by drinking water from a nearby creek. She fed her cat, Miya, with cat food she had packed.
..."Her cat was in better shape than she was," Marc Levesque, incident commander with New Mexico State Police Search and Rescue, told The Associated Press. "Her cat was also hunting. (Page) ran out of food a while back."
Hat tip, mother.
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@2 Unless its a particularly large cat, you're not getting very much off of it. Also, you wouldn't want to eat it raw, so there's the dilemma of finding the means to cook it, and it doesn't sound like she had a fire going.
But on the other hand, she could've eaten the cat food and let the cat fend for itself. They like to hunt.
But on the other hand, she could've eaten the cat food and let the cat fend for itself. They like to hunt.
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Conspicuously absent from the article is whether or not she was lost. It did mention she had a history of mental illness (Cat Lady Syndrome?) Did she do this on purpose?! Month-long cat vision quest?
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In Idaho cats are also known as "Chinese Chickens."
A Chinese Chicken allowed to Free Range in the wilderness for a month goes for Top Dollar in our Whole Foods markets, if we had any. Add that subtle vibration that purring makes at night in a sleeping bag and you have yourself a full meal deal with a reverse happy ending.
You can't go into the wilderness here in Idaho and not run into 'herders' with their chinese chickens purring away in pleasure bags.
A Chinese Chicken allowed to Free Range in the wilderness for a month goes for Top Dollar in our Whole Foods markets, if we had any. Add that subtle vibration that purring makes at night in a sleeping bag and you have yourself a full meal deal with a reverse happy ending.
You can't go into the wilderness here in Idaho and not run into 'herders' with their chinese chickens purring away in pleasure bags.
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To me this is a clear demonstration of two things:
1) The capacity of humans for love and devotion, and selflessness in the cause of love, is endless and sparkling and wonderful, and
2) Cat people are crazy with mind-controlling protozoan brain parasites.
1) The capacity of humans for love and devotion, and selflessness in the cause of love, is endless and sparkling and wonderful, and
2) Cat people are crazy with mind-controlling protozoan brain parasites.
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What a super sweet cat lover!!! Seriously, I believe in feeding my animals first and myself second... But starving in the woods? I actually might feed my cat first: To me!
But honestly, what an awesome chick! Thank you strange nomad cat lady for being kind to animals!
Oh, my fish are hungry. They're pregnant live birthing fish!!! I cannot wait until the big day! But so far they're refusing to give birth, so I redesigned the tank to give the little babies a lot of hiding places so their mother doesn't eat them. What the hell? Why would she eat them? They're her children!!! And my grandchildren!!!!!!! Somebody call those "God Hates Fags" people (people?) so they can protest my fish mom's post-birth abortion/ lunch attempt... Not kidding.
But honestly, what an awesome chick! Thank you strange nomad cat lady for being kind to animals!
Oh, my fish are hungry. They're pregnant live birthing fish!!! I cannot wait until the big day! But so far they're refusing to give birth, so I redesigned the tank to give the little babies a lot of hiding places so their mother doesn't eat them. What the hell? Why would she eat them? They're her children!!! And my grandchildren!!!!!!! Somebody call those "God Hates Fags" people (people?) so they can protest my fish mom's post-birth abortion/ lunch attempt... Not kidding.
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What kind of a cat goes out hunting and doesn't bring some prey back for his or her human?
A bad cat, that's what. A bad, bad cat.
A bad cat, that's what. A bad, bad cat.
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@11 Unless the cat food she had contained raw cat meat, it seems like she could have had some of that.
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@7 aside (and if ciennasmommy is open to adopting a 40 year old, please let me know)is it a common practice to go hiking with your kitty?
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