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static attack do you have any cats? |
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nopez, do you? |
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my girlfriend had a cat about 10 years ago, it was really nice friendly cat called sooty, she still finds it very difficult to talk about so we havent had a cat since because she doesnt want to feel like she is replacing Sooty |
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i pet all the cats in the road that i see and come towards me |
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its like replacing a family member. but if you get a cat, that cat becomes family and then sooty has a brother or sister. I say hi to them in the street. : ) |
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Yes Sooty was definitely part of the family, very much loved, im sure we will have another cat at some point |
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there's always that family with a yellow lab named gordon, and whenever gordon dies, they run out and buy a new yellow lab and name it gordon. something about this simultaneously delights and appals me. it seems pretty callous to the previous pet, but i suppose the previous pet is in no position to care. then there's the doppleganger thing -- new gordon is not old gordon; that sort of drop-in replacement for a loved one is the sort of thing that schizophrenics flip a shit about. but there's a sort of brutal efficiency to it, as well -- turbo through the morning period and get a new hound in place as soon as possible and love it just as much. dogs are adaptable sorts and it's not long before they really do fill the gap... it's a bit harder with people. this is on my mind because someone i was with for five years just announced his engagement on facebook, and it bothered me, and i was having a lot of trouble understanding why. when you're with someone that long, it gets deep into your brain. songs on old albums you wrote about people. verbal mannerisms you've adopted as your own and then it's a weird moment when they come out of your mouth. eventually i realized what was bothering me was that we'd never sat down and done, i dunno, a post-mortem? to have a talk about the thing and how it ended. and so all those alleys of my mind that drag me back to him and those days are served up with unanswered questions, anxiety, and longing. i called him up and it was super awkward at first -- there's so much reason for me to have a problem with him or him to have a problem with me -- but quickly it emerged that we both pretty much felt the same way. it is over but we are still deep, deep in each others' brains. i am not sure if we'll keep talking past that, but i feel much better now. you may as well get a new sooty. replacing a pet is LIKE replacing a family member, except the switch actually works. |
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^ thanks for the reply Yes getting a pet soon after a previous one had died would sort of invalidate the relationship she had with that specific cat in her mind. Im sure she is capable of loving another cat as equally but i suppose its one of the reasons i admire her to be that loving/emotionally attached to things, i dont know what shes going to be like when one of her parents snuffs it, im quite worried about that. Ive not met someone who buys the same breed of dog and gives it the same name immediately afterwards, it wouldnt surprise me if they were sociopaths. |
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that's exactly it; you're lost in the surface reactions we are supposed to have. you lose the ability for nuance. i am certain the people who have six yellow labs named gordon have moments where they reminisce how gordon #2 was particularly special and they probably won't luck out like again. i was trying to say that it's better to get a new cat and say this is now sooty and love it just like the other sooty. it will not be the same cat, but you will have a cat you love instead of a sour memory you pick at in idle moments. if you've been with her for more than a bit, buy her a kitten. there will be a bit of alamo -- no, cannot accept, 'cos sooty -- but then it's still a kitten, and after a week that will wear her down and she will allow herself to be happy. i don't think i'd push to name it sooty, though, that's more a metaphorical layer on all of this rather than a sane idea for your situation |
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yeah your probably right, alot of time has passed now, a decade at least, i think she partially blames herself for the cats death as she let it out of her room first thing of a morning and it got ran over or beaten to death, obviously she is trying to rationalise a random death, I might get her a cat at some point will probably help to mend her psychic wounds. now you have mentioned Labradors called Gordon i imagine every lab i see now being called Gordon, partly because their facial expression automatically gives me ideas of old turn of the century male names, like Gordon, Henry or George, if i had a Labrador id avoid middle class names and call him Steve or Rick or something |
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^ nice cat whats its name? |
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ktithah is a great name for a kitteh. |
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its what people in yorkshire call their cats probably |
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I wonder how many kittehs are actually called kitteb on their passport? i did some research... The earliest internet recording of 'kitteh', where a forum member missed the 'n' key and hit the 'h' instead ( kitten > kitteh) was in 2002 by Alan Birchwood Northampton UK. This caused a huge internet response within just a few hours as cat lovers were posting pictures and making fun comments on the many forums, also linking to Mr Birchwood's error. Other similar incidences have also occurred but with little to no jovial responses. kittej ( misterchef 2004 'catnosh.com' forum) kittem (jason doovan catsarenotevil.com forum Florida 1999 ) kitteb (freqy xltronics forumings 2016) |
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you should be a etymologist Freqy |
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eww bugs are gross |
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thats entomologist silly whats worse than lobsters on your piano? crabs on your organ! |
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haha. : P |
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give yourself a pat on the back if you said to yourself, "i bet he knows that's actually the other -ologist word perfectly well" |
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words and bugs actually have a lot in common with collectable card games |
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i knew you knew yeah |
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I didn't know epimegatwx knew. so i laughed at him. haha :P . . . . ..just kiddin, i laughed at hypies organ joke |
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