any of you ever tried..

[Taera]

i respect my cat too much to say that. me and cat, well, i dont count her too much a pet as a family member. call me wierd if you feel like it

[Taera]

Dogs do tricks because they're smart enough to do them
Cats dont because they're smart enough to realize they can simply NOT do it.

There had been a research. A cat learns a new trick in less than 5 minutes. It just doesnt want to use it. And yes, its verified, they used the neurons in brain to track the learning progress.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

well, she learned not only to keep her little toys from sliding under the stove and fridge, but to look under there for new and lost ones. that's abstract thinking, isn't it?

[Gryphin]

I have taught more than one cat to play fetch. All of them will do it
when they want to.
A dog does it because it wants to please you.

Dogs think of you as the pack leader.
Cats think of you as their mother.

[dogscoff]

When I lived with my parents we had 2 cats. Now I live with my girlfriend and we have a rabbit named Snuff.

He is utterly fearless, perpetually active, impervious to discipline, unreasonably cute and quite the most destructive pet I could ever have imagined. I guess it's my own fault for naming him after a punk band...

Everything that he can reach is a target for chewing and/ or digging activity: wires, furniture, rugs, walls, shoes, people, laundry, paperwork, curtains, laptops, doors, houseplants (especially the houseplants), mobile phones... He's only about 9 inches tall when he stands upright so you'd think you could just put stuff out of reach, except now he's big enough to jump and/or climb onto just about any surface in my home. I swear he runs up walls when we're not looking like some kind of lop-eared spiderman. Oh, and he's nowhere near his full size and destructive capacity yet, being only 4 months old.

And I haven't even mentioned the little poo-pellets I keep finding on the floor, in the bed, under the sofa-cushions, in my laptop, in my trouser pockets (how..?), in my filing cabinet and just about anywhere else. Still, it's good fertiliser for what's left of the houseplants.

If anyone's interested I'll post some pictures later.

So I've decided the pet I really want is one of those Sony robot-dog things. Clean, obedient and cute. Perfect. Shame they cost about 1500 quid. Maybe I could get the rabbit chrome-plated...

[Ragnarok]

Now I live with my girlfriend and we have a rabbit named Snuff.

Does he have red eyes and sharp pointy teeth?

[Cyrien]

Someone get the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch ready...