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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House

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Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark, There's Charles w Chuck Bryant, and Jerry's

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Speaker 1: over there, and this is stuff you should know. The

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Speaker 1: podcast the annoying podcast apparently the what the annoying podcast?

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Speaker 1: Cat Me Owning is annoying. Oh, it's like there's rusty

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Speaker 1: nails in my blood vessels. You don't like cats, do

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Speaker 1: you know? I'm just kidding out climate cat um. I

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Speaker 1: think people are like our heart cuts. Or conversely, people

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Speaker 1: not humans. Yeah, I mean I get the preference. I

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Speaker 1: have both, as you know, and as everyone knows. Two dogs,

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Speaker 1: two cats, and I'm gonna be talking about my cats

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Speaker 1: a lot. So Lauran and the Whiz the wizard yet

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Speaker 1: I call him the Whiz. It's my pet name for him. No,

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Speaker 1: we call him the Whiz or wizzled with an L.

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Speaker 1: I haven't reached the point where I'm he's comfortable with

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Speaker 1: me calling him that. Oh, sure he is. Well, we

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Speaker 1: have tons of nicknames, like everyone does for their pets.

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Speaker 1: I even made a list one time. You made a

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Speaker 1: list of pet nicknames for our pets, just so we

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Speaker 1: had them all down. Do you have that on your

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Speaker 1: were you drinking when you did this? Uh? Milk? By

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Speaker 1: the way, let me just say I now to have

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get into this. And if you don't

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Speaker 1: C A T cat is defined. So let's talk history

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Speaker 1: with cats. That's where we usually like to start. It's good,

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Speaker 1: egypt were was the culture, the group of humans that

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Speaker 1: Uh in seven is neighbor. You know people use things

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Speaker 1: a kitty litter. That was right. Originally was kitty litter, right,

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Speaker 1: what ed Loo did. And and pet store owners said, wait,

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Speaker 1: And they may also turn into biters because they don't

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00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: have the ability to claw anymore. So maybe like, well

422
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: I use my teeth instead. It is way worse and

423
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: supposedly also a lot of reason that some some people

424
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,840
Speaker 1: have their cats declawed is not just for their furnisher

425
00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:12,120
Speaker 1: stake because they're worried about things like cats scratch fever.

426
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: Because Ted Nugent preached against right. Um, but the but

427
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,640
Speaker 1: the the idea that you can catch an infection from

428
00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:24,639
Speaker 1: a cat scratch is far less likely than a cat's bite,

429
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 1: dealing with cats feces um, or getting bitten by a

430
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: flea that isn't infected that is a near your cat.

431
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: So being scratched by a cat. Declawing a cat to

432
00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: prevent infection is actually a terrible idea as well. Yeah.

433
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,120
Speaker 1: And if you have indoor outdoor cats and you declawed them, um,

434
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: that's just like the worst possible scenario because then they

435
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,520
Speaker 1: literally have no defense than the outside world their toasts.

436
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 1: So are we clear enough? Don't declare your cats. In fact,

437
00:25:55,160 --> 00:26:00,640
Speaker 1: many countries abandoned. Yeah. Um, it's such a like, such

438
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,439
Speaker 1: a bad thing to do. So I'm not judging him.

439
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: Some people don't know, Um you know, well yeah, so,

440
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 1: so we're trying to educate you. So you brought up

441
00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 1: indoor and outdoor cats, here's another soapbox for you to

442
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 1: stand on, chuck, just slide it over. Um. There is

443
00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 1: a great debate on whether cats should be indoor cats

444
00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: or outdoor cats. And like we said, for almost all

445
00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:33,720
Speaker 1: of domestic house cats history, they were not indeed housecats.

446
00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:36,760
Speaker 1: They were not strictly indoor cats because just didn't really

447
00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: exist very much um, and they were allowed to come

448
00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: in and out, or they were strictly outdoor cats. And

449
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,959
Speaker 1: it's a fairly recent change. But there's a lot of um.

450
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: A lot of the animal rights groups say no, you

451
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: should keep your cats indoors. It's the safest place for

452
00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: your cat. The American Bird Conservancy says that you would

453
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: be also saving the lives of countless small animals. They

454
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 1: The American Bird Conservancy estimates that in the US alone,

455
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 1: cats kill hundreds of millions of birds and more than

456
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: a billion small mammals like rabbit, squirrels, and chipmunks every year.

457
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:16,400
Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy, That's like, well beyond the circle of life. Yeah,

458
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: you know. So there's a lot of people who say, yes,

459
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: you should keep your cat indoors, and then the other

460
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: the other side says, don't be stupid. These are outdoor animals.

461
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: You should not confine them indoors. It's unnatural. Well, yeah,

462
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: the thing I'm most often here is my cat loves

463
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: it outside, which is true. Your cat does love it outside,

464
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: But for me, it's you know, you're the owner. It's

465
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: up to you. Like an indoor cat can live fifteen

466
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: seventeen twenty years if you have a strictly outdoor cat,

467
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,239
Speaker 1: they say, the life expectancy is can be as little as,

468
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: you know, two to five years. It's definitely like a

469
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 1: live fast, die young scenario. Yeah. For the outdoor cats,

470
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: sure they can get Uh well, I mean, how many

471
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,959
Speaker 1: times have you walked down the street or driven down

472
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: the road and seen a squash cat that was somebody's

473
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 1: house cat? Far less than a squashed dog or even

474
00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,560
Speaker 1: really yeah, not that I think about it, I very

475
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: rarely have seen a dead cat on the side of

476
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,440
Speaker 1: the road. Well, how about this, how many times have

477
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:23,160
Speaker 1: you seen a cat across the road? Successfully? Probably a lot,

478
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:27,159
Speaker 1: because cats are pretty smart. They're not like squirrels. Like

479
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: a squirrel run into the middle of the road, it

480
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 1: will be across the road and they'll turn back like,

481
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 1: oh the tire missed me, Let me go make it

482
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: easier for it. Cats are pretty good at it. But

483
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 1: your cats shouldn't have to be good at crossing a

484
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,600
Speaker 1: street with cars. Well, then you get into the idea

485
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: of like humans fragmenting natural habitats and all that kind

486
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,200
Speaker 1: of stuff, because if if you really look at it, chuck,

487
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: especially with cats, if you consider the idea that they

488
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:57,080
Speaker 1: are not fully domesticated animals, and that we have basically

489
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: shuffled them around the world. We basically take an African

490
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: wild has been like, hey, come with us, we're going

491
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: to the New World. Hey come with us. We're gonna

492
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,560
Speaker 1: go found Rome. Hey come with us. We want you

493
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: to be one of our deities here in ancient Egypt. Um,

494
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 1: and the cats went along with it, but didn't actually

495
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: evolve to become a domesticated species. Um, then we have

496
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: just taken wildlife and shuffled it into our own human life.

497
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: And um, I I said, I don't know. I kind

498
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,720
Speaker 1: of see like the the out the indoor outdoor. Um

499
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: people sure, I see their argument. Yeah, well, if you

500
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: do the indoor outdoor thing, bring him in at night. UM,

501
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: don't have them declaude, like I said, because you're just

502
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: like throwing them into a gunfight without a gun. But

503
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: you shouldn't have any cat declaudes your or the Humane

504
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,680
Speaker 1: Society's position at I don't think you should. Personally, I

505
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: don't think you should have cats outdoors, but I'm not

506
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: gonna get all up in arms about that because I

507
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: get it. Cats do love being outside. Um. One thing

508
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: you can do, though, if you do have an indoor cat,

509
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: is build some sort of enclosure for them that is outside,

510
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 1: or like let them hang out on a screen and

511
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,440
Speaker 1: porch or someplaces. They're not going to get actually outside

512
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,720
Speaker 1: of your house, and but they're still able to enjoy

513
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 1: the out of doors. Yeah, we go out on my

514
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: deck and they love it. They don't want to come in. Um.

515
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 1: And I know we'll hear from people that say, I

516
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: had an outdoor cat that lived to be seventeen. You

517
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: got super lucky, you know, I mean that's great. Yeah,

518
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:30,840
Speaker 1: there's probably folks songs about that cat among cats. Uh.

519
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 1: And they recommend if you do want to keep your

520
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: cat indoors, startom young, because once that cat gets the

521
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:40,479
Speaker 1: taste for the outside, it's really hard to get them

522
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: to be indoor cats after that. Yeah. UM, I hope

523
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: I'm not too judging in this. I don't think so.

524
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: I just think, you know, if your cat is gonna

525
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,320
Speaker 1: live many, many years longer inside, then keep them inside.

526
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,959
Speaker 1: So but if you are going to keep your cat inside, um,

527
00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 1: there are some things that you want to do for

528
00:30:59,840 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: your cat, like, for one, UM, an indoor cat's life

529
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: is extraordinarily sedentary, especially compared to an outdoor cat's life. Right, Um,

530
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: they just lay around and they get fat and happy.

531
00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: But the problem is is they can get like really

532
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: really fat, and that can lead to all sorts of problems,

533
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,920
Speaker 1: the same kind of problems that humans get when they

534
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: over eat. So one of the first things you want

535
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: to make sure you do when you have a strictly

536
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: indoor cat is to um feed it a proper diet.

537
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: And cats, unlike dogs, did not really evolve to become omnivores. Instead,

538
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: they are straight up meat eaters still, so you want

539
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: to feed them like a high protein diet. And um,

540
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: you don't want to leave that food out all day

541
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 1: because that cat will be like, I'll just eat and

542
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: eat and eat because on board. Yeah, that depends on

543
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: the cat too. We leave our food out, the dry food,

544
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: and they get there, uh called the good stuff, the

545
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: wet food. Although the thinking now is they should eat

546
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: more wet food than dry food. Yes, supposedly, that's what

547
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,440
Speaker 1: That's what I found. Yeah, but um, I'm my cats

548
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: are thirteen and we've I guess we've been doing it

549
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: wrong all these years. But they can't jump up on

550
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: the counter now where the food is because no, because

551
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: they're and uh, so well, they asked we call it.

552
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: They asked for a ride. You know, you won't through

553
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,920
Speaker 1: the kitchen, they'll go right, So I'll give him a

554
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:21,280
Speaker 1: ride up there and they'll eat some you might as well.

555
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 1: And both of my cat, like Lauren especially, he's a

556
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: main coon and he will he will literally like talk

557
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: to you. You can you yell iron and help me out?

558
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: At you? You say, what are you doing? And he'll go,

559
00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: you have a good day and to go me ow.

560
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: Whereas Wizard is not super chatty. He's a tap, short

561
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: haired tabby and he's he's not as nearly as chatty. Uh.

562
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 1: And both I found on the streets of Los Angeles. Uh,

563
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: Wizard was one was a blood and one was a cryptin.

564
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:53,479
Speaker 1: You brought them together. Wizard was in Emily's neighborhood when

565
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: we were just dating. I went over to Emily's house

566
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: and there was this couple, good natured, I think, but

567
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: they had this kit and they were trying to like

568
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: force it in a shoe box and it was just screaming.

569
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: I was like, what are you doing? They're like, this

570
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: guy's been hanging out here for a couple of weeks.

571
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: So we're trying to get it in this box so

572
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 1: we can bring it inside. Now. I was like, give me,

573
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: give me the cat, and then off with the cat,

574
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: ran into Emily's house and said, we got a cat.

575
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 1: Um that's the wizard and um no, Lauren was actually

576
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: first Lauren lived. Uh, this is kind of a neat story.

577
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: I came home from a night shoot as a p

578
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: a at seven am, exhausted, laid down to sleep, and

579
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: I heard this incessant mewing of a kitten outside. I

580
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: was like, all right, I gotta go check this out.

581
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: In my dumpster was a four week old kitten that

582
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: looked like it had been shaved on the back, but

583
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: I guess it was just maybe that top coat had

584
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 1: fallen off because he was black, but the undercoat was

585
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,880
Speaker 1: this weird short gray and he looked terrible. So I

586
00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: was like, I guess I got a cat, took him

587
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 1: to the vet, got him cleaned up, and as I

588
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: was checking out, Tim Curry a rocky horror picture show

589
00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: was the vet. Did not expect him to make an

590
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: appearance in that. No, Well, that's what kind of the

591
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 1: fun thing about l as you'll see celebrities that weird,

592
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: just normal places like the vet, so he was checking out.

593
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: I went to go right at check and needed both

594
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: hands and said, Mr Curry, would you hold my cat?

595
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 1: Did you sign my cat? Um? He probably would have,

596
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 1: but he held him and he asked what his name was.

597
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: I said Laurn and uh, because he looked so weird

598
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: and had that silver back, and he went, Lauren, you

599
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:34,120
Speaker 1: look like a baboon. And he like said that to

600
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: the cat and said he had very uh, dramatic ears.

601
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: And then he gave me Lauren back and it was

602
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: a wonderful experience. He was blessed by Tim Curry. And

603
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,279
Speaker 1: eventually Luran's hair grew out normal and he was just

604
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: a big black main coon. Uh. And they've been my

605
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: buddies ever since. They didn't get along though, and they

606
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: still don't, which is weird with cats. I guess people

607
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,200
Speaker 1: can have different different experience with the grown cats. My

608
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: experience has been once they're at a certain age, it's

609
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: hard to throw them in the same house together and

610
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,720
Speaker 1: have them be best buddies. Like. They still they co exist,

611
00:35:09,920 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: they have their own areas. They do kind of fight

612
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: every now and then we'll hear them like, you know,

613
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 1: going at it um. But when food time comes, they

614
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: eat like, you know, inches from each other, or if

615
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: there's a sun spot in the dining room, they'll lay

616
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: next to each other. They've worked it out over the years.

617
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, it's pretty interesting. They're not like dogs

618
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: dogs are either, Like I think they get along right away,

619
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 1: unless you have a dog that's aggressive, you know, very fascinating. Yeah,

620
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: there's nowhere to go but down after that story, so

621
00:35:44,239 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: let's take a break, agreed. So check. One of the

622
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:16,960
Speaker 1: things that um cats most famous for is their behavior, right, Like,

623
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: there's just certain things cats do that other no other

624
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: animal does. Very quirky. So for example, um, what's called

625
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: making biscuits are kneading dough. It's the best. So what

626
00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: is that? Uh? Well, if you maybe you're laying on

627
00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 1: your couch and your cat jumps up on your belly

628
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 1: and then just starts flexing its paws, um pushing their

629
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: paws in and out left, right, left, right, as if

630
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: they were kneading dough or making biscuits. Uh. Sometimes they

631
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: keep their claws in for this. Sometimes they flex them

632
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 1: into your skin a little bit, which to me doesn't hurt.

633
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: I think it feels quite nice. And there are a

634
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: bunch of theories on why they do this, but I

635
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: think the leading one is that when you see little kittens,

636
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: they kind of need on mama's belly to get more theoretically,

637
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,200
Speaker 1: to prime the pump a little bit to get more

638
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 1: milk flow. Yeah, but you should not feed cat's milk.

639
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 1: We should mention no, because you're feeding a cat cow's

640
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,879
Speaker 1: milk and they are not capable of digesting cow's milk.

641
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: It's actually really bad for him. I wonder where that

642
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: came from. I don't know. Tom and Jerry definitely did

643
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: not help any cat, you know, because Tom was crazy

644
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: for that stuff in a variety of ways that didn't

645
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: help cats. That cartoon um. But yeah, that's that's the

646
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: predominant theory that they're basically hearkening back to a happy childhood,

647
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: and they're also releasing They have scent glands in their paws,

648
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,760
Speaker 1: so when they're scratching or kneeding, making biscuits, they're releasing

649
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: that scent as they're like kind of claiming their territory, right,

650
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,040
Speaker 1: they're marking whatever that is, whether it's their humans belly.

651
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: There's a really cute UM video and an article you

652
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 1: sent me that has um like a cat needing a

653
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: dog upon its side and the cats just and there,

654
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: like kneading its shoulders and that pretty good stuff. So

655
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,480
Speaker 1: the cats saying this dog, this is my dog, that's

656
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: my dog. Um, and uh, there's other ways that cats

657
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: also mark their territory. They're people, um using scent glands too.

658
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: It's not just in their claws. Um, they're also on

659
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: their faces, which is one reason why cats kind of

660
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,239
Speaker 1: bump faces with you. Yeah, we call it the head butt.

661
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:30,479
Speaker 1: You know, cat Lauren head butts a lot. Wizard doesn't

662
00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: head butt as much. But if you're scratching a cat

663
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:35,879
Speaker 1: with your finger a lot of times they'll they'll make

664
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: sure that finger gets at the corner of their mouth. Um,

665
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: you have sent glands there in the pause. Um, and

666
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: they're they just they eat that stuff up. They love it.

667
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,160
Speaker 1: They are they're they're marking you. And then they're also

668
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: taking in any weird sense you may have gotten to,

669
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: which is why some people will be like, your cat

670
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: knows when you've been holding another cat and they're not

671
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: happy about it because they can smell that other cat

672
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: because that cat was like you go, sucker, I just

673
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna take your cat off. This is my person now. Uh.

674
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: Cats can also spray. Um. It is very pungent. It's

675
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: not just urine, although it can be, but most of

676
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: the time it's urine mixed with a fatty material, viscous

677
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: fatty material. It's really musky and stinky. Uh. If you

678
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: get your cat fixed, which you should, spay a neuter

679
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: early as as early as possible. But that'll take care

680
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:31,879
Speaker 1: about spray issues. Uh. If you don't fix your cat,

681
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 1: you're you're just asking for it. They will pay you back.

682
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: Yeah in spray. Yeah, not in spades, but in spray.

683
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,480
Speaker 1: And what they'll do is it's uh sometimes if it's

684
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 1: a horizontal surface, they kind of just be. If it's

685
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: a vertical surface, they'll spray and they'll they'll back that

686
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: thing up and you'll see the tail quiver and comments. Right.

687
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: But Laurn and other cats, I think, even after you've

688
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: had them fixed, will mimic the spray. Like he'll go

689
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: by the couch and back up to it and quiver

690
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,200
Speaker 1: a sale but nothing comes out. Oh he's just psyching

691
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: you out. You're like, no, no, He's like, I'm just kid.

692
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: He fixed. Uh. And a lot of times it's stress

693
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:15,520
Speaker 1: a lot of times it is to mark their territory,

694
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 1: and sometimes it's a male saying like hey smell this,

695
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: check me out. And sometimes it's in revenge, like if

696
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: your cat's not happy, if the litter box said, like

697
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: remember my story when I didn't put letter in there.

698
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Lauren started peeing everywhere. It just goes off

699
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: like a paint bomb and a bag of bank robbery money. Uh.

700
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: Cats can drool. Had one very drulie cat as a kid. Yeah,

701
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: but supposedly that's like a really bad sign if your

702
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: cat drools a lot, well, it can. It can signify

703
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: in a medical issue, right, So if your cat doesn't

704
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,279
Speaker 1: normally drool and starts drooling, you should get it checked out.

705
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 1: But if you're you can just have a Drulie cat

706
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:04,239
Speaker 1: as well. If you're working that scent gland um, they'll

707
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: they'll you know this cat scooter I had. It was

708
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: along here and laurent rios a little bit, which is

709
00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: drool like crazy. Really yeah, So it's so if it

710
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 1: is a problem and usually indicates something like um, some

711
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 1: sort of oral disease, or they're having trouble swallowing which

712
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:24,040
Speaker 1: is not good um, or they might have motion sickness interesting,

713
00:41:24,239 --> 00:41:26,319
Speaker 1: and panting is not good in your cat. Like, if

714
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: you see a dog panting, that's your dog's panting. But

715
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: if a cat's doing it is really stressed out. Yeah,

716
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 1: that's like when Wizard was panting in the attic, it

717
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,439
Speaker 1: was it's disturbing to see a cat pant. Uh. Funny

718
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: enough that cat, Scooter ran away from my house. We

719
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,720
Speaker 1: had outdoor cats growing up. I didn't, man, we didn't

720
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: do the right thing when I was a kid in

721
00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,560
Speaker 1: my family. No, No, we didn't go to the vet much.

722
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:53,840
Speaker 1: It was kind of like look kind of like country style,

723
00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: like you just had animals. If they got sick and dyed,

724
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: they got sick and died. But I was I was

725
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: very much educated as I got older on like proper

726
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: pet care and like you take your cat to the

727
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: vet once or twice a year to get checkups. Yeah, exactly,

728
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: just like you do a dog. But Scooter ran away

729
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 1: from home and I found that cat like three years later,

730
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: five miles away from my house, living at someone else's house.

731
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: And see wearing like a necklace made of chipmunks skulls. Right,

732
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: he had this wild look in his eye. You know,

733
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,719
Speaker 1: he was still he just lived with someone else. I

734
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: don't know how he got there. I mean it was

735
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: a long way. Still, he hang gone Ferrell, he just

736
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: moved in with another family. Yeah, he was in this

737
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: driveway just hanging out and ran up to the door.

738
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 1: He didn't know you, but he had he had his tag.

739
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: He ran right up to me and I didn't take him.

740
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: I was like, I guess you're happier here. How old

741
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: were you? I was probably like twelve. Wow, Chuck, that

742
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 1: was a very adult decision to leave the cat. Yeah,

743
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,440
Speaker 1: good for you. I think it was on my bike too.

744
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 1: It was just didn't make logistical sense, Like how am

745
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: I gonna get this cat back? You know you're gonna

746
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: have him stand on your pegs And I think I

747
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:01,360
Speaker 1: probably went by Kilm was like I saw Scooter. My

748
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: parents with like, who you mean? We told you never

749
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 1: to talk of him again? The one that left. It's

750
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: so funny. Uh. If you want to get a cat

751
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 1: um as with all pets, just think about if you

752
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: have the time to take care of a cat. They

753
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,839
Speaker 1: don't need the kind of training a dog a puppy does,

754
00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: but they still need to be trained as kittens. If

755
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: you're going to take them outside. Sometimes if they're an

756
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: indoor cat and you're like, I really want my cat

757
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: to be able to enjoy the outdoors, strongly recommended that you,

758
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,759
Speaker 1: um train them to to walk around in a leash.

759
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: I've seen it. I have to. There's a guy in

760
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: mining US place that has a cat that walks on

761
00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: a leash. Yeah, it's pretty crazy and cute. It's hilarious.

762
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: You're like, where's that cat? Should be wearing a stove

763
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: top hat or something. That's what it looks like. It

764
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:53,319
Speaker 1: looks like some sort of trick is about to happen. Yeah,

765
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,919
Speaker 1: when you see a cat on a leash a right, Like, yeah,

766
00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: that's clearly a performer. Hilarious. Um, you should always adopt cats.

767
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,840
Speaker 1: If even if you want a specific breed, check with

768
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,800
Speaker 1: your local shelters because they probably have something that strikes

769
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 1: your cat fancy. There are seventy was it seventy million

770
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: or seven million? Seventy million, uh, stray cats in the

771
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: United States and growing every day. Yeah, like one cat.

772
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: If if this cat is feral and obviously not spade

773
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: or neutered, that that can lead to hundreds of cats. Oh,

774
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,879
Speaker 1: very quickly. They have a litter or two or three.

775
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: Then those kittens have litters and always always say new

776
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: to your cat and adopt, don't shop um, because there

777
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:43,879
Speaker 1: are tons and tons of great kittens and kitties. Uh,

778
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: just walk into a shelter and I guarantee you you

779
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: will find at least one that you want to keep.

780
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: Or you can walk around Los Angeles and look for

781
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:54,960
Speaker 1: somebody who's trying to adopt the kitten and wrestle it

782
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: away from him. Yeah. You know, we got Buckley, our dog,

783
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: from a an actual shelter, but all of the rest

784
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,239
Speaker 1: of our animals have literally just been pulled off the

785
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: street because they kind of pulled off. It sounds like

786
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: your kidnapped that we did from the wild, the wilds

787
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: of l A. Yeah, except for our youngest dog, which

788
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,719
Speaker 1: was the only Georgia animal we have, Charlie. We had

789
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,080
Speaker 1: to trap her in a cage like she was a

790
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: wild dog. Well, yes, you can tell. She's like, you

791
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: stay over there, I'm cool over here she can move to.

792
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: All these years later, Charlie still won't like she'll bark

793
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: at anyone that comes in our house. That's who she is.

794
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 1: Part of the breed too. Oh yeah, well she's a

795
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: shelty right, yeah, shelty mix of some sort. So they're like, hey,

796
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: there's a kind of thing. Yeah, they're like she literally

797
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: it's her job. She sits in the front sunroom and

798
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 1: just stairs and waits for people to walk by so

799
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: she can bark. It's maddening, is what it is, especially

800
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: when you have a sleeping baby. I think one of

801
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: the funniest things ever is when you're walking past the

802
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: house and there's a dog in the window and it

803
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: just watches you. It doesn't part, it just watches you

804
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,239
Speaker 1: as you go past. Keep walking. Pal Yeah, it's a

805
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:12,280
Speaker 1: little distressed. I think it's hilarious to see. And speaking

806
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: of babies and kids and cats, um, we're already having

807
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: to manage that stuff, you know. Um, because babies, once

808
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: you start moving, she's got that palm or grass briflex. Yeah,

809
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: they don't know. They'll they'll they'll jump on an animal,

810
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: they'll pull tales and pull hair, and you just have

811
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: to be really vigilant. And as they grow older, teach them,

812
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,360
Speaker 1: you know, how how to pat pat and how to

813
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,920
Speaker 1: be gentle. Well yeah, and you you should teach your

814
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: kid using words like gentle and soft and so they

815
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: can they say, Oh, you're not supposed to see the

816
00:46:45,160 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: of the cat's eyeballs when you pete. You know, yeah,

817
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: Wizard already popped her once in the face. Clause in

818
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: How did she take that? If she didn't like it?

819
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: She cried, We're like, Wizard, you're a jerk. He's like

820
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: what thirteen? I know, he's like was closed in. It

821
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 1: was a warning shot, right, But that was our fault,

822
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,600
Speaker 1: you know, we we thought, you know, we weren't managing

823
00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: that like we should. It's up to you. You also

824
00:47:09,640 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: want to be careful with kitty litter. Apparently toxoplasmos Is

825
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,760
Speaker 1: GANDHI has completely ruined our world. So this whole advent

826
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,600
Speaker 1: of keeping cats indoors has changed humanity in ways that

827
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:23,440
Speaker 1: we're only beginning now to understand. Did we do a

828
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 1: whole show on that, Yeah, we did some years back.

829
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,719
Speaker 1: Um it was a pretty good one too. It's like,

830
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: has toxoplasmosis turned us all into zombies or something like that.

831
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: But there's a very recent study that came out of

832
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:39,040
Speaker 1: the University of Chicago and they examined I think three

833
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty eight adults um and identified some people

834
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: that suffered from intermittent explosive disorder where just something just

835
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: sets you off and it's totally unreasonable, And a really

836
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: good example of it is road rage, right. Um, And

837
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 1: they found that half of the people with I e

838
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: ED had talk So plasmosis infections would you would have

839
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Speaker 1: gotten from a cat? I most certainly have it? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: well supposedly one in three people in the world have

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Speaker 1: it because of cat domestication. And it's bad if you're

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Speaker 1: a pregnant lady. So if you're pregnant, they say it's

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Speaker 1: time to switch duties if that's how it goes in

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Speaker 1: your house and your husband is on cat litter duty,

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Speaker 1: right because you have that baby. Because of toxic plasmos as,

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Speaker 1: it can cause birth effects as well and children born children. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's bad news. Great idea to keep the cat indoors. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Oh you know. One of the other reasons we did

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Speaker 1: mention for doing that is you're you're you're much more

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Speaker 1: likely to spot a sickness in your cat if they're

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Speaker 1: always oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, yeah, like you're more

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Speaker 1: in tune with with what's going on with your catau. Um,

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Speaker 1: we should talk before we leave about purring and catap purring.

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Speaker 1: All cats, I'm not all cats. Some wild cats do peru,

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Speaker 1: all domestic cats per and even raccoons per which I

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Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know that anything. Pretty interesting. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever seen foxes? They don't purr, they go. It's

858
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Speaker 1: the best. It's pretty great. Wiggle that tail. It fox

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Speaker 1: to me is like a dog cat. It's like the

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Speaker 1: ultimate combination. It is, isn't it sort of? Oh, by

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Speaker 1: the way, we saw our neighborhood peacock the other day

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Speaker 1: and I thought, of you those things. Yeah, this dude

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Speaker 1: has he's a crazy bird guy because he has a

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Speaker 1: s Oh, dude, he's got like six peacocks. That's gotta

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Speaker 1: be illegal. I don't know. Maybe I would think. So

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Speaker 1: you're only allowed to have six cats in Atlanta? That's cats? Really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Should we turn Holly in now she didn't know more

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Speaker 1: than six, I'd be surprised if she doesn't. But Holly

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Speaker 1: has a separate litter box for each one of her cats,

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Speaker 1: which proves that she's a crazy cat lady. Yeah, she'll

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Speaker 1: tell you. Man, um are you're talking about purring? No,

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Speaker 1: we were talking about the peacocks. So this guy has

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Speaker 1: I think four or five, which is the male and female.

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Speaker 1: Which one has the big plume. I think that's the male,

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Speaker 1: so I guess he has four or five females. And

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Speaker 1: then this one huge male peacock that like will literally

877
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Speaker 1: sometimes be on the apex of its roof. Yeah, screaming. Yeah,

878
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:24,239
Speaker 1: they get up on the roof. It's like they're where

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00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: they like to go. Apparently it's nuts. But he's a

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Speaker 1: bird guy, because I've seen his on his back deck.

881
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Speaker 1: He's got this like aviary with parrots and cockatoos and

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00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: all sorts of stuff birdland. Yeah. Bird people a weird

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Speaker 1: uh purring, So they pur um and most of the

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00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:49,919
Speaker 1: time it means they're very happy, but they can also

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00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: pur if they're upset or startled or injured, Uh, they

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Speaker 1: might pur. And they're direct wiring from the brain to

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Speaker 1: the muscles in the voice box, and so they vibrate

888
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: the muscles and the actives a vow for the air.

889
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: So it sounds like one continuous per but if you

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Speaker 1: listen closely, uh, it is an inhale and an exhale

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00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: perr going on um. And it's of course if you're

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Speaker 1: a cat lover, it's a wonderful thing if your cat

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Speaker 1: to per It's very soothing. Put you right to sleep.

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Speaker 1: Uh and I guess what else cat up? Well, yeah, cat,

895
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Speaker 1: and that's pretty awesome. It is a It is legitimately

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Speaker 1: a drug that cats do. Cats do drugs in the

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00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: form of cat note all right, And you can do

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00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: it two different ways. One you can inhale it. You

899
00:51:37,640 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: can cook it in a spoon and shoot it right

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Speaker 1: through your nose through the cats knows if you're a cat,

901
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,560
Speaker 1: you do it through your nose um, and that sends

902
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: them into like ecstasy. Oh it's yeah, it's pretty awesome.

903
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: And then they can also eat it and that usually

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Speaker 1: makes it makes the cat mellow. And it depends on

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Speaker 1: the cat only. I think about half cats are actually

906
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: um sensitive the cat its wiles, it's charms, right, but um,

907
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: the ones that are, they go nuts for this stuff. Yeah.

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00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: Both of my cats do UM. And you can get

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Speaker 1: it either, you know, dried out like it looks like

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00:52:12,560 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 1: a reguano um And that's what I said. You could

911
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:17,800
Speaker 1: put in your scratching pads to attract them to that.

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00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,319
Speaker 1: So I put that stuff down and man, they roll

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Speaker 1: around in it and it's it's pretty great. Or you

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Speaker 1: can my mom gives me, she grows it fresh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because it's a member of the mint family, it grows

916
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Speaker 1: pretty pretty easily. Yeah, it looks like a little mint leaf,

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Speaker 1: and they're more prone to eat the fresh stuff and

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Speaker 1: roll around in the dried out I would have guessed

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Speaker 1: the opposite. I don't know. It's pretty fun though. I

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Speaker 1: think it's hilarious that there's a drug for cats. Dogs

921
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: don't have a drug. Sure, it's called human kindness. They

922
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: get off on that, they do. Uh. If you want

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Speaker 1: to know more about cats, there's a lot. I mean

924
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: we didn't even get into the breeds and cat shows

925
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: and cat fanciers. There's a lot more out there. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: cat Fancy magazine. You've been to Rome, Italy? Yeah, cats everywhere?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there are a lot of cats there, aren't there.

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Speaker 1: And there's a history to that. Amsterdam. I think there's

929
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: that cat boat in the canal. Sure, it's like a

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Speaker 1: boat with a hundred cats on it. I've not heard

931
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Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, huh, there's there's a lot more out there. Yeah,

932
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Speaker 1: it's sure there's a lot of cats. But we're done

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Speaker 1: with cats if you ask me, I agreed. If you

934
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Speaker 1: want to know more about cats, travel to Rome or Amsterdam.

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Speaker 1: You can also save some time and money by just

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Speaker 1: typing the word cats into the search part how stuff

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Speaker 1: works dot com. Since I said search parts time for

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Speaker 1: the listener mail, I'm gonna call this. Uh, you were

939
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Speaker 1: right about math, Chuck, sort of. Hey, guys, A huge

940
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Speaker 1: fan of the show. Just started listening a couple of

941
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Speaker 1: months ago after a friend recommended it, and I've been

942
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Speaker 1: hooked ever since. I want to make a quick comment

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Speaker 1: about math majors and ambiguity in response to the continent

944
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Speaker 1: naming episode. I am major to math in college and

945
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Speaker 1: definitely have an aversion to ambiguity. I have really, absolutely

946
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Speaker 1: hate movies were unresolved endings with unresolved endings, So perhaps

947
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Speaker 1: you guys are onto something here. However, it should be

948
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Speaker 1: noted that higher level mathematics, especially pure mathematics, can be

949
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 1: incredibly ambiguous, which is why some mathematicians, most mathematicians, it's

950
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: been their entire careers attempting to solve problems or understand

951
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,960
Speaker 1: or proof theorems without ever solving anything. I can imagine.

952
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen Proof? The movie or the play

953
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Speaker 1: really good, even if you hate math, jails in it

954
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Speaker 1: and Gwyneth Paltrow. Oh wait, it isn't depending how you

955
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Speaker 1: feel about them. Isn't like Albert Einstein a matchmaker or

956
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: something in that one? No, that was thinking of a

957
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 1: different one Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan Yeah yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: different movie. Uh. Finishing out from Kim, she says the

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Speaker 1: uncertainty was maddening. Just why I chose to go to

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Speaker 1: medical school instead. So Kim's no dummy. Thanks for the podcast.

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Speaker 1: And that's from Kim who uh she is at the

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Speaker 1: University of Illinois at Chicago, oh y, that's where our

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Speaker 1: taxo plays most is study came from. Actually it's not

964
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Speaker 1: true that came from the University of Chicago, but right

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Speaker 1: next door. Yeah. I'm sure they're friends probably or bitter

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Speaker 1: rivals maybe. So well, thanks a lot, Kim. We appreciate

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