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Sky Mall Kitties

We've all been there, locked in the flying tin-can known as commercial air travel, forced to read Sky Mall catalogs just to avoid the obnoxious, loquacious and odiferous person seated next to us, through no fault of our own. Here's another view of Sky Mall.

Funny Cats: It's Their Faces

 Q: What is it about cats that is funny?   A: Their faces. Their expressions.

The fact is that cats seem to watch humans more than any other pets -- watch and -- mock us? No, not mock -- but cats seem to look out at the world like so many of us do, and with expressions on their faces that look so much like ours, that ask the two basic questions of life -- "What's dat?" and "Why is dat?"

Cats are funny just as they are, but put clothes on a cat or give a cat a human prop, and you've got a sight that is a cause for an outbreak of hysterical laughter. Clothes look funny on a lot of people too; on cats, clothes -- Well -- You've gotta love cats!

You can find the best of the many funny cat video montages at the yourfriendy YouTube channel. http://www.youtube.com/user/yourfriendy

Cat Intelligence Called into Question

Do cats have a learning disability that dogs don't have? One researcher won't put it in so many words, but her research into the friendly felines has demonstrated that "cats do not understand cause and effect connections between objects".  Her experiment was not high-tech at all- she basically baited a string with tasty treats (fish and a biscuit), and placed them out of reach  to see "if the cats could work out that pulling on the string would pull the treat closer."

She used three strings: "a single baited string, two parallel strings where only one was baited, and two crossed strings where only one was baited."

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