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Article #1451Re: Reason For Cat Behavior
From: Jody Patilla
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1986 13:46
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1986 13:46
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> In fact, cats also have an astonishing instinctive ability to sink > their teeth (on the first try, within a fraction of a second) into > a particular tiny spot on a mouse's neck that allows their tooth > to penetrate between vertebrae and sever the spinal cord! My cat, in his encounter with the one and only mouse he has ever seen in his sheltered life, dispatched it very neatly exactly as described above. I was amazed. Of course, with cockroaches, he just goes SPLAT, and then licks his paws...... -- jcpatilla Mountain View is paid a diplomatic visit by giant Lunar reptiles that want our hot tubs but can't find any so they leave.
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