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Five-Eared cat!

Poll: The five eared cat (43 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you think of the Multi-eared cats?

  1. Freaky (15 votes [21.43%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.43%

  2. Cool (13 votes [18.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 18.57%

  3. Cute (18 votes [25.71%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.71%

  4. Pretty (5 votes [7.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  5. Ugly (4 votes [5.71%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.71%

  6. WTF?!? (15 votes [21.43%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.43%

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First, that is a fairly large assumtion to make.
Second, if these cats were not created by human interaction then the trait has in fact survived.
Third, if the 4 eared cat is seen as bing cool, that is the only contributing factor other then helth problems, attitude, and care requirements that matter in the new environment of the housecat.

However, my question was; If we bread a race of these cats and then tossed them into wilds and they survived, would that validate their existance?
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Validate their existence? not completely sure what you mean, will have a go though. No it wouldn't because that is an unfair test, they could survive, but normal cats might have survived much better meaning the many eared cats would be bread to extinction. If you threw them into the wild with the same number of normal cats, and in the end there were an equal or greater ratio of many eared cats to normal cats then it would, not sure how this proves anything though since an experiment like this could never happen, talking about an experiment is useless if the experiment itself is never done.

The only way for a species to continue to evolve towards perfection is to continually adapt to it's surroundings. Meaning that if man interferes, the only way it could have a beneficial effect is if man's actions encouraged the exact same evolution which would have occurred if he never interfered in the first place (Which is extremely unlikely since man would not be interfering if he intended to leave things unchanged). In the absolute best case, man's interference will do nothing. Worst case it will severely cripple to species, possibly to extinction. Only bad can come out of this.

This post has been edited by matty_batty0: 10 April 2011 - 11:00 AM

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The cats surroundings have chainged, therefor evolution would be a cat adapting to the new surroundings. The worst case sinario, cats become completely dependent on humans.

However, I can agree to a lack of direct benefit that currently exists in the cats. It is possable that the new ear structure could give way to some weird, complex, super ear but currently there isn't one.

Also, the old type of cat should in no way be replaced.
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Alright, final thoughts "If it isn't broken, don't fix it".

This post has been edited by matty_batty0: 10 April 2011 - 11:10 AM

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View Postmatty_batty0, on 10 April 2011 - 08:08 AM, said:

Other genetic mutations in the past doesn't make this alright, besides they were of a different scale. Cats have fur, breeding them with long fur is just altering one of their characteristics they already have. Cats with extra ears are different, you are adding something new to the animal as apposed to altering something. It would be fair enough to say this is breeding imperfection into the race isn't it? I mean cats (and almost every other animal on Earth) have been genetically strengthened throughout all of history, the weakest traits are lost and the strongest are kept, the result is two eared animals, to suddenly come in and try to alter the breed in such a major way just seems too much like playing god to me, especially when we are doing it just because some people think it looks different.

The flat face in a Persian is actually more severe than adding an ear. Why? Because it modifies the skeleton shape. Long fur is less serious, but it carries serious issues--long haired cats need to be meticulously groomed or their fur will get matted, and they can overheat really fast. While breeding cats with long hair wouldn't be an issue, deliberately modifying the skeletal structure of the animal through breeding is now very frowned upon because of the blatant health issues.
Multiple ear cats look cool, but the issue that cat breeders and cat fanciers will have is 1. there is a very high likelihood of deafness, higher than the blue eye/white fur issue, and 2. who knows what other genetic disorders will be present in said cats? The third issue they will have is it may or may not be a trait that can be consistently bred.
I'm not arguing for or against this. Honestly, as long as they're just breeding them and not playing Mad Scientist I really don't care one way or the other. My point is that the global organizations that control breeding and codify breeds will probably refuse to recognize this man's efforts, just in the way that the Munchkin cat is having difficulties being recognized (despite them having much fewer health issues than the dog equivalent, the Dachsund). You can almost guarantee this guy's problems will be much more difficult to overcome than a cat with short legs.

For reference:
http://en.wikipedia....tes_and_critics
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View PostCarcharocles, on 09 April 2011 - 10:15 PM, said:


The issue here is you are breeding a feature that is probably going to cause significant health problems. In the past, mutations like this have lead to breeds like the Persian, who have long fur and a flat face, but these mutations are not beneficial to the animal and often cause major problems (Persians are known for horrible dental issues, and on the dog side, the Dachsund is well known for spine problems that can and do lead to paralysis.)

Actually, the article states that these ears are completely aesthetic (they are not connected to ear canals) and also that these cats' health seems to be unaffected aside from slightly large paws on Luntya and what appears to me to be a bump on Yoda's head

View Postmatty_batty0, on 10 April 2011 - 10:34 AM, said:

I am not saying that current cats are perfect

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View PostCarcharocles, on 10 April 2011 - 12:13 PM, said:


Multiple ear cats look cool, but the issue that cat breeders and cat fanciers will have is 1. there is a very high likelihood of deafness, higher than the blue eye/white fur issue,

Why?

View PostCarcharocles, on 10 April 2011 - 12:13 PM, said:

and 2. who knows what other genetic disorders will be present in said cats? The third issue they will have is it may or may not be a trait that can be consistently bred.

See above answer in reference to the original article.

View PostCraft aids, on 10 April 2011 - 11:05 AM, said:

It is possable that the new ear structure could give way to some weird, complex, super ear but currently there isn't one.

In fact, the inner ear and the outer ear start out (in the womb) as completely different and unrelated organs, and only later join together to create what we call 'The Ear'. This is why the new "ears" don't work and why a genetic code causing them will not lead to a full ear on its own.

Sorry for the post spam, everyone. I haven't looked into this thread in a while and wanted to add my thoughts to a bunch of existing posts.
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Second, if these cats were not created by human interaction then the trait has in fact survived.


For one generation. Survival of the fittest tends to talk about a much longer time. Also, it does not take into account protection that a human might give the creature out of sentimentality, curiosity, affection or just straight "I want this to happen"ness.

Also, these ears have no function apart from the aesthetic value (which even then is arguable, and how you think it looks is based on opinion - I do not like it myself). In fact, given the way normal cat ears work, I see no way that they could be anything but a liability.
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View PostILB, on 11 April 2011 - 01:49 PM, said:

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Second, if these cats were not created by human interaction then the trait has in fact survived.


In fact, given the way normal cat ears work, I see no way that they could be anything but a liability.

How would they be a liability? I'm just curios, not ranting....

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Not ranting!
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*struggles free from the guards and runs back in*

They could impede movement of the functional ears, or get in the way of incoming sound...yeah?

Also, I shouldn't have missed this before.

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Second, if these cats were not created by human interaction then the trait has in fact survived.

Some traits do no really survive, they just continually mutate and die out. Similar to birth defects in humans, something like being born with an extra limb isn't always a trait which is passed on directly from genetics, more so a completely new genetic abnormality which occurs in a baby's development.

This post has been edited by matty_batty0: 11 April 2011 - 03:01 PM

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Yes, that was the idea.

Also, more to take care of. Consider it like having a small extra finger on each hand, but you could not move it. You would need to manoeuver more carefully with the thing there.
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Ok, so then, this is a genetic abnormality that has just appeared within resent times. How can you wonder at it's lack of function? It just appeared according to you. Any function would require a second lucky mutation. I am sure that they have a chance of being prone to it. It could be that the function it eventualy takes on is that of a meaty ear plug if it ever gets muscle.

However, it has no function at the moment and is just for the debatable estetics and because the DNA told it to. Then again, why did the same mutation happen in two cats at once?
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Now it might have existed before recent times, but it could have just repeatedly died out. Even if something has completely pure, regular genetics, there is always a chance that it's child could have a random deformity. It doesn't mean the species is evolving, it just means that that child is a freak of nature.

This post has been edited by matty_batty0: 11 April 2011 - 04:27 PM

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View Postmatty_batty0, on 11 April 2011 - 02:48 PM, said:

They could impede movement of the functional ears, or get in the way of incoming sound...yeah?

It's a flap of skin. Experiment: Pull your ear lobe gently over your ear (don't press it on). Can you still hear well? Any distortion of directional placement will not hamper them since they are house cats. They don't need to hear with pinpoint accuracy since they don't need to hunt for their food or escape predators.

View PostCraft aids, on 11 April 2011 - 04:22 PM, said:

However, it has no function at the moment and is just for the debatable estetics and because the DNA told it to. Then again, why did the same mutation happen in two cats at once?

Three cats. Remember Yoda? Also there have been documented cases of healthy four-eared cats as far back as the 50's.
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View Postmatty_batty0, on 11 April 2011 - 04:26 PM, said:

Now it might have existed before recent times, but it could have just repeatedly died out. Even if something has completely pure, regular genetics, there is always a chance that it's child could have a random deformity. It doesn't mean the species is evolving, it just means that that child is a freak of nature.

uhhh, that's how evolution works.
Two freaks are born with gills by chance and soon we have atlantis or they die.

Usualy it is more to the form of someone being born with that freaky second arm.

but back to base, the cat ear has no function.
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Yes, but you said the trait survived, my argument was that it didn't survive, it just kept reoccurring independently of previous times it had happened, it is in no way a development, just an occurrence.

This post has been edited by matty_batty0: 11 April 2011 - 05:02 PM

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Then again, why did the same mutation happen in two cats at once?


The same reason lambs occasionally are born with five legs, and several people have been birthed with 6 fingers and toes per hand/foot. Just because a mutation is recurrent does not mean it has anything to say.

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It's a flap of skin. Experiment: Pull your ear lobe gently over your ear (don't press it on). Can you still hear well? Any distortion of directional placement will not hamper them since they are house cats. They don't need to hear with pinpoint accuracy since they don't need to hunt for their food or escape predators.


This is a bit of a silly thing to say, really. Cats hunt for mice regardless. Also, with the same line of reasoning, we might argue that it does not hamper a Dachshund to have stubby legs because they are also housepets. Granted, to our knowledge this mutation has no ill effects to that degree, but then again we know little how this will exactly affect them.

On another note: The fact that this seems to be done almost entirely for novelty purposes makes me doubt the goodwill.

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Well it could be said that if a trait appears and instantly dies then it isn't evolution. Since If that creature was never born with said mutation it would not effect the species in the slightest, that mutation has no effect on altering the species, so it has nothing to do with evolution.


All mutations are part of the evolutionary process. If an animal shows up with its nose on the back of its head, and the mutation is unsuccessful, that means no genes from that creature will be carried down for very long. Basically, a part of the gene pool has been erased because of an unfeasible mutation. It may not have as large an effect as, say, somebody who participated in the development of flight would have, but it is all part of the process.
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View Postmatty_batty0, on 11 April 2011 - 04:59 PM, said:

Yes, but you said the trait survived, my argument was that it didn't survive, it just kept reoccurring independently of previous times it had happened, it is in no way a development, just an occurrence.

Ok, then is could be argued that this occurrence is already part of the current cat genome.

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So...why does the five-eared cat get so much attention (you know besides the fact it is a cat with five ears)? This thread seems to be lasting a bit.
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Fine then, it is part of evolution, still pretty dodgy though.

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Because we are now partialy arguing over the nature of mutation as a whole and all the little side-topics invlved with that came out to play.
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View PostILB, on 11 April 2011 - 04:59 PM, said:



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It's a flap of skin. Experiment: Pull your ear lobe gently over your ear (don't press it on). Can you still hear well? Any distortion of directional placement will not hamper them since they are house cats. They don't need to hear with pinpoint accuracy since they don't need to hunt for their food or escape predators.



This is a bit of a silly thing to say, really. Cats hunt for mice regardless. Also, with the same line of reasoning, we might argue that it does not hamper a Dachshund to have stubby legs because they are also housepets. Granted, to our knowledge this mutation has no ill effects to that degree, but then again we know little how this will exactly affect them.

I disagree. My point was that although they can and do hunt, they don't have to. They may enjoy hunting and try to but, let's face it, even the craziest cat lady gets slightly annoyed when she finds half a sparrow in her shoe.

View PostILB, on 11 April 2011 - 04:59 PM, said:


On another note: The fact that this seems to be done almost entirely for novelty purposes makes me doubt the goodwill.

I definitely agree! What this russian Mad Scientist is doing is nothing less than torture if he eventually resorts to inbreeding in order to keep the gene (and he will, seeing as there are only 3 known cases of this alive) because this will cause horrible disfigurements like what happened with the aforementioned Persian cats or the Daschund dogs.
I enjoyed hearing of this as a novelty, but what he will probably do is just cruel.

I say let it exist, but don't force it.

This post has been edited by CatTrooper: 11 April 2011 - 05:27 PM

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As far as force goes, just breed the first generation as large as you can and then let the gene dissapear for awhile if you must insist on inturuption.
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View PostCraft aids, on 11 April 2011 - 05:29 PM, said:

As far as force goes


The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.
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I disagree. My point was that although they can and do hunt, they don't have to. They may enjoy hunting and try to but, let's face it, even the craziest cat lady gets slightly annoyed when she finds half a sparrow in her shoe.


Well, fair enough. I can grant you that.
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They don't need to hear with pinpoint accuracy since they don't need to hunt for their food or escape predators.
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Just a small note... Siamese cats literally evolved (without human intervention) to rely on human beings. They developed extremely friendly natures, but their blue eyes have poor eyesight, and their ears are none too good. I'm speaking of the Traditional Siamese by the by. I reckon four eared-cats are useless, but breeds are getting more and more inbred and moggies are appearing everywhere...

So, I'm all for developing a new breed, if only to remind people to continue making new and functional breeds and stuff. Meh, I'm sick an incoherent. This is an interesting discussion. It's worth breeding the kitties just to find out if health issues /do/ arise.
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Luntik: He’s all ears: Meet Luntik, the four-eared cat - today > pets - TODAY.com

Except for Yoda, they are all pretty freaky :(
The yoda cat is freaky but still cute, at least.
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You know, not every cat has a comfortable life with a good owner, a lot still have to fend for themselves, there are pretty high numbers or feral cats and strays.
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View PostMigrant, on 11 April 2011 - 10:50 PM, said:

Luntik: He’s all ears: Meet Luntik, the four-eared cat - today > pets - TODAY.com

Except for Yoda, they are all pretty freaky :(
The yoda cat is freaky but still cute, at least.


I disagree! I quite like Luntya. Look at the markings around her eyes. She's beautiful!

View Postmatty_batty0, on 12 April 2011 - 01:30 AM, said:

You know, not every cat has a comfortable life with a good owner, a lot still have to fend for themselves, there are pretty high numbers or feral cats and strays.

True. Especially where I live there is sadly a very large number of stray cats, but stray cats live mostly on garbage and scraps, not by hunting.

Feral cats are a different matter, but fully domesticated cats cannot survive to become feral...
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Stray cats are the servants of the devil, evil things that stalk the night in search of prey, and walk around on limbs of evil, exposed bones and have red eyes. Nothing good ever comes from stray cats!
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They even made Catwoman! Horrible creatures they are. >:(
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View PostMigrant, on 13 April 2011 - 06:49 AM, said:

Nothing good ever comes from stray cats!

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I beg to differ.
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View PostMigrant, on 13 April 2011 - 06:49 AM, said:

Nothing good ever comes from stray cats!


A: My sister's cat was a stray... actually never mind that's an argument in your favor

Okay then how about
B: My college sets food out to attract local stray cats and then have them deal with any vermin we might get.
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MattyBatty said:

The only way for a species to continue to evolve towards perfection is to continually adapt to it's surroundings. Meaning that if man interferes, the only way it could have a beneficial effect is if man's actions encouraged the exact same evolution which would have occurred if he never interfered in the first place. Only bad can come out of this.
Inter-species interactions are also counted as part of environmental factors that affect evolution and survival of the fittest, including human - other animal interactions. I am sure cows, sheep and dogs would never have evolved without humans, but in the same way, the lamprey would never have evolved without sharks to cling onto, birds would never have evolved like they did if there were no insects and worms to eat, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. If an interspecies interactions improves the fertility or survival of a species, then surely it is a perfectly valid evolutionary factor.

As a curiosity, three legged amputee cats have a better chance of being adopted from a cattery then their counterpart healthy cats, because the percentage niche market people who take pitty on them is larger than the percentage of cats that need to be amputated.


Miwaturu and cattrooper: THOSE ARE LIES!!! STRAY CATS ARE EVIL AND ALL THOSE WHO AID THEM WILL SURELY BE DESTINED TO AN ETERNITY OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL!
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Can you hear me now? Good.
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Migrant, "man's interference" was not talking about cats living along side people, because as you said people are part of their environment so they have to adapt to it. I was more talking about people taking cats with certain traits and trying to forcibly breed those traits into the rest of the cat population.

Makes you think...These cats have no rights at all! They do not even get to choose there own evolutionary path :O

This post has been edited by matty_batty0: 14 April 2011 - 02:39 AM

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View PostMigrant, on 13 April 2011 - 08:59 PM, said:

I am sure cows, sheep and dogs would never have evolved without humans

Cows and sheep did exist before humans. You probably mean what they evolved into, aka the too-much-milk-eat-me cows and I'm-too-sexy-for-my-wool sheep/goats.

View PostMigrant, on 13 April 2011 - 08:59 PM, said:

birds would never have evolved like they did if there were no insects and worms to eat

Birds are direct descendants of flying dinosaurs, more so than any reptile. Not all creatures develop flying only when their food flies, some are the other way around, as in flying to escape predators.

View PostMigrant, on 13 April 2011 - 08:59 PM, said:

Miwaturu and cattrooper: THOSE ARE LIES!!! STRAY CATS ARE EVIL AND ALL THOSE WHO AID THEM WILL SURELY BE DESTINED TO AN ETERNITY OF PUNISHMENT IN HELL!

>:O

View Postmatty_batty0, on 14 April 2011 - 02:37 AM, said:

Makes you think...These cats have no rights at all! They do not even get to choose there own evolutionary path :O

Do we choose our own evolutionary path? Does any other animal? Aside from that I get your point.
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Oh dear. Do not pay any attention to Migrant; he is just pulling a joke on you. ^_^
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View PostCatTrooper, on 14 April 2011 - 05:36 AM, said:

Do we choose our own evolutionary path? Does any other animal? Aside from that I get your point.

Sometimes we choose it, sometimes it chooses us. :D
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View PostCatTrooper, on 14 April 2011 - 05:36 AM, said:

Cows and sheep did exist before humans. You probably mean what they evolved into, aka the too-much-milk-eat-me cows and I'm-too-sexy-for-my-wool sheep/goats.
Actually they were bread and selected to a point that they are probably a different species now a days. And not only recently in years of technology, "artificial" selection has occured ever since the first domesticated animal.

View PostCatTrooper, on 14 April 2011 - 05:36 AM, said:

Birds are direct descendants of flying dinosaurs, more so than any reptile. Not all creatures develop flying only when their food flies, some are the other way around, as in flying to escape predators.
Yeah I didn't say anything about flying. I just said they would have evolved differently if there were no insects and worms to eat. They might, for example, have developed to be able to kill and eat stray cats instead (in which case the world would be a much better place - all hail the stray-cat eating birds!).

Also, birds developed flight after having branched from dinosaurs. Proto-reptiles like the pterodactyl, not only were not considered dinosaurs, but are also not direct ancestors of birds. One of the first (if not THE first) bird-like fossil in record is of the Archaeopteryx - a flightless bird.


View PostILB, on 14 April 2011 - 02:25 PM, said:

Oh dear. Do not pay any attention to Migrant; he is just pulling a joke on you. ^_^
But... but... I WANT ATTENTION!!!! ;_;

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We should add another poll here:
Stray cats: poor, unlucky bastards or spawn of the devil?
- Option 1: Stray cats compactuate with the devil at birth and will bring about the rise of the anti-christ if we allow them.
- Option 2: Stray cats aren't guilty, as they must serve devil's every whim only because of an ancient, forgotten deal made by greedy individuals millenia ago.
- Option 3: Stay cats have no real allegiance to the devil, and are instead only serving him because it serves their own dark, evil purposes.
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- Option 4: Stray cats are disease-carrying miscreants and pests, not unlike rats, that reproduce quickly and eventually destroy their own ecosystem through overpopulation. (In their defense, you won't likely find the same nature of results if you google image search "cat king" as if you search "rat king." Go on. Do it, faggot. You know you're curious now.)
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Oh, those rat kings! :smirk:

View PostJerk, on 15 April 2011 - 04:51 AM, said:

- Option 4: Stray cats Humans are disease-carrying miscreants and pests, not unlike rats, that reproduce quickly and eventually destroy their own ecosystem through overpopulation.
There you go, Vince. Improving your statement there by a bit.

And an addition to my previous post.

mattybatty said:

Migrant, "man's interference" was not talking about cats living along side people, because as you said people are part of their environment so they have to adapt to it. I was more talking about people taking cats with certain traits and trying to forcibly breed those traits into the rest of the cat population.
How are these any different? In both a cat more adapted for survival is being selected for. In one adaptation is being house-trained. In the other adaptation is being cute. It's not like we're purposely trying to breed bad traits into cats so that they'll die as a species in the future.

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We do not reprodue quickly.
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"Quickly" is relative. Compared to an elefant, who has a gestation period of 18 months to produce one offspring, and is only capable of breeding every 3-5 years or so, i'd say we reproduce very quickly. Humans are one of the very few vertebrate species where females are fertile all year round (except for once every month). And the reduced mortality and high longevity of humans means our populations can increase very, very fast indeed!

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It is reletive.
To bad you already realated it to rats.

Rats go everywhere we go and in greater numbers.

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[OFFTOPIC] From an elefant's perspective both humans and rats reproduce unnaturally fast. In a bigger picture, in the history of the natural world, human population has expanded further and more quickly than that of pretty much any other animal. [/OFFTOPIC]

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Pfft. I think rodents, insects and bacterial organisms have us beat there.

That said, we are also very good at, uhm, controlling said populations. Rats would have been very much populous across the globe if not for us.

Still, I suppose we also helped them spread. By feeding them, for instance.

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Aww. I did not mean it like that. ^_^
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View PostCraft aids, on 15 April 2011 - 05:07 AM, said:

We do not reprodue quickly.

Speak for yourself! 8-)

View PostILB, on 15 April 2011 - 12:47 PM, said:

Still, I suppose we also helped them spread. By feeding them, for instance.


They also stowed away on ships in order to spread to new continents along with us, bringing diseases with them (us).

Migrant, my stray cat overlords have told me to kill you. Don't open your mail.
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View PostCatTrooper, on 17 April 2011 - 08:33 AM, said:

View PostCraft aids, on 15 April 2011 - 05:07 AM, said:

We do not reprodue quickly.

Speak for yourself! 8-)

So you don't last very long, huh? That's not really something to be proud of, you know?
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View PostMigrant, on 17 April 2011 - 10:51 AM, said:

View PostCatTrooper, on 17 April 2011 - 08:33 AM, said:

View PostCraft aids, on 15 April 2011 - 05:07 AM, said:

We do not reprodue quickly.

Speak for yourself! 8-)

So you don't last very long, huh? That's not really something to be proud of, you know?

I meant frequency, not duration
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