{"id":591,"date":"2011-05-29T23:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T04:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=591"},"modified":"2011-05-29T23:11:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T04:11:40","slug":"as-if-i-didnt-have-enough-to-worry-about-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"As if I didn’t have enough to worry about already…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee thinks I don’t have enough to do.<\/p>\n

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\nWhy me? Don’t misunderstand, he’s an adorable little wretch, and there’s no way I’d have suggested the Minister of Rocktology abandon an orphaned kitten, but I still think we are well beyond Maximum Safe Cat Density already.<\/p>\n

Here’s some trivia I read somewhere: supposedly, most felines have pretty much the same general behavioral responses and temperament. This means a housecat (Felis catus<\/i>) is about as amenable to being a pet as, say, a tiger (Panthera tigris<\/i>).<\/p>\n

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As I remember it being described, the only real difference is that when a specimen of Panthera tigris<\/i> decides to dart out from behind the couch to attack your ankle for no apparent reason, the effect on your ankle is somewhat more severe, hence the relative popularity of less-bodily-harm-capable Felis catus<\/i> as pets.<\/p>\n

I rate “Kodama” (as we’ve named him) here at around one picotiger worth of ferocity, though that seems to be increasing rapidly as he gets proper feeding and play.<\/p>\n

Still…why couldn’t it have at LEAST been a puppy, if it had to be anything at all?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee thinks I don’t have enough to do. Why me? Don’t misunderstand, he’s an adorable little wretch, and there’s no way I’d have suggested the Minister of Rocktology abandon an orphaned kitten, but I still think we are well beyond Maximum Safe Cat Density already. Here’s some trivia I read … Continue reading As if I didn’t have enough to worry about already…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,22,13,561,21],"tags":[200,563,562,564],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-not-want","category-freakish-eukaryotes","category-me-me-me","category-nonhuman-organic-companions","category-play-with-it","tag-cat","tag-fuzzy","tag-kitten","tag-why-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}