How did your cat manage to kill a coyote? (And various others.)

meabhair:

gallusrostromegalus:

To Be Clear: Tiggy is my former biology teacher’s cat, not mine.  

Tiggy was found on the street by her six-year-old son and they thought he was a teenager, except his teeth weren’t in great shape, and he never got any bigger.  He’s lived with them for 15 years, and Mrs. A thinks he’s probably 17 now.

Tiggy is SUPPOSED to be an indoor cat, but he is Cunning and Apparently Feels No Pain, so he’s managed to get out may, many times by jimmying window locks open, working doorknobs knocking a hole in the roof from the attic, and straight-up running through single-pane glass once.  So Mrs. A, attempting to mitigate his environmental impact, has him permanently wearing a neon yellow, reflective strip vest/harness, with bells, a flashing light and a beeper that goes off every 12 minutes, in case he gnaws the bells off.  It also has a GPS tracker made from a modified Ankle bracelet, that tells her when he gets out.

IN SPITE OF THIS, he’s still murdery little shit.

The Loud Harness seems to have slowed down his genocide of the local small vertebrates, but had a curious backwards effect: The large carnivores come over and try to throw down with him.

If you’re wondering how  6lb kittykat takes down a 45 lb coyote:  Stone-cold bastard kills them the same way a lion takes down a fucking zebra-He latches onto their windpipes and either asphyxiates them by clamping down or actually rips their throats out.  The ruff does nothing.

We know this, and his estimated body count, because he likes to bring back particularly difficult kills to the porch to show off.

In 2012, Mrs. A’s son brought home a malamute/GSD puppy and Mrs. A was terrified that Tiggy was going to kill him too.  Instead, Tiggy took Tobasco under his proverbial wing and went from “Mighty Hunter” to “Overprotective Parent”, staying in the yard and guarding Tobasco from any potential harm with the same murderous zeal as he’s always had.  

…He also taught Tobasco how to stalk, chase, and corner the local wildlife and last year Mrs. A came home to find a six-point mule deer buck in her kitchen, attempting to hide on top of the stove.

I feel that Tiggy may be related to Nanny Ogg’s Greebo

storm-cloud-dancer:

alesslethaldress:

commander-inquisitor:

dalaisa-thirhi:

kngshxt:

greenteashawty:

theprodigaldaughterx:

excuuuse me

I was dead waiting for the beat to drop and it fucking dropped.

goin the fuck up!

Shit dude GET IT 

if this kid is not part of a drum line I’m going to be SAD AND SURPRISED OMG HE’S AMAZING

“so what instrument do you play?”

“washer”

“oh, a washboard? that’s so cool!”

“no i literally play a washing machine”

I would bet money that this kids mom can’t get him to do his own laundry

saurons-optometrist:

captain-rez:

solarpunkcast:

anarchistcuddles:

ineversurrender:

Kent State University

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

Btw half of the students killed at Kent State weren’t even protesting, they were just there