June 25, 2010: Kitty's 9th Life
 

Better get a dog... or a Mongoose.

http://cellar.org/2010/snake.jpg

weird.

you just never see the pussy going into the snake.

That Sir is fucked UP !!!

Mongi only work with cobras - the slowest of them all.

I new a herpetologist who'd tested the theory and found... boas love to eat mongooses.

I don't recognize that snake model. Seems sort of Australian but I dono.

I'm having a hard time understanding this picture. If it was a constrictor why and how would it be up 8 ft in the rafters somewhere a cat wouldn't be - with a cat? They don't back up once they attack. So it wouldn't back back up into the rafters after being on the floor making a kill. :confused:


This makes it all too clear.. It wasn't the dingos. :D

Aren't Friday pics supposed to be "awwwwww..." not :cry:?


Totally harshed my morning.

I'm too upset at the poor kitty to be mad at xob.

For Pie ....

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...ear-snakes.jpg

:lol: @ classic.


Uh, yeah it is kinda grim.

I can't say if that snake is Aussie or not, but it isn't a carpet python which is our most common python.

Thats not even nice, all I can think about is that poor kitty.

Lacking any rope, Mittens killed a snake, tied it into a noose, and jumped off the highest rafter he could find. Ever since his owner had him fixed ('broken' is more like it, thought Mittens), he found he had lost the will to live any more.

I dunno about that particular breed of snake, but my (much smaller) ball pythons would often strike downward to pick the mouse up off the tank floor if they were already up in their little climby branches when it was feeding time. They wouldn't deliberately climb up there for an attack, but they spent a lot of time just hanging out up there, so it was an even chance it was faster to just reach down and grab the food. What's more, once they made the initial snatch, they would often recoil backwards in order to get more strength behind their grip or sometimes extra wraps around the mouse if the little guy was a fighter.

Also, what in the world makes you say a cat wouldn't be in the rafters? You only have cats with no legs or something?

A good image of the day would be someone with gangrene of the genitals slicing their wrist with a butter knife while spiders crawl on their face and a giant clown lady barfs on them.

check your PMs.......

Great idea Shawnee! I'll get on it right away!:D

Maybe the cat isn't quite dead in that pic.... maybe the camera person snapped a quick shot to aid the vetinary paramedics and then rushed to rescue the poor wee thing? See, it's waving.....

Ok so the cat repeatedly refused to clean the floor. Therefore mother snake had to take thing into her own hands, so to speak and force the cat to get the job done. Clearly the snake brought the cat up there just so that it could reach the mop.

And the good witch said "Now you can all live in harmony, happily ever after." The End.

It's reaching for its tag team partner
http://hskitten.blogharbor.com/_phot...en%2080x80.jpg

Really disappointed in you
 

I've been a daily visitor to the IotD for about 5 yrs now, and this is my first comment, sadly to say that I will probably not be back.

You should have put a warning on this photo. This completely messed up my morning. I'm used to the Friday IotD being a cute or at the very least interesting animal photo, not a snuff shot.

You really failed here. Tasteless does not begin to describe the photo.

Would you have felt the same if the cat had a limp snake in it's mouth?

I still maintain the cat's not dead. yet.

A warning might've been nice, though.

... agreed. This image was quite out of character for what most have come to expect as the IotD on a Friday..

@xirene - That being said, I think to make such a harsh decision based upon one out of thousands - seems a bit, no, way over the top.

Freakin hilarious spin on a grim situation. Love it.

Interesting commentary. A shame that you've taken and taken and taken over these 5 years, and never had the decency to say thanks...

and yet, the first time you get upset, you are motivated to whine and cry about it. I'm very dissapointed in YOU. glad you're leaving. don't let the door hit your weak pointless ass.

Hey LJ, maybe we should start a thread to discuss the problem of bloodsucking lurkers and how to fix the problem. could you work on that for us?

My theory is that most lurkers are democrats and communists.

Absolutely, as evidenced by the fact that they suck and hate america. Counting down the 3 minutes until Redux posts a government paid study refuting this premise.

We haven't had a graphic caution in a looong time (if you don't count the fako velvet painting of the monkey and the leopard). I wonder if one here would have kept anyone away, especially xirene (who apparently joined today to say goodbye) and usually tougher shawnee.
I would have looked anyway, thought medium-yuck and enthusiastically gone on to read these comments.
The photo is quite a few places on the web, but with never an explanation, except for maybe Australia and maybe python.
Most predators have a pretty good eye for what to kill, sometimes called a prey image or picture. While the extent of the snake is hard to determine, it looks as if he has bitten off more than he can chew, so to speak.
I would not be surprised to find that they were both dead and then set up.

Huh? What did I do? :cool:

At least my joke was remotely funny! :lol:

We identify with cats to a greater degree than snakes it seems. Fact is on this planet, every one and everything lives at the expense of something else's life. Something has to die so that you can live.

Still, what makes that a sad picture is two fold:

1. Most of us identify with the cat
2. The death of the cat did not increase the number of pictures of naked chicks.

seriously awful.

I think the title was sufficient warning.

Oh crap! A useless, non-contributing leach was needlessly upset during the passive consumption of their daily FREE entertainment. Well, luckily I know something about the internet. NOBODY who says they "are leaving" REALLY leaves. Especially a worthless, do-nothing lurker whose existence serves no discernable purpose. I happen to know that "xirene" will be back around, time and time again, to see the result of their childish little tirade.

By the way, if this image "ruins your day" then you seriously need to go see a physician to correct the chemical imbalances that are wreaking havoc upon your already enfeebled brain tissue. A strong, well-adjusted person such as myself looks at that image and says "That's life!"

Yeah!
And don't forget to hit the tip jar!

Yeah!
And don't let the tip jar hit your ass on the way out!

What jinx said.

IotD Crossover©
 

Don't end up with the tip jar up your ass!

Just sayin.

Life is death. Death is life.

True freedom is doing what you are told. Flint is sane.

Death makes me sad. Sorry if you think I'm unhinged.

No, you're cool. You didn't pull the crybaby "I'm leaving" routine like xirene.

I checked with Hallmark, they don't have an apology card for that image, so suck it up.

They don't? If anyone has Hallmark shares... SELL!

Meanwhile...

Sometimes the cats in our lives
Get taken from us by surprise
But a snake in the hand
Is worth 12 bucks a pound
So cheer up and see the bright side

It is just an image of one animal (possibly) killing another one. The end. It's just nature. There are no evil animals as far as I can tell and I don't get how someone can claim that there was something wrong with that image which is merely a momentary observation of nature. I also wonder if xirene is a meat eater and realizes what animals go through just before they are slaughtered. Reading IOTD for five years and now going to stop because of one post? Yeah, right!:eyebrow:

She's rather hang out on Deviant Art.

I just joined today. Death and empathy are a funny thing. Too often we accuse the predator of being the bad guy when even we ourselves take the role of snakes. The predator prey relationship predates the concepts of good and evil. :yeldead:

Lumberjim nails it again!:thumb:

it's what I do.

:: takes a bow ::

Welcome to the Cellar, dezireless. :D

Not you, spudcon. :p:

It's just WWF.

Relax.

That snake was hired by one of the two hundred slaughtered bird's relatives that were killed by the cat - merely for 'entertainment'. It was just a balancing of the books.

Shawnee just when I think I'm into the weirdest shit you have to go and up the ante


And Cat it is whats for dinner

Nuh uh.

The WWF is the World Wide Fund for Nature.
http://www.bostonteacampaign.com/ima...s/WWF_Logo.jpg



World Wrestling Entertainment is the WWE:
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keat...s/wwe-logo.jpg



Don't fuck with the panda.

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Sick. Sometimes I find the natural world to be sick and repulsive. So why am I so apt and ready to defend it all the time?
Move along/ off quasi-rant.

Too much Disney at an impressionable age. Don't feel bad, it has happened to all of us.

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Been reading this for years, love the site - miss it when I'm on holiday, occasionally post.

Animals kill animals to eat. I pay people to kill cows so I can haz cheezburger. It's how the world works.

Maybe the title could have given a little more warning, I was a little taken aback by the image, maybe 'cat runs out of lives' or something.

I think never visisitng again is a bit of an over reaction. Unfortunatley we don't live in a world where everything is teh fluffeh so, yeah, that's all i've got to say

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(p.s. for the pedants I know my html tags don't work even in theory but hey....)

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Teh ogwen
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I don't really want to see dead household pets. If I'd posted that picture you people would have clogged the internet to condemn for it.