Her name is Xena. Born in New York City, now residing in Dallas, Texas.
On Twitter, this photo is, “Once-feral cat sleeping, totally at ease and fearing no predator.”
Xena came to us a couple years ago, rescued from the alleys of New York City by our daughter-in-law and our son. A small cat abandoned by her mother, she was preyed upon by every tomcat and larger cat in the neighborhood.
When the cat rescuers brought her in, got her doctored up and neutered, she refused to go back outside. So she was transplanted.
Now she sleeps peacefully, doesn’t fight for food — often shares. She provides great companionship for the humans here, too.
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Looking for the main cat, Luna Lovegood.* Couldn’t find her. Cats are like that. They hide in wonderfully difficult-to-find places, and they resist entreaties to come out, even for dinner. Luna wasn’t coming when called . . .
In the bedroom, looking around, calling, to no avail . . . 25th call (or thereabouts), a black plastic bag on the bed sorta came alive. Luna opened her eyes, and outed herself.
Hiding in plain sight: Luna Lovegood remained invisible to me, until she opened her eyes.
Do black cats know that they are black cats? I think they take advantage of their mono-color camouflage, and that they do it knowingly.
I also think they do it because they think its funny we can’t see them.
Does a black cat know she’s a black cat? Closing her eyes, she disappears.
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* We adopted her from the pound, through Pet Medical Center of Duncanville. As a black cat, she wasn’t much adoptable, and had spent six months waiting for a home. She was named by the pound, or the vet. Since she answered to the name, she kept it.
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Oh, yeah, we know what you teachers do with your fancy laser pointers in the off-hours. When you’re not torturing your students with Death by PowerPoint, highlighting the vocabulary words, pointing out the routes on the maps, and generally making your students a little jealous of your tools, you take the lasers home to torture your kitties.
If you’re a teacher with a science bent, you might even do a little experimentation: Do cats chase green lasers, too? Blue ones? What about those filters that make starbursts, do they drive cat’s wild?
Ah, but teachers with a science bent, and access to some really big cats . . .
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We've been soaking in the Bathtub for several months, long enough that some of the links we've used have gone to the Great Internet in the Sky.
If you find a dead link, please leave a comment to that post, and tell us what link has expired.
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Retired teacher of law, economics, history, AP government, psychology and science. Former speechwriter, press guy and legislative aide in U.S. Senate. Former Department of Education. Former airline real estate, telecom towers, Big 6 (that old!) consultant. Lab and field research in air pollution control.
My blog, Millard Fillmore's Bathtub, is a continuing experiment to test how to use blogs to improve and speed up learning processes for students, perhaps by making some of the courses actually interesting. It is a blog for teachers, to see if we can use blogs. It is for people interested in social studies and social studies education, to see if we can learn to get it right. It's a blog for science fans, to promote good science and good science policy. It's a blog for people interested in good government and how to achieve it.
BS in Mass Communication, University of Utah
Graduate study in Rhetoric and Speech Communication, University of Arizona
JD from the National Law Center, George Washington University
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