All the Creatures

Above is a picture of a happy child with a toy cat. This cat is on sale at an online store and the toy is called the FurReal Kitty Cat. While I normally don’t bother criticizing childrens toys I do think that the toy makers are going too far. The “cat” will purr, wag it’s tail, roll it’s eyes and hiss if you pull it’s tail. Here is a link to the toy cat in action Toy cat video

My thoughts are “this is teaching children that live animals are toys” I then saw the price tag of the toy. For $139 I would encourage a parent to save a real cat or kitten at the local pound or purchase a different kind of toy. Why would a toy maker want to build a toy that imitates a real pet? Now if the toy was of an animal that was illegal to own like an ocelot or monkey then it might help stop the illegal trafficking of black market pets.

My daughter and I have also seen this toy cat at our local Walmart a few months back and her reaction was - “look mom, now they have a cat just like that toy horse that came out a few years ago”, she of course added, “that cat is just as stupid a toy as the horse was”. The horse was about the size of a real miniature horse and would nod it’s head, whinny and a few other things.

What the toy makers of these toys have failed to do is realize that the only reason people do have pets is for the affection factor or in the case of wanting a horse or pony, to be able to ride. When will toy makers learn?

After a bit of cleaning up of some suspicious scripts and questionable blog add-ons this blog seems to be OK again. Of course I changed 3 passwords to access the administrator side of the blog so now there are 3 gateways for a hacker to get through.

Now to get back on track with the blog at hand, blogging about animals. I thought it would be fun to show a fun picture so here what I found:

It goes to show that people love their animals and will go to all sorts of lengths to have them with them. One can only hope that they won’t need a San Jose motorcycle accident attorney anytime soon.

I discovered the gross incident today. Several of the blog posts have been scrambled and they are listed as wrong posting dates. Some were so badly messed up I removed them. So far every one of them points to some video site and the links are invisible. I have removed several suspicious items that might have caused the hacker to get in. I will no longer have registered users that can comment. I still have to look at my photo files to see if they have been corrupted. If the blog disappears then comes back you can be sure that I am working on it.

Have you ever seen a cat stare at a candle for what seemed to be hours? I have. The cat seemed to be mesmerized by the flickering flame. I wonder if it was the movement of the flame or something else that had caught the cat’s attention. Normally I would think the cat would treat it much like any other prey and try to touch it but the cat knew better than to play with the flame.