The owl and the pussycat!

["Philip Veerman" <>]

You could also say. Humans and pussycats on the one hand, and owls on the other are fundamentally different things.

It surely is not a random set of encounters. I suggest that there is likely to be a long prior history between that owl and that cat (and the person filming). Maybe when the cat was young it had a bad experience with that owl (or another) which is why it is not being serious. In any case an owl is a big target for a cat and is capable of fighting back.

 

There are many similar bits of film on the internet of odd animal encounters.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: martin butterfield [ Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 11:20 AM      To: David Rosalky
Cc: COG List
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] The owl and the pussycat!

Noting the way the cat taps the owl occasionally, and following from Geoffrey's point 5, I am inclined to wonder how many owls were involved in this filming.

On 13 June 2013 10:24, David Rosalky <> wrote:

Nice analysis Geoffrey.  Unfortunately that lame, naïve question was part of the hyperlink I copied.  I lay no ownership to it.  Perhaps the owl devouring the mouse bears a closer resemblance to human nature!

 

David

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 10:15 AM
To:
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] The owl and the pussycat!

 

Some answers to David’s question are as follows:

 

1.      Owls and pussycats on the one hand and humans on the other are fundamentally different things.

2.      One should not generalise about the getting on of owls and pussycats on the evidence of that particular owl and pussycat.

3.      Some humans do get on like that.

4.      Society would be different in some unfortunate respects if all humans got on like that.

5.      The video only showed the bits where the owl and the pussycat were getting on.

 

From: David Rosalky [
Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013 9:56 AM
To: Birdline
Subject: [canberrabirds] The owl and the pussycat!

 

This is amazing

 

 

Why can't humans get along like this???? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Le chat et la chouette

click on the photo!

 

 

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Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/