Pet intelligence wank
The Guardian: Cats outsmarted in psychologist's test.

You can imagine how well this goes with the readers. Besides the predictable flood of pet owner butthurt and anecdotes of clever / stupid cats / dogs / mice / owls, there are plenty of genuinely funny comments as well as a side wank on the validity of test methods and statistics, obligatory calls to talk about world hunger instead or discuss the intelligence of various nationalities, and, naturally, Hitler and his pets make a bonus appearance. I think one could play classical wank bingo in here, but some of the stories make it all worthwhile.

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the__ivorytower
2009-06-18 07:11 pm UTC (link)

Story tiem is nao? (plus, I need a break from book sorting, my back is killing me):

soupspooks and I were chatting via MSN, and I hadn't gotten a reply for a while, so I told one of her cats, Skuz, to go and get her for me.

This is what followed:

Her: O.O
Me: What?
Her: Skuz came over and started meowing at the bathroom door... and then I came back and read what you said.
Me: O.O
Her: Yeah.

So, we're pretty sure that Skuz can read. Either that, or it's a remarkable coincidence. Her cats, both of them, also remember quite clearly that since I fed them once when I was visiting (Spooks got sick, and needed me to feed them while she was ded from sick) and forever afterwards (keeping in mind I maybe visit once a year), they come to me whining to be fed. So much for short memories.

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tofuknight
2009-06-18 08:15 pm UTC (link)

Seriously. My one roommate (we shall call her Lily) never feeds the cats. It's not that she doesn't like them, it's that she's always really tired and both other roommate (we shall call him James) like feeding the cats, because we both enjoy the undivided attention of cats while you're holding the food bowl above their heads.* So once, James and I are both separately off on other trips, and so Lily fed the cats, due to being the only one there. For the next THREE WEEKS after we all are back, the cats go yowl at Lily and sit on her at feeding time. *shakes head*

*-Petty, I know, but so much fun, too.

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