How does your family score window cats?

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When you're counting cats on a walk or a bike ride, does a cat that you see through a window count less (theoretically always there) or more (it's special because they are indoors and you are outdoors, and the cat could as easily be asleep on their owner's bed)?

Or do you have a separate count, like the count for cats you saw and got to pet? (The latter on walks more than bike rides, obviously.)
 
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Safir
A cat is a cat, they all count equally.

Back when our tomcat was alive and we walked him, we didn't count window cats - the point was to compare how many potential fights we managed to avoid vs how many he spotted (and tried to fight). A cat we noticed first but failed to avoid counted for both. I normally won, because I'd drop to the ground and look under cars. Mom wouldn't (obviously), so when she walked him alone and the weather was good, she usually got outcatted by 3 or so points.
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Ridley said:
Generally along the ribs & upper legs. I have never gotten decent grill marks though.
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Spoken like a true Chinese coolie. At least you didn't wok the dog I guess.

That being said, back when I was a kid there was this huge ass red tabby cat named Big Max who used to sleep in the front window of one of the houses in our neighborhood. Used to visit our house to piss on the flowers until he met Bunny, the feral calico cat my parents adopted along with her litter of kittens back in the early 80's.

I didn't see it firsthand but apparently she fucked him up big time one night and he never showed up at our house again. She was a strange bird, had this matted and tangled fur from her feral times on one side that could never be properly straightened out but was an absolute stone cold killer when it came to various animals, including woodchucks.

Bunny lived to the ripe age of 21 years old and even outlived all of her kittens. She was a hard ass motherfucker who took no shit off anybody or any species. RIP girl.
 
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I only have one criteria that gets taken into acccount when scoring cats: Facial Ridiculousness

So, for example a totally normal, average cat such as this:
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Would get a baseline score of a Perfect Ten (10) because obviously all cats start out at a perfect score.

But then let's say I find someone else with an absolutely ridiculous face:

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This cat obviously has to have a much higher score, so I score the cat 10.01...

Oh you meant counting cats. Yeah window cats count, because they're cats. Heh, I was just kidding by the way. I don't rate cats on how silly they look. I don't have charts and graphs and notebooks filled with data about cat features, all that was just a joke. got you
 
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I know the pets of the people in my neighborhood. It's good to know just incase anything bad happens. We have wild animals put here like bears and bob cats that could easily kill a house cat. Heck, one of my cats would hang out on my neighbors wood pile waiting for chipmunks. Aw man did he like killing chipmunks.

A couple down the road had some golden labs, one night on my home from work at 1am I saw a lab trotting down the road so I called it over, lured it into my car and got the feller home before he got hurt. Yes this makes me sound like a psychotic person but it was mid January and I'd rather be a weirdo who wakes someone up in the middle of the night to return their dog than see a corpse on the side of the road the next morning and live with that guilt.

Know your local pets. You don't know when you could really be saving another person the heartache.
 
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NoodleFucker3000 said:
I know the pets of the people in my neighborhood. It's good to know just incase anything bad happens. We have wild animals put here like bears and bob cats that could easily kill a house cat. Heck, one of my cats would hang out on my neighbors wood pile waiting for chipmunks. Aw man did he like killing chipmunks.

A couple down the road had some golden labs, one night on my home from work at 1am I saw a lab trotting down the road so I called it over, lured it into my car and got the feller home before he got hurt. Yes this makes me sound like a psychotic person but it was mid January and I'd rather be a weirdo who wakes someone up in the middle of the night to return their dog than see a corpse on the side of the road the next morning and live with that guilt.

Know your local pets. You don't know when you could really be saving another person the heartache.
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A dead dog isn't a corpse, you autist.

Especially during January, it's a delicacy.
 
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A cat is a cat, they all count equally.

Back when our tomcat was alive and we walked him, we didn't count window cats - the point was to compare how many potential fights we managed to avoid vs how many he spotted (and tried to fight). A cat we noticed first but failed to avoid counted for both. I normally won, because I'd drop to the ground and look under cars. Mom wouldn't (obviously), so when she walked him alone and the weather was good, she usually got outcatted by 3 or so points.
 
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Cats said:
I only have one criteria that gets taken into acccount when scoring cats: Facial Ridiculousness

So, for example a totally normal, average cat such as this:
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Would get a baseline score of a Perfect Ten (10) because obviously all cats start out at a perfect score.

But then let's say I find someone else with an absolutely ridiculous face:

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This cat obviously has to have a much higher score, so I score the cat 10.01...
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There's nothing wrong with your system, but it's not very useful for this application, neighborhood walks. Usually you start a walk from your house, so you end up with a territory that radiates out from your house. Unless you have busy streets or coyotes you're mostly going to be seeing the same cats in that area, so you'd just be using your 1-10+ scale on the same subjects over and over.

Safir said:
Back when our tomcat was alive and we walked him, we didn't count window cats - the point was to compare how many potential fights we managed to avoid vs how many he spotted (and tried to fight). A cat we noticed first but failed to avoid counted for both. I normally won, because I'd drop to the ground and look under cars. Mom wouldn't (obviously), so when she walked him alone and the weather was good, she usually got outcatted by 3 or so points.
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I've occasionally had cats who like walks, and this rings true. You're the cat's entourage, and you're trying to tell the talent "be cool, you don't have to fight that guy," but it's easier if you can just hustle past without them even seeing A CHALLENGER.
 
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