Re: What, no one is interested in watching the corn grow?

Tallulah wrote: 
She's right.  If the mother was a mouser, they usually teach the
kittens how to hunt, but a lot of house cats haven't been taught to
hunt.  All they know to do is to meow at their food dish, waiting for
the Science Diet to magically appear.  Mousing is not an instinct, it
has to be learned.

I dunno; the kitty we got at 9 days old because her feral mom abandoned her (she had a huge splinter in her nose that was about an inch and a half long) was a really good mouser.
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