Slates from roofs and other debris ... keep well this weekend, BigG. (View Post)

Quite right. It doesn't feel like a faecal bolus being pushed along the intestine by peristalsis, and for that matter it doesn't smell like it. (View Post)

Wrong way round, the odd mouse excepted. Cats domesticated humans for whatever they are useful for. (View Post)

The corollary, and just as intereesting, question is how far natural selection favoured those *hominids* who were willing to have pooches around. So someone who despises dogs - indeed, eats them - mi… (View Post)

TBF natural selection makes no value judgements. It can [edit] be positively detrimental to have a dog in the family under certain circumstances. But not nearly as much as with cats. See: toxoplasmos… (View Post)