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I'm looking forward to it, but it's difficult to see this film being much better than Transformers. It's got a good director, so I'm hoping I'm wrong.

Unfortunately the first-generation cats won't get much cheaper because of one genetic disadvantage of the cross-breeding--all the males are born sterile. Or at least the vast majority are. The females can bear young, and that's why I called the type I want a "first-generation" Savannah--that's when a domestic cat is bred directly with a serval. "Second generation" is when a female Savannah breeds with another domestic male, so the kittens are born with fewer of the serval traits. They're quite a bit smaller, for one thing, but they're also much cheaper since you can make so many kittens from a Savannah female. I'd imagine many of the other traits I described earlier aren't there in the later-generation Savannahs such as the dog-like behavior or extreme agility and jumping ability, but I'm not sure. Many of the distant-generation kittens from a serval still have the distinctive spots and are comparatively cheap--around $100 to $500--although they're usually about the size of a domestic cat, i.e. 10 to 20 pounds. That wild, spotted look is often what people like about them though, so distant-generation Savannahs are fairly sought after.

You're not going to get me to give away any details as to how I plan to save humanity from itself.

Before I bought one I'd have to read accounts of just how viable walking Savannahs on a leash really is--maybe some put up with it and some don't, not really sure how most turn out or if the breeders of them have exaggerated just how walkable they really are on leashes--but below are some pics of people walking them. Most cats refuse to walk on a leash, but there are a select few other breeds besides Savannahs that do allow it and do appear to enjoy walking beside people like most dogs do. Savannahs are trainable similar to the way dogs are. Some other breeds of cats are as well...my ex-girlfriend had a cat she had trained about forty commands to that it would usually listen to. The most useful command was telling it to use the litter box before we took it on a trip--it was a really smart cat and seemed to understand why it should go to the bathroom much like we understand the value of that before going on a trip. She picked the breed knowing they were like that and had to travel a few states to pick it up once she found one.

You mean like many dog breeds are? My girlfriend's bulldog/cattledog mix goes after every squirrel and cat we walk past, and has a bad habit of barking at people if they get too close to us. Serval cats are wild and don't make good pets even when they're born in captivity and handled from a young age, but for whatever reason the cross-breed kittens aren't wild, Savannahs end up with the demeanors of domesticated cats. I haven't heard of exceptions but am curious if there are any. You don't have to walk Savannah cats, but it's an option. Not sure why you're thinking of something that's pure advantage as a disadvantage--I'd walk my cat through the park or in the city if he'd let me. Savannahs let you leash them without going nuts or refusing to walk with you on a leash.

Oh, and I've considered paying around $5K for pets. I may do that for my next cat by buying a first-generation Savannah cat. They're a cross-breed between African serval cats (first pic below--the name "Savannah" is a reference to the African savannahs that servals live in shown in the pic) and domestic cats (a first-generation Savannah are in the second and third pics). They're huge (around 30 - 35 pounds whereas most cats are 10 - 15 pounds), have the distinct spotted marking of the serval, and have COMPLETELY different behavior from cats--they're like a cross between a dog and a cat. They can jump up to nine feet in the air, so nothing in your house is safe, i.e. no storing the cat food on top of the refrigerator. You can walk them on a leash like a dog. They actually like water like dogs do. They're like dogs who use a litter box...they seem like the best of both pets to me. I'm sure there must be disadvantages the breeders don't tell you about, but I haven't heard yet what they are.

Someone looking to breed and sell purebred puppies. Could be a profit if you're into breeding although I certainly don't know the Pomeranian market well enough to know if that's a reasonable price.

Sorry about your dog. How old was he? Seems like a weird turn of evolution that cats and dogs are so similar yet cats get to live 18 to 20 years max and dogs asymmetrically only get to live 12 to 14 years max.

That one makes no sense to me. You can say that in rated G films. Tits is similar or worse and goes uncensored. They should both be fine.

I believe that lying sprawled out in a parking lot could be Heaven on Earth with proper medication. You should consider tracking alternative metrics to gauge your productivity. Yes, you may not be getting as much work done, but is your intellectual stimulation, happiness, and contentment production up?

I'm an optimist, but wow, you're in the clouds today!

I have.

Sexism. If I'm also cavalier about referring to women as four-year old boys when they're doing something immature or dumb as opposed to overly-sensitive in order to exaggerate a point, am I still a sexist? Yes. Wow, no points at all for perpetuating stereotypes about BOTH genders? I like to think of myself as an equal-opportunity chauvinist.

Sexism. If I'm also cavalier about referring to women as four-year old boys when they're doing something immature or dumb as opposed to overly-sensitive in order to exaggerate a point, am I still a sexist?

Not recalling every single post, I really can't remember any that stuck out as being anywhere in the vicinity of pull-worthy. Who's the four-year old girl with the delicate sensibilities who cried to mommy?

Yep, Bedrock's bromance with the entire forum is gone forever.

OK, since this is a thread about moderation, someone come clean. Who cried to mommy, and which post caused them to do it? I don't recall any pull-worthy posts.

There's no way to know who's doing it, no, although some people here do admit to doing it. Not many. I asked the question because I don't think the hair-trigger notifiers do it out of a sense of duty, I think they do it because they get off on it or they just find it enjoyable to tattle. When testing the notify feature to see if someone's already used it, I've seen MANY posts people call for mommy on that clearly didn't deserve it. What's in the vid? Youtube is blocked where I'm at.

Do the mods react to racist or sexist comments? There are a few posters like that who disgust me, but I wouldn't notify because they've got the right to their opinion even if it's butt-dumb.

There's no way to know who's doing it, no, although some people here do admit to doing it. Not many. I asked the question because I don't think the hair-trigger notifiers do it out of a sense of duty, I think they do it because they get off on it or they just find it enjoyable to tattle. When testing the notify feature to see if someone's already used it, I've seen MANY posts people call for mommy on that clearly didn't deserve it.

Yep, I've tested how often people call for mommy that exact same way, not to actually do it myself but because it lets you know when someone else already has. Some people clearly have it on a hair trigger.

Are we expecting moderators to read every single post on these boards? Absolutely not. Did I imply that? I don't think I did. I certainly wasn't thinking it. No - it was just a question in general but I thought it might be appropriate to what you originally posted. What I was certainly implying was that people hump the mommy button far too often, and I'm curious as to what the primary reason is since things are largely civil around here--at least compared to plenty of other forums I'm familiar with. I've seen forums that are more civil and as RMA suggests, it's due to a higher moderator presence where regular contributors act as moderators. I think I've notified about a half-dozen times for two reasons--bot spammers and outright threats such as that one Mark sent Jason's way. I may have never actually notified due to threats since they're rare, but I have on other forums. I'd probably hump over very repetitive trolling, but I can't remember ever seeing it.

Are we expecting moderators to read every single post on these boards? Absolutely not. Did I imply that? I don't think I did. I certainly wasn't thinking it.

Do you think more people button-hump because they're truly delicate, fragile little flowers who are easily shocked, or is it more often done because they like the feeling of control they have over someone else by using their power to anonymously tattle?