elves:flawed logic

[Thunderfoot]

I now have a strange compulsion to create a scenario featuring the nefarious Dark Lord of the Cait Sith, Darth Mew.

And his bumbling apprentice, Darth Rover.

Since no one else has taken this up I will....

Bad, Bad, Bad *swat with rolled up newspaper*
What have I told you about that, get back in your box. . .

 

[trancejeremy]

Naw, man. You've got the wrong axis.

Dogs = Good
Cats = Evil

Yeah. Cats are every bit as loyal as dogs are, if not more so, really. Dogs are much more prone to wander off and not come back than cats. (Though perhaps it's cats simply are more home bound, I've heard of cases where they wander back to a family's old home)

OTOH, I have yet to meet a cat that doesn't have an evil streak in them. How many cat owners haven't been clawed at least once? Yet dogs rarely bite their owners on purpose.

 

[Fenes]

There are elven dogs and elven cats, and probably elven anything-you-can-think-of.

"Elven" is 2E speak for "unbalanced". I'd not worry about logic - elves and logic do not get along anyway.

 

[Umbran]

OTOH, I have yet to meet a cat that doesn't have an evil streak in them. How many cat owners haven't been clawed at least once? Yet dogs rarely bite their owners on purpose.

On the contrary, lots of dog owners get nipped from time to time - and in terms of damage done, that's the proper analogy.

Cats are not "mean" or "evil" just because they occasionally scratch, any more than humans are "stupid" for annoying the cat to the point where scratching is called for. Cats and dogs have limited communication channels open to them, and we often don't pay attention to or understand them very well. We tend to put ourselves in positions where we do things that animal does not like or won't tolerate without realizing it, and then blame the animal.

 

[kenobi65]

OTOH, I have yet to meet a cat that doesn't have an evil streak in them.

My cat doesn't have an evil streak; he has a crazy streak.

He goes from, "ohh, yes, pet me, that feels SO good" to "STOP IT NOW!" in about a tenth of a second. Which is why I have all the bite marks.

 

[Thanael]

And if anyone's interested, there's a link to my unpublished (as in, rejected) "Ecology of the Elven Cat" in my sig below.

Johnathan

Wow, thanks for that Johnathan. Excellent reading. Now off to read all the other Ecologies of yours...

 

[werk]

I now have a strange compulsion to create a scenario featuring the nefarious Dark Lord of the Cait Sith, Darth Mew.

And his bumbling apprentice, Darth Rover.

Above all else you MUST RESIST THIS COMPULSION!

For the sake of man...

 

[Clavis]

Folklore has both, actually. Cu Sith and Cait Sith.

But, I think the thing is, the Cu Sith was fairly distinctive, being a big shaggy green dog, while a Cait Sith is basically just a cat. The former makes for a more interesting monster.

People to this day report seeing large, panther-like cats roaming the British Isles. Not only are there no large cats native to the area, the cats often vanish or manage to get into places they shouldn't be able to.

 

[kenobi65]

People to this day report seeing large, panther-like cats roaming the British Isles. Not only are there no large cats native to the area, the cats often vanish or manage to get into places they shouldn't be able to.

Bloody displacer beasts.

 

[billd91]

Who has ever heard of a guard cat or hunting cat? That's why elves have dogs, the same reasons other people have them. Try to train a cat to be a watchcat and he just sleeps 14-16 hours a day. Take it hunting and it lies in the sun.