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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Reason For Cat Behavior
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 08:46:09 EST
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> In fact, cats also have an astonishing instinctive ability to sink
> their teeth (on the first try, within a fraction of a second) into
> a particular tiny spot on a mouse's neck that allows their tooth
> to penetrate between vertebrae and sever the spinal cord!  

	My cat, in his encounter with the one and only mouse he has ever
seen in his sheltered life, dispatched it very neatly exactly as described
above. I was amazed. Of course, with cockroaches, he just goes SPLAT, and
then licks his paws......

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jcpatilla

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