4 thoughts on “Fuzzy Grim Reaper”

1. stange_person says:

   Everyone knows some cats eat ghosts, but who would have thought they could cultivate them?

   There’s already two dog dukes I know of. Maybe Man’s Best Moocher is trying to catch up.

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2. Caesar Salad says:

   “Most families are grateful for the advance warning, although one wanted Oscar out of the room while a family member died. When Oscar is put outside, he paces and meows his displeasure.”

   He’s definitely cultivating something, seeing how he hates to let them go.

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3. CriticalFault says:

   Cats in Egyptian myth are guardians on the dead. He could simply be there to ensure the soul’s (or Ba) passing is easy, quick and correct. So I guess the real question is. Who does the Fuzzy Reaper work for?

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4. Harbone says:

   I get a little sick of that Cat’s are the guardian of the soul, stuff. I rather like the idea of a cat that’s rediscovered the tasty treats in a dying man’s breath.

   This is certainly the seed of something I could really use to disturb my cat-loving players, having a cat develop a hunger, perhaps even an addiction, for “stealing the breath” of dying people in a nursing home.

   What strange artifact or sick adept made Oscar that way? I dunno. I know three aspects of this story that just beg to be spun out: the question of Euthanasia (perhaps Oscar IS part psychpomp, helping those in terminal agony past the veil – making him an annoyance to someone who is, say, cultivating demons.)

   Second, playing up Oscar as the innocent victim (by putting a sicko who’s collecting demons for some purpose, or just a regular old demented run-of-the-mill adept from just about any school) and playing up the sympathies of my cat loving friends while HE REALLY DOES KILL PEOPLE!

   And, finally, the idea of “learned behavior” or morphogenic fields in the animal kingdom, as exmplified pseudo-scientifically by the blue-tit, milk bottle phenomena explained dizzily on this site:

   http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-moreonmorphgnicflds.html

   I mean, what if Oscar was doing it (stealing breath) for “good reasons” but the behavior pattern transferred to kitties who had “bad reasons” to steal human breath? What then?

   Watch the Alleys!

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