I’m watching my two cats, Bonnie and Clyde (you may remember him<\/strong> from this story: link<\/a>).<\/p>\n

They\u00c2\u00a0are laying in the windowsill at the open (but screened) window, engaged in their bird watching hobby.<\/p>\n

And then suddenly Clyde starts to make one of his spurious sexual advances to Bonnie, by trying to “mount” her. Let me emphasize the word ‘trying<\/em>‘ here, because Bonnie is having none<\/strong> of this nonsense. You’d think he would learn, because everytime he pulls this stunt, he gets his ears boxed. But the instincts are probably stronger than his common sense. In the mean time Bonnie angrily turns her face to him with an expression of “you<\/strong>‘ve got some balls<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

This, however, is based on an anatomical\u00c2\u00a0misconception. He doesn’t!\u00c2\u00a0Just like Bonnie is an ‘altered’ female, Clyde is a thoroughly ‘altered’ male. No balls whatsoever. None. Empty sack. Nada huevos. Zero. Nothing there.<\/p>\n

Which makes his behavior even more remarkable.<\/p>\n

It’s actually quite funny to see, I should video it some day .. it’s this half-baked and ill-advised effort, one paw on her back, then one or two thrust-like movements with his back end, and then he starts watching the ceiling with this puzzled look, as if saying “uhm.. uh.. now<\/strong> what? What am I supposed to do next, how<\/strong> did\u00c2\u00a0this work again?<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

This is where Bonnie usually jumps up and pops him one. After which vicious attack\u00c2\u00a0he runs away (not seldomly chased after by an angry Bonnie) and hides behind the stereo<\/strike> 5.1 channel receiver\/amplifier.<\/p>\n

It’s not always easy to be male …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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