Ah ha! I KNEW IT!

[trinityvixen]

Watching Life After People, a special on the History Channel, has been more interesting for being a fan of post-apocalyptic fiction, methinks. Tellingly, despite the premise being that people are gone, gone, gone, everything focuses on emphasizing the before with the after. And very human concerns are bemoaned and nature's indiscriminate, well, nature is lamented.

Case in point: they wail about what will happen to the poor, poor puppies who will have to live without people to watch over them. Working theory is that the dogs we've bred to be small, short-legged, useless piles of pretty crap are going to be wiped out by the genetically variant mutts. Dogs will have it hard for being scavengers, but around 150 years later, they'll probably revert to the pack-hunting canines humans originally domesticated.

But the house cats? ::BIG EVIL GRIN:: They'll own the new world. Having never really lapsed when it comes to being hunters (and having so many feral cats already operating out in the big, bad world), they'll be perfectly positioned to hunt the rodents that will take over the human spaces. They even had this cute simulation of cats hunting in forests growing in old office buildings. Because the cities will become wildernesses, the cats will stay there. They may adapt to high-rise living with mutations in the flying squirrel direction, but they won't have to. They'll hunt, they'll breed, they'll win.

I always knew they didn't need us for shit.

Oh, and, good news, everyone! The oceans will make a good comeback once we're out of the picture. All hail the apocalypse!

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[shell524.livejournal.com]

Lacking cable as we do, we came over to bigscary and negativeq's place to watch the show. It was less awesome than I was hoping for, and far more amusing with a crowd than it would have been alone. And yeah, I knew the cats would thrive. My cat has brought in too many birds (dead AND alive) for me to ever think he'd have trouble surviving without me. :p

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The questions raised by the special regarding pets and pests were the most interesting. It's funny to think that the key to cutting down on the rodent/roach problem is just to kill off the humans. I'd no idea that rats and mice were so dependent on us. Whereas pigeons, apparently, are going to make it just fine. Crazy.

But yeah, no, I have no fear that cats wouldn't make it. Mine might not, for being so spoiled and lazy, though I think Wally would make it farther than Oscar for being a pretty damned good hunter. I've always known that the first cat to work a can-opener is as good as the harbinger of the apocalypse for humans anyway.

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

YOURS? Is this apocalypse scheduled for next week or something?

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Is this apocalypse scheduled for next week or something?

42 days from tomorrow, at 1:23pm. Didn't you see the memo? or the TV ads?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Once again, the answer is 42.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I hate humans, so let's hope so!