Cats. An eye opening experience

No, I haven't gone to see a famous Broadway musical. Although I have seen Cats twice. And I am rather fond of T.S. Elliot.

Tonight we watched Cats: In The Womb on the National Geographic Channel. I thought it would be a fun show since we have 2 cats, and the kids always enjoy a good science documentary. Well, the older ones do anyway. The younger 2 pretty much like wrestling and Spongebob. But I digress...... I didn't stop to think that "In the Womb" would feature quite so much "before the womb."  My children are fairly knowledgeable about the rudiments of reproduction. I have always taken the time to answer any questions they have about s*x at their level. Let's face it, when you have 5 kids one of them is eventually going to wonder where the heck their brothers and sisters came from.

 Anyhoo, I found out some very interesting facts.  For instance, a male cat's, ahem, member, has barbs on it which makes mating painful for the females. I also learned that when they show an enlarged picture of said member on you wide screen tv your 5 year old boys will think it is the most fascinatingly hysterical  thing they have ever seen.   I also learned that a female cat has to mate 4 times before she gets in the family way. She will typically mate with 4 different cats (the little tramp!). This is why kittens from the same litter look so different.

Now, if you think the female house cat has it tough just wait til you hear what a lioness has to endure. A lion has the same, ahem, member as the house cat, only larger of course (pervs!).  As I'm sure you know, lions live in prides. A pride can have up to 20 females and 6 males.  Male lions are territorial and will not let the other males mate with their chosen lioness. So we can already see that lions are less slutty than house cats. Plus if you are a lioness you know who your baby-daddy is. Here is the most interesting part of the whole show--In order for a lioness to get pregnant, she mates with the lion 90 times in one day. Yes, you read that correctly. 90. With a barbed member. So...[put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I hope you found this post to be fun and informative. I promise not to talk about cat privates ever again. Maybe.

<3,
Wendy

Background noise: The Ting Tings.