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[Niki]

Niki seems to be having an awful lot of negative experiences here in Cyprus ...

Parking tickets, animal abuses, developer problems ... etc..

Maybe trouble just follows some people around ...

Good karma ... bad karma ... what goes around .. comes around....

I'll be persona non grata next I guess ....

Oracix, you know me better than that!!

Or are you trying to stoke things up?

Hello Niki dear ....

Just trying to trip you up for a brief exchange ...

How are you doing? ... be positive now!

Really good thank you, apart from the puppies but I knew this was going to happen at some point (the parking tickets were months ago - good memory!).

How about you? Have you learned to manage the eternal relaxation of being in Cyprus?

[Oracle]

Niki seems to be having an awful lot of negative experiences here in Cyprus ...

Parking tickets, animal abuses, developer problems ... etc..

Maybe trouble just follows some people around ...

Good karma ... bad karma ... what goes around .. comes around....

I'll be persona non grata next I guess ....

Oracix, you know me better than that!!

Or are you trying to stoke things up?

Hello Niki dear ....

Just trying to trip you up for a brief exchange ...

How are you doing? ... be positive now!

Really good thank you, apart from the puppies but I knew this was going to happen at some point (the parking tickets were months ago - good memory!).

How about you? Have you learned to manage the eternal relaxation of being in Cyprus?

Niki ... I am on a huge guilt trip ...

The weather is lovely, the landscape brilliant, the people charming (some too desirable ... resist ... resist) ...

What can I say ...

I am eating, drinking, living to excess... the gym equipment has not been touched ... you do not want to know how much happy-fat I have accumulated

This is definitely the place to be ... but what of all those other 6 Billion sods that can't be here ....

Tough ....

[Cheshire Cat]

we'll live with it !

[Oracle]

we'll live with it !

Shooo! ....

[pisces1]

One thing is for sure(being a marathon runner),in my country,when running and finding a large dog in your path..you stop, turn around and find another route..in Cyprus,quiet the opposite,it`s the dog that finds an escape route..need i say more..

[Cheshire Cat]

we'll live with it !

Shooo! ....

NOOOOOO!!!!!!

This is an English speaking forum.

[Oracle]

we'll live with it !

Shooo! ....

NOOOOOO!!!!!!

This is an English speaking forum.

Scoot!

[Niki]

Niki seems to be having an awful lot of negative experiences here in Cyprus ...

Parking tickets, animal abuses, developer problems ... etc..

Maybe trouble just follows some people around ...

Good karma ... bad karma ... what goes around .. comes around....

I'll be persona non grata next I guess ....

Oracix, you know me better than that!!

Or are you trying to stoke things up?

Hello Niki dear ....

Just trying to trip you up for a brief exchange ...

How are you doing? ... be positive now!

Really good thank you, apart from the puppies but I knew this was going to happen at some point (the parking tickets were months ago - good memory!).

How about you? Have you learned to manage the eternal relaxation of being in Cyprus?

Niki ... I am on a huge guilt trip ...

The weather is lovely, the landscape brilliant, the people charming (some too desirable ... resist ... resist) ...

What can I say ...

I am eating, drinking, living to excess... the gym equipment has not been touched ... you do not want to know how much happy-fat I have accumulated

This is definitely the place to be ... but what of all those other 6 Billion sods that can't be here ....

Tough ....

Someone has to do it!!! Seriously though people who have lived here all their lives just don't realise what the blue skies, fantastic food, lifestyle etc etc means.

We don't want another 6 billion sods here, we'd sink!!!

Animal cruelty is a question of education. My friends and neighbours who have got to know our animals and seen the abandoned puppies have seen a different side to animal treatment. I hope that they would be more caring than they may have been before.

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[Oracle]

What newcomers to the island fail to appreciate is that the earliest established links between animals as pets and humans where founded here on Cyprus...

Ancient burial looks like human and pet cat
About 7,500 years before Egyptians, a surprising find in Cyprus
By Marsha Walton

Archeologists discovered the grave of a human, the circular skeleton seen at the top of the image, and a cat just inches away.
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Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.

An elaborate Neolithic burial site uncovered in the Shillourokambos settlement on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus reveals that the friendship between cats and humans may go back 9,500 years. Prior to the discovery, Egyptians were thought to be the first to keep cats as pets, around 2,000 to 1,900 BC.

"We don't know if the human was a male or a female, but we do know that he or she had a special status in society," said Jean -Denis Vigne, vice president of the Scientific Council of the Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The cat was the Felis silvestris species, a wildcat, a bit larger than modern domestic cats. It was about eight months old when it died.

Researchers found many items not often found in other graves, including flints, a small green stone axe, and two dozen shells. The cat skeleton was just 15 inches from the human skeleton. Vigne said the animal skeleton showed no sign of having been butchered, and its proximity to the human suggested some respect or reverence. It is possible, he said, that the cat was killed to accompany the human in the afterworld.... But he said the burial find in Cyprus indicates that the relationship between cats and people involved spiritual links.

[Niki]

What newcomers to the island fail to appreciate is that the earliest established links between animals as pets and humans where founded here on Cyprus...

Ancient burial looks like human and pet cat
About 7,500 years before Egyptians, a surprising find in Cyprus
By Marsha Walton

Archeologists discovered the grave of a human, the circular skeleton seen at the top of the image, and a cat just inches away.
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Archeologists say they have evidence that a bond between cats and humans was forged thousands of years before previously thought.

An elaborate Neolithic burial site uncovered in the Shillourokambos settlement on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus reveals that the friendship between cats and humans may go back 9,500 years. Prior to the discovery, Egyptians were thought to be the first to keep cats as pets, around 2,000 to 1,900 BC.

"We don't know if the human was a male or a female, but we do know that he or she had a special status in society," said Jean -Denis Vigne, vice president of the Scientific Council of the Museum of Natural History in Paris.

The cat was the Felis silvestris species, a wildcat, a bit larger than modern domestic cats. It was about eight months old when it died.

Researchers found many items not often found in other graves, including flints, a small green stone axe, and two dozen shells. The cat skeleton was just 15 inches from the human skeleton. Vigne said the animal skeleton showed no sign of having been butchered, and its proximity to the human suggested some respect or reverence. It is possible, he said, that the cat was killed to accompany the human in the afterworld.... But he said the burial find in Cyprus indicates that the relationship between cats and people involved spiritual links.

What happened then to make the cat so neglected now?