Alright, where did this meme about cats being good pets come from?

My girlfriend bought 6 month old one the other week and ever since it's been like living with a really shitty and destructive flatmate. I can get by and know it'll calm down as it settles more and gets older. I understand it's a cat and that cat's a generally pricks. I do have one problem though.

How do I make it stop yowling for food?
If my neighbours find out I'm now harboring a feline I will be kicked out. Every time I eat, open a can, touch a fork to something or just generally enter the kitchen it assumes I'm going to feed it something tasty. Ever since the first time it got wet food.
I've tried ignoring it but, I've got to the point where I just spray it whenever it yowls at me. That manages to cut the fifteen minutes down of yowls to about three. If I can't get it to stop before my bitch neighbour finds out; I will kill myself, my girlfriend and the cat. I do not want to move.

Can /an/ shed some light on an Anthropology and Evolutionary question I have? Thanks.


It's now accepted that Europeans are almost all linked in some way to interbreeding between Homo Sapiens and Neandertals. This explains some things about white anatomy like generally wider hips, their prowess in strength sports but lack of speed and agility and underepresentation in sports requiring huh speed. My question is how then have Europeans become the tallest human race? I understand that more factors than just their ties to Neandertals effect this, but the average Neandertal was 4 or more inches shorter than the average homosapien today. (NO racism. No religious warefare. These are facts.)

Why is /an/ such a slow board?