Pounce

• Liver
• Seafood
• Chicken
• Tartar Control Crunchy Chicken

My cat will come to me when I shake the bottle, and when given one will eat it in my lap, unless I tell him to eat it on the floor, at which time he will jump off of my lap and eat the treat on the floor.

Transforms from puma to robot and back!

DECEPTICON: POUNCE

FUNCTION: INFILTRATOR
"Terror is the stage on which I perform."

Sly, silent, and savage. The right machine for the right job. Often ignores his victims' pleas for mercy. In puma mode, can leap .7 miles. Possesses superior eyesight and sense of smell. In robot mode, laser range finder in optical sensors provides 99.4% accuracy with twin anti-personnel missile launching bayonets. Clone brother is Wingspan.

• Strength: 5
• Intelligence: 7
• Speed: 4
• Endurance: 5
• Rank: 6
• Courage: 8
• Firepower: 7
• Skill: 10

The clones were a good idea, but crippled somewhat by their small size. At the same time, the designers took the wrong approach: they created two perfectly normal-looking robots (sold in the same package) and forced them into different modes, in the Decepticons' case a puma and a hawk. Normally Transformers are created the other way around, and the result of this reversed development was two ugly animals that suffered badly from what I call "of course it transforms into a robot" syndrome.

Here's way I had always thought of 'em, as summed up nicely by my best friend: pounces are big hugs that sneak up on you from behind. There are frontal pounces as well, but that usually involves diving of some sort, landing gently on top of the other party and hugging them on the floor. Pounces of this sort are much happier than falling suddenly on someone and seizing them with your claws. Please don't do that: you could poke an eye out.

Pounce (?), n. [F. ponce pumice, pounce, fr. L. pumex, -icis, pumice. See Pumice.]

1.

A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

2.

Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc.

Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

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Pounce (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pounded (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pouncing (?).]

To sprinkle or rub with pounce; as, to pounce paper, or a pattern.

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Pounce, n. [Prob. through French, from an assumed LL. punctiare to prick, L. pungere, punctum. See Puncheon, Punch, v. t.]

1.

The claw or talon of a bird of prey.

Spenser. Burke.

2.

A punch or stamp.

Withals.

3.

Cloth worked in eyelet holes.

Homilies.

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Pounce, v. t.

1.

To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.

Stooped from his highest pitch to pounce a wren. Cowper.

Now pounce him lightly, And as he roars and rages, let's go deeper. J. Fletcher.

2.

To punch; to perforate; to stamp holes in, or dots on, by way of ornament.

Sir T. Elyot.

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Pounce, v. i.

To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey.

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