Cat thread

[Signe]

I tried those pill pockets too when my poor Magenta had her butt problems.  She wouldn't touch them and the other cat got so excited he almost pulled her treat covered pill out of my hands.  He actually knocked the bag out of my hands while I was putting it away and half of them scattered all over the kitchen floor.  I have never in my life seen my fat orange pussy move so fast  as he did trying to eat them quicker than I could pick them up.  He smiled all the way to his cat tree where he threw up.  Sigh.

[Signe]

Well, hello.

[Mrbloodworth]

Hansom fella.

[Signe]

Funny thread?  Music thread?  Useless?  No, cat thread needs the +.

[Nebu]

[Bunk]

Append to the end of that: "Ok, now that you have acknowledged that it is for me, I don't want it."

[Signe]

[Lantyssa]

I know what my cat is going as for Halloween...

[rattran]

Mr. B (gf's cat, who loves me more now) will be this again, as it was so much fun (not for him)

[Nebu]

Meeyaar!   

[Signe]

I know what my cat is going as for Halloween...

Absolutely must take a pic!  And Rattran must take a better pic of pirate cat!  I'm lazy.  I just attach eight more tails to the cat and call it a day.  The batcat is very tempting though.  I think those tiny teeth are probably painted on the bottom lip-thingy whatever it's called.

[Signe]

My Magenta trying to avoid going to the vet.  You can tell she's upset when one ear goes flat and the other stays up.  It makes her look goofy.  You can also tell she's upset when she tries to climb the window, I guess.

[Paelos]

Yes, she has a very YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! look going on.

[01101010]

Yes, she has a very YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE! look going on.

More like the "going feral in 5... 4... 3..." look.

[Ingmar]

Is it wrong that I enjoy putting flea medicine on the cats because SOMETHING IS ON MY BACK I MUST RUN AROUND TO TRY TO SHAKE IT OFF?

[Paelos]

Honestly, it would be wrong if you didn't.

Teasing cats is the point of owning cats.

[MuffinMan]

[Samwise]

Hopefully this isn't a Bloodworth.  Automated cat wash.

[Trippy]

I'm pretty sure it is (maybe not in this thread) but that's okay.

[Chimpy]

I feel kinda bad because I couldn't help laughing.

[apocrypha]

That's a fantastic photo :)

And that pet spa is deeply cruel. WTF kind of cunt does that to their pet?

[Ingmar]

I'd be tempted to next time Jack steps in his own poop when trying to bury it. 

[Signe]

This is a Ringtail not a Cat.

[Lantyssa]

I love ringtails.  Adorably cute.  Apparently they're better mousers than cats.  Miners used to keep them around to deal with vermin.

[Paelos]

Hopefully this isn't a Bloodworth.  Automated cat wash.

That made my weekend, btw. There's nothing like a good cat panic.

[Mrbloodworth]

Hopefully this isn't a Bloodworth.  Automated cat wash.

THAT POOR CAT!

I would never do that to my cat.

[tgr]

While I kid of understand why some people think they need such a machine, I've never actually seen why I should use one. Firstly because it makes them absolutely freak the fuck out, which isn't good in any way, shape or form to start with, and secondly because there generally isn't a reason to use it.

I can literally count the times I've washed my two cats in any way, shape or form on one hand in the 12 years I've had them, same goes for my parents (including the years before I moved out), and the only reason I've had to wash any of my cats have been because they've had some sort of the runs (Perl because she actually did have the runs, and I had to wash the shit out of her long asshairs, Luna because her ass reacts violently to going driving in any car and projectilevomits forth shit like it's christmas unless I drug her).

Outside of these extraordinary situations, more often than not you do not need to wash a cat, they wash themselves, and I'd go so far as to call using such a machine borderline animal cruelty. Man up and wash your kitty with your own hands, and remember to use warmer water than you think you'll need because cats are hotter than you are and what they find comfortable is, again, hotter than you think is comfortable.

[Trippy]

An oldie but a goodie: How To Wash A Cat

[Ingmar]

I can literally count the times I've washed my two cats in any way, shape or form on one hand in the 12 years I've had them, same goes for my parents (including the years before I moved out), and the only reason I've had to wash any of my cats have been because they've had some sort of the runs (Perl because she actually did have the runs, and I had to wash the shit out of her long asshairs, Luna because her ass reacts violently to going driving in any car and projectilevomits forth shit like it's christmas unless I drug her).

I'm not advocating for the machine in any way, but not all cats can be trusted to clean themselves fast enough. If we want to not have nasty runny cat poop tracked all over our carpets, we have to grab Jack and wash him pretty frequently, because he never properly learned to use the litter box from his mother apparently - he goes in it, and then steps in it and doesn't bury it, he just swipes at the walls of the litter box instead. Like, he knows he's supposed to swipe his paws at something, he just doesn't know it's the litter. Anyway, he also has a bit of a nervous diarrhea problem (reason #1 to not put him in a cat washing machine) so when he steps in it, it makes a mess. Yeah we could let him clean himself up eventually but it's a lot less nasty, and easier, to just dip his ass under the faucet.

TLDR: We have to bathe that fucker all the time.

[Sjofn]

On the upside, he's totally cool with being washed!

[tgr]

Yeah, there's a difference between washing a cat because he's got shit all over him, and washing a cat "because it's his time of the week/month/whatever", and most of the videos I've seen of that sort of machine being used hasn't seemed like cats who were even filthy at all.

There's might be some hygienic problems with various cat breeds, I wouldn't know about that since I haven't taken in any specially-made breed, I've always tried to take in as normal or as natural a cat as possible.

[01101010]

When I adopted my two guys, my vet in training helped me roll through the adoption process. I was strongly recommended to teach them young so they get used to being poked and prodded, meaning check their ears, give them baths, cut their nails, check them for fleas, pry their mouths open to check the teeth. I gotta say, getting them @ 7 weeks, I could do all that and in a few years they were fine with almost everything... save the bath. My one big guy would never really be vocal or have a loud purr, but I'd get about halfway done washing him off in the tub and he'd actually howl. First time, it scared me a bit till I realized he was just voicing his displeasure and not that he was in pain. I also learned very quickly to clip the nails prior to bathing them. 

[rk47]

After watching this cat owner palm getting cut and bled. I understand why anyone would want that machine.

[Hawkbit]

The amount of dumb shit that lady was doing to the cat was astounding.

1.  The day before bath, clip the claws and round them off.  The cat can still get you, but there's less of a chance of blood.
2.  Don't grab the cat's neck; grab the back of the neck skin.  That's how momma cats carry their young around, and many cats just go limp when their scruff is grabbed.
3.  Don't hit the cat.  Like, ever.
4.  Don't have a dick of a boyfriend backseat driving the whole experience.  Every extra person is just stressing that cat out even more. 

Strider gets baths quite often, and tolerates them pretty well.  When we adopted him, he had been shot through the back with an arrow.  I'm guessing he laid in his cage after surgery for 5-6 weeks and was never really able to clean himself. 

After we brought him home, he was scary as fuck.  He had this aura of being really, really nasty and I was actually afraid of him.  I started to regret the whole thing after a few hours and almost took him back, but my wife noticed how filthy he was after being in his cage healing for so long.  They couldn't really wash him because of the stitches, so he was utterly foul from laying in his own piss. 

So we bathed him.  Twice in one sitting.  And the moment we finished cleaning him, it was like we washed his crappy attitude away, too.  He went from being scary to one of the most loving cats, all in about an hour.  He was so happy to be clean, and even now he tolerates being bathed pretty well. 

[tgr]

My technique when I've had to bathe any of my cats have been to just be 2 people, one holding and one washing. They definitely did not like it, and they were very loud in making that well known, but as long as I had control of their front paws the whole situation was easily manageable. Once the worst of the muck is off we just took the cat back out of the shower, towelled the worst off and let the cat wash her dignity back on. vOv