Cat thread

[rattran]

If one of the cats in the two-cat cage has ear mites, both cats in the two-cat cage have ear mites. Not too hard to get rid of, you just have to do it before they get scarring from them, and have yeasty ears for life.

[LK]

 

So two weeks until I can get the twofers. Plenty of time for Snow to mark all her territory. ^^;

[Sjofn]

Half the reason (OK, maybe more in Gilly's case) we got our cats from our vet's Cat Bin is because there isn't a big long process to get 'em. Pay 80 bucks, congratulations, you have a cat. I mean, I'm sure if we had just walked in off the street instead of already being clients they would've been more discerning (apparently they talked a couple out of adopting Gilly because they were obviously not really ... suited), but everywhere else we looked they all wanted to do home inspections and shit. Fuck that noise, I sez. I understand WHY they do that but still. Feh!

[Sky]

There are a lot of people who love cats who shouldn't be cat owners. My fiancee's best friend, another librarian, is one. She's basically a cat lady, but bought her house (so she had more room for cats) at the height of the market, so she's broke. She got three kittens at the same time I got Bart, 2 males and a female.

I'm not sure they even got their shots, and she lets them out. They definitely weren't fixed, and the female has already had two litters, small ones because the cat is undernourished (having to fight for food with multiple adult cats as a kitten)...and she's kept all the kittens (I believe five total). None of those are getting shots/fixed. She's about to be down a very bad road, my fiancee is in a tough spot because she doesn't want to rat out her friend but when she has to feed her friend's cats, she can't help but compare them to Bart, who is a massive monster and picture of health.

I mean, she loves cats and means well. She just doesn't understand that she's basically abusing the cats with her neglect.

[Bunk]

Yea, don't feel bad about ratting her out. Good intentions or not, she needs a reality check in the form of the SPCA showing up at her door.

[Sky]

Good point, I should do it behind my fiancee's back, since her friend hates me (and all men) anyway.

[Signe]

You'll have to adopt all her cats, you know. 

[LK]

Signe apparently has a smilie for every pro-cat statement she makes.

[Brogarn]

{snip}

Ok, Daffy really had lost "teh funny" but you brought it back around for me with the addition of the Christmas hat. It'll lose its funny again, but I about spit when I saw it. Well played.

[LK]

Sky's avatar, spreading the holiday "cheer."

[Sjofn]

{snip}

Ok, Daffy really had lost "teh funny" but you brought it back around for me with the addition of the Christmas hat. It'll lose its funny again, but I about spit when I saw it. Well played.

Agreed, I saw the new hat and snortlaughed.

That's a bummer about your fiancee's friend and her cat issues. My youngest sister is another person who likes animals but probably shouldn't have pets. She doesn't like spending money at the vet. At all. Not even to get her rabbit fixed, which is important to do for their long-term health (as I found out :( ).  Basically she's one of those people who likes their pet and dotes on them until it is somehow inconvenient, then they turn into irresponsible assholes.

[LK]

Ear mite kitties are in the clear. Petra, a 3 year old, and Mesa, a 9 month old, will be coming home with me tomorrow. I thought they were the same age. Their paperwork also said Mesa was female instead of male. >_<;

Lizzie (Snow) is still in Isolation with Upper Respiratory Infection. We'll see what happens after I get the two cats home. I thought Petra was also in the 9 month range but apparently not.

One of the cats I was looking at got really sick and was euthanized the day after I got to play with it. I was thinking of taking it. ;_;

[rattran]

Upper respiratory infections are common in pound situations. When I got Oscar, he's just gotten snipped at the pound, and dumped into their main area, and gotten pneumonia. So after having him a day, he went to the vet for 2 days on an IV, then a week of being home deathly ill, few and watered with an eyedropper, and generally spoiled. He's now huge, healthy, and loves me lots.

[Sjofn]

Lizzie (Snow) is still in Isolation with Upper Respiratory Infection.

zomg cat name thief

[LK]

Snow, or Lizzie? I actually felt bad when they told me their names because I wanted to name them. But Petra and Mesa is fine, and, well, I guess Lizzie is OK...

Just a quirk I guess where I can't change the name of something already named.

[Ingmar]

Unless they know their names there's no harm in renaming them. Our Lizzie was named Karma or something by the shelter, and Gilly was something really random like Peanut Butter Cup or something, I don't remember.

[Bunk]

Snow, or Lizzie? I actually felt bad when they told me their names because I wanted to name them. But Petra and Mesa is fine, and, well, I guess Lizzie is OK...

Just a quirk I guess where I can't change the name of something already named.

Shelter named my cat Harmony. Not a name I would have ever picked, but it seams wrong to change it.

[rattran]

The rescue place I rescued Dagmar from had a name on her cage that said 'Tatum' which would always remind me of the old 'Tatum Brain Syndrome' skit. And then I found out from the petsmart people that the rescue people replaced the cats, but left the same paperwork and names on the cages.

Dagmar is a much better cat name.

[Bunk]

Yea, Tatum would bug me too much, I'd have to change that. It would constantly remind me of McEnroe's hot, drunk, fucked in the head ex-wife.

At least Harmony is morphable in to various forms of the word harm, as appropriate.

[proudft]

Our Ringo's pound name was "Marty".  Yuk.  Daisy was too young to have a slave name.

[Signe]

Lister was Pumpernickel because pumpernickel is orange, you know.     Magenta was Hallie.  Now they're not. 

I had an aunt named Dagmar. 

[Sjofn]

Lizzie was named Karma, as Ingmar said, and Gilly was named Cher (her brother was named Sonny). The reason he was thinking she was named something weirder is because the Kitten Bin Residents in the batch after her were named shit like Sunny Side Up and French Toast.

If Lizzie or Gilly were older, I probably would've left their names as is, but they were kittens and didn't really know their names, so I didn't feel bad at all changing 'em. Not that I picked either name, Ingmar did.

[Sky]

Lister was Pumpernickel because pumpernickel is orange, you know.     Magenta was Hallie.  Now they're not. 

I'm confused. You dye your cats? I've never seen a magenta cat.

I'm all about renaming cats. I get in trouble (with my fiancee) because my cat has about a thousand names. About half of them are obscene.

[Signe]

I say that about Lister because when I asked the people at the shelter why they named him Pumpernickel, that's what they said.  Magenta wears a magenta collar and she was named after someone, not because pumpernickel is orange.

[Ingmar]

Everyone knows that pumpernickel is made from pumpkins.

[tgr]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bmhjf0rKe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3PWNGoNX_A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkHBuh21AMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKF7UvtYzqI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_xnSwbsUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOb01tADQAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUQzPk1CGeo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrEWmlQ2jjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=464F1v8iBcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRLfTL-bG94

And to sum up cats in one video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YniAmQkZBj0

Yeah, I had a bit of a kitty binge. Bite me.

[LK]

1. Petra and Mesa, in the pound.
2. Petra, on my bed, her favorite spot to camp. Since it is the only piece of furniture in the apartment...
3. Mesa, from his favorite spot to camp, giving me his best "Eh, wot?"

[Signe]

Awww! 

[Mosesandstick]

Nice one!

[Sky]

Petra looks like the cat I imagined getting for my house, Mesa looks like our library cat.

I still want to get a grey cat and a white cat to go with my black cat.

[tazelbain]

Even better you could get cyan, magenta, and yellow cats to go with your black cat.

[apocrypha]

 

[Sky]

Even better you could get a cyan, magenta, and yellow cats to go with you black cat.

Hey, Zombie Feet already has a magenta cat!

[Signe]

[LK]

Mesa, the underbed kitty, was clawing at the boxspring on my bed. I checked out the damage; big ole hole in it. But that wasn't the biggest surprise. Turns out Mesa has crawled into the hole and now uses it as his home.

BOXSPRING CAT HAZ A HAMM0CK.

Seriously between the "Eh wot?" expressions and him holing up into my boxspring, I think I adopted a cat straight out of Dwarf Fortress.