My crazy, drunken, coked up brother in law says that the reason his cat always follows him around is because when he was a kitten he took him in the bathroom and peed on him. He insists that its a “kn:rolleyes:wn” training technique used to induce loyalty in a cat.
I’ve had oodles of cats, all of them loyal to me without my urine. The idea makes me sick. I didn’t know whether to puke or punch him in the head. Lucky I’ve only got to see this prick once a year.
Sigh. But…I was just wondering if anyone has ever heard of this before. Just curious. (and NO, I am NOT going to try it! Don’t even joke! I like cats!)
Never, ever heard of that one before. And I have had cats that followed me around and cats that didn’t–no correlation to what I did to them. (FWIW, I was pretty mean to the one who followed me everywhere, but I was just a kid. Not cruel, exactly, but . . . for instance I would go to the back door and call her and she would come, and then I’d shut the door and go to the front door and call her, and she’d come, and I kept this up until she wouldn’t come anymore, then a couple hours later I’d do it again. yes, it’s a wonder she came when I called her, ever again, but she did. For 18 years.)
I did once throw up on my dog. (Not on purpose. Long story short, I had to wait for the bathroom, then she tripped me.) Nothing like having to wash a dog at 3am when you don’t feel all that great in the first place. End result: she quit sleeping by my side of the bed.
Um, I should have put a TMI warning on here shouldn’t I.
Pissing on my cat helped cure her of excessive loyalty.
I was relieving myself one day and my kitten took too close an interest in what was going on. White kitty turned yellow and sat back going, “Oh, this is GROSS!” I finished my business, closed the door, and gave kitty her first bath with water.
She didn’t enjoy it.
After that day, she stopped following me around the apartment.
I have no idea what the answer to your question is, but just want to thank you for your thread title, and the fact that it made me laugh so hard it hurt.
I can’t imagine why it would have that effect.
A person I know very well, who shall remain nameless, has inside/outside cats, and a garden.
The neighborhood cats kept jumping on her cats, and tearing up the plants, messing up the beds.
She asked her spouse to set the live trap, and scare the outsiders away, when caught.
He did.
By peeing all around the property, then peeing on the cats he caught in the trap, while screaming at them.
They never came back.
It’s not uncommon for cattlemen to masturbate their working dogs to keep them loyal and compliant (and to keep their minds on rounding up cows rather than shagging that farmer’s wife’s poodle over in the next valley).
I accidently peed on one of my cats once. He was running around like a crazy person, and leaped over the toilet just at the wrong time. His attitude toward me didn’t change, but I’ve never again seen him near the toilet.
Come on. This is the Straight Dope Message Board. You could ask a question about jumping out of an airplane and fisting a yak on the way down and half a dozen people would show up to recommend a starting altitude.
I’ve heard that cops do this to their K9 units for much the same reason, and it’s a good way to hobble greyhounds and racehorses if you’re looking to fix a race without being detected.
Are cattlemen notorious for fancying poodles? Can’t they find a less messy way of distracting themselves whilst out on the trail?
I accidentally peed on my cat’s tail when she walked in between my legs while I was doing my business.
t hasn’t altered her rules of engagement: a) I am to be shown affection when I come home from work for a period of not more than 30 (thirty) seconds; b) she is to feign adoration when she wants me to get up and feed her; c) true affection is to be only shown when it’s least convenient for me.
Cats live by their noses, and it’s common for them to be fascinated by humans peeing. I’ve had a couple of male (neutered) cats that were interested to the point of wanting to bat at the stream of urine. It’s tricky to shoo away a cat while maintaining your aim. Anyway, both these cats got splattered a bit. It didn’t seem to bother them, and it did not affect their loyalty.
Didn’t Scylla’s daughter used to pee on the cat when she was a toddler? Or am I hallucinating (again)? I wonder if that cat has changed behavior towards the daughter.
