# My cat took a deuce---WHERE IS IT???? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 25, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336 "2010-01-25T05:22:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![St.Anger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@St.Anger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Anger)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/1 "2010-01-25T05:22:16Z")
My cat was locked in the home office all afternoon, and when we went inside and let him out, a few minutes later . . we noticed that unmistakeable smell—cat shit. Without completely overturning the office, or the house, we cannot locate the fucking turd, but it smells. BAAAAAAAAAD. We checked in corners, we checked in every nook and cranny (cats tend to shit in hard to find places) and NO LUCK. The cat itself is of course giving no clues whatsoever as to the location of the dump. He walked in, mowed, and left the room as if everything was ladeeeeda. A second cat was in here 20 minutes ago, and sniffed around, but clearly did not recognize the offending material. This has happened before in the garage, and it wasn’t until we did the semi-annual garage cleaning that we found the months-old doodie, which was usually in some boxes. Another time one of the cats crapped behind the car tire. I’m bamboozled . . . where the FUCK did this cat take this enormous shit??? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/2 "2010-01-25T05:27:26Z")
Are there any boxes that he might have been able to find his way into? Even in the closet or under other boxes? ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/3 "2010-01-25T05:51:34Z")
Did you check the plants? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/4 "2010-01-25T10:38:44Z")
Since you locked him in your office all afternoon, with no litter box available, you **deserve** just what you got. ---
**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/5 "2010-01-25T12:18:11Z")
You need a dog. There is no more effective cat shit finder (and cat shit disposal) than a dog. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/6 "2010-01-25T12:26:00Z")
> [@St.Anger](#): > > I’m bamboozled . . . where the FUCK did this cat take this enormous shit??? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. If you get really desperate, you can do a binary search. Move half of the stuff out of that room and wait a few minutes. Either the smell stayed in the room, or it’s with the stuff that you just moved. Keep repeating that, narrowing it down by half each time. Eventually, you should be left with just a turd. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/7 "2010-01-25T12:53:07Z")
They tend to cover it. Look under papers. Or the edge of the rug if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/8 "2010-01-25T13:30:52Z")
> [@St.Anger](#): > > I’m bamboozled . . . where the FUCK did this cat take this enormous shit??? Any clues would be greatly appreciated. It might not be enormous, either. If there were a unit measure for stinkiness – oh, let’s call it an “urgh” – cat shit has to have more urghs per cubic centimeter than any other substance on the planet. It doesn’t take very much cat shit to stink up a whole room. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/9 "2010-01-25T13:51:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If you get really desperate, you can do a binary search. Move half of the stuff out of that room and wait a few minutes. Either the smell stayed in the room, or it’s with the stuff that you just moved. Keep repeating that, narrowing it down by half each time. Eventually, you should be left with just a turd. And if you get down to half a turd, you clearly don’t know shit from shinola. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/10 "2010-01-25T14:14:27Z")
Most code defects in binary searches are centered around the success / exit condition. This is no exception. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/11 "2010-01-25T14:14:50Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > And if you get down to half a turd, you clearly don’t know shit from shinola. Now that I think about it, it’s possible the cat took two deuces (a quad?), and the binary search method will just distribute the smell around the house. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/12 "2010-01-25T15:37:21Z")
Did you check the cat’s butt? It might be a remainder. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/13 "2010-01-25T16:00:16Z")
Don’t you mean “where the deuce is it?” ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/14 "2010-01-25T16:17:43Z")
Horrible thought - does your HVAC system have floor vents or ceiling vents? :eek: Get a straw. Put it up one nostrila nd hold the other one closed. Sniff through it. You’ll be able to follow the smell much better this way . . . ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/15 "2010-01-25T16:56:45Z")
Cats like to jump up on top of things. Try the top of a bookshelf or something high ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/16 "2010-01-25T18:03:36Z")
Look behind your desk. You know, where all your computer cords are? It will be balanced upon the cords. Mid-air. It will be loose, as in diarrhea. You will have to clean off each cord individually. How do they do that? I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/17 "2010-01-25T19:25:40Z")
[MOD NOTE] Approximately 47 million people have now reported this thread, asking that it be moved out of GQ. It is, indeed, a general question with a specific answer, but nobody can be expected to actually answer that question. The problem is, I can’t think of another forum that fits it any better, so we’ll just let it hang out here until it either fades away or degenerates into something that belongs in a different forum. Thanks, folks, for keeping an eye on things and reporting the thread, but you can stop now 🙂 [/MOD NOTE] ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/18 "2010-01-25T19:49:48Z")
**My cat took a deuce—WHERE IS IT?** Can your cat shit on a dime? The reason I ask, I had a friend several years back tell us that he could shit on a dime at an after party once and then, when given the appropriate and expected amount of ribbing and grief, he placed a dime on the floor, dropped his pants and underwear to his knees, squatted over the coin and somehow, someway dropped a single piece of poot precisely in the center of that dime without one bit of it being over the edge. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen, legendary even. It’s off no eternal significance you understand but legendary nonetheless. I mean here I am years later and still remember it vividly. You can’t teach that skill set, some people are just born with it and hey, why not a cat? So that’s maybe where you should start looking for the cat crap. Think back, where in your office did you last drop a dime? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/19 "2010-01-25T19:54:51Z")
Do you have a dog? Borrow a dog. Dog will also remove offending cat shit. ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336/20 "2010-01-25T19:57:22Z")
Turn off the lights, and walk around barefoot. You’ll find it in no time. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-cat-took-a-deuce-where-is-it/526336.md?page=2)