# New kittens!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498 "2005-08-17T22:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/21 "2005-08-18T04:18:59Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I’ve lived with cats almost nonstop for my 43 years. We have **never** washed a cat. Not ever. > > What’s with alla the dripping wet angry kitties?? Why would anyone wash a cat whose job it is to sleep 22 hours a day, frolic for 9 minutes and spend the remaining 1hour and 51 minutes licking it’s entire body? I wash ours, though they are strictly indoor cats… because after about a month, they get a kind of weird “litter dust” smell to their fur (yeah, I ask them if they roll in it, too). It also helps me keep an eye out for fleas (even indoor cats get fleas, I have discovered). Though we use Advantage, I still like to give them a good, thorough check to make sure, mostly because our youngest is allergic to them. It seems easier to check them over when their hair is wet and thin and I can see their pink bellies better. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/22 "2005-08-18T04:20:24Z")
Kittens! Kittens! Kittens! My kitties are all grown up. I needs my baby cat fix and I needs it now. ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/23 "2005-08-18T04:31:05Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > What’s with alla the dripping wet angry kitties?? Why would anyone wash a cat whose job it is to sleep 22 hours a day, frolic for 9 minutes and spend the remaining 1hour and 51 minutes licking it’s entire body? Because she stinks after six weeks or so. ☹ It also cuts down quite a bit on shedding, and they are sooooo soft after a bath. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/24 "2005-08-18T04:33:29Z")
When cats lick themsleves, I think it has more to do with “brushing” their coats. I don’t think they actually pretend to “clean” themsleves by licking. After all, they love to go outside and roll around in the dirt on a warm day. How clean should a cat be? I don’t know. But some people get attacked by fleas which cats bring inside. Those pictures still are funny. Why do people seem to take pictures of cats only when they’re in the sink? ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/25 "2005-08-18T05:40:54Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Those pictures still are funny. Why do people seem to take pictures of cats only when they’re in the sink? Because the cats are being held down, and therefore staying in one spot long enough to have a proper picture taken. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/26 "2005-08-18T06:11:20Z")
I had to wash my cats when they were little because they got really smelly and greasy. I’ve only had to wash one once after they grew up, and that was when he fell into a toilet full of urine. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/27 "2005-08-18T06:40:20Z")
> [@Giant\_Spongess](#): > > when he fell into a toilet full of urine Fell? Oh, no, I’m sure he _meant_ to do that. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/28 "2005-08-18T06:45:24Z")
Well, he used to be obsessed with the toilet water flushing, as many young cats are, and also like many young cats his balance wasn’t particularly good. I was standing there doing my belt and heard _scrabble scrabble sploosh SPLASH runrunrun…lick_ He managed to get urine-water all over the floor, too. ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/29 "2005-08-18T07:29:24Z")
I must tell Lord Pixel Purrbody that he has a little namesake. …ummmm. he will want to see pix too ! ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/30 "2005-08-18T13:19:08Z")
::tapping foot impatiently and still waiting…:: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/31 "2005-08-18T13:25:20Z")
No pictures? Tease! ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/32 "2005-08-18T13:27:23Z")
::whistling Jeopardy final question theme song:: ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/33 "2005-08-18T13:31:53Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > A dog loving friend once told me cats aren’t clean, they’re just covered with spit. Dogs are covered with spit too, if you have more than one dog. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/34 "2005-08-18T14:26:36Z")
::Wanders around aimlessly:: \: The pictures…where are the pictures…pictures… ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/35 "2005-08-18T15:09:29Z")
A pic of my daughter’s kitten [Sirius](http://photobucket.com/albums/b305/Bookkeeper2/Cats/?action=view¤t=2004-04Sirius3.jpg) to help fend off the withdrawal symptoms, plus one of him [after his bath](http://photobucket.com/albums/b305/Bookkeeper2/Cats/?action=view¤t=2004-05Siriuswet1.jpg). (When did wet cat pictures become a mandatory requirement and why didn’t I get the memo? Wait, here it is, under Volume 34 of the unwritten rules.) ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/36 "2005-08-18T15:23:03Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Why do people seem to take pictures of cats only when they’re in the sink? When they’re doing something cute, you’ve gotta [catch it on film!](http://home.comcast.net/~lisadorn/sink1.JPG)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pixisis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Pixisis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixisis)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/37 "2005-08-18T15:30:48Z")
> [@Corii](#): > > When they’re doing something cute, you’ve gotta [catch it on film!](http://home.comcast.net/~lisadorn/sink1.JPG)😃 Thanks !! i needed that ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/38 "2005-08-18T15:31:18Z")
Haha! I have [kittens](http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a384/ybeayf/DSCN0869.jpg)! Drusilla is on the left, and Darla is on the right. They were about 5 weeks old in this picture. Since this was taken, they’ve been moving too fast to take a decent picture of them. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/39 "2005-08-18T15:33:11Z")
Yay kittens! I just finished fostering a cat for our humane society–we can’t neuter them until they weigh at least 2 pounds, and he was at 1.9 pounds. So we fed him canned food for a couple weeks to fatten him up, and when he was good and chubby, I took him back to the shelter. I felt horrible, putting this sweet little guy in a cage (he clung to me and cried and cried), but I know that a darling kitty like him is going to get a good home very soon. Meanwhile, [here’s his picture](http://www.petharbor.com/detail.asp?ID=A075257&searchtype=ADOPT&friends=0&samaritans=0&nosuccess=0&bgcolor=FFFFFF&text=000000&link=23334A&alink=23334A&vlink=23334A&col_hdr_bg=FFFFFF&col_hdr_fg=000000&col_bg=FFFFFF&col_bg2=eee9e9&col_fg=000000&SBG=FFFFFF&rows=10&imght=120&imgres=thumb&view=sysadm.v_web_6&fontface=arial&nobreedreq=1&shelterlist='ASHV'&where=type_CAT&LOCATION=ASHV). If this link is broken, that means he got adopted! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2005, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498/40 "2005-08-18T15:41:16Z")
> [@Corii](#): > > When they’re doing something cute, you’ve gotta [catch it on film!](http://home.comcast.net/~lisadorn/sink1.JPG)😃 Oh yeah? I’ll see your cat and in a sink, and raise you [two cats in a sink](http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a147/JinxxJezebel/newcatbed.jpg)! That’s the first thing those two fools did when we moved into this apartment. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-kittens/317498.md?page=3)