# No cat for YOU!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-cat-for-you/462229>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 5, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-cat-for-you/462229 "2008-09-05T19:57:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 4

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**Author:** ![spaceweft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@spaceweft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spaceweft)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-cat-for-you/462229/61 "2008-09-08T20:25:53Z")

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> [@OtakuLoki](#):
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> Wait a second! I thought we were heaping scorn upon thoroughly deserving targets. Not the unworthy.

They are unworthy to be “people” - not unworthy of tar-and-feathering.

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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-cat-for-you/462229/62 "2008-09-08T21:20:31Z")

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A recent sequence of events:

Me: (reads thread)  
(runs off to find Pudding and give her a hug)  
Pudding: (meows piteously)  
Me: (tries to look at her toes)  
Pudding: (gets grumpy and tries to scratch me. walks away in a dignified manner)  
Me: (wibbly smile at kitty-my-love’s posterior)

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-cat-for-you/462229/63 "2008-09-09T02:45:52Z")

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> [@spaceweft](#):
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> There were other people that might very well have been great new owners, so I didn’t want to discourage those folks with my rendition of Schmoo’s\* 3am _hork hork HORK_.
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> Weft
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> - Schmoo, incidentally, through such regular hairball removal scheduling, has trained my daughter to wake up at 3a. Every night. Without fail. Every day of her life. Thank the ghods she’s nine now and will just go back to sleep.

Ah. Understood.

Well done.

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