And while you’re at it, think about disassociating yourself from someone who threatens to feed kittens to the dogs. She’s a vile piece of shit.
Also, this.
What, now you’re advocating starving dogs? Hypocrites.
I like cats. Dogs, on the other hand, slobber and shit and stink.
Obviously you’ve never met my cat, 'cus he does all these things too.
Sometimes he’ll actually wake me up for kitty snacks by drooling on my face. It’s charming.
Why? Dogs have to eat or they’ll starve. Can you come up with a reason why this kitten should be kept alive? And if not, why can’t she use the body for something useful?
Can you come up with a reason why you should be kept alive?
I feed myself, how’s that? I work and don’t hang around other people’s yards begging for scraps. I’d say that’s enough reason.
Seriously, I didn’t catch that it was a stray kitten. Someone else’s problem - I’m more concerned about the birds, anyway. Not everyone cares about cats, especially ones that come in your yard unwanted and shit everywhere.
Then you don’t need to be kept alive, do you? You’re taking care of that yourself.
If you weren’t able to fend for yourself, would throwing you to the dogs for their dinner be a reasonable action?
Okay, I *have *been drooled on by one of my boyfriend’s cats. (Sometimes she gets really into it when you pet her.) But that’s not remotely comparable to constantly trying to lick any exposed bit of skin you can find, especially my face, with a big slobbery tongue.
Also, yes, cats shit, but you don’t need to let them outside for them to do it, nor do you have to pick up big stinking globs of shit.
And I’ve never met a cat who had anything approaching the funk most dogs do on a regular basis.
You have obviously also not meant my cats.
Both lick anything they can get their tongues on, and one has… litterbox issues. Fortunately confined to the basement, but there is still a lot of kitty poop to pick up.
I’ll admit that they don’t really smell, but their breath sure does.
Okay, in what universe do dogs actually eat cats, outside of Tom and Jerry cartoons? From the way people are talking, throwing kittens to dogs to get eaten is something that happens on a regular basis. I’ve never heard of it.
Being licked by a small, raspy tongue is not the same as being licked by a big, slimy tongue.
Get a better litterbox? This is what my boyfriend uses. Unless you mean the cat’s just pooping outside the box, period, instead of scattering it after depositing it in the box. (Isn’t that something you could train it out of? Also, *very *not typical of cats–at least not healthy ones.)
This is recent, and is the result of some sort of health issue that is the subject of ongoing investigation (which reminds me that I need to schedule an appointment for her). We don’t know whether it’s physical or behavioral at this point. We know she has behavioral urination issues, but the weird thing is, when she’s not having an episode she’ll usually pee in the box. She just won’t poop in it.
Anyway, that’s entirely unrelated to the thread, and way too serious for my purposes. Back to smart-assery.
I think the attitude that the only way to solve ‘pet overpopulation’ is for all people to sterilize their adult dogs and cats is ridiculously glib. This blog post sums up how I feel pretty well.
I’ve never had a pet ‘escape’, and I’ve sure never had an accidental mating or litter. But I do spay my female dogs and cats after their first heat cycle for several health reasons, and I live alone in an apartment so no one else can let them loose. I prefer males intact and it’s been a non-issue for me (I’ve lived with 3 different intact dogs in the last 5 years).
rhubarbarin, is there any reason you prefer intact males? I’d always heard that most dog bites come from unneutered males.
Yet another reason why our cats are kicked out of the bedroom at night (my cat’s a big drooler - I think it’s related to her ongoing and constant hairballs - she has about 100% more hair than most cats, it seems).
I fucking knew it. They took away “cunt”, now this place has turned into a kitty hugging pile of crap.
Fucking Ed. Fucking cats.
Interesting solution, but it’s still probably easier to just feed it.
I’m STILL waiting for him to give me back all my base :mad: