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First world cat problems
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sketchsanchez
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Well my cat is like this:
Yeah, when I first got my cats I was told cats have to do things on their own terms, you can't force them to be lap cats.
I was very saddened by this news.
Love my kitties anyway.
Crimsonclaw111
Member
Goddamn I love my kitty. She always sleeps on my back/between my legs and has a tendency to curl up on the pillow behind my head.
It's so annoying when I go to take a shit and my cat is mewing loudly and pathetically and I can't do anything about it.
It's so annoying when I go to take a shit and my cat is mewing loudly and pathetically and I can't do anything about it.
wsoxfan1214
Banned
So the guy comes in, almost brags about it and then hightails it out of the topic as soon as people start piling it on.
Figures.
Figures.
Necromanti
Member
Putting a cat down is infinitely more humane than throwing out an indoor cat and letting it fend for itself.
Having had experience dealing with it, the life of an abandoned house cat is a miserable one. They struggle to find food, shelter, or warmth. They may no longer trust people. They tend to develop nasty cases of infections and parasites. I have never seen a case of a happy stray cat that was once an indoor cat. And even then, cats have have been born and been stray for the entirety of their lives lead very difficult and short lives. Many of them just want love, shelter, and food, but have their lives tragically end without ever knowing comfort.
I believe that, deep down, you aren't being serious and you didn't condemn that cat to the fate that you say you have. Because it takes a special kind of heartlessness, apathy, or cruelty to do so. But I guess that reality has shown me that such people are not as rare as I would ever hope for.
sketchsanchez
Member
I hate that my topic was ruined by kitty killer.
Angry Fork
Member
This is the only time I've wished I was a mod. What an awful way to ruin a fun lighthearted thread.
Loom into the Siberian Forest Cat breed. I am HIGHLY allergic to cats so when me and my wife got married she essentially went into our marriage believing that she would never be able to have another cat - he had a number of them at home before we got married. I felt so awful that she did that for me that I did some research and discovered the Siberian breed. We have had Clancy almost an entire year now and I have never, not once, ever had any sort of allergic reaction to him.
Check out the thread I stared when we first hot him...
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=470759
He is absolutely a part of our family now and I can't imagine not having him here with us. I love the big furball.
Oh wow that makes a ton of sense when you think about it.
Song of my people had me in a fit of laughter, which was quickly brought down by this thread's dark turn :/
Yea, I didn't know about it until today. I've just gone and moved all the furballs' water bowls.
ChubbyHuggs
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My girlfriend's cat kept freaking out and destroyed some of our blinds. We opened the blinds and this is what we found. It was early morning, so I forgot to put on my glasses, so these aren't focused.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
This so hard.
holy shit im crying lOL
My cat recently figured out how to open up the door to the garage. Its one of those handles that you can turn from the inside, even when it is locked... I really need to figure our how to convert it to a normal lockable door.
I wouldn't even care that he spends time in the garage if he would just make sure to close the door behind him so that he doesn't let all of the heat out lol
I wouldn't even care that he spends time in the garage if he would just make sure to close the door behind him so that he doesn't let all of the heat out lol
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
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This isn't funny. My cat does sing me the song of its people. It sounds vaguely hispanic.
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Deleted member 20920
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My girlfriend's cat kept freaking out and destroyed some of our blinds. We opened the blinds and this is what we found. It was early morning, so I forgot to put on my glasses, so these aren't focused.
It just wants the nice view
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kurisu_1974
Banned
I don't understand, if I dumped my cat in the yard, it would just try to get back inside. And probably succeed.
sketchsanchez
Member
Probably killed the thing first for all we know.
Hours Left
Member
I died.
This so hard.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
It just wants the nice view
Looks like it's tracking an insect.
My last cat had an insane bloodlust for mosquitos. Would take them out even when they were near the middle of the ceiling.
My cat likes licking toads for some reason and then sits there salivating and drooling for ten minutes due to toad toxins. They come in through the gap under the screen door but I block it now. You really have to be wary because some toads are really poisonous and usually kill cats and dogs.
Zomba13
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My cat darts into the kitchen everytime a fizzy drink bottles opens. She knows I have ice with my drinks and she loves playing with ice cubes ever since I dropped one one time. Now I give her one to play with every time. She even wakes herself up to get one if she's sleeping.
I feel terrible for the poor cat you threw out, your ignorance hurt an innocent creature.
This thread is actually really sad to read through thanks to you =/
NekoFever
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I love this pic so much. It captures cats brilliantly.
Aquamarine
Member
I must admit, I laughed quite hard at this.
Our Clancy kept breaking the blinds in our "office" in our apartment by trying to climb up on the window. We thought of keeping the blinds pulled up, and that worked, but I didn't like how people could always see through to that window (which straight beyond it is a bathroom). Anyway, what we ended up doing is buying a cheap single window curtain panel that isn't see through, and hanging that up there and then keeping the blinds pulled up. Clancy now knows how to climb up to get in the window anytime he wants.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Our cat always seems to want to play at the most random times. Grumpy and hides under the couch during regular hours but suddenly at 3AM its cat party fun time. She will walk all over our sleeping bodies and drop her catnip-filled mouse toys on my face.
My girlfriend says she's a calico so she's very moody.
My girlfriend says she's a calico so she's very moody.
Nappuccino
Member
Cats are more active at night; it's when they would typically hunt.
Our three are very good in this respect, by about 10 they are all curled up, often together, and then they are quiet until about 5. They were brought up entirely indoors for the first year and even when they go out they only go out when we let them as we have no flap.
At the moment we are having a bit of an issue with a huge ginger and white long haired bastard that is terrorising not only our cats but others in the street. We got a note put through our letterbox asking if it was ours because it had caused someones cat to have to go to the vets 3 times because of fights.
Fortunately the worst we have had is our ginger (Spock) shitting himself, literally.
Ravensmash
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My cat seems to be fairly active in the mornings, but then she'll come inside mid afternoon and sleep loads until the evening - then she'll usually venture outside again.
We did get a bell collar on her to minimise hunting, but she managed to lose it somehow and her new one has a rubbish bell so I've been finding dead shrews in the house. -.-
Some of these reactions to Vyroxis are hilarious. As if he's some monster who skinned his cat and fed it to his wife in a stew. I doubt very much he thought the cat would suffer some horrible slow death and purposefully exiled it in hopes it would die in misery. He more than likely thought what many people mistakenly think, that it's an animal with teeth and claws that hunts and so will be fine outside on it's own. His decision was probably not made out of some evil desire to make the cat suffer, but rather out of simple ignorance in regards to how most domesticated cats deal with wilderness survival. Countless pets are released into the wild every year because people are ignorant to how domestication can ruin animal instincts for survival. Very few are doing it out of evil cruelty, most are just making a bad decision because they don't know any better. It's hard, if you dont know better, not to look at an animal and think "animals live in nature, it will be fine".
Cats are crepuscular; they're more active during dawn and dusk.
His cat had a problem behavior that could have been taken care of or the cat could have been given to a more responsible owner. He punished the cat as if it had some sort of planned malice against him and lied to his wife. The fact that the cat never came back suggests it died. Just because he could have been ignorant that what he was doing was cruel and delusional doesn't excuse what he did. He knows he did something wrong since he's keeping it secret from his wife. Boasting about it here was trying to allay his cognitive dissonance about it and it backfired.
When my cat was sick with kidney failure I put her food by my bed with stairs so I could pet her while she ate when I was half asleep. I knew she'd like that based on the previous 10+ years. she would pur real loud like always. The extra layer of food I'd have to pour sometimes seemed a bit seperate. No matter how much I pet her she wouldn't go at it sometimes. I'm thinking they knew the diffrrence between food in an airtight container and dry food sitting out.
You don't know if he is a bad person. You know far too little about him to make such a foolish statement. One poor decision made likely out of ignorance does not condemn a person to such a damning description. He very well could be hitler and stalin combined, but what he has said in this thread is not nearly enough to label him as such.
fabricated backlash
Member
Oh fuck me if that isn't my old cat... too bad he got run over.
I agree that it was wrong to say that. That's why I edited my post like 10 minutes before you posted this...
There is no doubt his actions were foolish, and his reactions in this thread equally foolish. I think him lying to his wife has more to do with not wanting to sleep on the couch for getting rid of the cat without consulting her, but regardless, he should know gaf better than to brag about doing such a thing to a cat. And hopefully now he knows better than to send a domesticated animal into the wild alone.
I think his continued bragging is what's really getting to people. He most likely feels remorse for doing it but is refusing to show it. Like I said, I think bragging about it here was an attempt to get rid of some cognitive dissonance; convince himself the cat was being spiteful and got what it deserved by getting other people to agree with him to make himself feel better about what he did. If he truly felt that what he did wasn't wrong he wouldn't be keeping it secret from his wife. Every time he posts he just digs himself deeper; even throwing his wife under the bus. He wants to blame others like the cat and his wife and can't accept his own responsibility.
I don't condone throwing a cat out into the streets (and I'm not a cat person at all), but if there are any non-primates that do things out of spite, it has to be cats. Maybe large, dino-esque birds. But the excuse of no shelter doesn't fly. There is ALWAYS a shelter somewhere within driving distance. You might be in a small city that doesn't have one, but a city or two over will definitely have one. That's just laziness.
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