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I can't claim to be any kind of expert in feline matters, but what I have learned about cats from reading stuff on here, talking to friends, neighbours and colleagues, and cleaning their faeces off my sodding lawn, is:
If that was a description of a housemate, you'd kick 'em out. If it was a dog, you'd get some advice and help regarding re-training. But people just put up with it, and keep them as 'pets'. My next door neighbours' cats are even more pathetic than most, and yet they still seem to like them! Crazy.
Explain it to me if you can. To each their own and all that, but why a cat? Or, God forbid, cats plural?
- You have to feed them or they'll starve.
- They scratch the furniture and other items of value
- They expect free reign over the entire household and all it's rooms, furniture and belongings.
- The walk on the kitchen worksurfaces, dining tables and furniture in their outdoor shoes.
- They'll stick their face in any food you leave out.
- They're pretty liberal with their turds.
- They can only be bothered with you when it suits them.
- If they don't want to be bothered with you, they'll hurt you.
- They bring dead animals into the house and leave them lying around.
- They get hair everywhere.
If that was a description of a housemate, you'd kick 'em out. If it was a dog, you'd get some advice and help regarding re-training. But people just put up with it, and keep them as 'pets'. My next door neighbours' cats are even more pathetic than most, and yet they still seem to like them! Crazy.
Explain it to me if you can. To each their own and all that, but why a cat? Or, God forbid, cats plural?
Actually they tend to bring in live animals, and present them with a flourish (I am pretty sure if one of mine could talk she'd be telling me how hard it was for her to catch said bird/mouse and she hopes I like the present), and then sit and watch with interest as you have to catch them and remove them from the house.
Although two of our four don't hunt at all, one thinks it can take on pheasant and deer (only the muntjack though) - it's funny as she charges after the pheasant, who ignore her. Then she stops running and turns it to a walk, and then does the "I wasn't after you anyway" stroll along past the pheasant...
Although two of our four don't hunt at all, one thinks it can take on pheasant and deer (only the muntjack though) - it's funny as she charges after the pheasant, who ignore her. Then she stops running and turns it to a walk, and then does the "I wasn't after you anyway" stroll along past the pheasant...
Famous Graham said:
andy400 said:
- You have to feed them or they'll starve.
andy400 said:
- They bring dead animals into the house and leave them lying around.
andy400 said:
..... cleaning their faeces off my sodding lawn...
Have you met my ex? - You have to feed them or they'll starve.
- They scratch the furniture and other items of value
- They expect free reign over the entire household and all it's rooms, furniture and belongings.
- The walk on the kitchen worksurfaces, dining tables and furniture in their outdoor shoes.
- They'll stick their face in any food you leave out.
- They're pretty liberal with their turds.
- They can only be bothered with you when it suits them.
- If they don't want to be bothered with you, they'll hurt you.
- They bring dead animals into the house and leave them lying around.
- They get hair everywhere.
Steamer said:
andy400 said:
..... cleaning their faeces off my sodding lawn...
Have you met my ex? - You have to feed them or they'll starve.
- They scratch the furniture and other items of value
- They expect free reign over the entire household and all it's rooms, furniture and belongings.
- The walk on the kitchen worksurfaces, dining tables and furniture in their outdoor shoes.
- They'll stick their face in any food you leave out.
- They're pretty liberal with their turds.
- They can only be bothered with you when it suits them.
- If they don't want to be bothered with you, they'll hurt you.
- They bring dead animals into the house and leave them lying around.
- They get hair everywhere.
That made me laugh until I thought about the fact that you've been going out with girls who defecate freely and leave dead animals lying around the place....... 
Negative Creep said:
I think they're great. Like owning a dog, except they won't go into a barking frenzy every time someone knocks on the door, you don't have to take them for walks, they don't smell as much and don't pester you all the time. Brilliant!
Agreed, in comparison they are very low maintenance dogs that clean up after themselves and don't make much noise.Gassing Station | The Pie & Piston Archive | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff