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flyboi posted:yo first time cat owner - i suggest getting an older cat. not many are given chances because everyone goes OMG KITTENS! and they are super chillax and awesome. you also don't have to deal with a kitten because they're ASSHOLES growing up and will test your patience like a toddler. i adopt cats >1year problem solved. kittens can be dicks but' cats now theres the ticket 
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. so then i got a 4 year old cat and she is gizmo and is awesome and has been 100% indoors
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dee eight posted:I took the cat and said, "Yeah, old age, you rear end in a top hat."  That was one righteous story bro. I'm a little misty myself.
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For my first cat I went to the shelter and was like "do you have any cats that are old and super chill" and they showed me this one who had the crazy cat parkinsons and I wanted him soooo bad but I could not handle a special needs cat since I was a student and couldn't give him constant care (found out later it probably would've been fine, oh well, I hope you got adopted mister wigglecat) So instead they were like "well, this one cat came in and he's really nice, we don't have him out on display yet because we like him too much and someone at the shelter might take him. But I guess you can see him." I was in the little play room with him and he was just rolling around being awesome and I had the adoption paperwork in front of me and he came in and laid on it and started purring super loud and I was like yep, this catte is my bro About a week after I got him home it turned out he had a head cold that was making him lethargic and once it cleared up he started terrorizing the house and knocking poo poo over and going crazy. We are still bros tho edit: they found him in a box in a field; whenever he is scared or confused he seeks out the nearest box because I imagine he feels safe there
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my cat doesnt stand up when i put him down. like he doesn't stick his arms n legs out to prepare to be put down he just flops down. i usually have to put him down on his side and remove my arms like a forklift
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Jewish Pokemon posted:my cat doesnt stand up when i put him down. like he doesn't stick his arms n legs out to prepare to be put down he just flops down. i usually have to put him down on his side and remove my arms like a forklift looolll My friend has a cat who is super cranky and he snarls and hisses at people and bats at their legs but if you hold him upside down like a baby he immediately starts purring and closes his eyes. If you try to put him down he gets super mad and when he's not being crabby he lays upside down in the cat tree My theory is that his brain grew in upside down so he's super pissed and disoriented all the time unless he's on his back and then he can relax
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Jewish Pokemon posted:my cat doesnt stand up when i put him down. like he doesn't stick his arms n legs out to prepare to be put down he just flops down. i usually have to put him down on his side and remove my arms like a forklift hehe i had a cat that would freeze however you put him down for a couple of minutes and then slowly come back to life, like he'd been turned into a statue and was gradually coming out of it. you could talk to him or poke him and he just wouldn't even respond, it was like some weird catatonic (lol) state
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Jan 18, 2011 17:30
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CoupleBeersNoBeers posted:best ocelot 
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Jan 18, 2011 17:33
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dee eight posted:Dudley These are the best words in the cat pic thread.
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Jan 18, 2011 18:17
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New wallpaper I hope we can put our differences behind us. For Science. You Monster.
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Tom Collins posted:marshmallow yay! it's been a while since you've posted marshmallow. how is crouton?
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dee eight posted:The last time I saw him, I was not quite 40 years old. Dudley had wasted away to practically nothing. He was just a little old man cat with all the mass of a damp comic book. I picked him up gently and put him on the tank of my bike and we went for one last ride, really slow, up the lane and back. I cried like a girl the whole way and Dudley purred.
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mod sassinator posted:so i'm thinking maybe in 6 months or so i get a cat Remember that breed descriptions are general and may not represent the demeanor of any one animal. Our British Shorthair is loving, but she's very skittish, doesn't like to be held and will not sit in laps; meanwhile we have a DHS we found on the street and she is just the most clingy, snugglin' cat you've ever seen.
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yeah siamese are universally regarded as assholes but really its down to the individual cat, ive met very nice siamese cats
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fork bomb posted:yay! it's been a while since you've posted marshmallow. how is crouton? fluffy he was barfing this morning though, in four separate neat little piles why not just one big pile, idk
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Jan 18, 2011 19:26
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there were five piles
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Tom Collins posted:fluffy even your cat can't keep it concise 
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Atasi posted:Remember that breed descriptions are general and may not represent the demeanor of any one animal. Our British Shorthair is loving, but she's very skittish, doesn't like to be held and will not sit in laps; meanwhile we have a DHS we found on the street and she is just the most clingy, snugglin' cat you've ever seen. if i get a scottish fold will it jump in boxes like Maru? this is important, tia.
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first you have to leave him in a box in a field for a couple of months
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it is not the cat that jumps in the box, but the box that jumps around the cat
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mod sassinator posted:it is not the cat that jumps in the box, but the box that jumps around the cat Imagine that! It never occurred to me to think of SPACE as the thing that was moving!
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what kirk said.
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srs though its cool as hell seeing a cat rip up some flesh its like ayep ive tamed that wild animal
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The PetSmart near my house on sundays has the SPCA come in and set up a bunch of cages with their cats that are up for adoption. Definitely see if any of your local big box pet stores do that. Make sure it's the SPCA (the "pound") that hosts it though so you're not buying bred cats. It's like you come around a corner going to the cat food aisle and BAM, 30 cats all meowing and sleepign and rolling around in cages. That's where I got Esteban. $250 the SPCA wanted for this 4 year old who was "a terror to other cats, doesn't get along with anyone." He had been bounced to Fort Worth, to Denton to finally Dallas. And they got it! And now he's the tiniest baby kitty ever.  All he wants to do is fight Dogs:  But with cats, all he wants to do is flop over on his side and try to get them to fight him. Since he's much too much of a gentleman to use his size to his advantage. But really, all he's good for is loving up my photo shoots: 
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dunkman posted:HEY LADY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzz8SojS3D8
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dunkman posted:
i dont see whats wrong
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Binary Badger posted:i dont see whats wrong 
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pik_d posted:there were five piles there were 4 piles labeled 1, 2, 3, and 5
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Jan 18, 2011 20:18
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dunkman posted:these are all great pictures of cats, i dont understand what the issue here is
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dunkman posted:But really, all he's good for is
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dunkman posted:i think the cat is wondering why this woman has a vinyl record when clearly she has no record player
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minato posted:hearts are really super-tough and hard to eat, might as well eat a belt
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rotor posted:hearts are really super-tough and hard to eat, might as well eat a belt i'm going to assume that belt eating is the reason folks in your age group wore an onion on there
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Tom Collins posted:i'm going to assume that belt eating is the reason folks in your age group wore an onion on there that's the best episode
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minato posted:Francis Bacon's kittens
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dunkman posted:wait, do you mean you're not charging extra using Esteban in a shoot? his time isn't free you know, got a lot of important cat business to be doing and he takes time out to do a shoot with the client.
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