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my neighbours cat shits in my front garden all the time so i scoop it up when it gets too smelly. i dont mind.
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Smugworth posted:I'm a dog guy who sometimes thinks it'd be nice to have a cat. Maybe my daughter will want one some day. We have three dogs and got our first cat a month or so ago. He’s a little annoying sometimes but otherwise he’s a pretty cool cat. He’s very affectionate and he’s been hunting the mice that decided our house was a good place to stay the winter. As far as litter box pickup we have one of those automatic ones with the crystal litter.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:15
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I scoop both boxes (one upstairs, one downstairs) every morning after breakfast. I also hose down the insides of each box every two weeks before completely changing the litter. I'm not sure if the latter really does much but it's either that, the prescription food, or both that has stopped our cat from peeing on the floor so I'm disinclined to stop doing either. We have to keep cheap garden trowels next to each box though so we can bury her toxic nightmare dumps if she decides she would rather run away from them than bury them herself. I guess if I poo poo like that and couldn't flush it I'd want to run away from it too.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:17
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MrQwerty posted:my cat shits on the floor directly next to the box if there is too little or too much poop in her box, it is a balancing act of street kitten from the hood preferences Make sure the vet runs an FIV test before getting her fixed. Also stay on top of her teeth. Street cats tend to be more prone to dental diseases because their genetics are often a mess. So glad my Beans is a boy. One of my last two cats went through heat once before being spayed (she didn't have FIV). I don't think I got 2 consecutive hours of sleep that week.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:19
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I miss having a kitty, I've been thinking about getting a shelter cat when the guinea pigs pass.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:24
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Make sure the vet runs an FIV test before getting her fixed. Also stay on top of her teeth. Street cats tend to be more prone to dental diseases because their genetics are often a mess. yeah idk what she is and we wanna get a genetic test, but she presents as a near-breed-perfect Bombay with a white spot on her belly. Gonna get an FIV test before she gets spayed for sure, it's coming up pretty soon. She was a real tiny kitten when we pulled her in from the bush outside our gate, and my brother has a guitar teacher in our neighborhood and he said there were a million kittens that look exactly like her that just appeared about 2 weeks before we found her. I live in a very, very, very hood part of town full of irresponsible pet owners and breeders, so who knows.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:25
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I had a bombay-ish as my first cat. He was pretty chill. All black, yellow eyes, fat as the day is long, but not very people friendly. Miss that tub of lard. Good on ya for grabbing a street cat. They need homes, too.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:34
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I'm OK with a big lazy old cat who just wants to sleep in the bed all day I don't want to have to train a kitten again
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Jan 27, 2023 16:38
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Here's the deal; Cats suck rear end and nerds just apologize for them
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Jan 27, 2023 16:39
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You'll scream "No"like an idiot bitch but you'll be wrong like usual.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:40
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Treecko posted:I'm OK with a big lazy old cat who just wants to sleep in the bed all day Bed, hell. My cat took over the memory foam bag chair.  Which is good because I was going to throw it away, so at least it's getting use.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:40
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I was never a cat guy either but the little fella ended up tuggin at the ol’ heart strings
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Jan 27, 2023 16:40
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I had a bombay-ish as my first cat. He was pretty chill. All black, yellow eyes, fat as the day is long, but not very people friendly. Miss that tub of lard. she's super friendly, super skinny, super long and super tiny, we're guessing because of the bad start + she's probably a runt cuz her sibling that wanted nothing to do with us was also a small kitten but twice her size.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:41
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Well yeah everyone knows chihuahuas don't like cats
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Jan 27, 2023 16:41
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I have an automatic litterbox, but I have to keep it in a kiddy pool with a puppy pad under it because every other time my cat uses the box, she hangs her rear end over the edge and pees or craps right next to the box instead of in it. Weirdly, this has gotten better (but not enough better to forego the kiddy pool) since her leg was amputated for cancer.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:44
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MrQwerty posted:she's super friendly, super skinny, super long and super tiny, we're guessing because of the bad start + she's probably a runt cuz her sibling that wanted nothing to do with us was also a small kitten but twice her size. Mine was a few years old when I (well, me and the exwife) got him. The shelter couldn't tell us how old besides "somewhere between 2 and 8, probably." He went from 12lbs to 20lbs in about 3 years because he was so lazy and only ate dry food. He did not like wet food for some reason.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:45
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My cat did a poo poo that smelled like burning tyres all over the back of her legs and ran out the house and came back 2hrs later looking like she'd sat on a Snickers bar.
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Jan 27, 2023 16:48
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Mine was a few years old when I (well, me and the exwife) got him. The shelter couldn't tell us how old besides "somewhere between 2 and 8, probably." He went from 12lbs to 20lbs in about 3 years because he was so lazy and only ate dry food. He did not like wet food for some reason. the vet estimated her at 16 weeks when we got her first round of shots at the beginning of November; by the time her third round came up at the end of December she spat out a tooth on my desk the day before, then the vet said "welp she's got all her adult teeth so we were off by... some weeks."
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Jan 27, 2023 16:51
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Sounds like you need a different vet tbh
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Jan 27, 2023 16:55
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Treecko posted:Sounds like you need a different vet tbh tbf those were shot clinics, we don't have an actual vet because there are no vets taking new animals here, period, and haven't been for 2 years unless you totally luck out randomly. Probably gotta go to loving Moriarty or something to get a vet and lol driving an hour and a half into the mountains. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Jan 27, 2023 |
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Jan 27, 2023 16:57
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MrQwerty posted:the vet estimated her at 16 weeks when we got her first round of shots at the beginning of November; by the time her third round came up at the end of December she spat out a tooth on my desk the day before, then the vet said "welp she's got all her adult teeth so we were off by... some weeks." At least you have a good idea on her age. My fat old boy, it was just too hard to tell. I only roughly know Beans' age because he was still in those last stages of kittendom when I got him, between 4 and 6 months or so. He was probably 7lbs, hadn't quite reached his full length, but had his adult teeth. Now he's 12lbs and has a serious catnip habit. He just straight up eats it, then moseys to the chair for some lap time. Hoochy koochy kitten catnip is a pretty good deal, btw. $10 for a half pound bag on amazon. It's fine cut, so he's not making GBS threads out twigs the next morning.
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Jan 27, 2023 17:02
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Teach your cat to use the toilet that's why they always watch you poop
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Jan 27, 2023 17:03
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Hoochy koochy kitten catnip is a pretty good deal, btw. $10 for a half pound bag on amazon. It's fine cut, so he's not making GBS threads out twigs the next morning. my buddies wife grows catnip and we got a hook on as much as we want this year 
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Jan 27, 2023 17:04
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Maybe get a pet fountain. Cats get most of thier hydration from prey. My last cat lived to 21, it was older than I was at the time RIP Butterscotch
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Jan 27, 2023 17:10
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I have a disused pizza oven in the basement and I use that as a litter bin. Once a week I turn it on and cremate the litter until it’s ash which also works fantastically as kitty litter. #LyfeHax
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Jan 27, 2023 17:10
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I have a water fountain thing. My dog refuses to use it, but Beans likes it, so it's next to his food on the table (dog will steal his food otherwise).Treecko posted:Teach your cat to use the toilet that's why they always watch you poop Never fails that when I go to take a poo poo, Beans always comes in to watch. He hears the lid go up and my pants drop down, and he's like, "time to headbutt that shoulder for the next 5 minutes from the sink." I tried toilet training my second cat. I wound up with a wet cat that was afraid of the toilet afterwards.
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Treecko posted:Teach your cat to use the toilet that's why they always watch you poop You can actually do this, but it's a very long and horrible process. It's best if you have 2 bathrooms to start, one just dedicated to the cat. The way it goes is that you get a pan or bowl of some sort that will sit in your toilet bowl, fill out with litter at first and slowly introduce your cat to the idea of hopping up on the toilet to use it. There's a whole big process of teaching it to stand on the seat, etc. And it's not gonna be accurate 100% of the time. Afterwards, though, just leave the lid open and cat will use the potty. You still have to flush it, I've never heard of a cat that can flush. I sincerely considered teaching my kitten this as a youth, but uh. Nah. The process is insane people things. Cats are nice. People who don't like them are freaks. I'm not saying this because I'm secretly just a cat named Richard, I would never go on the internet and just lie.
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The cat refuses to praise God, so I sent it to Catholic camp. I pray he sees the error in his ways
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It's only gonna learn dogma from the catholics.
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Treecko posted:Maybe get a pet fountain. Cats get most of thier hydration from prey. Sekhmet all about her saguaro water fountain DicktheCat posted:You can actually do this, but it's a very long and horrible process. It's best if you have 2 bathrooms to start, one just dedicated to the cat. Water treatment plants can't treat toxo don't let your cats poo poo in the toilet or flush cat poo poo
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The better question is when DONT i scoop my cats poo poo? Motherfucker is a poo poo machine that cant be stopped
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Milo and POTUS posted:Whenever my dog is hungry Two words: kitty roca
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Right after they poo poo. I don't like that poo poo to linger.
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I clean my cats litterboxes every morning OP, more than two days w/o cleaning and they piss on the floor also lol of course BBC is That Dog Guy
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We do it every evening and we have 2 of those rollerboxes. They leak litter like hell so we keep them outside in a fenced in (but door open) kennel area, but as a setup it actually works pretty well. Those litter genie bags are expensive though. The toxo tells me to do these things.
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Jan 27, 2023 18:29
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Cats can open doors they can absolutely flush
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Treecko posted:Cats can open doors they can absolutely flush My cat cant do anything and is a princess and i carry him to and from the litterbox like royalty and you better belive hes getting treats
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Even putting cat poo poo in a bag and tossing it still gets the toxoplasmosis in the water table eventually
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Big Beef City posted:Here's the deal; Big Beef City posted:You'll scream "No"like an idiot bitch but you'll be wrong like usual. 
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If you get a dog they clean the litter box for you
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