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Re: Lugnet Loves Cats!
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Sun, 28 Nov 1999 06:43:26 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Patricia Schempp wrote:
> > Cats themselves do not smell,
> Oh, I dunno, our cats do occasionally pass some mean wind... and then
> leave the room because they know they stank it up. That's cruel.
Yikes!--what are you feeding them? Peanut butter and fried eggs?
I don't think I've ever known a cat to break wind.
BTW, have you tried the product called Curtail? It's made by the same folks
who make Beano.
> > but if you don't clean
> > the litter box it will smell. This however is your fault.
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> Point taken, although actually it's Josette's fault, not mine. Part of
> the deal on pets in our house is that I never ever ever ever have to do
> anything to take care of them, except provide the money.
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> 4 cats means it needs to be cleaned daily, or pretty close. So why do
> they go stink it up as soon as we clean it???
When I lived with 4 cats (1 now), I had 4 separate litter boxes to clean and
if I didn't do it daily, it was too much. I think they go stink it up as
soon as you clean it because they don't like (as in, are actually afraid of
in the fight-or-flight sense) the smell of their own feces. In the wild,
cats mark the boundaries of their territory that way, so when they smell
their own scent in that manner, it's a warning to them that they're leaving
their own territory and entering another animal's territory. That's probably
why they're holding it until it's freshly cleaned. And hey, would you rather
squat over a pile of old stink or over a pile of fresh soft sand?
> > I really don't
> > understand evil and cruel, I prefer cats but I don't think any animal is
> > evil and cruel. Evil and cruel are purely human traits. Animals are just
> > trying to survive.
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> So you've never seen a cat catch a mouse, then toy with it, torturing it
> to death? I have. I stand behind my assertion, they are cruel. And
> cruelty is evil.
That's how a mother cat trains her young. They watch and learn. She usually
wounds the mouse enough that it can't run away, but it's not quite dead. The
young then finish it off.
If a grown cat did that, then maybe was it a domestic housecat that either
didn't know how to mouse properly or was already overfed...(?) When I was
a kid and watched the cats catch mice up at my grandparents' farm, there was
no cruelty -- it was stalk, chase, kill, chew, done.
> Now don't get me wrong, I am amused by cats and I won't have a dog in my
> house at all, too smelly and too helpless, but nonetheless I am going to
> make sure that the cat lovers don't get away with the whole "sweetness
> and light" bit. This IS off-topic.fun right? :-)
My cat can levitate objects, you know. :-)
--Todd
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) My mom's cat did all the time. Of course you never hear it, you just notice that the room has a sudden foulness, and you know very well that it didn't emanate from your digestive system, and the cat is the (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Oh, I dunno, our cats do occasionally pass some mean wind... and then leave the room because they know they stank it up. That's cruel. (...) Point taken, although actually it's Josette's fault, not mine. Part of the deal on pets in our house (...) (25 years ago, 28-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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