Two Bengal baby cats. Boys. I guess these are mixed with leopards, or wild cats, or something like that. They have spots. Little spots. Their boy parts were removed. I would remove there fingertips so they don't scratch up my stuff. I have a lot of really nice stuff and would be mad if it…
Originally posted Friday, October 30, 2009 (2 years ago)
Bump.
Quoted from "Effervescent"
Quoted from "OpeningMinds" She may not be right now, but if she ever gets pregnant, you will have to deal with the cat litter.
Okay, this may put a whole new coat of paint on the situation. I am rarely, if ever, home. And in the limited time I am home I can't honestly see wanting to touch their doo-doo. Cause quite frankly, I find it disgusting. I realize this may be selfish but I am just being honest here.
If I can't find a machine that collects all their doo-doo and deals with it, all bets might be off. Or we will get the babycats now and just give it to a needy family, or something, if/when the time comes for China Girl to make a baby. Or babies.
-Eff
Originally posted Friday, October 30, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "Effervescent"
Quoted from "OpeningMinds" She may not be right now, but if she ever gets pregnant, you will have to deal with the cat litter.
Okay, this may put a whole new coat of paint on the situation. I am rarely, if ever, home. And in the limited time I am home I can't honestly see wanting to touch their doo-doo. Cause quite frankly, I find it disgusting. I realize this may be selfish but I am just being honest here.
If I can't find a machine that collects all their doo-doo and deals with it, all bets might be off. Or we will get the babycats now and just give it to a needy family, or something, if/when the time comes for China Girl to make a baby. Or babies.
-Eff
Again ...
Quoted from "Boosh!" It doesn't sound like you want a baby cat. It sounds like you want a friend who has a baby cat so you can play with it but not deal with the annoying parts of actually owning said baby cat. Trust me, I understand.
And remember - baby cats grow up into adult cats. Then what would you do?
Eff, I'll be blunt here: from the little I know of you from what you've posted on Yehoodi and our conversations, you really really should not be thinking of owning a pet. Any pet. At all. And definitely not cats.
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
Originally posted Friday, October 30, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "OpeningMinds"
Eff, I'll be blunt here: from the little I know of you from what you've posted on Yehoodi and our conversations, you really really should not be thinking of owning a pet. Any pet. At all.
Originally posted Friday, October 30, 2009 (2 years ago)
If you plan on adopting cats only to give them away later, you should not get cats. Most cats in shelters end up that way, and most adult cats in this situation do not get adopted again. These cats end up being put down due to overcrowding in animal shelters. Cats are animals and should be treated humanely. Even though you're at the stage of evaluating a cat, you should understand that you're starting a huge commitment. If you ever thought that cats were maintenance free pets, then you had the wrong impression.
Scooping poop is not disgusting. I'd say changing a diaper is much worse. You get your scoop, look around for clumps, shake it out and voila you're done. It becomes a routine, like washing your dishes.
During the time that women are pregnant, they should not be dealing with the litter box. People react differently to exposure to parasites. Pregnant women and cat litter is just one possible factor.This is just a precaution probably amongst gazillions of hyper paranoia precautions.
As a tangent, the whole cheese/pregnancy thing is a joke. No French or Italian woman ever stops eating cheese while pregnant. I take the cat litter as one of many paranoid reactions. Yes acknowledge it. No do not revolve your life around it.
Originally posted Friday, October 30, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "Effervescent" ...Or we will get the babycats now and just give it to a needy family, or something, if/when the time comes for China Girl to make a baby. -Eff
I'd say needy family is the way to go. You might even be able to get a tax credit of some sort.
Where are you gonna keep the babycats? Do you plan to get a cage of some sort?
Also why do you need smart ones?
"Style is originality; fashion is fascism.The two are eternally and unalterably opposed." - Lester Bangs
Originally posted Monday, November 2, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "Zev" Also why do you need smart ones?
The real issue is that I am pretty busy between work, grad school, wine tastings, travel for leisure, swing, social clubs, my private practice, race track schools, and my other various personal and business pursuits. Doubt I am home even 10 of the time!
I would love to give a caring home for some bengals and frankly think they are pretty bas ss as far as babycats go since they are so much like wild cats. And with auto-litter changers (to deal with their doo-doo) and flowing water sources, well I think I have most of the bases covered.
Several folks here have chimed in with their very personal opinions on cats needing company but there's a school of thought that says that smart cats are capable of imaginative play and can successfully kept themselves busy for days at a time with a combination of toys and such. Hence the need for a smart cat as opposed to a more stupid one.
Unless my thinking is off here but I have done considerable research. Yet am still open to input here. As I want what is best for these babycats since they seem to last like 15 years before dying, in most cases.
Originally posted Monday, November 2, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "zeno" Scooping poop is not disgusting. I'd say changing a diaper is much worse. You get your scoop, look around for clumps, shake it out and voila you're done. It becomes a routine, like washing your dishes.
Did you ever breathe while doing it? Maybe the trick is to not breathe I think now.
Ever since Lynn taked about their doo-doo having parasites actually in it, I can't stop thinking that the vibrations of lifting it up with a doo-doo picker (whatever you call it) might get some of the parasites to become upset and maybe fly off. Correct me if I am wrong. This is VERY disgusting to me and might just very well be the dealbreaker here.
In other words, the very act of disturbing babycat's doo-doo MUST make it release more of its scent, don't you think?
Originally posted Monday, November 2, 2009 (2 years ago)
Also, if we do this, we have decided on Foxxxxxy Mittens! for one but are still undecided on the other. Maybe Herkimer. Pronounced Her-kimer (pretty much how it is spelled).
-Eff
Originally posted Monday, November 2, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "Effervescent" And with auto-litter changers (to deal with their doo-doo) and flowing water sources, well I think I have most of the bases covered.
Originally posted Tuesday, November 3, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "Effervescent"
Quoted from "Zev" Also why do you need smart ones?
The real issue is that I am pretty busy between work, grad school, wine tastings, travel for leisure, swing, social clubs, my private practice, race track schools, and my other various personal and business pursuits. Doubt I am home even 10 of the time!
I would love to give a caring home for some bengals and frankly think they are pretty bas ss as far as babycats go since they are so much like wild cats. And with auto-litter changers (to deal with their doo-doo) and flowing water sources, well I think I have most of the bases covered.
If you are home only 10 of the time at best, it is impossible for you to give a caring home to baby cats. You can give a very nice living space. But unless you are actually giving caring (which you can't, because you won't be there), you are not giving a caring home.
Rather let someone else, who can actually care for the cats, give them a caring home.
Real potential scenario - you take this little tikes in, have them for a while (a week, a month, a year) and decide it's too much for you ... and then they have to be shunted to another home again. These are creatures with feelings. Not inanimate objects that you just acquire and trade whenever. As great as you might be as a human being, you're clearly not a pet person, and you're not the right person to give a home to these kitties. Please do the right thing, Eff.
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
Originally posted Tuesday, November 3, 2009 (2 years ago)
I love my baby cats even thought she has destroyed all my storage baskets and is working on the wickers chairs, and bites my toes when I am sleeping and wants to chew the phone cord and the older cats hates her and is relieving herself outside the litter box and growling all the time, love, love, love her!!!!!
Originally posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 (2 years ago)
Someone help Rik:
I'd love to get some plants for my windowsill, particularly herbs for cooking. But my cat Mole is going to be naturally curious and probably munch on anything that tastes good. He loved snacking on my chia pet.
Anyone have any suggestions for herbs that my cat isn't likely to want to tear into? He already has cat grass to nibble on.
There's a listing of what's poisonous (definitely don't get those!), and some hints about how to get your cat to not eat your plant.
Don't know what herbs you want to grow - might want to Google "cat eat ____" and see what comes up. (I looked at Basil for you - seems like it's related to the mint family, and the cat will eat it, but it's not toxic to them).
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
Originally posted Saturday, November 14, 2009 (2 years ago)
Quoted from "Effervescent" Someone help Rik:
I'd love to get some plants for my windowsill, particularly herbs for cooking. But my cat Mole is going to be naturally curious and probably munch on anything that tastes good. He loved snacking on my chia pet.
Anyone have any suggestions for herbs that my cat isn't likely to want to tear into? He already has cat grass to nibble on.
-Eff
You shouldn't have closed that thread. It was very specific request and has nothing to do with your need to brag that you're spending an insane amount on a baby cat that you'll neglect and fail to take proper care of.
You're just mad because he rightly closed your completely redundant thread about mini-books.
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Two Bengal baby cats. Boys. I guess these are mixed with leopards, or wild cats, or something like that. They have spots. Little spots. Their boy parts were removed. I would remove there fingertips so they don't scratch up my stuff. I have a lot of really nice stuff and would be mad if it…
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Bump.
-Eff
Again ...
Eff, I'll be blunt here: from the little I know of you from what you've posted on Yehoodi and our conversations, you really really should not be thinking of owning a pet. Any pet. At all. And definitely not cats.
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
I disagree.
Martinis do not contain vodka. —Rachel Maddow
If you plan on adopting cats only to give them away later, you should not get cats. Most cats in shelters end up that way, and most adult cats in this situation do not get adopted again. These cats end up being put down due to overcrowding in animal shelters. Cats are animals and should be treated humanely. Even though you're at the stage of evaluating a cat, you should understand that you're starting a huge commitment. If you ever thought that cats were maintenance free pets, then you had the wrong impression.
Scooping poop is not disgusting. I'd say changing a diaper is much worse. You get your scoop, look around for clumps, shake it out and voila you're done. It becomes a routine, like washing your dishes.
During the time that women are pregnant, they should not be dealing with the litter box. People react differently to exposure to parasites. Pregnant women and cat litter is just one possible factor.This is just a precaution probably amongst gazillions of hyper paranoia precautions.
As a tangent, the whole cheese/pregnancy thing is a joke. No French or Italian woman ever stops eating cheese while pregnant. I take the cat litter as one of many paranoid reactions. Yes acknowledge it. No do not revolve your life around it.
I'd say needy family is the way to go. You might even be able to get a tax credit of some sort.
Where are you gonna keep the babycats? Do you plan to get a cage of some sort?
Also why do you need smart ones?
"Style is originality; fashion is fascism.The two are eternally and unalterably opposed." - Lester Bangs
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The real issue is that I am pretty busy between work, grad school, wine tastings, travel for leisure, swing, social clubs, my private practice, race track schools, and my other various personal and business pursuits. Doubt I am home even 10 of the time!
I would love to give a caring home for some bengals and frankly think they are pretty bas ss as far as babycats go since they are so much like wild cats. And with auto-litter changers (to deal with their doo-doo) and flowing water sources, well I think I have most of the bases covered.
Several folks here have chimed in with their very personal opinions on cats needing company but there's a school of thought that says that smart cats are capable of imaginative play and can successfully kept themselves busy for days at a time with a combination of toys and such. Hence the need for a smart cat as opposed to a more stupid one.
Unless my thinking is off here but I have done considerable research. Yet am still open to input here. As I want what is best for these babycats since they seem to last like 15 years before dying, in most cases.
-Eff
Did you ever breathe while doing it? Maybe the trick is to not breathe I think now.
Ever since Lynn taked about their doo-doo having parasites actually in it, I can't stop thinking that the vibrations of lifting it up with a doo-doo picker (whatever you call it) might get some of the parasites to become upset and maybe fly off. Correct me if I am wrong. This is VERY disgusting to me and might just very well be the dealbreaker here.
In other words, the very act of disturbing babycat's doo-doo MUST make it release more of its scent, don't you think?
Or does it have no true effect?
-Eff
Example: http://www.catgenie.com/
-Eff
Do not use bleach to clean the litter box.
Are babycats allergic to bleach?
-Eff
If you are home only 10 of the time at best, it is impossible for you to give a caring home to baby cats. You can give a very nice living space. But unless you are actually giving caring (which you can't, because you won't be there), you are not giving a caring home.
Rather let someone else, who can actually care for the cats, give them a caring home.
Real potential scenario - you take this little tikes in, have them for a while (a week, a month, a year) and decide it's too much for you ... and then they have to be shunted to another home again. These are creatures with feelings. Not inanimate objects that you just acquire and trade whenever. As great as you might be as a human being, you're clearly not a pet person, and you're not the right person to give a home to these kitties. Please do the right thing, Eff.
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
I love my baby cats even thought she has destroyed all my storage baskets and is working on the wickers chairs, and bites my toes when I am sleeping and wants to chew the phone cord and the older cats hates her and is relieving herself outside the litter box and growling all the time, love, love, love her!!!!!
What is babycat's name? I forgot.
Did you have any leftover names?
Lynn, okay...let me think about it.
-Eff
So Eff wants an intelligent cat
List of Cats with Diplomas
Interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8WXssbcdn4
Any thoughts on how to make this happen as this would handle several of my concerns.
-Eff
Once Upon a Potty?
-- Rachel
In all seriousness, what steps would need to be taken to get babycats to make their doo-doo in this manner?
-Eff
Someone help Rik:
I'd love to get some plants for my windowsill, particularly herbs for cooking. But my cat Mole is going to be naturally curious and probably munch on anything that tastes good. He loved snacking on my chia pet.
Anyone have any suggestions for herbs that my cat isn't likely to want to tear into? He already has cat grass to nibble on.
-Eff
Rik, check this out:
http://lifeonthebalcony.com/how-to-keep-your-cats-from-eating-your-plants/
There's a listing of what's poisonous (definitely don't get those!), and some hints about how to get your cat to not eat your plant.
Don't know what herbs you want to grow - might want to Google "cat eat ____" and see what comes up. (I looked at Basil for you - seems like it's related to the mint family, and the cat will eat it, but it's not toxic to them).
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world" - Norman Vincent Peale.
Some cats love wheat grass. Maybe your cat is yearning for some. They chew on it because it helps their digestion.
Grow or buy some wheat grass and see if that satiates their plant craving.
You can buy for 4 it lasts 2 weeks.
You can buy top soil, wheat seeds, and a pot and it's much cheaper.
You shouldn't have closed that thread. It was very specific request and has nothing to do with your need to brag that you're spending an insane amount on a baby cat that you'll neglect and fail to take proper care of.
You're just mad because he rightly closed your completely redundant thread about mini-books.
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As I mentioned, I already have cat grass, which is the same as wheat grass.
I'll try those suggestions. thanks!
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-Eff
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