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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:53 AM
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The unbearable grossness of cats
This morning I discovered that one of our critters ate a rodent in the kitchen and barfed it up in the living room. I discovered this when I stepped in it.

EWWWWWWWW!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:57 AM
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1. Saves on rolaids. I can beat that
When I lived on my mom's ranch, the top cat used to bring me trophies. There were mice, squirrels and gophers everywhere. But Patty brought me the choice bits: the rear ends of her kills.

It was just horrible.

lol
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Spinzonner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:13 AM
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2. Rump Troph ?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:20 AM
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3. Mouse butts all over the porch. An embarrassment of riches. n/t
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:09 AM
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17. See, your cat isn't apathetic.
He DOES give a rat's ass!
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:20 AM
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4. That's what you call a Cat "Ass Trophy"
Catastrophe . . . get it? :) . . . okay, bad pun, you can pun-ish me now :)
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:28 AM
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5. lol
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kittycat1164 Donating Member (616 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:06 AM
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8. boooooooooooooooooooo n/t
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:43 AM
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12. Can I alert you for that?
:D
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 08:44 AM
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13. Boo.
:spank:
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:34 AM
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6. When I lived on a farm, one of my cats used to stash dead rats ...
... under the furniture for future use. Sometimes you didn't realise till they started to smell ... Bleccchhh!!!

The Skin
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:40 AM
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7. Thanks,
Just what I needed for breakfast.
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:22 AM
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9. When I was a little boy I visited my grandparents in the Old Country...
...and they kept cats in their supply loft to keep the mice out of things.

One morning, we went up there for soemthing and found that the cats had eaten their own kitten. Its head and the bottom half of its body were still there, right next to a dish of food that was still untouched.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:23 AM
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10. That is what cats do.
My trouble is why do I also always step into it?
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DemGa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 07:46 AM
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11. They also walk on countertops, eating what they find
spray urine around, tear up furniture.
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DeaconBlues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 09:16 AM
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14. My cat is a butt-dragger
He thinks that the carpet is his own personal huge roll of tiolet paper. Nasty thing.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 09:44 AM
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15. That is his way of asking you to wipe his tooshie.
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DeaconBlues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:04 AM
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16. He usually gets the job done with his own tongue
one of the many reasons why I never kiss him, even though he's so cute and furry
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DeposeTheBoyKing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:05 PM
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21. Have you had him checked for anal sac disease?
He could be dragging his butt because his anal sacs are plugged and he's trying to unplug them.
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:48 PM
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29. That's usually a sure sign of worms
You might wanna get some worm pills from your vet :)
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DeaconBlues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 05:54 PM
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31. Thanks for the heads up
I don't think he has any problems though. He's a total indoors cat with no access to other pets. He also got a total thumbs up during his last visit to the vet, except for the fact that he's a little chubby. I think he just misses the grass.
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msanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 01:10 PM
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34. Dude, when the cat starts draggin its ass and
looking like the Energizer Bunny, it is because it has impacted anal gland sacs. (But its damn funny to watch!!)

You can relieve them on your own--but I suggest having the vet do it--at least the first time. You don't want to be in the room---it's gross and smelly. Really gross, and really smelly.
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flaminbats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 10:26 AM
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18. you want gross!?!
my cat is named Lucifer. We give him plenty of food,water, and a nice clean cat litter. But that isn't what he really wants :puke:

give him an unflushed toilet filled with crap and urine, and he'll jump in and swim around everytime! But why?? Never leave the toilet unflushed at my house, or you'll be washing lucifer :evilfrown:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:02 PM
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19. Yes, but I've known dogs that would EAT that, after it was puked OR shit
out.
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MikeG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:04 PM
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20. Pics?
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candle_bright Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:09 PM
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22. One summer
when I was a kid, I left for camp for 4 weeks. Because I was gone no one went into my room...except one of our cats who left a rat carcass on my bed. I think it had been there close to the whole 4 weeks because it decomposed and the fluids soaked down through all the bedding AND the mattress!

Needless to say, the whole bed except the frame was ruined!
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funkybutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:13 PM
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23. How about this...I woke up to a shitty kitty this morning
She's a persian whose hair gets quite long in the winter. At some point it becomes long enough to catch her fecal excrement.

You know you love your pet when you're cleaning shit off it's ass and clipping the hair around that area to allow for a cleaner passage of such material.
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dean_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:28 PM
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25. Been there, done that....
....it helps to distract them with food. While they are bent over eating, you sit on top of them and scrub with a warm old toothbrush. Remember kids, an OLD toothbrush. Or a particularly annoying roommates' will work.

Yup, good times.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:31 PM
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26. I clip the hair around there on my longhair too.
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:45 PM
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28. Beware the muffled meow.
We have sliding glass doors from our bedroom to a deck.
I was already tucked in for the night, watching TV.
Miz t. heard Ace meowing at the door to come in.
She opened it and Ace raced across the room, jumped up onto the bed, and deposited a live, but terminally injured, mouse on my chest.
He was SO proud.

After I disposed of the corpse, Miz t. said that, upon reflection, his "meow" had sounded kind of muffled. Like he had a mouthful of something. We now do mouth check before we let him in.

I was thankful that it wasn't Miz t. in bed, or I might have had the opportunity to practice my CPR skills.
;-)
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:27 PM
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24. Ah yes. I used to live in an old Victorian
mansion that had been subdivided into apartments.

Riddled with rodents. My fierce little feline killing machine used to catch them and toy with them, then kill then and leave their dismembered heads and hands and tails around the house.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 02:32 PM
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27. I found a headless mouse body on my rug; never found the head
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 03:02 PM
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30. Yes, I love'em but they can be gross...
Junior likes to leave remnants of his feasts around the living room -- the bits that remain are always the kidneys and the tail. That's it.

Miss P used to rush right over whenever Momcat used to upchuck her food and gobble up the still-warm, partially digested gruel.
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-01-05 06:06 PM
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32. This thread should be sold as a diet aide-
I was losing my appetite, and your post finished it off. :9
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-02-05 01:03 PM
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33. If ya have cats....
ya have to develop a strong stomach. :)

Bon Appetit!
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