Stupid Cat Abuser Tricks

[hobie16]

The poor little bird didn't make it. He ate fine yesterday but this morning he just chirped a few times and wouldn't eat. I had to go into town so my wife tried to get him to eat. She said he died about ten minutes after I left.

I'm bummed.

[Syndrome]

Awww, poor little birdy. At least you tried, and it was certainly better than being torn apart by other birds.

Sheikra is doing fine and running up obnoxious vet bills. He has all sorts of worms and also fleas, so we had to get flea treatment for our other cats too. The vet thinks he's only 4 weeks old.

[drcorey]

The poor little bird didn't make it. He ate fine yesterday but this morning he just chirped a few times and wouldn't eat. I had to go into town so my wife tried to get him to eat. She said he died about ten minutes after I left.

I'm bummed.

and the other birds who missed thier tasty snack are prolly bummed too.

I have seen my rat take down a bird who was trying to get her. some bad rat girl there.

[Syndrome]

Little SheiKra is on Busch Gardens' Facebook page now:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Busch-Gar ... 8181225238

[Mayonnaise]

You know, if I had read this thread first, I could have saved myself asking on your blog wut he was doing chilling in the shower. *Giggle.* Glad to hear he's doing well. Such a cutie.

I hear you on the gender confusion thing. I was convinced that my street adoption, Frankie, was a girl until while checking "her" for fleas (which he had) the vet discovered "her" one tiny testicle The other one was undescended. It's hella expensive to neuter a cat with an undescended testicle after 6 months of age.

We have a terrific no-kill around these parts called "Whiskers Animal Benevolent League" they're a bit selective with their adopt outs and make you sign a thing saying you don't intend to de-claw the cats, and that in the event you can't keep them anymore you'll send them back to Whiskers and no-place else. Even when they're at capacity (which they were when we found Frankie) they'll take back any cat that was ever with them.

My older cat Trixie, who's 8 now, was one of their bounce backs before I adopted her. 5 years old and already abandoned twice, once to the streets when she was young and unspayed where she got preggers and taken in by Whiskers, and then again when she was 4 by the lady who adopted her from Whiskers the first time. I asked why she was sent back (I didn't want surprise behavioral problems) and they said her former owner's new guy didn't like cats. Jerk.

8^(

[Syndrome]

That's such a lame reason and also a red flag. If a partner doesn't want your cats now, what else is he going to demand in the future? When I started dating Mr. Syndrome, I laid it out up front: the cats and horses stay, and I reserve the right to future cats and horses (and maybe a dog, although our lifestyle isn't good for that right now). He went from cat hater to being walked all over on by the felines.

Our cat Stitch must have been abandoned a few times as he still has issues. He was found in a field in a Chicago suburb as an adult (unneutered) and we adopted him from the shelter. When he got to our house, you could almost hear his sigh because he recognized a home and all the things in it. He would stare at the fridge but turned down everything we tried (lunch meat, milk, etc.) so I don't know what his former owners used to give him out of there. When we are gone for a few days, he goes into "cling mode" with relief that he hasn't been abandoned again.

[felinefan]

Two of my roommates here are a young couple, and they went and got themselves a little black kitten. However, he didn't stay around long--the guy couldn't handle the kitten's doing his business all over the place, clawing his bed, etc., so he got rid of him--hopefully, he gave him back to whereever he got him. They hadn't even settled on a name for him yet. I tried to tell him, hey, he's a baby, you gotta train him to use the box, get him a scratcher, etc., but was rebuffed. Needless to say, this couple have had loud arguments, a couple to the point of disturbing everyone else because they always take place at 1 or 2 in the morning. They're too immature to own a cat, and frankly if I was their landlady they would've gotten a warning the first time they argued, the second time they would've been out in the street.

I also suspect them of mooching off of the gallon of milk my kindhearted landlady bought for me--I got only half of it. A piece of butter I brought with me has gone missing, I've had a couple of items of mine in the fridge taken out and not put back, and now my bottle of tabasco sauce is missing--that I don't care about. But I bought a couple of blue ice blocks to keep Tripod's food cool in a cooler bag I have in my room, and one disappeared--and it had my name on it. I bought two more that were bigger, also put my name on them, and one disappeared, returned yesterday, then disappeared again. I wish I had a minifridge of my own to not only keep Tripod's food cold--in an upstairs room, in this weather, those cold packs don't stay cold long--as well as my stuff. But I came from a situation where my siblings were always getting into my stuff, and I couldn't complain about it. It was no big deal. But if I just touched anyone else's stuff, I'd get bawled out. I don't need any flashbacks of that. My landlady has been made aware of it, and hopefully something will be done soon.

Those kids drive a Beamer, and I've heard them say they buy $300 worth of food for the two of them--what, evey week, every other week?--so if they can afford to drive a car requiring premium fuel, with a high insurance rate on top of it, they should maybe get their own minifridge--they have a large downstairs room, the only one with a private bath--and keep their stuff there and let the other people in this house--ten altogether--have more room in the fridge (though it's a side by side, which has little room anyway) for our stuff. Imean, I only get $200 a month for food, and I'm trying to save some of that to take Tripod to the vet for her thyroid bloodwork twice a year.

[Cheshire Figment]

Years ago while Judy and I were doing some cleaning we found a list of Judy's requirements for a husband. Number One on the list was that he had to be accepted by Samantha. And the two of us got along very well.

And a nice, fun, harmless way to torture cats is to give them some cat treats. While they are eating gently drop one or two treats into the fur on their back. After they are done they will smell there are more treats around and go crazy trying to find them.

[Syndrome]

And a nice, fun, harmless way to torture cats is to give them some cat treats. While they are eating gently drop one or two treats into the fur on their back. After they are done they will smell there are more treats around and go crazy trying to find them.

Mr. Syndrome likes to pull that one, and also to play "cat show kitty" (holding the poor beasts up in the air in the way cat show judges do) and "machine gun kitty" (where he drapes one over his arm and jerks the arm back and forth while making machine gun noises). Needless to say, our cats are very tolerant.

[Zazu]

SWMBO let me know where I stood when I went in for surgery -- she decided not to come to the hospital with me. "I can't do that! I have cats to feed!!!"

Some day, maybe she'll tell me where I really stand.