Granted, kittens are cute. But a vast majority of them end up being a cat. Think about it, here is an animal that I firmly believe pukes for personal amusement. The most likely time is when I'm sitting at the 'puter in the morning reading the news and drinking a cup of coffee. If the cat DOES decide to puke without your presence, they make sure it's on something that is not easily cleaned just to make sure that you pay attention the next time. We've bought just about every tyoe of anti-shedding, anti-puking food their is, they still puke. Take them to the vets, there's nothing wrong with them. What did the vet say? Sometimes kitty will eat an insect or something that doesn't agree with him/her. Just keep an eye on the little lovely and everything should be ok. Of course, it wasn't the vet that stuck her foot in my favorite Redwings only to find a surprise in the bottom.
They're also a predatory carnivore. They have claws that require maintenance. Being a technician, I admire their tenacity in the proper maintenance of their tools. At last count, our two cats have at least 9 items specifically purchased for such maintenance. Each item is guaranteed that kitty will love these items and that they will be kitty's favorite tool for their maintenance. What is the hot items for our 2 felines to use? Either the living room carpet or my recliner. Someone once told me that if you put catnip on the scratching tools, they'll stick to that and not everything else in the house. What do ours do? Rub themselves all over the scratching post, then go sharpen on my chair or the carpet. Nice.
As far as being predatory; however, these two fall short. We had a mouse in the house and for some reason my wife wanted to live catch it and release it in the wild away from the house. Stupid me agreed to these terms and one evening while chasing the little vermin across the living room, the mouse actually jumped over the cat and ran under the scratching post, I mean my recliner. The cat never got up.
The first person that domesticated the cat was either one hell of a salesman or a really sick-sick bastard.
I'm with you on the cats. I never had and never will have a cat. I saw a bumper sticker on a van that said, "If you're looking for your cat, look under my tire."
"If you're looking for your cat, look under my tire."
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We have a cat and I too find the puking annoying. It somehow manages to puke in a spot so when I get up in the morning half asleep, I stand in it with barefeet. I hate that feeling after that happens haha.
Ours also has a habit of catching mice outside then bringing it into the house while meowing loudly as if to say "look what I got" then when we go see, it lets the live mouse go. This gives my wife and I a good hours works chasing a live mouse throughout the house. Whats with that, maybe we need a new cat, one that actually kills the mouse.
We have a cat and I too find the puking annoying. It somehow manages to puke in a spot so when I get up in the morning half asleep, I stand in it with barefeet. I hate that feeling after that happens haha.
Ours also has a habit of catching mice outside then bringing it into the house while meowing loudly as if to say "look what I got" then when we go see, it lets the live mouse go. This gives my wife and I a good hours works chasing a live mouse throughout the house. Whats with that, maybe we need a new cat, one that actually kills the mouse.
Yeah, that's another option, IPD: Improvised Puking Device. If you look carefully, you'll probably find the cat giggling someplace. Oh, and at least yours will catch the mouse. Ours are like the cartoon where the cat's laying in the catbed eating sardines while the mice run rampant and the cat says to the camera, "Eh, one o' these days I gotta gat me a mouse trap."
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