Oh dear fellow cat owners,....

Merrida · 12-Dec-07, 06:38 PM

This holiday season, when the house may be about with things like little chocolate rum balls, chocolate drops, carob covered macademia nuts,.....let us never assume when we see something on the floor that looks one of the afore mentioned holiday goodies we feed to our guests may have accidentally dropped out of the bowl. Let's not get complacent, even if we're old enough to know better,.....even if we've had cats and holiday goodies long enough to know better,....oh no, that's not a good enough reason to get lax.

Picking said little innocuous object up off the floor, one may be quite surprised that it isn't actually one of those little chocolate goodie drops, oh no, but rather, a holiday gift left by your beloved kitty. Cat scat!

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The Flash · 12-Dec-07, 06:45 PM

At least it wasn't laid on a table and tossed into mouth with one assuming it to be a chocolate chip.

Merrida · 12-Dec-07, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by The Flash

At least it wasn't laid on a table and tossed into mouth with one assuming it to be a chocolate chip.

Oh my God....you know there are some things that you just don't want to think about happening. And I think that ranks pretty far up there Flash. Yep, I think you're onto something.

Hmm,....I wonder if you have a naughty little sister you could "fool her" by sticking it in her stocking & if she'd mistake it for coal? (Well, at least initially).

This cat scat could have multiple applications if we think about it,.....

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The Flash · 12-Dec-07, 07:13 PM

I was once fooled as a kid witih something somewhat similiar. I looooooved Orange soda as a kid and came home one day to find a plastic cup with something orange and bubbly inside the fridge. I thought it was the rest of some Orange soda leftover in a bottle so I started drinking it without thinking twice. Well it didn't taste too good and it kind of burned my throat. Turns out it was Palmolive dish soap. Why my mom put it in a cup and in the fridge I will never know or ever forgive her for!

Merrida · 12-Dec-07, 07:21 PM

Flash, I can add to that one on our list.

Middle of the night, massive thirst attack. I knew we had a can of pineapple juice in the fridge. Waking up parched, water doesn't cut it. I took two good swallows,.....in the dark.

Let's say it took me turning on the light and dumping the can in the sink to notice the color of my pineapple juice drink.....was dark brown!! That was just,....so wrong.

But on a less gastrically upsetting note: When I was a kid I stepped (in my bare feet) on a ketchup packet (don't ask me how it got on the kitchen floor,...), and the sound and feel of that pop and squish creeped me out! Only to run to the other side of the kitchen, flip the switch and see all this RED all over the floor and between my toes,... my Father came out of the bedroom when he heard me wailing and said, "You stepped on a mouse!" (Yeah, what a jokester my Dad was, eh?)

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**Gooseneck** · 12-Dec-07, 07:28 PM

A new meaning of the word "dirtball". Throw it against a brickwall and see if it explodes.

Merrida · 12-Dec-07, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Gooseneck

A new meaning of the word "dirtball". Throw it against a brickwall and see if it explodes.

I just wouldn't want to be in the region of the "dust explosion" as it bursts into airborne particles. Whoooey!

Hmm,.....maybe it also gives a new meaning to "paydirt?"

The Flash · 13-Dec-07, 12:04 PM

Merrida, that's pretty bad lol. I'm just glad I haven't found anything funny in my food because it would be pretty hard to eat after that. Then again, all the money I could win in a potential lawsuit would more than make up for my lack of appetite.

Merrida · 13-Dec-07, 03:56 PM

But it's so unfair how they look like random Hershey Kisses when one falls off on the floor.... It's far too misleading.

**LiftGirl** · 13-Dec-07, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Merrida

But it's so unfair how they look like random Hershey Kisses when one falls off on the floor.... It's far too misleading.

The smell doesn't tip you off?

Merrida · 14-Dec-07, 09:50 AM

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The smell doesn't tip you off?

I guess my cat's poop doesn't smell. (At least not when it's dried up into the little nub he leaves on the floor).

Besides, it's more like, that immediate visual association.

I should learn by now,...because when he gets something, you know,...."stuck".....he runs around the house doing laps like Andretti, banging into walls, falling down the stairs, smashing into doors,...(that explains the brain damage)....but really, they really do look like little chocolate drops.

Besides, when they're firm they don't,....emminate, quite so aromatically.

I'm just glad I've never stepped in 'em.

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**LiftGirl** · 14-Dec-07, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Merrida

I guess my cat's poop doesn't smell. (At least not when it's dried up into the little nub he leaves on the floor).

Besides, it's more like, that immediate visual association.

I should learn by now,...because when he gets something, you know,...."stuck".....he runs around the house doing laps like Andretti, banging into walls, falling down the stairs, smashing into doors,...(that explains the brain damage)....but really, they really do look like little chocolate drops.

Besides, when they're firm they don't,....emminate, quite so aromatically.

I'm just glad I've never stepped in 'em.

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LOL, different cats have different....shall we say, smell levels. My boy cat has the worst stink-bombs you've ever smelled, but my girl cat's really doesn't smell at all, unless it's just a little right when she "plants her rose."

They run around cause they don't like cling-ons. Is he a longhair? You can get them a butt-trim. If you take him to a groomer, just ask for a "sanitary trim."

Merrida · 14-Dec-07, 05:31 PM

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LOL, different cats have different....shall we say, smell levels. My boy cat has the worst stink-bombs you've ever smelled, but my girl cat's really doesn't smell at all, unless it's just a little right when she "plants her rose."

They run around cause they don't like cling-ons. Is he a longhair? You can get them a butt-trim. If you take him to a groomer, just ask for a "sanitary trim."

Gosh, I've never quite heard it put like that before: "Plants her rose!" How sweet. Of course female cats are less err,....odiferous. It's all part of being female, after all.

Yeah, I know he's dashing around to rid himself of the cling-ons. An animal that'll lick his butt and privates, but is wigged out by a little cling-on and feels the need to run maniacally around the house,....now that's feline logic for you.

I don't bring my cat to the groomer to have his butt shaved. I have a WAHL clipper and yes, my cat gets shaved. His whole hynie gets the groom treatment. Okay so maybe he looks a little goofy. He's the typical black cat, not really long hair but not short either. But he always gets matts and clumps around his butt, so,....he gets shaved (just the lower half). And most definitely his little sheriff's badge gets groomed (I don't like him dropping his rose buds either, and evidently even shaving only does so much good! He's got stubborn hynie hair).

If a groomer can do it, so can I,...even though I know it probably freaks people out to do it themselves. But hey, if you've ever had to express anal glands on a dog,...if you've ever led a stallion out to stud a mare in heat and had to guide his manliness,....you really do lose that whole "shock value" thing.

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**Gooseneck** · 14-Dec-07, 08:19 PM

At least its not urine, thats one of the most vile smells there is.

Merrida · 14-Dec-07, 09:22 PM

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At least its not urine, thats one of the most vile smells there is.

Yeah,....not really a fan of cat urine....(kind of reminds me of Liftgirl's clever suggestion when she recommended I fill a bowl with ammonia and stick it in my kitchen to get rid of the smell of onions,...sweet little darling that she is!)

While urine ranks up there (no pun intended),....let us not forget the unpleasantries of vomit. From any species.

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