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Why? Is your cat doing this on the carpet too? Because mine won't stop. I spent all weekend trying to clean it, now I can't get the smell of cat **** out of my head. We're giving her to my brother come the holidays though; thank goodness.

In the mean time all I can offer sympathy and beer. Mostly sympathy until they find a way to pass beer over the internet.

I like how an unfortunate turn of events (involving alcohol) forces you to drink more alcohol to stay alive.
I also like how even when faced with a life or death situation, you stand behind your principles of not sharing your b33rs.

Er, not really.



Actually, my cat has so far only pooped on the carpet once. It was when I first brought him home, so maybe he did it because he was nervous.

Now my cat just rips up the carpet, the wall, and even the tile floor in the bathroom. I love that cat, but I don't know what I'm going to do with him. Maybe he'll be less hyper when he becomes an adult cat.

Also, technically I'm not old enough to drink in the United States, so that beer will have to wait a couple years.

Oh and my bad weekend mainly had to do with being sick for two-days and then having a ******** of homework over the weekend. But don't worry, I still managed to get about four hours of sleep a night.

It makes more sense when you can see the words for the most part.

Half of it only makes sense with the accent, though. From what I can see. It definitely sounds much less beautiful when I read it out in my head, with my generic-Estuary thinking accent.

Judging by the way things seem to be going, it might soon be.


Edited, Nov 16th 2010 5:22pm by Delinja

People!

I've got invitations to interviews with two universities (Cardiff and Nottingham) and an offer from another one (Heriot Watt up on Scotland).

The best thing about the last is that, as the Scots don't hate my country (as in, I'm not English), I won't have to pay tuition fees. Actually, that isn't the best thing. The condition to my offer is three B's including Maths and Chemistry, I am pretty sure I can talk them into making another offer of ABB where I can skip the first year altogether, and I am going to try to get them to make me an offer that would allow me to skip the first two years (thinking AAA would be adequate judging by the Scottish grades they want for third year entry) - I want to spend time at Uni, but I'm sort of speeding toward my midlife crisis here. And doing my degree in two years sounds like a good prophylactic measure.

Yay university <3

Yeah I have a scratching pad for him. About a week ago, I stopped locking him in the bathroom altogether and his behavior has improved ever since. He's been using the scratch pad of his own accord for the first time, when before I'd have to put him on top of it to get him to use it, and I haven't seem him scratch anything else.

I'm honestly uncomfortable about declawing him, but I definitely want to trim his nails. I don't think they've been trimmed since he was born.

Edited, Jan 21st 2011 9:10pm by Davejohnsan

Thank you! That'll come in very handy.

np Dave. If you have any other questions feel free to pick my brain, either here or through pm.

Food choice is also a very important part of cat care. Too many people, and vets too surprisingly, know absolutely nothing about proper cat nutrition and what they actually need. Cats are obligate carnivores, they only eat meat. Some fruits and veggies are okay for added vitamins, but food with corn fillers are a complete waste of money. If you feed your cat food with corn fillers, they more than likely will get overweight. It's the equivalent to eating junk food for humans. Corn fillers provide absolutely no nutritional value and it doesn't keep the cats full for very long as a result. Sure the food is cheaper, but in the long run you're going to end up spending more on the cheap food than a good quality food because they need to eat more of it, and then they get tons of health complications from obesity as well. Even while my bf and I are broke, we buy good food for our cat. $8 a bag for a 4 lb. bag isn't that bad really.

Also try to stay away from food that has any animal by-products in it. These aren't pure meat sources, and it's also a way that cat food companies skimp on costs to save money. A by-product can literally be anything. Body organs, fur, claws, etc. While the cat may eat those things in the wild, you aren't getting your moneys worth in a store bought food that has those things. Plus I don't think claws are good for any carnivore to eat anyways. I don't think the by-products thing is as important as the corn fillers though, but the two seem to go hand in hand with low quality foods. Feeding a good quality food will help improve the overall health of your cat. His digestive functions will be healthier (and less stinky poops over all) and his coat will be shinier and silkier too. It's also a good idea to try and feed your cat wet food if you can. At least half and half. We started out Miranda on just wet food and then as we started having money issues went to just dry food. Apparently we did that for too long because we recently tried to get her to eat some wet food and she wouldn't touch it. Wet food is better for their urinary tract though, because it has more moisture in it and cats are typically pretty finicky about drinking water.

I'd also recommend keeping cats indoor only if at all possible, regardless of whether you live in the city or in the country. Both have equal levels of danger. In the city you have to worry about the cat getting hit by a car, and in the country you have to worry about other animals killing it. While cats obviously enjoy frolicking outside, they're really safer indoors. Some people get lucky and don't have issues with either of those problems, but I've also known plenty of people who have, and it's better to be safe than sorry. One of my best friends growing up for example, her neighbor poisoned her dogs with antifreeze on purpose, because they barked and it annoyed him. Some people out there are scary.

The admins are pretty large when it comes to derails and OT posts on the WoW part of the site. This thread is largely OT and derails on the General forum are usually left alone.

If they lock this thread and start moderating derails more, I'll be the first to vote for an OT forum, but I don't see a need for it right now.

You're such a sellout, Nor.