aesthetic cat memes!!

[pink grapefruit]

this thread is for you, starkind! :D

i will start:

https://i.imgur.com/9K5cxAX.jpg

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/WKeTXEz.jpg

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/JlV2Wiu.png

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/ZjoGG0K.png

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/pbqWpkD.png

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/w55o7Cf.jpg

[Ooloo]

Sometimes my cat sits on his butt like a person. Like, both his back legs are sticking straight out and he's just hunched over like he's watching TV on a couch. I wish I had a picture of it.

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/y3sSCXV.jpg

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/8rIB6yG.jpg

[Gravydoo II]

When my cat wants out, she walks to my side and says "woohoo".

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/6M3RAKq.png

[unsunghero]

Ya’ll know I am the meme master right? I have 2,000 memes saved on my facebook

[unsunghero]

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[unsunghero]

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??!!?!

[unsunghero]

I’ll stop here before Cecile comes in with “WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THE SPAM”

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/wWqw7J8.png

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/nsFTlXI.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/qpMUtms.jpg

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/moe9zt6.png

[Ooloo]

https://i.imgur.com/moe9zt6.png

lmao

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/g3viwXH.jpg

lol someone just texted me this!

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/vS06oXA.png

[unsunghero]

https://i.imgur.com/vS06oXA.png

Lol my cat can’t make the distinction between when I come home from work at night and when I wake up for work in the morn

When I come home at night, I almost always will play with him a little. Usually this is pretending I didn’t see him go to the same exact hiding place every night and then acting surprised when he does his sneak attack pounce from there. He loves that shit. He also likes me chasing him or he chasing me down a hallway

But when I wake up in the morn, I am tired and only have like 15 mins to get my coffee and get out the door. And he’s been sitting outside my door for hours in the morn and when he sees me he’s like “oh there you are, let’s play!” and dashes around the house like a fucking maniac for 15 straight minutes. Every morning I try to explain to him that I’m tired and have no time to play. He never gets it…

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[Trexller]

after reviewing this thread, i've come to the conclusion,

that arguing over politics that we can't change and barely affect us...

...is still less sad than cat people.

[Tunabros]

wow people really do this to their cats?

poor creatures </3

[unsunghero]

after reviewing this thread, i've come to the conclusion,

that arguing over politics that we can't change and barely affect us...

...is still less sad than cat people.

Cats make great pets for busy pet owners

If I had a dog and gave it as little attention as I am able to give my cat, that dog would go insane from loneliness

See also: why I don’t have a kid

[unsunghero]

My goal is to post juuuust below the amount of memes that will make Cecily become verbally hostile…

[unsunghero]

How many do you think that will be?

[unsunghero]

Actually gotta go for a jog so stopping here

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/a567pnR.gif

[Cecily]

My goal is to post juuuust below the amount of memes that will make Cecily become verbally hostile…

FW: Fwd: FW: FW: Lol funny cat pictures lol

[Mesocyclone]

I will take your inner peace, and crush it into a trillion pieces before you.

[GinnasP99]

JtAK8OFs38s

Shoutout Albert

[starkind]

rly gud thread all i gotta say

let me add to it

https://i.imgur.com/F32EvJh.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/f1ZJ26k.jpg

she's not impressed with the new pillow

one of my cats scolds me by attacking the bathroom door from the outside when i close it and haven't acknowledged them yet

[unsunghero]

I’d post more memes but have to help dad w something at gram’s and don’t have time to check my fb atm

I did find 2 vids of my cat Ernie on my phone. He’s a polydactyl, I think is the term, which is having an extra claw on each paw. Named after Ernest Hemingway, who apparently had a shitload of polydactyl cats


Ernie acting like a spaz while hunting

https://youtu.be/0YLFg5T74e4

Ernie getting high off a shoe

https://youtube.com/shorts/ibJY6i5-Cn8


Edit: with the shoe thing, I think it’s a dominance thing. I’ve seen vids of male lions do that after discovering another animal’s smell on the ground. I think they attempt to cover it with their smell to show this is their area

[unsunghero]

I think this next bit is some of the last of my saved cat memes…

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[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/utt3RlM.png

[unsunghero]

An interesting hypothetical I've posed to cat owners is: If your cat was suddenly blown up to the size of a tiger, how long do you think you could continue to co-habituate with it before it killed you? :)

That's one big difference between cats and dogs. Dogs already can kill you, yet rarely do. But if cats could, there would be a lot more dead pet owners :)

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/yQ5FDTo.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/CflVvDh.jpg

[starkind]

Best thread on the forums right now imo.

And the last one I check.

[Baler]

idk, found it on the internet.

https://i.imgur.com/FlUDq5R.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/LWia2Yc.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/7HKvFpJ.jpeg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/dK25kYR.jpeg

[Baler]

https://i.imgur.com/4o9OUYM.jpg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/4o9OUYM.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9skVLyg.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/TRYSqQ1.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/jkqF5ok.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/BNwMLNu.jpg

[pink grapefruit]

https://i.imgur.com/TRYSqQ1.jpg

omg swish.

my heart is full :D

[Swish]

omg swish.

my heart is full :D

It was a nice one :)

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/IRo64x4.jpeg

[unsunghero]

Had a few more of these buried deep in 1,500+ meme archive on my fb

[unsunghero]

Few more

[unsunghero]

Few mooore

[unsunghero]

Fewww more

[unsunghero]

SHOW ME YOUR KITTIES

[starkind]

Just wanted to say thanks again for making this the best thread on the internet before I lay myself down to rest :)

[GinnasP99]

dhim0CHw1EE

Hope everyone has a good day

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/xgBK7GI.png

[unsunghero]

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[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/L7HAkLR.jpg

[GinnasP99]

vACViWdHyGY

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/5YhnEa8.jpeg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/CkT1NI5.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/TgmwDI6.jpeg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/aziCG3v.jpg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/jE2ErCS.png

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/48iqvS5.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/gsYfUnv.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/i6wYiml.jpg

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[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/SgDsYVR.png

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[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/oBx5LSn.png

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/26pX2sw.jpeg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/BzUBY4E.jpeg

[unsunghero]

^
Lol

Ernie pukes almost every day. He licks himself all day and I’m like “Ernie, there’s no one here, who are you trying to impress?? Maybe if u chill on the licking you won’t throw up every goddamn day?”

Luckily he almost always goes to the tile to do it…

[starkind]

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Lol

Ernie pukes almost every day. He licks himself all day and I’m like “Ernie, there’s no one here, who are you trying to impress?? Maybe if u chill on the licking you won’t throw up every goddamn day?”

Luckily he almost always goes to the tile to do it…

That's nice my cats jump up on my bed to puke lol. I need to brush them more. I'm constantly sick tho :( so it's really hard it's so fucking fustrating I'm sorry I even said that I need to get it out though.

I still love them very much 99.9999% of the time as much as possible. They are the best and puke or not they are always there for me. Even when I'm a pukey hooman.

[unsunghero]

That's nice my cats jump up on my bed to puke lol. I need to brush them more. I'm constantly sick tho :( so it's really hard it's so fucking fustrating I'm sorry I even said that I need to get it out though.

I still love them very much 99.9999% of the time as much as possible. They are the best and puke or not they are always there for me. Even when I'm a pukey hooman.

Rule #1 never let your cats into your room

I am a light sleeper and can’t have a cat stepping on me or putting his butthole in my face. When I first got Ernie I let him in my room, I remember laying on my pillow, rolling over, and having cat hair stuck to my lips. I was like nope nope nope nope no cats in the room

Now my room is cat hair free and I can sleep through the night, unless sometimes in the early morning Ernie sits outside the door and whines at me to wake up until I throw something at the door…

[unsunghero]

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[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/ZvOmMFq.jpeg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/5w6lBK1.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/zHeJqoW.jpg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/2jYUx93.jpeg

[Trexller]

Cat people are weird:

https://i.imgur.com/uZVBi75.jpg

[robayon]

i have cats because my wife likes cats, not because i like cats

i still think toxoplasmosis changes human behavior, even if it's deep inside my brain

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/Os0TvY8.png

[Whale biologist]

https://i.imgur.com/SKQAyJW.jpg

[starkind]

Knitted kitten knights.

[Jibartik]

https://imgur.com/IMmWvb0

good audio hehe

[unsunghero]

Only have my cat, no memes atm, will post if I stumble across any

[Tunabros]

i miss pink grapefruit =(

she was like starkind but actually likeable

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/xpCt8Aw.jpg

[starkind]

In this cat meme you can clearly see the human earning the respawn!

Xl-YD553wgA

[Jibartik]

if anyone will like this one gravy will



he'll fuckn laugh too

https://i.imgur.com/XwPMV98.png

[unsunghero]

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[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/F2nWb50.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/3IEZDJk.jpeg

[Whale biologist]

https://i.imgur.com/u6so7ff.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/EeljgOO.jpeg

[starkind]

important bits hidden! https://i.imgur.com/Z2vq75l.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/nQPD0wg.jpeg

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/BgDmV4U.png

[unsunghero]

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[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/iyywZOG.jpeg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/BCnhTE9.jpeg

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My cat…:

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[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/PP418ws.jpg

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/065kgco.jpg

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[nostalgiaquest]

This sequence of photos came up in my facebook memories today. How to watch a movie, by Ebi-chan the Stinkbutt.

Step 1: Approach with caution
https://i.imgur.com/jbzamt1.jpg

Step 2: Cleanliness is key
https://i.imgur.com/8cg3FfZ.jpg

Step 3: Make yourself comfortable
https://i.imgur.com/xt0jVPI.jpg

Step 4: Sneak attack!
https://i.imgur.com/rhq3GdB.jpg

Step 5: Relax and enjoy the show
https://i.imgur.com/T3rluja.jpg

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[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/qYhT8E2.jpg

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[Swish]

https://nolimitcat.ytmnd.com/

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/1hDLpNW.jpeg

[unsunghero]

https://nolimitcat.ytmnd.com/

Hittin abs AND obliques!

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/MH1EIrZ.jpeg

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[Reiwa]

SyrBqLWJb-A

[unsunghero]

Role reversal

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Cat has been making gains

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[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/6DKS0a7.jpeg

[nostalgiaquest]

https://i.imgur.com/PCAADb1.jpg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/G11ypt2.jpeg

[starkind]

Just going to leave this here :p

https://i.imgur.com/i7lOI1G.jpeg

[unsunghero]

It’s science

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/BYyEmQC.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/hBofSfE.jpeg

[unsunghero]

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[starkind]

My one cat does that. I pick it up for her and show her how to bury it and she watches patiently and still she does it.

She was raised with a puppy in another household and likely too soon taken from her momma. So.. she's sweet otherwise. So we just clean it up. Sometimes she makes it in the litter too. Just too lazy to cover it. Came back to us years later. Otherwise normal. Maybe a bit overly cuddly?

[unsunghero]

My one cat does that. I pick it up for her and show her how to bury it and she watches patiently and still she does it.

She was raised with a puppy in another household and likely too soon taken from her momma. So.. she's sweet otherwise. So we just clean it up. Sometimes she makes it in the litter too. Just too lazy to cover it. Came back to us years later. Otherwise normal. Maybe a bit overly cuddly?

Just last week I had a load of clothes that I had taken out of the drier and had on the kitchen table I was gonna transfer to my room

I got caught up makin food, and while I was doing that I look over and my cat is sitting on the load of clothes with “that look” on his face. I was like “are you pissing?” and start running over. He got a light slap on the face mid-piss and ran off to finish in his CLEAN litter box

First time he pulled that bullshit. He had taken a shit on my clothes in a hamper one time he snuck into my room, which is why he’s never allowed in my room or any bedroom for any reason :(

[starkind]

Just last week I had a load of clothes that I had taken out of the drier and had on the kitchen table I was gonna transfer to my room

I got caught up makin food, and while I was doing that I look over and my cat is sitting on the load of clothes with “that look” on his face. I was like “are you pissing?” and start running over. He got a light slap on the face mid-piss and ran off to finish in his CLEAN litter box

First time he pulled that bullshit. He had taken a shit on my clothes in a hamper one time he snuck into my room, which is why he’s never allowed in my room or any bedroom for any reason :(
Cats get suuuuuper fuckin jealous of other humans coming around THIER human... so.. uhm. Maybe and they may not like the smell of ur detergent. Either something like that or it's bladder infection or diabetes. Or some other stress. Usually it's not cuz they are mad. More like high anxiety.

Could be your work and the strange scents from ppl you have contact with. Patience.

Does your cat have a box or nesting area that is sorta like all theirs, maybe with an old smelly shirt of urs they can share and feel safe in? Maybe a little secluded. They really love that shit and peeing on ur stuff is like their only way to tell u maybe. Could be worried u don't really accept them in your territory so they're going to the extreme with marking hoping you just become more comfortable around their scent.

Fixed? Not fixed? Male? Female? She could be in heat or trying to excite u and get ur attention.

Hope all this helps.

[unsunghero]

Cats get suuuuuper fuckin jealous of other humans coming around THIER human... so.. uhm. Maybe and they may not like the smell of ur detergent. Either something like that or it's bladder infection or diabetes. Or some other stress. Usually it's not cuz they are mad. More like high anxiety.

Could be your work and the strange scents from ppl you have contact with. Patience.

Does your cat have a box or nesting area that is sorta like all theirs, maybe with an old smelly shirt of urs they can share and feel safe in? Maybe a little secluded. They really love that shit and peeing on ur stuff is like their only way to tell u maybe. Could be worried u don't really accept them in your territory so they're going to the extreme with marking hoping you just become more comfortable around their scent.

Fixed? Not fixed? Male? Female? She could be in heat or trying to excite u and get ur attention.

Hope all this helps.

Male, fixed. One time he raped me before I realized what was happening so he might be gay, IDK

He has a secluded litter box, he will just always prefer to shit or pee on clothes for some reason. These were clean from the drier with same detergent so no foreign smells

[starkind]

Weird. Idk rly then. Where'd u get him from? Could be just a learned behavior. And ya male cats will get horny.

Anyway it's not always about the bathroom it's about smells and territory. And security.

[robayon]

Male, fixed. One time he raped me before I realized what was happening so he might be gay, IDK

He has a secluded litter box, he will just always prefer to shit or pee on clothes for some reason. These were clean from the drier with same detergent so no foreign smellsI used to train dogs, so no idea if this would work on cats. I would often find myself re-creating circumstances with my clients to basically help successfully steer the outcome and correct the problem behavior. Or at least, take a run at it. Things went totally sideways sometimes, of course, it's a big reason why I've got a lot of dog bite stories.

I realize this sounds totally insane, but think of it from an animal's perspective. Have you tried peeing on pooping on your own clothes?

I've had some success with sponging urine into problem urination areas as a counter-marking thing for toilet training puppies, didn't always work obviously but it can be worth a shot if it's annoying

Cats aren't pack animals the same way dogs are so your results may vary wildly. You said it only happened the one time so hopefully it never does again, but try stuff and then if you get desperate, do your own marking.

[unsunghero]

I used to train dogs, so no idea if this would work on cats. I would often find myself re-creating circumstances with my clients to basically help successfully steer the outcome and correct the problem behavior. Or at least, take a run at it. Things went totally sideways sometimes, of course, it's a big reason why I've got a lot of dog bite stories.

I realize this sounds totally insane, but think of it from an animal's perspective. Have you tried peeing on pooping on your own clothes?

I've had some success with sponging urine into problem urination areas as a counter-marking thing for toilet training puppies, didn't always work obviously but it can be worth a shot if it's annoying

Cats aren't pack animals the same way dogs are so your results may vary wildly. You said it only happened the one time so hopefully it never does again, but try stuff and then if you get desperate, do your own marking.

I suffered a few bites trying to break up fights to the death between 2 female labs we had. Spraying them with a hose, hitting them, macing them right in the face, wouldn’t make them release their death grip on each other. I found the solution was to drag them to the pool and throw them in, then they had to let go or drown. Then block the steps and leash them as they swim out before they can re-clash. Eventually has to separate them or one was going to die

But shitting on my own clothes? I dunno man, I eat tons of creatine and protein, my shits are pretty dank

I’ll hold him down and shit on his face if he does it again, that will establish dominance

[robayon]

Just be careful with your sack if you do that.

I once got it in the eyelid from a cat claw, eyelids are very testicle-like skin, it tore a hole pretty good. Luckily he missed the eyeball itself.

Alpha rolling can be dangerous with some dogs, and with a cat I'd be even more wary of its success. They don't seem to quite submit as visibly as dogs, maybe I just don't see it or it happens fast. My two cats sometimes squabble but they never really get into combat.

Also, while I trained a lot of dogs by having the clients 'establish dominance', most modern research shows that dogs aren't as strictly hierarchy-based as we've traditionally thought of them as. We humanize them somewhat when we do that.

I hear a lot of the most modern effective dog training systems are a bit more carrot than stick. The system I taught was similar to Caesar Milan's, which while generally effective, some of the tactics you'd have to use with such a system would be downright dangerous.

I was frequently hired by people whose dogs had two out of three strikes, third strike they get executed. I would not even attempt to alpha roll a 200 pound violent mastiff, and the vast majority of human beings probably shouldn't or wouldn't either.

When training, if two dogs got to the point where they actively fought, I have already failed and lost control of the situation. Blankets, buckets of water can work, so can brute force. Hucking a dog into a pool is a great way to do it too.

Also, don't shit on your clothes. Pee on them. Pee is better, easier to work with. Pee on your clothes. Pee on your clothes for animal behavior influence.

[starkind]

My cats are assholes but not nearly this bad.

They are very habitual creatures too like lizards. Develop a routine where they pee in the same place every time and that could help. There's ways to do that I won't get into. It is really time consuming.

Cats don't really have alphas. You're either dangerous or prey or part of the troop. Dominance doesn't work with them really. And if you aren't there they will do whatever they like to do. You can scare them a bit and make them more cautious. You can end up with quite a neurotic cat that way.

Mine respect me. Only if I get up and hisss tho. If stay laying down or sitting down "I'm not important enough to listen too". Big problem with them clawing shit. They do have a small vocabulary and it even includes "out" which means to go to their cat room. Which they will reluctantly follow if I herd them. They do listen and follow commands only when they feel like it.

I sprayed that funky celery smelling stuff everywhere and that did help a little. It was just as short term a solution.

Most effective way gently picking them up and moving them over and over. And providing them their own stuff to claw.

You could throw a shirt down nexto their litter and sit with them all day and if they go for the shirt pick him up put him in the litter and paw it. Do that over and over for a week and just maybe...

Also you can give him his own room and litter in there with some clothes and let him mark it up for awhile until he figures out its nicer to sleep in the clothes than pee on them. And instead pee in his own litter.

Out cats have a small mudroom plus outside cage. They do like their rooms cleaned occasionally too. When we clean in the house it's a race to get their scent on everything. Tho I don't have the peepeeepooo problem you have. Also I agree with Rob. Nextime he's on or near or investigating your "clean clothes" sponge some pee and move him to his litter. Pee is sterile. Anyways. You do have old clothes you don't care about? Maybe his environment just is too "boring" and he can't keep enough of his scent around.

Look up cat pee problems tho and find a guide. Mine was easy. My cat just needed insulin. Tho.

Maybe even easier just to squirtgun him and his every time he's about to pee or poop somewhere wrong. Then spray the "no go there cent (buy in pet store). Everytime. Should take like a month or so. He'll eventually get the idea.

He could just be having horrible anxiety attacks around you and your clean clothes so you don't want to escalate that to when there's no clean clothes.

I mean he just may need to spend more time with you and interact more so he feels safer and more comfy in "his home". You're probably an intruder to him and he doesn't know how to establish a report without peeepeepooopooo. Which in the wild they do when taking turns over shared territory. You need to hack that behavior. Leave a peed on shirt near his litter or something idk. Rly. I barely grasp basic cat. Pee is really important to them. For sure tho.

Hope this helps and gg. Cats are pretty weird.

[starkind]

So like a funny anecdote. My cats are smart enough to know who is getting hissed at for what. If they aren't doing anything wrong they will generally ignore my hisses lol. The one doing the bad will run off chastised. Sometimes they are definitely getting negative reinforcement. (That's bad, when their bad behavior is getting them what they want, my attention for example). Mine don't really get it right 50/50 of the time they get my attention in a good way. Negative reinforcement is super tricky to deal with in humans too.


Also cats are pretty much all short term memories outside of routine. So like a 4 year old can be told it's cold outside and they won't remember to wear a coat until they are actually outside and its cold. Cats are exactly like that.

[robayon]

Negative reinforcement is super tricky to deal with in humans too.Yeah, it's tricky. With most animals I see it as them being locked in the present, mostly. They have memories, and they have the ability to anticipate actions, but anticipation is based on their prior experiences with a given action.

A lot of dogs get bitten by snakes, since venom can take time to take effect and become lethal. I was hired by a lot of people to instill fear of snakes in their dogs for this reason. I literally kept a bunch of them in my trunk, a few of which I had attached to fishing line. Fake ones, that is.

I'd hide behind a tree or something out back, they'd avoid letting the dog see me set up there. On a cellphone call, I'd tell them to let the dog out and begin investigating, then I'd yank the line and make the snake move. The moment, the very second the dog notices the snake, the client was supposed to correct the hell out of the dog, both verbally and with a non-harmful corrective device - but from somewhere out of sight so the dog doesn't even know who was doing the correction. Usually up in a bathroom window that was open. We'd previously have tricked the dog in to thinking that the whole family had gone out and left them behind. Timing was key. Usually the best corrective device for this might be a few bags of warm water, just cheap ziploc bags.

The idea was to create, from the dog's perspective, the moment the dog begins to investigate the snake, god screams at them and water falls out of the sky, splashing near them suddenly and startingly. They could also just be in the yard with the dog and actively correct it, but the problem was that a lot of dogs might run in to the snake without other 'pack members' around. Just chilling in the backyard by itself.

It was a bit stilted, but it usually at least created some doubt and maybe taught the dogs to avoid the snake. It worked best on dogs that responded well to water corrections, or dogs that were simply high-strung enough a loud can of pennies might also work. Slamming metal trash can lids together, stuff like that.

People with chickens in their backyard rarely have this problem.

[starkind]

Ya good advice. My feral outside cats kell all snek ded. Really gud. Nevurrrr loze.

Y r dogs bad @ life?

[Homesteaded]

I will be moving to a 4 acre home with some woods. Plan is to have chickens, a big garden etc. I grew up on a farm and we had barn cats and I think they are great for having around to keep the rodents away.

I have never owned my own pet though. Any advice from this crowd on having an outdoor cat? Can you have an indoor and an outdoor cat or do they tend to prefer one or the other?

[Botten]

I will be moving to a 4 acre home with some woods. Plan is to have chickens, a big garden etc. I grew up on a farm

Will Elizondo be going with you?

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[starkind]

They prefer one over the other.

Indoor cats don't really have the training or mentorship of outdoor cats and their lifestyles. Plus they bring stuff from outside in which is annoying.

Just make sure they're all neuter and vaxxed and have a warm shelter for cold winter nights. Raccoons and possums and bugs can be problematic if you leave cat food laying about. Try to feed them at specific times and not over feed them. Remember for the winter they need to fatten up tho. And a little extra protein goes a long way.

My outside feral are actually quite sociable and would probably become inside cats. Thats not going to happen.

Our inside ones where rescues from trashcans and starvation at the pet store in the warehouse. The one "outside" cat that became inside almost died as a kitten from an infection and just wasn't able to be adopted.

They lose their instinct tho and get run over ez, eaten by dogs if they aren't exclusively outside, or interfered with too much. Occasionally my outside ferals will get pets. They mostly hang out and watch us garden and stuff tho. They aren't coddled.

Barn cats will die. Horses will kick them. Birds of prey will grab kittens. Occasionally one gets bigger than the eagles tho and kills one for team cat.

Life expectancy for outside cats is like 5-7 years if well cared for. U may have to help them kill raccoons and possoms. Sometimes they can live a lot longer though. Some of ours are going on 7 years + we have had cars, dogs, wildlife kill them. One died of old age/illness. Pretty sure he was like 15+

Living outside exclusively increases their intelligence like 10 fold. I don't think I could transition my inside ones to outside tho. They'd last a year at most if lucky.

It helps them a lot to have other cat mentors who where raised outside fully by mom. Not taken away as kittens. Etc.

[Homesteaded]

Good advice on the mentoring aspect. So probably try and source the cats from a similar home.

Do you think I could get the cats to live in peace with chickens or will they just end up killing the chickens?

[starkind]

Oof. Cats love killing all birds here.

We have wild chickens in the neighborhood. They have their own turf outside our property. The big ones are usually pretty safe.

Occasionally one gets separated and wanders close. Then we have a chicken that is disassembled and given to us like some artful sacrifice.

Maybe if they are raised with them and well fed.

Chickens are a lot more beneficial then cats. A few acres. Like 5 or 6 they could maybe be ok. Ur going to have chicken kills tho. Kinda hard to get around that. We lost chickens to rats, dogs, hawks, owles, foxes etc when we had only chickens. They lived in a large coop in a fenced in yard. Nocturnal predators always find a way tho.

Cats are real assholes and hunt for pleasure. They can be real pests sometimes.

[Reiwa]

International Cat Federation bans Russian cats from competitions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/03/russia-cat-ban-ukraine-war/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter)

The International Cat Federation says it has banned Russian cats from its international competitions in the latest rebuke to Russia since it invaded Ukraine last week.

🐈

[starkind]

I have a ton of cat memes. Have to dig them out of my Ukraine memes now though. Will take some effort.

I have to involuntarily sleep a bit. However I will dig them out and resurrect this thread. This I swear!

Also my cat marked the wall near the food. Sprayed some ammonia since I didn't have any fresh bioactive deodorizer. Idk y... so far a one off incident. I'm guessing outside cats are marking outside.

[unsunghero]

Occasionally one gets separated and wanders close. Then we have a chicken that is disassembled and given to us like some artful sacrifice.

Lol the wording here is great

[unsunghero]

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[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/W6hBMGw.jpeg

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/QOB0Ysx.png

[unsunghero]

Can’t go jog outside until Ernie gives me my arm back :(

[starkind]

Awwwww... cudddddles... ! That is wuv.

[starkind]

*pawing at the glass* https://imgur.com/gallery/gxv4Ocm

Technically a cat meme

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/quN3UIb.jpeg

[unsunghero]

,,,

[unsunghero]

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[unsunghero]

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[robayon]

,,.,,,,i hope that cat is named Momo

[Jibartik]

I think I used to date that cat

[starkind]

I want to mod Kerrens into minecraft.

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/NFeAoVp.jpeg

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/F1mrNIf.jpeg

[Trexller]

https://i.imgur.com/STsIt7i.jpg

[starkind]

(Lol) 😱

[unsunghero]

Weird. Idk rly then. Where'd u get him from? Could be just a learned behavior. And ya male cats will get horny.

Anyway it's not always about the bathroom it's about smells and territory. And security.

Yep it’s territory

Just connected the dots. When the girl I’m dating and I hang out in the living room and her scent gets on the couch, Ernie tries to pee on anything I set on that couch. Just caught him 1 second away from peeing on this nice soft fuzzy blanket I bought right after she left

And he’s fixed too wtf. I stopped him this time but this could be an annoying ass problem

[starkind]

Haha. Ya. It's really the girls scent. Maybe u can socialize him so he doesn't feel threatened by other females coming around his house lol 😆

Anyway


https://i.imgur.com/V8zauac.png

[unsunghero]

Saw him on the glass and panicked, with Ernie just outside the room, me thinking “oh no, are you on the inside? Do you know how dead you are?” Trying to figure out how I can catch this without scaring it under a couch for Ernie to kill later. But thank goodness it was outside…

[starkind]

That is a fatass lizard!

[unsunghero]

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[ivonkstronji91]

Awesome!

[starkind]

https://i.imgur.com/Ige0YKC.jpeg

[unsunghero]

Think it’s dead

[unsunghero]

My cat doesn’t go that hard. Fucker would get slapped

[unsunghero]

..,

[unsunghero]

,,.,

[Jibartik]

https://i.imgur.com/OPxhjox.png

[unsunghero]

,,.,

[starkind]

,,.,

This is me all the time now. 😐

[unsunghero]

,.,

[Jibartik]

Dont let this thread die! RIP Unsung.

uzMx4N9NCas

[magnetaress]

Dont let this thread die! RIP Unsung.

uzMx4N9NCas

No berserk powerup. Wat

[magnetaress]

%

[Jibartik]

so much better than stray.

[magnetaress]

Imma post in this thread again. Just have been too sick to FQ full speed.

[Jibartik]

feel bett-pur

(pun)

[unsunghero]

“You can’t catch me, I’m the ginger bread cat”

https://s1.gifyu.com/images/F987C7BD-FD62-42D0-A81B-53259B31C5FD.gif (https://gifyu.com/image/SEqoS)

[magnetaress]

“You can’t catch me, I’m the ginger bread cat”

https://s1.gifyu.com/images/F987C7BD-FD62-42D0-A81B-53259B31C5FD.gif (https://gifyu.com/image/SEqoS)

This person deserves the pit.

[Jibartik]

Dodge

JUKE!

Distract.

flip

JUMP!

BACK SCRATCH

HEADATTACKS!

And im outa here! VICTORY!

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/fPscbgF.jpeg

[unsunghero]

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[Basanos]

The dew claw. Anyone who says their dog is part wolf, look for the dew claw.

Also, Huskeys are NOT easy to train to walk to heel on the leash.

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/YkoVTwm.png

[magnetaress]

I mean... there is a cat in it...

https://i.imgur.com/ieP7ScV.jpeg

[unsunghero]

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[unsunghero]

,,,

[Basanos]

I was cleaning up cat vomit the other day asking myself "what are these animals good for?"

mice? rats? we had a small lizard bust in the house the other day, my wife lost her marbles. cats were just watching it. like, where the hell was the instinct? hell, my dog would have been after it but he's dead

[magnetaress]

They are there to be cute and frustrate us in cute ways so that we get up for a little bit of exercise.

[Reiwa]

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https://www.project1999.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19454&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1667890088

Vulpes, not felis.

[Chortles Snortles]

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