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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 01:55 PM
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Pretty much as F1 said.

I'd recommend more than one litter tray if its going to be a permanent house cat and if its going to be on its own all day. Reason is if it cr4ps/fills the tray up while you're out and wants to go for a pee/cr4p later on - before you've got back and cleaned it - the pee/cr4p will more than likely end up on your carpet somewhere!! If there is a second (or even second and third) tray then you'll have clean carpets and non-smelly house

Cats are great btw and I'd highly recommend you get an adult cat from a rescue centre. Make sure you go in and interact with the cats in the rescue centre - I can almost guarantee that a cat will pick you rather than the other way round
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 02:22 PM
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Lol at the cat owners thinking they and their cats don't smell.

Cats stink and so do their slaves, because cats scent mark Everything, full stop.

If that's not the case please explain to me what it is a cat is doing when it comes and rubs itself on you from just behind it's ears and along the side of it's neck / back? where erm it's scent glans are located!

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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by BLU
Cats are great btw and I'd highly recommend you get an adult cat from a rescue centre.
Two points.
Why are cats great - they don't exactly do much now do they?

Why get someone else's rejected adult cat when you could get a playful kitten, and dare I say "teach" it things.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 03:57 PM
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Cats **** stinks.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by urban
Two points.
Why are cats great - they don't exactly do much now do they?

Why get someone else's rejected adult cat when you could get a playful kitten, and dare I say "teach" it things.
This statement could be easily turned if you replaced the word cat for women .
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by urban
Two points.
Why are cats great - they don't exactly do much now do they?

Why get someone else's rejected adult cat when you could get a playful kitten, and dare I say "teach" it things.
My cats are ace. Playful, loving and right little characters! I have 3 and they have they're own little personalities! They're free to come and go as they please but they tend to stay home as they get lots of attention! My oldest cat is 4 years old now and she most definitely has as many 'kitten cat' moments as kittens do!! Its quite comical at times!!

Re-homing a cat is a responsible thing to do as the rescue centres are fit to bursting. There are various reasons cats need to be re-homed and its not just other peoples rejects, although unfortunately this is probably the main reason! Ill health, change of circumstances can be some of various legit reasons.
We helped re-home a stray who came to us as she had no where else to go, she was a lovely friendly thing. We had her neutered and fostered her until a home could be found (3 cats is enough!!) It took a little while but she has made a lovely family pet. The vet estimated her to be around 4 years old.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 04:32 PM
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Originally Posted by The Trooper 1815
This statement could be easily turned if you replaced the word cat for women .
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ditchmyster
Lol at the cat owners thinking they and their cats don't smell.

Cats stink and so do their slaves, because cats scent mark Everything, full stop.

If that's not the case please explain to me what it is a cat is doing when it comes and rubs itself on you from just behind it's ears and along the side of it's neck / back? where erm it's scent glans are located!



And you can smell a cats scent mark...what a sensive olfactory protrusion you must have
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 04:52 PM
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Not really because i stay away from cats and their owners, because they stink.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ditchmyster
Not really because i stay away from cats and their owners, because they stink.
great example of the standard SN repost attempt; ignorance
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by The Trooper 1815
This statement could be easily turned if you replaced the word cat for women .
Yes it could, but given the choice of 45 year old woman with sagging ******* vs 20 year old woman with a pair you could hang your coat on - I know what I'd choose
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by trails
great example of the standard SN repost attempt; ignorance
Actually had cats for years as a kid due to mice back in the day, so no ignorance here thanks, I just don't like them because they kill indiscriminately and generally upset the balance of nature.

Oh and they stink too.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 05:50 PM
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A mate of mine many years ago got a cat from a rescue centre for his
girlfriend when they moved in together, he picked it because it was
very affectionate at the centre.

He got home from work the day after picking it up to find his girlfriend
had locked herself in the lounge as the cat had turned into satan and
attacked her and trashed the kitchen. Took him a couple of hours and
several nasty scratches to box it up and return it to the rescue home lol.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by ditchmyster
Actually had cats for years as a kid due to mice back in the day, so no ignorance here thanks, I just don't like them because they kill indiscriminately and generally upset the balance of nature.

Oh and they stink too.
Yeah they are effective little predators...mine mostly eat what they kill; I know this as they will generally bbringback what they don't ingest and then vomit the rest of it on the floor

They don't smell though
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by trails
Yeah they are effective little predators...mine mostly eat what they kill; I know this as they will generally bbringback what they don't ingest and then vomit the rest of it on the floor

They don't smell though
Yep my neighbour out here in Croatia has 3/4 cats and more flies and mosquitos than you can shake a stick, as well as a healthy population of mice.

I on the other hand have a few european whip snakes, and some water snakes loads of lizzards, frogs crickets and bats, never get bitten by mozzies and no flies, if I had cats about the the place they'd kill all the frogs and lizzards and then it would be fly and mozzie central here as i have a huge pond that will one day be the swimming pool, so yeah nice big dog for me thanks, keeps the cats away and the snakes take care of any stray mice.

Edit to add; their p1ss and **** in the house is positively toxic and proper nasty to deal with though, rather you than me.

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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by ditchmyster
Actually had cats for years as a kid due to mice back in the day, so no ignorance here thanks, I just don't like them because they kill indiscriminately and generally upset the balance of nature.

Oh and they stink too.
^^^^ this
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 06:29 PM
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ditchmyster
Yep my neighbour out here in Croatia has 3/4 cats and more flies and mosquitos than you can shake a stick, as well as a healthy population of mice.

I on the other hand have a few european whip snakes, and some water snakes loads of lizzards, frogs crickets and bats, never get bitten by mozzies and no flies, if I had cats about the the place they'd kill all the frogs and lizzards and then it would be fly and mozzie central here as i have a huge pond that will one day be the swimming pool, so yeah nice big dog for me thanks, keeps the cats away and the snakes take care of any stray mice.

Edit to add; their p1ss and **** in the house is positively toxic and proper nasty to deal with though, rather you than me.
i have to concede not being indigenous and being so affective at killing things does give me guilt pangs sometimes, especially when one of them managed to catch a bat

Nah, mine crap outside unless they are confined to the house for some reason...for the record I just sniffed my 18 year old ***** and can't smell anything bad at all
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by urban
Two points.
Why are cats great - they don't exactly do much now do they?

Why get someone else's rejected adult cat when you could get a playful kitten, and dare I say "teach" it things.
I shall re-cap from earlier in the thread:

1) Because kittens are nearly always cute lovable little things, but when they mature they can take on any number of personalities.

If you chosoe an adult cat and can spend some time with it at the re-homing centre first then you can establish whether it has what you're looking for in a cat. Personally I like cats that are friendly, but don't want a lap cat as I don't sit still for long enough Both my cats I chose becuase they were friendly yet don't automatically make for my lap.

2) Because adult cats are just that ... rejected for some reason... and if everyone took hiome a kitten they would live in a re-homing centre for the rest of their lives or worse than that... be destroyed.

3) Because adult cats are happy to be left on their own during the day whereas kitens will often destroy the place out of boredom.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ditchmyster
I just don't like them because they kill indiscriminately and generally upset the balance of nature.
As do humans yet humans are supposed to be sentient whereas cats are not so that makes humans much much worse.

Which is why I give to big cat charities and never to charities for human beingss as frankly I don't want to save much of the human race, they're ***** basically!
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
As do humans yet humans are supposed to be sentient whereas cats are not so that makes humans much much worse.

Which is why I give to big cat charities and never to charities for human beingss as frankly I don't want to save much of the human race, they're ***** basically!
LOL I fully agree there F1.
The most destructive force on this planet is humans, we are our own worst enemys.
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Old Jan 14, 2014 | 10:03 PM
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Originally Posted by urban
Two points.
Why are cats great - they don't exactly do much now do they?
Why does everything or every being has to do anything to be great? For example, you may like certain spoked wheels or a high spoiler for your scooby. Now both things will 'do' nothing at all to your car but just chav it up to please your and your cronies' eyes. At least cats are more interactive than a picnic bench on the back of your car on which you can't really have a picnic.
Why get someone else's rejected adult cat when you could get a playful kitten, and dare I say "teach" it things.
Because all old cats are not necessarily some nasty and dull rejects. Their owners might have moved or died. They could have got lost or anything. I saw one adult main coon with deformed face at a rescue centre. She was actually a reject tbh, but she was so cute with her lower jaw pushing out that her buyer donated triple the money for her. She was very affectionate, and toilet trained.

Originally Posted by The Trooper 1815
This statement could be easily turned if you replaced the word cat for women .
And for men, of course.

Originally Posted by urban
Yes it could, but given the choice of 45 year old woman with sagging ******* vs 20 year old woman with a pair you could hang your coat on - I know what I'd choose
Sure! Doesn't matter if you could be hanging with a middle-aged slap head and a humongous beer belly! As long as you have a 2-inch long wrinkly peanut to show for, and if you stink of Lynx, 20-yr. old fit as **** stunners will come running to you like mice to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

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Originally Posted by f1_fan
As do humans yet humans are supposed to be sentient whereas cats are not so that makes humans much much worse
True words.
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Originally Posted by Turbohot
Sure! Doesn't matter if you could be hanging with a middle-aged slap head and a humongous beer belly! As long as you have a 2-inch long wrinkly peanut to show for, and if you stink of Lynx, 20-yr. old fit as **** stunners will come running to you like mice to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
Nearly spat my drink out there Swati
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Nearly spat my drink out there Swati
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Originally Posted by urban
Yes it could, but given the choice of 45 year old woman with sagging ******* vs 20 year old woman with a pair you could hang your coat on - I know what I'd choose
Intelligent conversation and knows their way around or a TAF youth !
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Originally Posted by Tidgy

http://www.petsathome.com/shop/cat/c...-|Natures+Menu

this is our little (well not so little) monster, Porthos





Can't stop him from watching top cat i tell thee,,,,,,
Your cat is adorable, Tidgy!
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Originally Posted by Turbohot
Sure! Doesn't matter if you could be hanging with a middle-aged slap head and a humongous beer belly! As long as you have a 2-inch long wrinkly peanut to show for, and if you stink of Lynx, 20-yr. old fit as **** stunners will come running to you like mice to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
******* killed me
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lol, thats bollox.

Cats spray to mark their teritory. They also pick points, not everywhere, so clothes wont stink of cat **** at all lol.
I never said it was actually ****, just its smells of ****. Now the wheels of my car do smell of ****, becuase it is ****. Now the cat owner's home and clothing smelling of **** doesn't mean its actually ****, but moreso a ammonia-esq type scent, in contrast to the dogs owner's home smelling like some Alien lifeform has died under the floorboards.

Oddly washed clothes (and especially bedding) smell even worse...namely my neighbour's when I'm down wind in the garden (cat owners). But I'll put them down to an exception to the norm as I can't enter their house for longer than 1minute as thats long as I can last holding my breath

I'm not massively allergic to animals, but in the worst cases of allergin infested homes, I am. Severly - as in if I don't get out into fresh air quick I'd need a 999 call. So lets just say I'm more aware of whats in the air than many pet owners.

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