Cats are jerks

[Beebo Brink]

My cats are usually watching me intently, then running into the box the minute I put the cover back, so they can take a fresh dump AS I'M STANDING THERE.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

 

[Free]

 

[Markubis]

They are accelerating at mach 7 because they just dropped a sticky cling-on poop and they think that by running really fast it will drop off in the litter box.
Reality is that is doesn't and the owner finds a sticky blob of poop halfway across the room or off in another part of the house. #whatdidistepin #hersheykiss

 

[Free]

They finally caught up with her.

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Beebo Brink]

I KNOW that look -- my Tuxedo cat gets it too just before a swat attack.

 

[Tigar]

 

[Free]

Sometimes the cat is not the jerk.

(I'd hate to learn she's an atheist...)

 

[Beebo Brink]

Sometimes the cat is not the jerk.

Silly woman. He'll choose the cat.

 

[Isabeau]

Wait... he pets the cat? How obsessive.

Seriously though, some people think of pets as house ornaments and give them little to no attention. Especially cats. Makes me sad.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Back in the '90s the people next door had a GSD in the backyard and so far as I could tell they never interacted with her. She was pitifully grateful when I scratched her ears through the chain-link fence between our houses. I went out to talk to her most days and I was her favorite person.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Back in the '90s the people next door had a GSD in the backyard and so far as I could tell they never interacted with her. She was pitifully grateful when I scratched her ears through the chain-link fence between our houses. I went out to talk to her most days and I was her favorite person.

Back around that same time, we rescued a Scottie who was found wandering around the countryside. Scottie's have hair that grows, rather than fur that sheds, and this poor boy hadn't been groomed in several years. He had hair so badly matted that the groomer had to shave him.

That first night he was shivering from the cold, having lost all his hair, so we picked him up and snuggled him in bed between us. Instant bond. Every day he would beg to be held and would fall asleep in my arms, like a baby.

Long convoluted story later, his owner finally surfaced and we learned the details of the Scottie's background. Apparently -- because he was unneutered and peed in the house -- he'd been confined to the back yard for years. The neglect he had suffered -- both physical and emotional -- was obvious, but she still wanted him back and we had no legal recourse to keep him (we tried, believe me we tried).

When the owner came to our house, Fergus (our name for him) barely acknowledged her. She tried to hold him but he very quickly wriggled out of her arms and came over to me to be picked up. And since it was the middle of winter and he was shaved, she quickly realized Fergus would have to stay indoors, possibly for months. Suddenly she was willing to leave him with us, and when she walked out the door, Fergus never even looked her way.

He was nine years old and lived to be 15, and I can safely say he enjoyed every single day of his second life with us.

 

[Free]

I was looking for the 'Cats are alarm clocks' thread...

 

[Isabeau]

“A cat wrote this.”

ETA: That smiley looks like it’s having digestive problems and not laughing but in pain.

 

[Isabeau]

Jerk? Yes to those who are allergic...

 

[Ann Launay]

 

[Isabeau]

 

[Rose Karuna]

This is the reason why the toilet paper shelves are empty in the supermarket.

 

[Brenda Archer]

This is the reason why the toilet paper shelves are empty in the supermarket.

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