What is pissing you off this time? - Page 30

Pete Zicato · 12-07-2011, 04:33 PM

Not sure it's a good idea, but Invisible fence does make a collar for cats.

ZenGum · 12-07-2011, 04:46 PM

Hey, Footfootfoot, it's a big fat woodchuck!

infinite monkey · 12-07-2011, 05:27 PM

Why would cats chew cables? That is weird. I don't think any of my cats chewed anything like that.

I want a cat.

BigV · 12-07-2011, 05:35 PM

make me an offer.

classicman · 12-07-2011, 06:22 PM

postage ought to do it.

BigV · 12-07-2011, 10:22 PM

you do realize I'm not putting a return address on the package don't you?

ZenGum · 12-08-2011, 12:35 AM

Why post, when you could catapult?

zippyt · 12-08-2011, 01:03 AM

thats why cats have tails

Sundae · 12-08-2011, 09:08 AM

I've fond the most effective way to correct behaviour in a cat is hissing.
You can get cans of compressed air to do it for you, but I have a pretty effective impression anyway.

None of my cats have chewed cables, but Diz loves cardboard or paper (I have handed in numerous forms with cat teeth marks in) and Dylan used to love plastic. He would pierce the handles of my Bag For Life - lots of tiny perforations that would make the handles snap once the bag was full. Thanks babba. Damn, I still miss him.

Okay it doesn't belong in this thread because it is a success story of a kind, but I have finally trained Diz not to come and snuggle until I am ready to wake up. This is either when the alarm has gone off or when the light is on. He does chance it sometimes if he hears me stirring, but he hasn't actually woken me up for a good while now. Yay Diz!

No doubt I have jinxed this now and he will wake me up at 06.30 again tomorrow.

ETA this might have more to do with the mornings still getting darker rather than my training...

infinite monkey · 12-08-2011, 09:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

make me an offer.

Hee. I used to say, when both Taj and Gaines were still with me, I had a sale on cats going: 2 for $1.98 or 1 for $500. Jokingly. They can drive you bonkers, even as you love them.

But I'm not ready for another cat yet. Still, I see them and want want want.

BigV · 12-08-2011, 10:43 AM

yes, bonkers. yes I love them. the plastic bag/covering chewing is merely weird and annoying. biting the cables and or power cords. very not cool.

technically, they're not my cats, they were given to my BD back in the day. I told the story around here somewhere, I'm sure. The upshot is that they stayed at the natal home whilst she galavanted off to college, graduated, boomeranged home, moved out again. She insists they're her cats. Ha. Sure, they're her cats, and the poop and pee and hair and clawing and shredded chewed household is mine, but the cats are hers. Riiiight.

I dare you to come get them. I did mention that BD's graduation present from me was a Rottweiller, didn't I?

infinite monkey · 12-08-2011, 10:50 AM

Out of my four cats, two had a plastic allergy. I found out soon when Toonces started looking like Mick Jagger, his lips so swollen from eating from his plastic bowl. Doc H told me that many cats are allergic to plastic. I bought metal dishes, or used glass.

However, same cats were attracted to plastic too (eating plastic wrappers when they found one, etc.)

Dunno if this is relevant.

ZenGum · 12-08-2011, 05:58 PM

Sometimes a kitteh has just got to chew, you know.

BigV · 12-09-2011, 02:37 PM

Please. Don't encourage them, m'kay?

Nirvana · 12-14-2011, 02:42 PM

I ordered 5 x mas gifts a week and a half ago and wondered why no shipped email etc. Well I called and was told oh yah that will ship on Jan 4th? WTF?

Yah no it won't, cancel that order then the lady tells me to have a nice day, again WTF?

how is that possible now grumble ^&^&^*%$

12-07-2011, 04:33 PM	#436
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	Not sure it's a good idea, but Invisible fence does make a collar for cats. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

12-07-2011, 04:46 PM	#437
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Hey, Footfootfoot, it's a big fat woodchuck! __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-07-2011, 05:35 PM	#439
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	make me an offer. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-07-2011, 06:22 PM	#440
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	postage ought to do it. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

12-07-2011, 10:22 PM	#441
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	you do realize I'm not putting a return address on the package don't you? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-07-2011, 05:27 PM	#438
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Why would cats chew cables? That is weird. I don't think any of my cats chewed anything like that. I want a cat.

12-08-2011, 12:35 AM	#442
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Why post, when you could catapult? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-08-2011, 01:03 AM	#443
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	thats why cats have tails __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner

12-08-2011, 09:08 AM	#444
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	I've fond the most effective way to correct behaviour in a cat is hissing. You can get cans of compressed air to do it for you, but I have a pretty effective impression anyway. None of my cats have chewed cables, but Diz loves cardboard or paper (I have handed in numerous forms with cat teeth marks in) and Dylan used to love plastic. He would pierce the handles of my Bag For Life - lots of tiny perforations that would make the handles snap once the bag was full. Thanks babba. Damn, I still miss him. Okay it doesn't belong in this thread because it is a success story of a kind, but I have finally trained Diz not to come and snuggle until I am ready to wake up. This is either when the alarm has gone off or when the light is on. He does chance it sometimes if he hears me stirring, but he hasn't actually woken me up for a good while now. Yay Diz! No doubt I have jinxed this now and he will wake me up at 06.30 again tomorrow. ETA this might have more to do with the mornings still getting darker rather than my training... __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac Last edited by Sundae; 12-08-2011 at 09:23 AM.

12-08-2011, 10:43 AM	#446
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	yes, bonkers. yes I love them. the plastic bag/covering chewing is merely weird and annoying. biting the cables and or power cords. very not cool. technically, they're not my cats, they were given to my BD back in the day. I told the story around here somewhere, I'm sure. The upshot is that they stayed at the natal home whilst she galavanted off to college, graduated, boomeranged home, moved out again. She insists they're her cats. Ha. Sure, they're her cats, and the poop and pee and hair and clawing and shredded chewed household is mine, but the cats are hers. Riiiight. I dare you to come get them. I did mention that BD's graduation present from me was a Rottweiller, didn't I? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-08-2011, 10:50 AM	#447
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Out of my four cats, two had a plastic allergy. I found out soon when Toonces started looking like Mick Jagger, his lips so swollen from eating from his plastic bowl. Doc H told me that many cats are allergic to plastic. I bought metal dishes, or used glass. However, same cats were attracted to plastic too (eating plastic wrappers when they found one, etc.) Dunno if this is relevant.

12-08-2011, 05:58 PM	#448
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Sometimes a kitteh has just got to chew, you know. __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

12-09-2011, 02:37 PM	#449
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Please. Don't encourage them, m'kay? __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

12-14-2011, 02:42 PM	#450
Nirvana Back in 10 Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 3,684	I ordered 5 x mas gifts a week and a half ago and wondered why no shipped email etc. Well I called and was told oh yah that will ship on Jan 4th? WTF? Yah no it won't, cancel that order then the lady tells me to have a nice day, again WTF? how is that possible now grumble ^&^&^*%$ __________________ Speaking simply... do not confuse this with having a simple mind.

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