Dare I Steal A Cat?

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very pretty tabby often comes to holla at our more housebound creature. apparently she's doing it now -- in the rain. she hangs out near our house a lot. i think she wants to be given a new home.

this is probably how kidnappers feel.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

catnap

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

put some food out for her. if she stays to eat, go out and try to pet her. does she have a collar?

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just took in a stray kitty that was hanging out around my house. She's not getting along with my other two bozos (cats) very well. Oh, and last night she pissed on my duvet while I was sleeping in it.

So, yeah! Take the cat!

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Take cat? And party?

― You've Had Your Chances (noodle vague), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

If said cat is hanging around outside your house to bother your existing cat, then these cats will probably not get on very well if forced to share accomodation.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

my cat is a real grouch.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

If party means making sure she fully understands the litterbox, then yeah.

Oh, I kept checking craigslist in the lost and found section, to make sure the little pisser didn't belong to anyone else.

My cats aren't getting along well, at all. Mind you, it's not even been a month, but there's still lots of hissing and Stella keeps going to the bathroom, wherever she's located, because I think she's terrified of moving in case the other big fatso cats come after her. It's a mess. This could very well be a unique situation, however.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

my cat is a real grouch.

you have schooled it well!

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

vice versa.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

cats are not pack animals like dogs so they generally do not get along well with other cats. It takes time for them to tolerate each other but even then they usually are happier alone.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Disagree! Single cats can often be lonely, needy, and crazier than they would be if they had another cat to hang with.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

If the cat is an outdoor cat, you won't be stealing it. You'll be letting it visit regularily. Don't coop it up, though, if it is used to being outside.

― Fleischhutliebe! (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

my Aunt managed to keep about five cats without much in-fighting. i think she ended up adopting one off the street too. i think she did it all cos she knew i had fur allergies.

― ;_; (blueski), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I had an only cat who was very neurotic. Once he started dwelling with another cat, his neurosis abated quite dramatically.

― Fleischhutliebe! (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

yeah this cat needs the street in its nostrils, like vic mackey.

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

my friend has nine cats! except for a couple of mom/child pairs they just tolerate each other. just.

My current cat Q-Tip lived his whole life with Bengal. They weren't lovey-dovey but they didn't fight. He's been much happier since she died two years ago. I've avoided getting other cats b/c I know he prefers to be the lone one.

When he passes here shortly I'll definitely be getting another but probably just the one.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's difficult to tell whether a cat is happy because they are insane.

― Fleischhutliebe! (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

get a cat flap and let it choose

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's difficult to tell whether a cat is happy because they are insane.

This must be why I'm a cat-person!

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

SOME CATS GET ALONG BETTER WITH OTHER CATS

SOME CATS DO NOT

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

I've effectively stolen my neighbours cat, an absolutely gorgeous and expensive looking burmese. They have very small children next door, and she comes and chills out in my house almost every day. It's great, all the benefits of having a cat with none of the cost.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Cats aren't attracted to those who are dead inside, surely?

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

It's difficult to tell whether a cat is happy because they are insane.
-- Fleischhutliebe! (el.jeffe.bonanz...), October 26th, 2006.

QFT

― benrique (Enrique), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Although if you call the cat "I'M QUOTING LUKACS" you might be onto something.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

When I got my 2nd cat, Gertrude, Biff (the big fluffy alpha male who was getting neurotic from being an only cat) immediately took to her. He was cleaning her within the week. Stella the new kitty: yeah, not so much. Perhaps it's because she's not spayed yet (Nov. 2nd is the date), and maybe that's why Biff the Spazz is tormenting her. I have no clue. Cats are strange beasties.

Poor Q-tip! Give him a hug for me.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

i wants a cat :(

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Someone in our village has stolen on of my cats. Well, my 8 year old daughter's cat.

This cat has always treated the whole village as his territory, and he has charmed his way into the house of a neighbouring old lady. This old lady feeds this cat with the finest steak and salmon, so now on the rare occasions he deigns to come home to see my daughter, he looks disparagingly at the pouches of Whiskas catfood which are on offer chez nous, and then promptly stomps back over the road to his other owner for better fare. Fickle thing.

I did ask the old lady not to feed him, but she said "oh, but he always seems so hungry, as though we were bad pet-owners who weren't feeding him at all. I don't really mind the fact that she's pampering him with tasty titbits, but my daughter really loves that cat and misses him terribly :(

― C J (C J), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

i masterminded a kittynapping once (although the cat was a stray). my friend wanted a cat and i spotted this really cute one a few blocks away. it was being fed by someone but clearly had no home and would mew plaintively and rub against when you passed. so we got a cat carrier and a can of food and captured the lil' rascal. she's pretty psycho, but has shown marked improvement over the couple years she's been domesticated.

and here's the heathen now

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

SOME CATS GET ALONG BETTER WITH OTHER CATS
SOME CATS DO NOT
-- Jordan (jordan...), October 26th, 2006 9:04 AM. (Jordan) (link)

SOME CATS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS
SOME CAT'S MOTHERS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHER CATS MOTHERS

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

SOEM CATS HAEV BROTHERS FROM DIFREN' MOTHERS

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

i met a cat that i wanted to steal when i was in Crete. he kept coming into our appt. and falling alseep on my lap. SO CUET. i called him Craig cos he looked like my mate, Craig.
i have pictures of him, but i can't show them cos I'm not wearing a shirt in them, and well, i'm not convinced that the ladies of ILX are quite prepared for that.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

anyone have suggestions for how to get a big urine stain out of a down-filled duvet? dry cleaner?

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

(it's not from me, obv.)

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

You can wash in a front-loading machine, I think -- does it have a care label? I wd guess: Use Woolite, wash cold, dry on cool/fluff with a couple of clean dry towels thrown in with it to absorb excess. If it's not a baffled comforter, though, you'll probably have to redistribute the down afterward.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

Enzymatic cleaners but if it's gotten into the duvet stuffing (or feathers), it may be pointless.

If it's not baffled, Laurel, put it in the dryer with a tennis ball.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ahh, I'd heard a clean white tennis shoe, but that was for pillows. Good idea.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Just don't use fresh fruit or cans of soda.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

It says "DRY CLEAN ONLY" on it. But, I guess if it's gotten to the down, it's probably fucked, right? Dry cleaners can't work that much magic. Ugh.

STELLA!

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Even washing in lots of water & cleanser won't get urine out of the fill? I'm surprised, it's water soluable, after all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

clean it with FIRE.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think you can get enzyme stain remover solution from most pet stores - could you rent or borrow a hand-held steam cleaner machine, and add some of the Petzyme stuff to the water in it? Then you just need to spot clean the affected part of the duvet.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

argh cat pee stains are the worst (especially male cat). qTip used to pee randomly but has thankfully stopped.

I'd try soaking the area with the enzyme stuff molly.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Though I do like the Stella idea.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

What, drinking vast quantities of Stella so you no longer notice the smell of the cat pee?

― C J (C J), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

i met a cat that i wanted to steal when i was in Crete. he kept coming into our appt. and falling alseep on my lap. SO CUET.

the same thing happend to me in thailand!

awwww

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

That is really fucking cute.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

What, drinking vast quantities of Stella so you no longer notice the smell of the cat pee?

Wha're you takin' 'bout? Capee?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

i found a publishable pic of me & Craig. don't panic, ladies - i'm wearing a vest.

http://www.kittenrecords.co.uk/slypics/gkitcraig.jpg

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'd love to get a cat, but it'd have to stay indoors and i'd just feel really guilty about that - whether the cat was happy or not.

If i let it outside my front door it would be squished instantly by either:

a)huge juggernauts travelling at 40mph
b)emergency vehicles blaring past at approx 120mph
c)boy racers at about 50mph

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Xtoast: Cute cat.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'd love to get a cat, but it'd have to stay outdoors, since i'm allergic. kinda pointless, really.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

I have some "Out! Pet Odor and Stain Remover" that I bought a while back for the other cats (who are litterbox angels!), and have sprayed the hell out of the duvet with it. I have yet to throw it in the washing machine, as I'm afraid it will be worse off that it already is. Well, it can't get much worse, now can it? Right now, it's just soaking in that spray:

http://www.outinternational.com/products-stain.htm
(the top one)

How does one get a former stray cat (8-12mos.) to stop pissing wherever it feels like? Stella knows how to use the litterbox too!

And yeah, this cat makes me want to drink vast amounts of Stella (Artois).

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: cute tiny kitty!

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

How many boxes do you have? For multiple cats it's usually advised one for each plus one extra (which can get cumbersome with so many cats.) Is he/she fixed?

It's often a sign of stress so maybe it will stop when she settles in more. Also changing litter type might help.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Right now, Stella is relegated to the bedroom (door closed) because when Biff comes in, he terrorizes her. She has her own litterbox and food. It's possible that when Biff comes in, he shits in her box, because he is a fucker. I can't even have all 3 cats together (and I've tried!), because she proceeds to hide, and soil herself (and surrounding spaces) wherever she ends up taking shelter.

She's getting fixed on the 2nd of November.

I'm using Fresh Step, and she doesn't seem to have a problem with it. Or christ, maybe she does. I don't know. Stray cats are tough!

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I'd give her time. the change in environment is probably what's motivating the bad litter habits.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Fingers crossed. I'm hoping things calm down when she gets fixed, as Biff is a weird guy, and has a humping problem. I think he has some weird hormonal thing. He starts kneading, and then he gets in the zone, bites my shirt (or whomever's shirt he sitting on) and starts humping. It's gross.

My cats are weird.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Adopting two kittens at the same time is the way to go. They sleep together and keep each other occupied when you're not around.

Introducing a kitten into an adult household doesn't work so well.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

My brother's year-old (fixed) beagle has just started humping everything in sight. Cats, other dogs, pillows, humans. He got a big 4' doggy bed and spent an hour humping away at different angles.

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

He starts kneading, and then he gets in the zone, bites my shirt (or whomever's shirt he sitting on) and starts humping. It's gross.

Apart from the humping thing, that sounds like someone weaned too early.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! That could be it! I never thought of that! I got him from the pound when he was a year old, so I don't know what his kitty childhood was like.

So, I'll stop calling him a freak then.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

So, I'll stop calling him a freak then.

Naw, he's a freak *grinning*.

Actually, we've a 20-lb. male cat who does the exact same thing - except that Mr. Aristotle's preference is to wait until you're sound asleep and then straddle your lower legs (butt toward your face) and then kneed the blanket/bedding on either side of your lower calves and feet, while biting your toes through the blanket. It's not the most charming habit. He gets into a trance-like state, though, and looks happy - that's gotta count for something, right?

Oh, and my current foster bunny (un-neutered as he's still too sick to under-go the surgery) has decided that I'm his ideal bunny wife - he runs figure-eights around my legs and then proceeds to hump my feet, calves, knees, hands, arms ... this morning I was cleaning his habitat and he jumped onto my shoulder (he's a dwarf bun) and started humping my braid - I wasn't sure if I should be flattered or repulsed, so I tossed him onto the back deck for some "expend that energy you horney bugger" time.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad there is someone else out there who understands the trauma that a humping cat (or rabbit) can bring. Yeah, Biff has been known to wake me up with his maniacal humping in the middle of the night. Dude has been neutered too! He purrs really loudly, which makes me think: "oh, well, he's having a good time" and then I realize what he's actually doing, and get grossed out, knock him away, which causes him to scream like a girl.

The idea of a rabbit humping one's braid is kind of disturbing, and also kind of hilarious.

― molly d (mollyd), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

My sister catnapped my dad's cat Dr. Fuzzenstein because the original owners would put nail polish remover on his head to make him bald. Here is the Dr.'s myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/drfuzzenstein

― christopherscottknudsen (christopherscottknudsen), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

I have successfully resisted the urge to start a "Dare I Steal A Car?" thread.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Molly, is it not an option where you live to keep your cats out of your sleeping space? We have one neutered male cat who has a terrible habit of peeing on anything fabric we leave lying around, and will always pee on the bed if we let him into the bedroom.

I have heard this from more and more people since it started being a problem for us, and I'm now convinced that loads of cats do it, and cat people just don't talk about it much because cats are already unpopular with non-cat people, so they don't need any more ammo.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

No, not entirely. Due to a faulty door lock, Biff has found his way into breaking in to the other bedroom, so I can't really leave Stella in there.

Stella actually had a pretty great non-urinating-on-blankets weekend. She started playing with me too, which made me happier. She's still in the bedroom, away from the 2 other cats, which I think I will leave her in until she's fixed (on Thursday).

― molly d (mollyd), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

duvet update: washing / drying with a tennis ball did the trick!

it's fluffy and delightful.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:33 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

dammit. there's a sweet grey tabby male who suddenly started hanging out by our house and yowling all night (the "HEY WHERE ARE PEOPLE?!" yowl). my wife says he seems to be fixed, he's well fed and all, but he's also got some battle scars and flea bites. and NO COLLAR/TAGS in a town where you've got to have them. and he's out when it's 25 degrees and windy. he seems to like people a lot, at least women. we're seriously considering popping him down to the vet for a checkup and giving him to my mother in law to take care of.

i'd have him in right now but for fear of fleas/ticks/FIV he might give our cats. also fear he might kick their asses.

― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 20 February 2009 11:41 (seventeen years ago)

My Mum stole her cat off a neighbour, but it was well-justified - the motherfuckers had basically neglected it to the point where it had lost all of its teeth bar one at the front. It didn't have a collar or anything, so after tempting it in with tidbits, she took it down to the vet and paid for it to get treated etc. A couple of months later this neighbour said something like "oh I see you have adopted our cat, we would like it back please" and my mum was like "if you pay the vets bills then maybe we can talk" and obviously they didnt't and that was that.

― ears are wounds, Friday, 20 February 2009 11:58 (seventeen years ago)

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