Is It Wrong to Feed.........

We had two cats once. They were inseperable. In fact they were about a week old flea bit when scooped at a local college one night. And here we are dealing with them at the Vet. They were born hungry.

Im not sure where they began to have issues in food. Lord knows there was plenty of it and that probably was it's own problem. Not our food necessarily, they left that alone strictly. Leave a pizza on counter cooling and they aint getting up there even though they DO get up there when we are not there... HA....

 

But..............

What if it snows?

 

Wrong thread besides Dave’s vote percentage is headed south no snow down here!

 

It should be....

But what if they're Furry?

 

I have a cat. She’s my co driver. She tells me: “You drive. I sleep.”
My dog was wonderful. Knew anything I got in a restaurant. She had a taste when I left. Otherwise. If she couldn’t go. I couldn’t go. Go to drive in movies. She loved horses. Anything with horses. Only problem. We’d fight over the popcorn. She’d hog it. Then buttered popcorn all over the truck. I’d tell her: “what the? I can’t eat it now.” Her: “ I don’t care. I’m eating it. All of it.”

 

My first/last Caique "Kiki" used to ride on my steering wheel or my shoulder when we drove places. She was always right there when I was eating something, too. But good thing is she left all the meat for me. She can have the veggies/fruits. lol

 

We're having a debate at home right now about adding a kitten to the current team of two dogs. Just seems like it would be a good mix for some reason but we have absolutely no experience with cats.

 

Litter boxes are disgusting and messing, so I would have kicked my daughter's two cats out of the house--declawed or not--months ago (she's going through a divorce and moved back home with her dog and two cats). But, our county has leash laws that applies to cats as well as dogs. As much crap as I have given one of my neighbors whose dogs crap in my front yard regularly, it'd make me a rather large hypocrite.

One of these cats bats stuff off the kitchen counter at night, causing all the dogs to bark, disturbing our sleep.

Both these cats will jump up onto kitchen table and counters, I'm trying to break them of this, but cats are un-trainable, in general, IMHO.

If you don't declaw them, they'll ruin your furniture. If you declaw them and let them be indoor-outdoor animals, they'll get eaten by coyotes or eagles, or hit by a car.

Outdoor cats kill an estimated 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion song birds each year in the U.S. Outdoor domestic cats are in reality a destructive, invasive species, so they really should be kept indoors.

My advice is to resist the cuteness of kittens--and yes they are a riot to have around--because they grow up and will yak up hairballs, stink up the place, or like my wife's female cat that she rescued from the pound before we met, it might start spraying urine on the furniture and kitchen cabinets.

Okay, okay! To be fair to cat-lovers, let me tell you what my deceased German Shepherd used to do every once in awhile. She would go out into the back yard, drop a steaming pile, sniff it, eat it, come in the house, and throw it back up. One time she started to eat her thrown up sh#t. When I tried to clean it up....do any of you remember those Survivor food challenges? I went into the backyard and dry heaved for about 20 minutes. And then I'd go back in the house to clean up the mess, it would cause me to have to go back outside and wretch for 10 more minutes. I finally got my charcoal filter mask and latex gloves and cleaned it up.

I'm not squeamish. I've eaten #### 'lins, fried hog testicles, armadillo, and like it all. I've field dressed deer and feral hogs. No sweat. But the sh#t-eat-vomit-eat thing was too much for even me.

What, what? I have to write chitterlings instead of #### 'lins? I didn't realize #### was a dirty word. Well, in a way it was. You didn't want to have a light duty #### in the Marine Corps. Was viewed as weakness.