A bit of juvenile fun provided by Matthew Cobb, who notes, “A kitteh wouldn’t do this.” He’s right.
Note: this is not literal, but a metaphor. Note that the dog is named “Jerry,” and his owner can represent, well, a lot of things.
Why cats are better than dogs
June 12, 2011 • 8:25 am
Just noticed the rather cool mammoth poster on the left…
They ARE better lol
I noticed the dog’s name is “Jerry”. Interesting.
C’mon, it’s good for ya. It’s got… vitamins! And sodium…
I dunno about that.
The last time I took mah kitteh to the vet the bastard peed all over the goddam place, including, I might add, me.
I need to clarify: bastard means kitteh, not the vet. Just in case any of you saddoes got any ideas 🙂
I would have said…um…quirky.
Like your photo. 😉
Reminds of the time my cat Izzy crapped in the carrier on the way to the vet. That was fun car ride.
That reminds me – the young of the Green Tortoise Beetle – Cassida viridis – camouflage themselves with their own excrement!
Cats sometimes, but rarely, eliminate inappropriately when stressed or ill. So do humans. For both, it only happens when there’s no other option.
Dogs pee just because they’re so happy to see you, and they can’t for the life of them figure out what you’re so upset about.
Cheers,
b&
What you said about cats .. any chance you can explain that to Clyde, my boy-cat? *sigh*
His ‘other options’ are TWO very nice and clean litter boxes. First he started to pee ‘outside the box’, and now … oh well, I don’t want to talk about …
Have you taken your kitty to the vet? A lot of times peeing outside the box, especially for male cats, can be a sign of health problems.
What Julie wrote — and especially if he starts spending a lot of time while he’s at it or paying lot of attention to his boy bits.
Cystitis is not uncommon in cats, and in male cats it can even lead to blockage, which is a life-threatening emergency.
It can also be psychological, a sign of stress. There are things that can induce anxiety in cats that don’t normally even register on a human’s radar, so that’s another area where your vet’s expertise can help.
But, yeah. If you haven’t already done so, call the vet for the next available appointment. One way or the other, Clyde isn’t happy.
b&
Also be sure you don’t feed your cat near it’s litter box. Few cats like a bathroom in their kitchen.
That sounds like a case of special pleading to me 🙂
My sister’s cat eliminated inappropriately all over my luggage when last I visited her.
I suppose from the male cat’s perspective it was completely appropriate considering my luggage probably smelled like my miniature pinschers, but from my perspective it was certainly not!
I had a cat that was in heat urinate all over my luggage. I had to carry said luggage that reeked of cat urine from Bucharest, Romania to Denver, Colorado. :-/
And Cat urine smells so much worse!
I am afraid I don’t agree with you, Jerry.
Look at how much joy and laughter little Jerry is bringing to the world. Clear evidence that dogs > cats.
“Pee-abo´!”
I used to have a wonderful cat whom I nicknamed “The Orange Horror”. He was a profligate pisser, destroying some expensive audio gear and staining all the drapes about a foot above the floor.
It reached the point where he either had to be broken of his habit, or he’d have had to be put down, so off to the vet. The vet said that if you have more than two cats in a household, you almost certainly have at least one pissing on everything. It’s a stress reaction – and can be triggered by such minor things as kitteh seeing another kitteh outside through the window. S-p-r-a-a-a-a-y!!!!
And toms, even if neutered, are much more prone to pissing around the place than are the ladies.
What cured the Orange Horror was a lengthy course of amitriptyline, an old tricyclic antidepressant, sedative, and painkiller. He was very very stoned for several months, but when I took him off the med, his old stress-related behavior pattern had been disrupted and never resumed. Well, it resumed to a minor degree, but nowhere near as badly as before.
We had a cat with the same problem, also successfully dealt with using drugs.
After the second go-round when the cat started having problems again – we referred to it as “time to re-boot the cat”
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. I mean Dogs and Cats are completely compatible. Sure a minority of Dogs will pee in your face, and that is unfortunate, but to attack these Dogs is to attack a stereotype that no sophisticated Dog Lover adheres to. There is so much subtlety and nuance to Dog Ownership that you simply ignore. Further, I suspect that your overly angry tone is a turn off to many potential Cat Lovers who would otherwise be sympathetic to your cause.
Bravo!
I tolerate this Kitteh fetish, and I understand the rules of the blog – no cryin’ about the kitteh videos (isn’t it in the official rules, or something). OK, OK … but now we’re getting anti-dog propaganda? I’ve spent I lot more time and money repairing the damage done to my house but our cats than our dogs.
oops, … by our cats…
Umm. . . it’s not a “blog”
🙂
Dogs pee. Cats pee. But only humans put up videos on youtube of getting pissed on.
It was striking how quickly the christian was assigned to one of the christian gods after the baptism. Oh, his god! Oh, his god!
No wonder no one wants to be a christian, yuck!