The Cat Status Thread
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@error mmm, muffins.
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Ruby's on medication for the next three weeks, and for the first time since I've had her, I have to give her tablets, rather than a liquid that I can either squirt on her unlickable spot or mix into food.
Judging by today's first attempt, I am completely incapable of throwing a pill down her throat. Fortunately, they're tiny tablets, and able to be inserted in prawns AKA cat crack. Ruby is so absolutely obsessed with prawns, that she scarfs them down, concealed pill and all.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
Ruby is so absolutely obsessed with prawns, that she scarfs them down, concealed pill and all.
Will refer to next time this comes up. Rocky is a paranoid and annoyingly adaptive jerk about, ... huh, everything, yeah.
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@CarrieVS I used to use spray cheese. Sometimes it took two tries to keep her from licking it all off and spitting out the pill.
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@CarrieVS interesting. We always tried with "let's conceal it in something special" (ordinary cat food would be detected and avoided). To which decided "what is this, tuna? Eww, no."
Liver sausage (the good one from the butcher, not the cheap supermarket stuff) sometimes worked.
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If you buy a new cat tree and keep the boxes:
If you throw away the boxes:
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@topspin What if you just get the boxes?
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Update: turns out prawns worked once.
I'm not going to tell you what's currently working because it's bound to jinx it.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
Update: turns out prawns worked once.
When reading your previous post, I almost replied "wait until you succeed more than once before claiming victory" (been there, done that, except it was a parrot instead of a cat). But I didn't want to sound like the bringer of bad luck.
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@Zerosquare I mean technically it worked twice, because the dose is two pills.
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Le sigh. It's a video about bathing a hairless (? I think) pussy.
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When given the choice between a freely available meal and a meal trapped inside a puzzle, scientists have found most animals, such as dogs, bears, pigeons, pigs, goats, mice, rats, monkeys and other primates, prefer to work for their food - a concept known as contrafreeloading.
"There is an entire body of research that shows that most species including birds, rodents, wolves, primates - even giraffes - prefer to work for their food," says Delgado.
"What's surprising is out of all these species cats seem to be the only ones that showed no strong tendency to contrafreeload."
Unlike every other animal that had been tested in similar ways, the cats in these experiments showed a clear preference for the free meal.
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@âjoannamont tweeted:
Today the vet told me that since Covid, theyâve had to treat a number of cats with depression caused by irritation that their people are at home all day. Obviously itâs not really funny but⌠thatâs the most Cat thing Iâve ever heard. Apparently dogs do not have the same problem.
There, saved everyone else a click. (hopefully)
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@Zecc Confirmed, you have accurately transcribed the post, saving everyone but me a click
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This one has already been posted, but it's cute
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Copycat.
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@error One of our cats years back learned which kitchen drawer held the packet of special cat treats. One day she was sitting on the bench just above the drawer, watching me move around the room. I opened the drawer to get something. She immediately dived in, grabbed, and raced down the passage to the far end of the house, triumphantly carrying off last week's grocery receipt.
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He does not look happy.
What am I thinking. Its not my fucking cat.
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@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
He does not look happy.
What am I thinking. Its not my fucking cat.
That's the kind of thinking that makes not-your-cat look not-happy.
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@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
He does not look happy.
Damn right. The ungrateful human is delegating servant's job to some undignified bucket of cogs...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Cat Status Thread:
@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
He does not look happy.
Damn right. The ungrateful human is delegating servant's job to some undignified bucket of cogs...
Eventually the cat figures out that the machine is dispensing food the human put in there, and starts pestering the human whenever the reservoir is not full.
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Today in shit that has never happened
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@DogsB Preposterous.
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But what if... in this house
I'm not the most important? Nah. That's nonsense.
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Sound not required or even recommended.