Why Cat Owners Should All be Penalized

Medscape Internal Medicine News ^ | 6/22/2012 | Arthur L. Caplan, PhD

[shibumi]

"...but expect slow responses to pings..."

"Daisy ....... Daisy .........give ............. me ..your .....answer ................... do. I'm ................. half ...............crazy ........."

[mylife]

♪Junebug this and Junebug that ♫ Raise a Rukus tonight ♪You killed my dog ♫ So I killed your cat ♫ Raise a Rukus tonight.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Dang cats! The neighbors have a stray they took in about 3 or 4 years ago and the POS growls half the night waking us up. I don’t even know why they have it.

[mylife]

You know why cats do all that yowling when they are in heat?

Sandpaper tongues...

[boatbums]

Hey, Art, my kittehs are INDOOR kittehs and they do NOT ever go outside. Hence, they do not bring in fleas, ticks, or other various and sundry parasites that can REALLY make humans sick. They also smush any spiders that dare try to sneak in past the insecticides we have surrounding the outside of the house. I have NEVER even seen a roach in this house and we have lived here for six years.

Kittehs have the added benefit of discretely using a specific box filled with disposable litter to do their business and it is easily scooped out into the waste baskets daily. No browned or yellowed lawn, no nasty, smelly excrement to pick up by carefully wrapped hand and no unsightly holes dug in the yard. Kittehs also have the added bonus of being self-cleaning! The only time I have had to bathe my cats was when one fell into the salt water off our boat when we lived aboard. Other than those four times, she remains fresh and white, clean and bright.

Kittehs eat far less than dogs, take up less space, need no daily walking outside in the elements and usually outlive them. Indoor-only kittehs have less vet bills to worry about and can usually entertain themselves with frequent naps and spurts of human interaction. I used to have mild cat allergies, but my body acclimated to them and their fur and dander no longer effect me. Even if they did, their love, affection and presence more than make up for any discomfort I might have and which there are adequate medicines to combat. Those who have severe reactions, should avoid ALL animals as well as the outside world.

So, Art, live and let live! Cats probably keep people sane.

[Daffynition]

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

FU Art Caplan...

[boatbums]

Cat owners are by definition martyrs and should be venerated.

THANK YOU! I'm surprised at how few people understand that. ;o)

[Daffynition]

[Drango]

Cats and their owners are gay.

(apparently some etards didn’t get the satire in the article. Gay and stupid)

[paltz]

Sad thing is, there are people out there who really do think this way about a lot of things. Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” lives on.

[boatbums]

My favorite feline humor is the one about giving a cat a bath

Like this:

[Salamander]

Not only all that, they’ll also attack and run off assailants or intruders who break into your house, thereby saving you and your family’s lives.

Oh.

Wait.

Never mind.

[boatbums]

LOL! Mine would just run under the bed! Hubby has held our male kitteh, Beaux, while he rings the doorbell and Beaux STILL freaks out and runs under the bed. Most of the time he forgets why he is even there and falls asleep. He'll finally poke his head out hours later. They're a riot!

[Salamander]

At least your cat actually does something.

The kitten I recently acquired [I'm pleading temporary insanity and emotional duress] is tantamount to watching the village idiot auditioning to be a trapeze artist.

Hubby's grown fond of it so I reckon it's staying.

[I'm blaming toxoplasmosis for his extremely uncharacteristic affection]

[Slings and Arrows]

The kittehs have found their god.

[Slings and Arrows]

“I’m afraid I can’t do that, Dave.”

[shibumi]

I was wondering how long that would take you.

[Altariel]

You had better get the situation under control, quick; next the cat will work to get *you* under its thumb.

Quick! Wrap tin foil around your head and put a doberman puppy on top (buy one, or build a shrink-ray and use it on Odhinn); it’s the only way to ensure protection of your pro-canid sensibilities.

[Salamander]

“You had better get the situation under control, quick; next the cat will work to get *you* under its thumb.”

Uh, yeah.

No.

I'm immune to cat connivings.

After it tried to play ‘bad @ss’ with Gypsy, the PPM, I'm thinking it would be a seriously bad idea to introduce it to The Boy.

[he doesn't possess gentle Gyp’s obsessive desire to “mother” things]

Hubby thinks it's cute that the cat has learned to climb the Boa's tree.

I'm thinking not so much.

Sooner or later, Brom will be on his tree and the cat would be wise to *not* climb it, then.