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You can always teach your cat to poop in a toilet. This doesn't take much effort to teach them. Remember to leave the toilet seat cover up for them.
In short, they're not humans, if you treat them like one you may get unwanted results.
[1] https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.htm...
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Was it not just a bit of a joke? I enjoyed it and it made my partner laugh (I think that's a first for a HN post). And we didn't know about those grooming gloves, they look great.
I've lived with folks who would unironically say "I bought you so you would love me!!!" while pinning the cat down to pet it, while the cat was under obvious duress. There is definitely a non-negligible fraction of pet owners who do not empathize whatsoever with their pets, treating them instead as playthings for their own amusement.
I personally have zero belief that's the case here.
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> My cats not only sleep through the night, they insist I go to bed on time (no later than 11) or they start getting upset. I wasn't ready for this - my kitten started doing this lately (or I have to seal off the room I'm working on, ignore her pleas and let her go sleep in a kids bed).
Every dog I've ever had has done the exact same thing. My current kitties also get upset if I wake up too early. Then again a lot of things upset them, including spending too much time with my wife, skipping home workouts (they get petted in between sets), and standing up too often to stretch (one of them spends ~50% of the day sitting on my lap while I code). Otherwise they are pretty chill.
[1] TV watched when we should be playing with cat results in frustrated and distracting cat.
You can always teach your cat to poop in a toilet. This doesn't take much effort to teach them. Remember to leave the toilet seat cover up for them.
Please don't do this [1]. Also washing your cats regularly is inadvisable as well unless they have some medical issue (obesity, etc). In short, they're not humans, if you treat them like one you may get unwanted results. [1] https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.htm...
None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed.
The first thing that I noticed in that article were all the pictures of toilet paper that cats had ripped off of the toilet roll. All one has to do is turn the roll in the other direction, and cats no longer do that. But, the writer seemed less interested in information than in filling words for a story.
It's an alright list, but that's some beginner level stuff. Where's things like -cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc. -cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash -wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the win…
You can teach them that that is not acceptable and they will learn. It is even easier to discourage such things from a young age.
Also, it's good to never give them your food and make them learn that they never get food from you at any time other than their feeding time (barring the occasional treat) and always only in their food bowls.
A lot of it is consistency and discipline. I've had multiple cats start the behaviour of swiping/pushing things off surfaces but it wasn't hard at all to curtail that. While I've raised a non-trivial number of them, I've never had a cat which considered that s/he got food when humans are eating.
It's an alright list, but that's some beginner level stuff. Where's things like -cat is obssessed with plastic bags whenever he wants attention and ends up wearing them like a cape trailing it through the house causing havoc. -cat likes to knock over your breakable things just cause it likes to see them smash -wake up at 2 in the morning to some weird noises only to find the cat spiderman-ing up the screen on the win…
My cats get fed when I start making dinner. They're really mellow about feeding time, I think it is that there's only an approximate time and that it is tied to me feeding me, they don't get neurotic about it. The worst stupid cat trick I've put up with was one who would dart outside if he got the chance. Problem was, he had never been an outdoor cat, was pretty dumb, and would immediately panic and hide. Once ended…
Apart from that all my dealing with cat poop is once per week: 1) pull the robot tray, 2) replace the bag, 3) run a cycle ones to ensure sensor works properly.
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My cats get fed when I start making dinner. They're really mellow about feeding time, I think it is that there's only an approximate time and that it is tied to me feeding me, they don't get neurotic about it. The worst stupid cat trick I've put up with was one who would dart outside if he got the chance. Problem was, he had never been an outdoor cat, was pretty dumb, and would immediately panic and hide. Once ended…
" Once ended up talking to the cops about breaking into my own house when someone saw me crawling underneath after spotting his eyes reflecting back at me. " One great thing about pets is the new people you get to meet.
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Please don't do this [1]. Also washing your cats regularly is inadvisable as well unless they have some medical issue (obesity, etc). In short, they're not humans, if you treat them like one you may get unwanted results. [1] https://www.thedodo.com/should-cat-use-toilet-2079157362.htm...
Why not? Because an Internet article said it might, possibly be a bad idea? I never said cats were human. I don't wash my cat. We don't shower together. What makes you think I wrote any of that? None of the items listed in that article have happened in my experience to an actual real-world cat that I have seen. The article is full of suppositions. There are no actual facts listed. The first thing that I noticed in th…
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