The authority on coping with cats: https://youtu.be/mHXBL6bzAR4
Coping with Cats
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#112It'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…
Aren’t these all reasons for having a cat as a pet? Intellectually it seems strange to have pets: after all we build homes to keep alien species out . Yet when I met a neighbor who didn’t have a pet it seemed weird and even somewhat of a personality disorder. Which is absurd: households with pets are in the minority. But I really can’t imagine living without dogs, cats and assorted other vertebrates.
> households with pets are in the minority
This didn't "seem" right to me, so I went looking. Seems like a little over 2/3 of US households have pets. (I couldn't easily find worldwide figures.)
[0] - https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-pet-stat....
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#113We never have any problems with waste smell for our cat. Dr. Elsey's litter and a scooping out each morning is all it takes for us. We use a litter genie, this is key because it air-tightly stores the nuggets, which a regular garbage bin won't do. There's really no smell unless the little bugger leaves his nuggets without ANY sort of burial. Even then, it's a mild smell, I mask up, no problemo.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the type of content you're looking for even exists any more. Even if someone has the desire to create a high quality, old-school, interest-based site, they're going to be dealing with the fact that Google won't surface the content because SEO magic, there is no community of similar sites who will link to them, and their content doesn't fit the format preferred by social media. I think the web has firmly…
Sadly you have to go to youtube outside of a few dedicated niche review sites like cnet / rtings / the wirecutter. Or forums.
Consumer Reports is still a thing. I’m happy to pay them a subscription fee for the content they create.
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#115I don’t know much about LitterRobor, but I must say, as an expert in cats (yup, don’t ask), that if you have the money and the room (best place is in the laundry room or next to your washing machine): CatGenie is the way to go...( https://www.catgenie.com/ ) I’m not affiliated or involved in any way, it’s just an amazing product, from what looks like a great company, that has not-as-good SEO skills and (I would guess…
I’ve had both the Cat Genie and the Litter Robot. The Cat Genie takes forever to cycle, so you’re out of luck if your cat likes to go pee and then come back a few minutes later to poop. Mine also eventually stopped doing such a great job cleaning the pellets, and it would then fill the house with the aroma of baked cat shit.
Litter Robot is faster and simpler, much preferred.
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#116I don’t know much about LitterRobor, but I must say, as an expert in cats (yup, don’t ask), that if you have the money and the room (best place is in the laundry room or next to your washing machine): CatGenie is the way to go...( https://www.catgenie.com/ ) I’m not affiliated or involved in any way, it’s just an amazing product, from what looks like a great company, that has not-as-good SEO skills and (I would guess…
The website was unclear on this. How does it connect to the sewer system?
You can have it dump into a toilet or into the waste water from your washing machine.
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#117This whole article of cat products really drives home for me how wide a gap there is between classes..
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, outdoor cats are devastating to local wildlife. https://daily.jstor.org/environmental-danger-outdoor-cats/
Study says the bulk of this is feral cats, who must kill to survive, as opposed to indoor/outdoor cats, who don’t.
Still ~31% of the deaths are from owned cats, which is something like a billion birds and is entirely needless killing.
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We always just kept our cats' bowls full of dry food all the time. Unlike dogs, most cats won't keep eating until they make themselves sick, even though they may get chubby.
That depends on if they went hungry at some time in their life or not! Something to keep in mind if your adopting a street stray.
That's not the only thing it depends on.
We got 2 cats who were brothers—littermates—from a friend of a friend, who owned the mother and took very good care of all the kittens until they adopted out most of them.
One of the two brothers is obsessed with food, and would cheerfully eat himself up to bowling ball proportions if we let him.
The other would, if permitted, be a very happy "graze when it suits him" cat. Alas, given his brother's propensities, this is not possible.
At least feeding him in a little ball with adjustable holes means he no longer regularly wolfs his food so fast he throws up...
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An automatic feeder is worth having. It seems to decouple the food from the owner in the cat's mind, so that if they're hungry, they go sit by the feeder instead of complaining to you.
We always just kept our cats' bowls full of dry food all the time. Unlike dogs, most cats won't keep eating until they make themselves sick, even though they may get chubby.
That has always been my experience (lifetime cat owner), but I’ve also seen friends/family whose cats need to be fed “meals” because they devour everything that’s set out for them immediately.
Then again, we have two kids and basically from birth (ok, from weaning) one we need to coax to eat more and the other appears to have a defective float switch that never seems to trigger...