Should Men Living Alone Get a Cat?

[Loren Booda]

If your cat were a chronic crier, what would you do to tame him?

 

[FlexGunship]

If your cat were a chronic crier, what would you do to tame him?

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No more tears, kitty.

Edit: please process the joke completely before lodging infractions against me.

 

[CaptFirePanda]

Best cat ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkjbMoj0JY4

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Last night I pulled apart my server rack and re-ran all of the cables for my gaming computer, my audio work station, and related hardware. I must've had 100 cables of varying purpose and size on the floor.

She about lost her little kitty mind.

She knows she's not supposed to play with them, and she resisted for a while... a good... uh, six minutes, or so. When she went for the first swipe I snapped my fingers (something I've trained her to associate with being sprayed with water) and she sat on the computer chair for the next hour... just watching me... her head darting back and forth, eyes wide with a mix of excitement, terror, and hopeless intrigue. I gave her a treat every few minutes that she sat still in the chair and things went well.

Right now I have a 220/240VAC AB servo system on my desk - not in an enclosure or even finger safe [at first], wired just for bench-top testing in my office by me. Of course, Little Tyke decided it was time to play. I think all of the blinking lights were too much for her. But after a few corrections she decided to leave things alone. She seems to sense the seriousness of the situation through the tone of my voice, and decided to cooperate.

I made sure things were all finger-safe, but finger-safe isn't paw-safe [Paw-safe is a NEMA 1.P rating]. At least now I can take her up to the house if I need to have a HV panel open for testing. This situation is mangeable, but when I have things spread out it can get pretty dangerous down here for a kitty. And in the past I couldn't leave her up in the house alone with Big Bad Jack.

 

[moejoe15]

I read some dating advice once. It said that one of the first questions you should ask a prospective mate is "Cats or dogs?"

Yes it's weird to own a cat, just ask any cat hater. Don't expect an intelligent answer though. People who hate cats are uniformly single or double digit IQ's, have very little skin showing on their foreheads, usually have to shave between their eyebrow and are probably republican.

 

[20Tauri]

Um, yeah, the girls-as-pets joke really isn't funny. It strikes me as kind of sexist. But anyway, no, why would it be weird for a guy to have a cat? I would actually think it was cute if a guy had a cat.

Don't get your cat declawed if you get one, though! It's not like trimming their nails or something, it's actually cutting off the ends of their toes!

 

[netgypsy]

Declawing is terrible. You can buy little booties and also claw covers for cats but it's a lot easier to start cutting the nails when you first get them and give them a treat during and after but never cut too short or they will NOT FORGIVE YOU.