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Oh and you bought a thunder shirt!

 

 

We have 4 cats.

Old grouchy lady, loves to sit on your lap and be pet.

Two 6-year old sisters, one is very playful and active, one that is terrified of everything all of the time.

One feral, about 3 - 5 years old.  Been in the house for a couple of years, still pretty skittish.

 

The terrified sister will come on my lap a few times a week.  If I cuddle her snugly, she's very happy and relaxed.

 

We're hoping the thundershirt will help her.

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We have 4 cats.

Old grouchy lady, loves to sit on your lap and be pet.

Two 6-year old sisters, one is very playful and active, one that is terrified of everything all of the time.

One feral, about 3 - 5 years old.  Been in the house for a couple of years, still pretty skittish.

 

The terrified sister will come on my lap a few times a week.  If I cuddle her snugly, she's very happy and relaxed.

 

We're hoping the thundershirt will help her.

That's why they make drugs.

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Hey, if you were worried about the environment, you wouldn't have a diesel truck driving all over creation  in the first place :P

 

I'll tell you what's going on there, wheels...its cheaper to have a few standard size shipping boxes than to have a bunch of specialty sized shipping boxes when you business is to ship anything to everybody every day of the week

 

And its paper which is easily recyclable, biodegradable, easily made from recycled materials, and easy to stuff in a box

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I ordered two stainless steel cookie sheets from Amazon.  I received two boxes similar to the one in your picture, one cookie sheet in each box plus a ton of packing material.  The one box could have easily held 100 cookie sheets.  Maybe they use the big boxes to dispose of excess packing material so they don't have to pay for garbage disposal?

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So, the wife fills up all our chairs with stuff.  So much stuff that you can no longer sit in them, which seems, to myself, to negate the the value of owning chairs.  When something doesn't fulfill its primary purpose, it no longer makes sense to have it.

 

I feel this way about pets.  A friend has 9 cats, he collects them on business trips to Asia.  He goes out for a run someplace, hears a little kitty meow out in a field by the road, and runs to a little store and runs back with some lunchmeat or somesuch for them.  He feels bad for neglected or feral animals, you see, so he feeds them.

 

Anyway, if there are kittens, he snags them and frantically calls me up to forge and a veterinary health certificate for whatever kittens/mother cat he can catch.  He feels like he is doing a service, messed up and hyper-expensive as that it is to bring cats from foreign countries into the US.  A veritable bureaucratic swindle couched in a good deed, or something.  So, he has the kittens, which get cute and social and all that, plus the feral mom cat which really suck.  He has two such mom cats now that fight with the other cats, aren't social, hide all the time, and one of them scratches his legs if he walks too closely to whatever hidey-hole she is in.

 

The end result is that you have this animal(s) that will never be a pet, is crappy to have around, carries health risks, and is a pain in the ass..  Why you would have such an animal is beyond me.  It is a feral cat.  Let it go.  It wants to go.  It wants its own life.  Let it go, let it be free.  Wtf, right?

 

So why do you have such a cat?  Explain this to myself.

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So why do you have such a cat?

 

I read your rant, and don't feel it applies to us, although I did appreciate the use of myself.

 

I was painting the house a couple of summers ago and would see this cute and scrawny orange cat watching me.  He never came close enough to let me pet him, and still doesn't.  We started seeing him in the yard a lot that year.  Each time he was a little smaller.  Then we started to feed him and give him water.  He started to put on weight.

 

He lived in an abandoned garage across our busy street.  He'd just run from our house to the garage, never looking both ways.

 

One night we trapped him in our back porch (enclosed) and left him in there for a few days with food, water and a litter box.  Then we took him into the house.

 

We brought him to the vet for his shots and he let us hold him (the cat, not the vet).  When we are at the vet he is very affectionate (still the cat) and loves to be held.  He just melts in our arms.

 

He's a great cat and surely would be dead now if we didn't take him in.  He picked us as his adopted family.

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I read your rant, and don't feel it applies to us, although I did appreciate the use of myself.

 

I was painting the house a couple of summers ago and would see this cute and scrawny orange cat watching me.  He never came close enough to let me pet him, and still doesn't.  We started seeing him in the yard a lot that year.  Each time he was a little smaller.  Then we started to feed him and give him water.  He started to put on weight.

 

He lived in an abandoned garage across our busy street.  He'd just run from our house to the garage, never looking both ways.

 

One night we trapped him in our back porch (enclosed) and left him in there for a few days with food, water and a litter box.  Then we took him into the house.

 

We brought him to the vet for his shots and he let us hold him (the cat, not the vet).  When we are at the vet he is very affectionate (still the cat) and loves to be held.  He just melts in our arms.

 

He's a great cat and surely would be dead now if we didn't take him in.  He picked us as his adopted family.

 

Hmm.  This is acceptable.

 

The real question then, is should I include "Veterinary services" on my resume?

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So, the wife fills up all our chairs with stuff.  So much stuff that you can no longer sit in them, which seems, to myself, to negate the the value of owning chairs.  When something doesn't fulfill its primary purpose, it no longer makes sense to have it.

 

I feel this way about pets.  A friend has 9 cats, he collects them on business trips to Asia.  He goes out for a run someplace, hears a little kitty meow out in a field by the road, and runs to a little store and runs back with some lunchmeat or somesuch for them.  He feels bad for neglected or feral animals, you see, so he feeds them.

 

Anyway, if there are kittens, he snags them and frantically calls me up to forge and a veterinary health certificate for whatever kittens/mother cat he can catch.  He feels like he is doing a service, messed up and hyper-expensive as that it is to bring cats from foreign countries into the US.  A veritable bureaucratic swindle couched in a good deed, or something.  So, he has the kittens, which get cute and social and all that, plus the feral mom cat which really suck.  He has two such mom cats now that fight with the other cats, aren't social, hide all the time, and one of them scratches his legs if he walks too closely to whatever hidey-hole she is in.

 

The end result is that you have this animal(s) that will never be a pet, is crappy to have around, carries health risks, and is a pain in the ass..  Why you would have such an animal is beyond me.  It is a feral cat.  Let it go.  It wants to go.  It wants its own life.  Let it go, let it be free.  Wtf, right?

 

So why do you have such a cat?  Explain this to myself.

 

RG - This is NOT about cats.  Try to keep up.

 

And as Nate said, it's all biodegradable.  Just throw it out in the backyard before the first heavy snow fall and by spring it should have been absorbed back into the earth where it came from.

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We have 4 cats.

Old grouchy lady, loves to sit on your lap and be pet.

Two 6-year old sisters, one is very playful and active, one that is terrified of everything all of the time.

One feral, about 3 - 5 years old.  Been in the house for a couple of years, still pretty skittish.

 

The terrified sister will come on my lap a few times a week.  If I cuddle her snugly, she's very happy and relaxed.

 

We're hoping the thundershirt will help her.

 

 

I read your rant, and don't feel it applies to us, although I did appreciate the use of myself.

 

I was painting the house a couple of summers ago and would see this cute and scrawny orange cat watching me.  He never came close enough to let me pet him, and still doesn't.  We started seeing him in the yard a lot that year.  Each time he was a little smaller.  Then we started to feed him and give him water.  He started to put on weight.

 

He lived in an abandoned garage across our busy street.  He'd just run from our house to the garage, never looking both ways.

 

One night we trapped him in our back porch (enclosed) and left him in there for a few days with food, water and a litter box.  Then we took him into the house.

 

We brought him to the vet for his shots and he let us hold him (the cat, not the vet).  When we are at the vet he is very affectionate (still the cat) and loves to be held.  He just melts in our arms.

 

He's a great cat and surely would be dead now if we didn't take him in.  He picked us as his adopted family.

 

 

RG - This is NOT about cats.  Try to keep up.

 

And as Nate said, it's all biodegradable.  Just throw it out in the backyard before the first heavy snow fall and by spring it should have been absorbed back into the earth where it came from.

It sure seems to be about cats to me.  Except where SWMyself talks about sucking on some internet porn but not inhaling.

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It sure seems to be about cats to me.  Except where SWMyself talks about sucking on some internet porn but not inhaling.

 

JsharrrrTM, you seem to be a little slow today as well.  Should      we       type       slower     ?     Would      that        help      ?

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JsharrrrTM, you seem to be a little slow today as well.  Should      we       type       slower     ?     Would      that        help      ?

itdamnsurewon'thurt

 

So what is this about again?  I thought it was about Amazon shipping boxes of homeless cats to people who order stuff from them.  The cats are left homeless as a result of Amazon's policy to use only products made from their deforestation efforts in the Third World.

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I have 99 problems.

 

 

Then I suggest you work on the first one first.  Then the second one second.  Then you should work on the third one third.  Pretty soon you will find that a few of your problems are solved and you only have a boat load more to work on.

 

There, that's my helpful advice for the day.

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itdamnsurewon'thurt

 

So what is this about again?  I thought it was about Amazon shipping boxes of homeless cats to people who order stuff from them.  The cats are left homeless as a result of Amazon's policy to use only products made from their deforestation efforts in the Third World.

 

Yup, you got it......  whatever    * moving on *

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