Here is an important piece of information I got to know only a day ago:
If you cat gets sprayed by a skunk
Now I wonder how you do that? All common cats hate bath and also hate tomato smell. Combine the two and you are sure to end up in the emergency room stiched up like a soccerball. What a disgrace.
On the other hand, I really would like to talk to the person who came up with the idea: how on Earth do you decide to pour V8 onto your smelly cat? Did s/he try other stuff before, like gasoline, vinegar or bleach? I wonder.
Anyhow, if you ever decide to move to my half of this interesting planet, you might need the info.
6 comments:
Waterpistol? :)
wow, this is such a great post! :) I especially like the didactic approach with pictures and stuff. It's a shame that I cannot use this info right now, but who knows, maybe later?
The way how this was found out is indeed interestig - but let's be positive, maybe he just looked into the fridge trying to find something desperately, and the first thing he tried: worked? So maybe gasoline also does? Or it was maybe an instinctive reaction from the cat, like, it rolled itself in tomato juice?
That reminds me - have you found the Desmond Morris book?
it's funny to comment and then find out that somebody else also did in the same time :) hello, i! :)
(this is a kind of joy people in other time zones would never encounter :P)
The waterpistol IS a valid idea.
But firstyou will have to immobilize the cat somehow and that brings up new problems. Especially that the poor creature is unbearably stinky and probably in the state of shock itself. You can try and tie it to the fence or maybe a tree...but this approach just seems more and more traumatic to mee.
My idea was to fill the shower cabinet's basin with tomato juice and (wearing approprate gloves and protective garment) you just throw the cat in and close the door VERY quickly.
Not that this method is a lot more gentle. I am still at loss.
I hope this post will urge you to come (and get a cat over here) more!
Amazing piece of human wisdom. Thank you all for those discoveries !
Now I must say I am a little confused, though. What on earth is wrong with a traumatic experience imposed on your cat? It somehow compensates for all the traumatic experiences they impose on us.
I have catsitting a friend's "cat" lately, I must say I had the worst times in my past few years when i was opening the cat's food packages. What a stink!
I remember when I was young and we had a cat, we would feed him with basically what we were preparing for us. Or if not, we had some fish and or chicket filet and frozen vegetables that we would microwave and he'd love it (or almost all : he had a problem with zucchinis, I remember, but he loved carrots). AND AT LEAST I COULD STAND THE SMELL OF MY CAT....'s food.
What a strange world we are living in! Did you have a cat? In a flat? What did you feed it with?
Oh, yes. I had thirty-something cats throughout my life. In Hungary, they ate chicken and kitchen leftover. Tuna fish and liver pate when they were sick or a treat was due.
The two monster we own now is on dry food, a special kind, because one of them has kidney problems.
It stinks, indeed, but they love it.
About traumatizing them, I am not for the revenge: I chose them and I chose their lifestyle too. If they misbehave, it's not really their fault.
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