Ok, so why would anyone think this was a good idea...

[headscratcher4]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=15bwhVxw-Bg

The designer had to know that cat-lovers, not to mention PETA, etc. will be going through the roof.

I, on the other hand, am not a cat lover...and even I think it a little cruel...if harmless.

[BPSCG]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=15bwhVxw-Bg

The designer had to know that cat-lovers, not to mention PETA, etc. will be going through the roof.

I, on the other hand, am not a cat lover...and even I think it a little cruel...if harmless.There's another thread on this in Forum Community.

I agree; it's horrible. The cat was so frenzied, I thought he was going to break his neck. If there's someone who deserves to have the PETA loonies sicced on him, it's whoever invented this thing.

[DanishDynamite]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=15bwhVxw-Bg

The designer had to know that cat-lovers, not to mention PETA, etc. will be going through the roof.

I, on the other hand, am not a cat lover...and even I think it a little cruel...if harmless.
I'm not just a cat lover but an animal lover and to some degree even a tree-hugger.

I find nothing wrong with this cat-washer at all. The only downside is that after the cat has had a trip or two, it will wise up and the struggle which the owner hoped to avoid by using this machine, will instead happen when the owner tries to put the cat in there.

[WildCat]

Keep the cat indoors and it won't need to be washed ever.

[Tony]

Keep the cat indoors and it won't need to be washed ever.

Except for the fact that cats repeatedly walk and sit in the same box of sand where they piss and ****. Cats are disgusting animals.

[hgc]

Except for the fact that cats repeatedly walk and sit in the same box of sand where they piss and ****. Cats are disgusting animals.
The 2 hours a day that cats aren't sleeping are mostly consumed with cleaning themselves. They're not too shabby in the hygiene department.

Having said that, the cat washer is pretty funny stuff. It's not really cruel, even though the cat looks a tad unhappy.

[Tony]

The 2 hours a day that cats aren't sleeping are mostly consumed with cleaning themselves. They're not too shabby in the hygiene department.


They may be "clean" to an extent sure, but they're not exactly sanitary.

[WildCat]

Except for the fact that cats repeatedly walk and sit in the same box of sand where they piss and ****. Cats are disgusting animals.
The entire world is a toilet for dogs, and many of their owners don't even bother to clean up their dog's feces and don't think twice about their dog pissing on their neighbor's lawns, on parkways, parks, and other public areas. And dogs do walk in the stuff. And it's so sanitary the way owners walk their dogs in the park in the morning, and all afternoon kids play and roll around on dog waste.

Cats at least keep it concentrated in one place where kids don't play.

[BPSCG]

Cats at least keep it concentrated in one place where kids don't play.And cats dig a hole for it, then cover it up.

Dogs, OTOH, sniff at it, and leave it lying around for the next dog to get all territorial over.

But regarding "in one place where kids don't play..." we had a cat when I was a kid. Our entire neighborhood was made up of ex-GI's who'd bought suburban homes with GI Bill loans, so every house on our black had at least one kid in it.

As I said, we had a cat. Our next door neighbor had three kids. And one day, they put a sandbox outside for the kids.

You know what happened next.

[WildCat]

And Tony, if you're that anal about it you can always toilet train a cat:

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Don't click if you're offended by viewing a cat defecating.

[headscratcher4]

The 2 hours a day that cats aren't sleeping are mostly consumed with cleaning themselves. They're not too shabby in the hygiene department.

Having said that, the cat washer is pretty funny stuff. It's not really cruel, even though the cat looks a tad unhappy.

Would you eat off your cat?

[hgc]

Would you eat off your cat?
No. And for more reasons than one. I've come a long way from my eating-off-a-cat days.

[BPSCG]

Would you eat off your cat?Well, no, since I don't like getting hair in my mouth, let alone fur.

But Mrs. BPSCG and I routinely nuzzle our cats, with no apparent ill effects.

We also do other life-threatening things, like:

Opening doors with our bare hands;
Not spraying disinfectant on every surface in the whole freakin' house the way the Lysol commercials recommend;
Sometimes just rinsing a glass out instead of putting it in the dishwasher, if all we drank out of it was water;
Washing the bath towels only once a week, not asking for new towels every day when staying at a hotel;
Walking barefoot - yes, barefoot - in the house, even though we know all kinds of filth gets tracked in every day;
Eating fruit without rinsing it off first;
Eating genetically-modifed foods and non-organically-grown foods;
Letting the cats drink from the same bathroom tap we use.It's a miracle we haven't died from massive infections and food poisoning fifteen times already, as reckless as we are about our health.

[robinson]

How to wash a cat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9QwK5EHSmg

[Almo]

:( poor cat. Boggles the mind, really, that someone might think that was a good thing.

[AmateurScientist]

Well, no, since I don't like getting hair in my mouth, let alone fur.

But Mrs. BPSCG and I routinely nuzzle our cats, with no apparent ill effects.

We also do other life-threatening things, like:

Opening doors with our bare hands;
Not spraying disinfectant on every surface in the whole freakin' house the way the Lysol commercials recommend;
Sometimes just rinsing a glass out instead of putting it in the dishwasher, if all we drank out of it was water;
Washing the bath towels only once a week, not asking for new towels every day when staying at a hotel;
Walking barefoot - yes, barefoot - in the house, even though we know all kinds of filth gets tracked in every day;
Eating fruit without rinsing it off first;
Eating genetically-modifed foods and non-organically-grown foods;
Letting the cats drink from the same bathroom tap we use.It's a miracle we haven't died from massive infections and food poisoning fifteen times already, as reckless as we are about our health.

OMG! Me too. I must be a walking bag of germs. Germs, germs, germs. They're everywhere, I tell ya. It's a wonder we don't all die eventually.

AS

[AmateurScientist]

To address your rhetorical question in the OP, obviously no one involved in the conception, design, building, or distributing of that machine knows a thing about cats or their behavior. Anyone who truly knows cats could have predicted exactly what any cat would do the moment those jets started up.

Idiots.

AS

[BPSCG]

OMG! Me too. I must be a walking bag of germs. Germs, germs, germs. They're everywhere, I tell ya. It's a wonder we don't all die eventually.

ASOh, and I drink straight out of the milk bottle. Admit it; if you're a guy, you do it too. And if you're a gal, you think it's disgusting.

[Tony]

The entire world is a toilet for dogs, and many of their owners don't even bother to clean up their dog's feces and don't think twice about their dog pissing on their neighbor's lawns, on parkways, parks, and other public areas. And dogs do walk in the stuff. And it's so sanitary the way owners walk their dogs in the park in the morning, and all afternoon kids play and roll around on dog waste.

Cats at least keep it concentrated in one place where kids don't play.

Hey, I'd rather an animal use the entire world as a toilet (where it will biodegrade) than a singular concentrated spot in my house. And I'd rather step in a pile of dog **** outside than live in close proximity to a box of fetid and festering cat piss and ****. Furthermore, as a person who spent many hours rolling around in the grass as a kid, I never once rolled in dog ****. It's actually very easy to avoid.

[headscratcher4]

Oh, and I drink straight out of the milk bottle. Admit it; if you're a guy, you do it too. And if you're a gal, you think it's disgusting.

Just as long as your not drinking out of the toilette...

;)

[BPSCG]

Just as long as your not drinking out of the toilette...;)As long as my what isn't drinking out of the toilet?

[bluess]

Well, no, since I don't like getting hair in my mouth, let alone fur.

But Mrs. BPSCG and I routinely nuzzle our cats, with no apparent ill effects.

We also do other life-threatening things, like:

Opening doors with our bare hands;
Not spraying disinfectant on every surface in the whole freakin' house the way the Lysol commercials recommend;
Sometimes just rinsing a glass out instead of putting it in the dishwasher, if all we drank out of it was water;
Washing the bath towels only once a week, not asking for new towels every day when staying at a hotel;
Walking barefoot - yes, barefoot - in the house, even though we know all kinds of filth gets tracked in every day;
Eating fruit without rinsing it off first;
Eating genetically-modifed foods and non-organically-grown foods;
Letting the cats drink from the same bathroom tap we use.It's a miracle we haven't died from massive infections and food poisoning fifteen times already, as reckless as we are about our health.

Hey - don't forget eating off of each other's plates. Holy FSM, I even at at restaurants. Who knows how many pounds of assorted insect parts I've eaten as a result!


Oh, and I drink straight out of the milk bottle. Admit it; if you're a guy, you do it too. And if you're a gal, you think it's disgusting.

No, I think the milk is disgusting. I do drink chocolate syrup straight from the bottle....

Hey, I'd rather an animal use the entire world as a toilet (where it will biodegrade) than a singular concentrated spot in my house. And I'd rather step in a pile of dog **** outside than live in close proximity to a box of fetid and festering cat piss and ****. Furthermore, as a person who spent many hours rolling around in the grass as a kid, I never once rolled in dog ****. It's actually very easy to avoid.

Yes, its so much better to never know if you're walking through grass that has been recently pissed on. :rolleyes:

[BPSCG]

No, I think the milk is disgusting. I do drink chocolate syrup straight from the bottle....Mmmm... chocolate syrup straight from the bottle...yummmmmm...droooooooooool...

So what do you do with chocolate milk? Drink it straight outta the bottle for the syrup, or pitch it for the milk(straight outta the bottle for me)?

[Tony]

Yes, its so much better to never know if you're walking through grass that has been recently pissed on. :rolleyes:

This doesn't make sense. You'd know if the grass had been recently pissed on by the tell-tale sign of wetness being present on your shoe/foot.

[IXP]

I only drink things are are above 80 proof directly from the bottle. This eliminates the germ problem.

IXP

[bluess]

Mmmm... chocolate syrup straight from the bottle...yummmmmm...droooooooooool...

So what do you do with chocolate milk? Drink it straight outta the bottle for the syrup, or pitch it for the milk(straight outta the bottle for me)?

Geez, after all the time we've known one another you would have to ask? I'm ALL about the chocolate. Milk? Peh.


This doesn't make sense. You'd know if the grass had been recently pissed on by the tell-tale sign of wetness being present on your shoe/foot.

Meaning, you just walked through piss. Yeah, that's much better than knowing its in the cat box. :rolleyes:

I only drink things are are above 80 proof directly from the bottle. This eliminates the germ problem.

IXP

Yeah, but then my friends snarl at me bogarting all the wine....

[Tony]

Meaning, you just walked through piss. Yeah, that's much better than knowing its in the cat box. :rolleyes:

I'd rather walk through it than spend my life the presence of it's putridity.

[bluess]

And then after you walked through it, you tracked it into the house. So you can continue to walk through it....

Unlike the yard where the dog pooped, the cat box gets cleaned.

[Tony]

And then after you walked through it, you tracked it into the house. So you can continue to walk through it....


No, you tracked it in. I took off my shoes. :D

Unlike the yard where the dog pooped, the cat box gets cleaned.

I'm not living in the yard.

[bluess]

No, you tracked it in. I took off my shoes. :D



I'm not living in the yard.

I'm glad to see we both took our shoes off at the door!

And, hey, buddy, if you keep rolling around in dog pee outside, you WILL be living in the yard!:p

[Stankeye]

Since when is urine toxic?

Or is this just some "cleanliness" sensibility that has no basis in fact?


Also if cat's didn't "spray" then their cleanliness would be a lot better in my book. Why does cat urine stink so damn bad?

[BPSCG]

Yes, its so much better to never know if you're walking through grass that has been recently pissed on. :rolleyes:Well, if you're walking through piss, it isn't cat piss. They dig a hole, squat in it, take a quick sniff, then bury it. Like so (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy-3bLFXg7k&mode=related&search=).

It's probably dog piss. Probably your dog's piss.

[robinson]

Dogs. Disgusting animals.