Comments on: Cat Blogging: New LOLCat

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:00:46 +0000

Actually, I’d love to see a picture of Disgusting Cat. I mean, how bad can it be?

By: Mandolin

Mandolin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:33:23 +0000

Eh. I’ve had 4 cats in this neighborhood, allof whom were outside cats who lived to 15-16 years old and died of old age / had to be put down.

Granted, this is the first one to come home with “Look, I defended my territory!” wounds. Also, the first male. Can’t imagine what he’d be like if he weren’t fixed. Grumble.

By: Angiportus

Angiportus — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:44:22 +0000

What Elaine said. Place I once worked at went thru 3 office cats and all met premature ends because they weren’t kept inside.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:52:17 +0000

Perhaps it’s time to make him an indoor cat. Indoor cats live much longer lives than cats allowed to go outside and indoor cats are much cleaner and more playful with their human companions than outdoor cats.

By: RoxieAmerica

RoxieAmerica — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:52:29 +0000

I didn’t know that about cats! Thanks for posting. One never knows what they will learn blogging.

By: Ledasmom

Ledasmom — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:13:50 +0000

It is not so much the toxoplasma one must be careful of, as the Pasteurella. That’s the evil nasty bacteria that made my hand swell to the point of unusability within a few hours of being bitten by my darling cat. You really never want to be used as a bad example by the emergency-room doctor.

By: anna

anna — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:08:17 +0000

ay. our cat Jnr had the same (infected head wound) last year, right before Christmas. We took him to the vet on the 23rd, because of course if we had left it, it would have got worse on the 25th when everything was closed. They ‘opened’ the wound so that it could drain, so we spent the holiday period with a cat walking round looking like he had been scalped, or like a soft boiled egg with the top cut off. blech.

By: Angiportus

Angiportus — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:46:33 +0000

Are they related to Komodo dragons? [Joke!] I’ve read stuff about how infectious the reptiles’ saliva is… Thanks for sparing us the pictures.

By: A.J. Luxton

A.J. Luxton — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:01:06 +0000

I’m not sure it’s all that premeditated. The claw puncture wounds tend to happen when my cat is getting off my lap and slips, and he certainly isn’t aggro then — so to a certain degree they’re just engineered that way.

Of course, that lends itself to speculation about it being Darwinistically positive for cats to pass on the toxoplasma parasite as much as possible, modifying the behavior of the new carriers.

So I guess theyr’e evil bastards anyway. Evil mind-controlling bastards. Good luck to your fuzzy secret master; may he heal quickly.