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captain spanky
08-08-2007, 09:33 AM
on the bbc they wanted pics of 'fat cats'.. this is the first pic...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44044000/jpg/_44044810_miki_burgess_cat.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6935471.stm
:D
SpugNothuson
08-08-2007, 09:48 AM
I think that picture has been staged, the can isn't facing the right way for the cat to have fallen asleep whilst swiggin from it.
The BBC are false reporting again! They are in so much trouble!
Samakimoto Graphics
08-08-2007, 11:49 AM
OMG! that is a horrendously obese cat!
Is that your cat Spanky? Not good, not good at all.
captain spanky
08-08-2007, 01:12 PM
lol
i don't have a cat. My parents have a one eyed rescue cat which is as cool as cats go... (and really healthy too btw) but i'm highly allergic to them so am limited to about one stroke a week and definatley no cats allowed in the house EVER.
CkretAjint
08-08-2007, 01:14 PM
MMmmmmm Strongbow how I <3 thee.
Samakimoto Graphics
08-09-2007, 08:41 AM
I sat with a guy who sneezed all through lunch, as there was no spare table, once...I eventually mustered the courage to ask him what the trouble was,
Him: My cat slept in my car...
I couldn't ask him how the cat allergy works as he couldn't take a break from the sneezing feat long enough to explain. He was all red in the face and teary, I had a horrible mental picture of the rice he was eating coming out half chewed at me in slow motion from across the table.
So what is it? Is it the fir, what?
urstwile
08-09-2007, 09:20 AM
For most people, it's the dander, Sama. A very fine substance that kinda flies around when you pet a cat. It lives in the undercoats of most cats.
I'm sure Morea will be along shortly with a myriad of article links. :D
captain spanky
08-09-2007, 09:25 AM
well... people always thought it was the fur... but as it happens, what seems to be the case is 'they' (the science boffins) think that it's actually cat spit that people are allergic to... when cats clean, they cover themselves in spit... this then dries and along with old hair and a small amount of dead skin, it all comes off all over the house, clothes or people who stroke them.
budafist
08-09-2007, 11:46 AM
My flatmate's mother has a big cat and a huge cat. My boyfriend struggled to lift the bigger one. I didn't dare try it. I wish I'd taken some photos. The smaller one was easily wider than me.
urstwile
08-09-2007, 07:23 PM
Interesting, Captain Spanky, but that makes sense.
budafist
08-10-2007, 10:21 AM
It does. That's why people that are allergic to their cats can reduce the allergy by bathing their cat regularly. It seems mean to me, but I guess if you bathe a cat from when they are young they could learn to enjoy it (or at least tolerate it).
Virgo Nightingale
08-10-2007, 03:52 PM
I gave my cat a bath once. She's declawed (I didn't do it!) but still managed to get a few good deep gouges on me with her back claws. The noises she made were simply awful. She wailed like a woman who just found out her children had been brutally murdered.
If I ever do it again (and I don't think I could), I'm ordering some chain mail from Drazan.
captain spanky
08-10-2007, 04:10 PM
i think the only way to wash a cat is to gently place it in a toilet bowl, slam the lid and push the button... but you have to remember to hide BEHIND the toilet when you lift the lid again. :D
I wonder what my cat would think of a bath. He likes to swim in the lake by my house and play with the fish so he may not mind.