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Derivative of a simple Fuffle ([info]littlest_lurker) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-01-26 21:35:00


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Entry tags:bathing cats, cats, petspa

So, recently a video showing a demonstration of a product known as the Cat Spa has been making it's way around the internet and gathering attention. Someone decides to post the link to Metafilter. And it gets quite the reception.



-That's horrible, cruel, and disturbing, and I laughed all the way through. I really don't like cats.

-Elpapacito, what ? You don't like that ? You obviously are not familiar with the Pedestrian Spa Chambers scattered across the West Coast. Entire families line up down city blocks to be part of the spa chamber experience. "The jets are coming!" scream the children. "I can't get out!" scream the men. "It's like an interactive bidet!" scream the grandfathers. And everybody walks home as wet and happy as acrobatic cats.

-"And crash, I'm just glad you didn't find a version with a pug in it, you anti-pugite."
A pug would just lie there and hope it drowned him.
"Blessed release!" he would think to himself.

-Cats don't like being spayed or neutered either. I don't see any of you people protesting that as cruelty.

-This would be so much better with a semi-hysterical Japanese voiceover.

-i love when people see this and say "omg i'd kill the person who..."
yeah. everytime i see someone do something violent i want to hit them in the face with a brick.
get over yourselves.

-Waterboarding for cats.
Its OK because 'they' aren't human, and is it just as 'hilarious' when they are?

-I have recently read somewhere that, a few centuries ago, they would hang live cats by the tail over a fire and kings and populace alike would laugh their heart out: this kind of show was considered an hilarious delight.
So, it could be said that suffering cats are still used to entertain, but on the suffering cat scale, we are much more civilized.

-Say your toddler needs an injection, in the butt. The kid hates injections. Are you folks going to say that you accompanying the child and coo-cooing it while it gets the shot is the same as sticking the kid into some injection-giving-robot-confinement-box?

-That cat isn't in distress. It's trying to get out by folding the fabric of spacetime itself. It's trying to get out so it can kill.
The kitty is just fine. It just hungers for human flesh.

-Seriously. The cat and waterboarding subject are both terrified because they think they're going to die. A cat DOES NOT freak out like that if he's merely annoyed.

-Actually, "waterboarding your cat" wins the award for the dumbest/most hilarious thing written on MetaFilter this week.
"Why do you keep shitting outside your litterbox?" *blurble burble blurble blurble meoooooww!*



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(Anonymous)
2007-01-27 07:38 am UTC (link)
I see why some cats need to be washed (not because they smell bad - they take care of that themselves), but why they need to be scared to death, I don't get. Unless it's some sort of really evil mean of punishment. "If you try to eat my lunch again, cat, I'll put you into the cat washing machine! MWHAHA! BECAUSE I'M DA HUMAN AND I HAFF ZE POWERZ!"

~The Sleepy Mouse

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[info]vigilanterodent
2007-01-27 07:52 am UTC (link)
To be fair, Microcat used to think we were trying to kill her when we gave her a bath, no matter how careful we were to make it unstressful for her.

Kitties have thoughts on water, and those thoughts are unsuitable for network television.

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[info]sisterelwood
2007-01-27 07:58 am UTC (link)
Kitties have thoughts on water, and those thoughts are unsuitable for network television.

That comment coupled with the memory of the cat being washed is highly entertaining.

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[info]angelhunter
2007-01-27 12:13 pm UTC (link)
Well, yes, unless it is one of those turkish breeds. Then you'll have to board up the door of your bathroom if you want to have the tub for yourself.

Oooohhh, beautiful, warm water! *splash* *purrrrrrrrrrr*

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-27 12:16 pm UTC (link)
My very curious Burmese loves hanging out by the bath, occasionally sticking a paw in. "Ooh, water, lovely!"

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2007-01-27 05:12 pm UTC (link)
Turkish vans! XD My cousin's used to sit in the shower stall and wait for her XD;

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[info]dreamoflife02
2007-01-27 05:19 pm UTC (link)
My cat does that. I have no idea what breed she is, but I stopped putting glasses of water next to my bed at night because she would always come along, dip her paw in, and then either lick the water off or flick it at my face.

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[info]singe
2007-01-27 10:32 pm UTC (link)
flick it at my face

At that point I, too, would have some unsuitable thoughts on water. And cats.

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(no subject) - [info]dreamoflife02, 2007-01-28 02:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-01-28 04:43 am UTC

[info]vigilanterodent
2007-01-27 05:45 pm UTC (link)
I'm told that Maine Coons are often also pro-water.

I bet having a cat join you in the shower is hilarious and adorable the first few times, but quickly gets, uh, problematic.

(Thoughts of cats and baths does remind me of an entertaining incident I heard of regarding my grandmother's cat Marilyn. So Grandma was taking a bath and had put in a really strong bubble path, to the point where you couldn't actually see the water. Marilyn was fascinated by the bubbles, and apparently didn't realize there was water in there - so in she hops, then rockets out bubblely and yowling.)

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[info]catslash
2007-01-27 09:32 pm UTC (link)
That is one of the best cat stories I have ever heard.

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(no subject) - [info]vigilanterodent, 2007-01-27 10:01 pm UTC

[info]hristaesir
2007-01-27 10:20 pm UTC (link)
My maine coon mix ex-stray likes playing in the sink. He'll sit on the bathroom counter and meow until you turn the faucet on for him to play with.

Now, grant you, he is so goddamn furry I don't think he actually gets wet so that he can feel it. The wet does not reach kitty skin at any point. He gets fucking pissy when you actually bathe him and he FEELS the wet. (He's also hell to detangle, which is why after the first time we started paying someone else to wash him a couple times a year.)

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[info]chikane
2007-01-27 10:51 pm UTC (link)
Happened to our cat as well, for exactly the same reason. The result was a really, really wet living room after the little dervish had been caught and dried o.O

He never went close to the tub again.

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[info]napalmnacey
2007-01-27 11:22 pm UTC (link)
At least she didn't leap head-first into a toilet bowl.

...

Filled with pee.

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(no subject) - [info]monsley, 2007-01-28 01:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-01-28 01:57 am UTC

[info]darkrose
2007-01-28 12:50 am UTC (link)
Joxur is pro-playing-in-water. He likes to stick his paw in his water dish and splash the water out onto the floor. Not so much with the bathing, though. He always sits outside the shower in the morning to make sure I come out of the Big Water Box.

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(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2007-01-28 03:31 am UTC

[info]azawakh
2007-01-27 07:15 pm UTC (link)
My deaf white kitty loves water, too. He's not too hot on being sprayed or swimming, but he's quite happy to push the shower curtain aside without warning to pounce droplets. It's like CuteOverload meets Psycho.

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(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-01-27 11:23 pm UTC

[info]napalmnacey
2007-01-27 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Awww. I'd love to share a bath with my cat. She just sits on the edge and stares at me, all "Are you okay? What are you doing? Are you nuts? Ohhh, water... *schlurp snorgle sip*"

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(no subject) - [info]melandry, 2007-01-28 03:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]napalmnacey, 2007-01-28 03:47 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2007-01-28 03:28 am UTC
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[info]papervolcano
2007-01-27 12:21 pm UTC (link)
While I've never had to bath my cat, I feel fairly confident that I can guess her thoughts on water, and suspect they'd be rather similar to her thoughts on being made to take tablets.

I have *scars*

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(Anonymous)
2007-01-28 06:31 am UTC (link)
Our previous cat hated taking tablets (don't they all?), so we knew she was feeling sick when she voluntarily ate the tablet off my mother's hand.

(She stopped taking them as she got better, though, so it was back to the restrain-and-prise-jaw-open routine in no time.)

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[info]jat_sapphire
2007-01-27 03:29 pm UTC (link)
Kitties have thoughts on water, and those thoughts are unsuitable for network television.

I endorse this product or service and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

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[info]littlest_lurker
2007-01-28 03:30 am UTC (link)
To be fair, Microcat used to think we were trying to kill her when we gave her a bath, no matter how careful we were to make it unstressful for her.

Yeah, I live in fear of a day where we might have to give our cat a bath. Considering the amount of carrying on that happens whenever we try to simply pick her up...

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[info]ari_
2007-01-27 09:29 am UTC (link)
thing is, my one cat who's quite nice until she's pissed (and is getting crotchety with age, after her last vet visit, both the vet and I were bleeding - she now has "CAVE" next to her name in their computers), I could get her into that thing *once*. After that, she would shred me to pieces every time I approached the thing with her in my arms.

(same as with sinks. If I try to carry her into the bathroom towards the sink, she'll explode and turn me bloody. You haven't lived until you had an insanely furious cat clamped with long, sharp claws to the back of your head, *unable to get the damned thing off*. It made for interesting scars, tho)

...

I feel like I should mop up. (Or make a cat-macro with pics of my cats)

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[info]brown_betty
2007-01-27 05:39 pm UTC (link)
CAVE?

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[info]tunxeh
2007-01-27 05:47 pm UTC (link)
"Beware" in Latin, I assume.

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(no subject) - [info]brown_betty, 2007-01-27 05:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ari_, 2007-01-27 08:06 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2007-01-27 12:14 pm UTC (link)
I dunno, my cat can smell pretty bad sometimes. And considering she sleeps in my bed, sometimes I just have to give her a quick rinse. (not often, about every 6 months or so.) She quites likes it, actually.

About the cat bath - at first I thought it was hilarious, but then I thought about how the cat doesn't know it's actually going to get out. It probably just thinks it's about to die. :(

~ Mousy with a clean kitty

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[info]aerobot
2007-01-27 01:21 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that was plain unnecessary. The cat will hate the water no matter what, but it's the whole 'trapping the cat in a small box while it desperately tries to escape' part can be taken out, kthx.

*washes off spooge in spa*

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