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Kazuni wrote on 2010-06-23 03:05
I've been begging my parents to let me have a kitten for ages, but they still won't.
Their reasons are:
1) It smells (does it, really?)
2) It demands time (.. yeah I agree with this one, but I have plenty of time)
3) You'll lose interest after a week, and then we'll be the ones taking care of it (NOT TRUE)
4) You won't clean up after it (It's not that difficult... right?)
5) It'll claw our sofas apart and pee everywhere (which with some training as a young kitten is not hard to avoid)
6) You'll go to university in the states, and then you'll abandon it. ( ... :[ )
7) It'll die. ( ... :[ )
Now, I've done research over raising a kitten and habits and whatnot over the internet plenty of times, and I loove cats (I'm actually doing a 2ftx3ft oil painting of a cat right now, it's soo cute), so I'm pretty certain I'm not going to lose interest anytime soon, if at all.
So to everyone who has cats, is it really a big problem? Do they require a -lot- of time (as in several hours a day, which I doubt..), or money, or anything?
If it's any help, I live in a 2-bedroom apartment (which is quite big, actually, since it's not one of those newer buildings with a billion suites crammed into three floors), my manager doesn't care about pets (217 over there owns a cat and a dog), and my mom's a crazy clean freak (which is a good thing some of the time).
Oh and, if I do get a kitten, I'll be getting one from a breeder, so I'll be able to meet it beforehand to decide whether I want it or not, and whether the personality is a good one.
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-23 03:07
It will pee everywhere, and claw up the furniture. You can get it de-clawed and have to teach it what the litter box is. Live examples do best. BUT THEY SO CUTE!!!! GET DA KITTEH:mad2:
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-06-23 03:08
Quote from bradstrt;72871:
It will pee everywhere, and claw up the furniture. You can get it de-clawed and have to teach it what the litter box is. Live examples do best. BUT THEY SO CUTE!!!! GET DA KITTEH:mad2:
De-clawing is cruel. It makes the cat unable to defend itself if it gets loose, and it's like removing the first two joints on your fingers :(
Also, walking is painful for a few weeks (especially kicking litter over their waste) after the operation.
They also try to clean up after themselves, so they'll seek someplace similar to a litterbox, or a pile of sand or something.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-23 03:19
1. Depends if you train your kitten well to use the litter box
or if you fix them
2. Depends on your kitten.
If you want him or her to be lazy, not a lot of time. If you actually want to be close, a lot of time.
3. That's your fault then
4. Look at #1
5. trim his or her claws and invest in scratching posts.
6. It depends on you.
7. Everything dies ._.
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Cucurbita wrote on 2010-06-23 03:32
They're making it sound like a cat is a toy.
Its not, its a living being. You can't lose interest in something thats like family.
And cats are preferred by people who don't want to spend a lot of time with their pets. They don't require as much attention.
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-06-23 03:39
So does the litter box (and the kitten in general) actually smell?
Some of my friends said something about oxidizing crystals or something, but I'm not sure.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-06-23 03:48
Quote from Kazuni;72908:
So does the litter box (and the kitten in general) actually smell?
Some of my friends said something about oxidizing crystals or something, but I'm not sure.
get a covered litter box
privacy is what your kitten wants while doing his/her business
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-06-23 03:49
Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;72923:
get a covered litter box
privacy is what your kitten wants while doing his/her business
I read some places that covered litter boxes smell particularly bad inside because the air doesn't really move, and since cats have sensitive noses, it's not so good.
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-23 04:14
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KITTEH!!!!
Get your cat to do this....
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Zephyri wrote on 2010-06-23 04:22
Alternatives to Declawing, Nail Caps for Cats
Check those out. I don't know anything about them outside of that website though. Never heard that about covered litter boxes. We have three cats and two litter boxes - one covered, one uncovered. They prefer the covered one, but the biggest cat always RUNS out of it after hes done, not sure what the heck that means (other than, holy crap I stink, get me outta here!!!)
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-23 04:23
My dogs eat the crunchies so the litterbox never smells!!!! Their breath does X_X
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-06-23 04:25
Quote from bradstrt;72995:
My dogs eat the crunchies so the litterbox never smells!!!! Their breath does X_X
Well, feed a dog wet food and he'll have wet poop. Dry = dry, I learned that from my dog-loving piano teacher.
Cats are kinda different..
And do having cats around (not like, litterbox-wise) actually make the house smell? That's my mom's biggest concern.
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Hiccup wrote on 2010-06-23 04:26
They eat wet food sometimes, but its much cheaper to get dry.
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-06-23 04:27
Quote from bradstrt;73001:
They eat wet food sometimes, but its much cheaper to get dry.
Yeah it is. It's supposedly healthier to get wet food though. Although it's messy..
And the claw caps, I know about those, but I heard that if you take them off after having the cat use them for a long time, the cat will scratch things because it's not used to a post.
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Shironi wrote on 2010-06-23 04:33
Quote from Kazuni;72868:
1) It smells (does it, really?)
It's not noticeable after a while.
2) It demands time (.. yeah I agree with this one, but I have plenty of time)
Hardly any. Feed it, play with it, scratch it, and it'll play happily with itself for the rest of the day.
3) You'll lose interest after a week, and then we'll be the ones taking care of it (NOT TRUE)
xP
4) You won't clean up after it (It's not that difficult... right?)
xP Their not exactly dirty. Some cats drop a lot of hairs, though, so be careful of that.
5) It'll claw our sofas apart and pee everywhere (which with some training as a young kitten is not hard to avoid)
Get a scratching post. Problem = solved. Whenever (s)he starts scratching, pick em up, drop em in front of the post.
6) You'll go to university in the states, and then you'll abandon it. ( ... :[ )
xP
7) It'll die. ( ... :[ )
Not for a long time, no.
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