in thinking that there is no real reason for most people to SMELL is there?

[HugoFirst]

unless have run a marathon etc.
WASH yourselves and please wash your clothes you stinkers

Do you not use the cat to wash your bits then nickel ?

PS can't believe anyone would de-claw a cat :(

Is it common practice in the States?

I should like to de-claw ours - the other day, when we had to give Jo his eye-drops, he stabbed me in the leg, and it bled loads!
(disclaimer: I would not declaw a cat)

no, Aries, I use my knickers to clean my pussy

It's all relative. According to a dog's nose we all honk to high heaven regardless of how often we wash. Just be grateful you aren't a dog OP.

Snigger.

Yes but dogs smell each other's arses as a form of greeting.

Yes, Aries, it's quite common in the US to front declaw cats, who are often indoor pets (in some councils, it's an offense with a fine, called 'Cat at large' to allow your cats to roam outside your own property freely).

It's very easy to adopt a declawed cat at any pound or animal shelter.

The ex h and I got 'Midnight' (whom he still has!) from a Wanted/For Sale board at my work. He was front declawed. Later, we wanted a companion for him. Again, we easily found a declawed one at Recycled Critter Rescue, an animal shelter, where he (the 'new' cat) had been rescued from Adams County pound and was already declawed (yes, my ex still has him, too).

But Midnight definitely had back claws, and when we had to bath him, he let us know! He was truly covered. He'd started to clean himself (we also tried to brush it off). We rang a vet friend, who suggested a quick wash in the kitchen sink (kitchen sinks there are often large and deep, with detachable nozzles to spray water).

Back claws hurt more because they are blunter. And the buggers tend to kick with them. Ouch.

I don't know, this de-clawing. It seems so wrong. Claws are so much part of a cat's catness. It's like Reepicheep losing his tail (Obviously this isn't a criticism of you expat :))

I agree that declawing a cat is cruel. But in America they routinely declaw them to stop them scratching the furniture/walls. It isn't until you see how other countries treat animals that you see we really are a nation of animal lovers.

I'm a hypocrite - I would never get a cat declawed, but since mine were indoor pets, it wasn't an all bad thing, so I always adopted declawed ones. :o

We scruffed Midnight to wash him, but he bucked around like a mad thing. We were both drenched by the time we got all that lint off him. Then he sat in front of the gas fire and cleaned himself for about an hour.

YOU DO KNOW THEY AMPUTATE THE TOP JOINT OF EACH TOE AND THE DECLAWED CAT WALKS ON WOUNDS FOR DAYS AFTER?!?!?!? It's not just declawing, it's declawing, deboning and defleshing

Declawing is abusive and vicious and THAT'S THAT.

Sorry, I realise that I have not been joining in any of the conversation and am yelling into nothingness

(I feel this strongly because my stupid niece had her cat de-clawed recently btw!)

Yes, I know, Bloofer. That's why I never did it to a cat. But took in unwanted ones who had been . They do have lovely soft paws after that and you can stroke them and they can't claw you, haahaahaa.

IIRC declawing is illegal in the UK.

Ha! Yes I am accustomed to be awoken each morning by the following three strategies:

Cat leaping into chest and staring piercingly into my bleary eyes
Cat moving to pillow, curling up beside head and purring like a lawn mower, occasionally patting cheek with velvet paw
Cat getting bored, retreating to the foot of the bed and viciously swiping undernearth the duvet at her greatest enemies, The Toes

Yes it is illegal. I wish I had realised this when the silly cow was getting them done. Who the fuck did it for them?!

Bloofs is the The Niece?

How did we move from washing ones bits with knickers and poo in the washing machine, to declawing felines

Don't know Aries but I like the implication that occupants of the Stinky House are kinder to animals than those people obsessed with cleaning products.

In our house all oppressed members of the animal kingdom could shed their hair and scratch the furniture and hell, even drag their arses on the carpet, while we smiled benignly at them. Perhaps

It's the one both old enough and stupid enough to do something like that

Though I would draw the line at a dog licking its bollocks near my dinner. But then I am not a dog fan generally...

Aries
Eeew! Can we get back to the OP before I up-chuck?
I was going to share that I have quite a senstive nose where BO is conserned which was a real bummer when I met the Most Charming, good looking, realitively well off guy with a part of his anatomy that mad me gasp, not just the size but what he could do with it! Trouble was that although he was fastideously clean, his sweat had a very bitter odour that would catch in the throat and quite literally make me gag. Needless to say, the relationship did not flourish. Just my luck - Life's a F*?£/

"Do you not use the cat to wash your bits then nickel ?"

"no, Aries, I use my knickers to clean my pussy wink"

limitedperiodonly "Don't know Aries but I like the implication that occupants of the Stinky House are kinder to animals than those people obsessed with cleaning products.

In our house all oppressed members of the animal kingdom could shed their hair and scratch the furniture and hell, even drag their arses on the carpet, while we smiled benignly at them. Perhaps "

Yes I definitely second this (apart from the arse scooting)!

Declawing cats.... My ex talked about doing this with our cats and got very short shrift from me. He was born in the US, so maybe it was the norm for him (raised in NZ though, do they do it there?).

apprenticemum sounds like a pheromonal incompatability to me. Either that or he was just stinky.

Just my luck...I was gutted! We kept in touch for a long time but by phone.
He's married now with a family so he either found a woman with a poor sence of smell or it was just me...Bummer!

Damn shame apprenticemum; he sounded perfect in every other way!
Supposedly if you're too genetically similar to someone, their smell won't appeal to you. Someone who smells good to you is more likely to be genetically dissimilar and therefore a good breeding bet. Not that most of us would ever know, since we smother ourselves with chemicals all the time.

So ladies, in the Stinky House, is peeing in the shower permitted?