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AIBU?

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Original poster

to have told the cat there are starving cats in africa?

75 replies

juneybean · 08/05/2010 11:49

He's one of those cats that's not happy unless he's eating, he doesn't have worms or anything untoward, he's just a greedy buggar!

So I just snapped at him.... AIBU?

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Hassled · 08/05/2010 16:32

I regularly threaten to tell our greediest cat I will put him back in the hedge he was found in.

And I threaten the chicken (who clucks to get out of the sizeable patch of garden she has) with a battery farm.

Original poster
juneybean · 08/05/2010 16:32

Just hope they don't get a sniff of Iams...they might start talking.

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RustyBear · 08/05/2010 16:38

When I was a student, my landlady decided to economise on cat food. She stopped the Whiskas and replaced it with 'Honest Value Katkins'

Next morning, last night's food was untouched, but there was the head of a mouse, neatly cut off behind the ears, in the middle of the sitting room carpet.

Next morning, there was another, in exactly the same place - and the next day, and the next....

After a week she cracked, and Whiskas was back on the menu.
No more heads.

Maleeka · 08/05/2010 16:45

Dont even particularly like cats, but thanks for the links Simon's cat is fab

PrettyVacant1 · 08/05/2010 20:12

Our cat blatantly lies.
He plays us off against each other for food.
It took us 18 months to think of asking the other if he'd just been fed.

He also has worked out that to get him to come in the house we shout and shake a pouch.

When he won't eat food that's been in his bowl for all of 5 mins he begs to go out

my OH calls him stoopid too.
That'llbe us then!

OrganicHairbrush · 08/05/2010 21:03

ROFL. Will tell my cat that what he next jumps on me yowling for tinned rather than dried food...

Cicatrice · 08/05/2010 21:12

Mine tries to tell DH that I haven't fed him and vice versa. I don't think that the cat actually believes that people can communicate with each other.

I tell him all sorts of things - he doesn't beleive me. He thinks he is very maltreated.

JennyPiccolo · 08/05/2010 22:17

i told my cat this yesterday. It's this bloody new whiskas chat of putting vegetables in cat food. Cat won't even acknowledge it's food and just carries on mewing. Beef and Peas? Have cats ever eaten peas?

Lionstar · 08/05/2010 22:25

Actually mine did use to eat peas ... and sweetcorn ... and broccoli . She reserved her best attentions for marmite on toast though

Original poster
juneybean · 08/05/2010 22:25

Ours quite likes spicy food... very bizarre.

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OrmRenewed · 08/05/2010 22:26

Not unreasonable at all. However I don't expect it will make any difference.

I now have 2 cats. They compete in turning their noses up at their food now.

biddyofsuburbia · 08/05/2010 22:28

talking of cats have a look at this!

borderslass · 08/05/2010 22:31

cats are a bloody pain one of ours refuses to move off the bed for anyone, even when its being stripped and putting fresh bedding on he moves from corner to corner and tries to sleep on my side of the bed at night grrrrrrr.As for food as soon as someone opens a tin or starts cutting up meat their there mooching for some.

LetThereBeRock · 08/05/2010 22:33

I love Surprised kitty. I'll take two.

pedrothellama · 08/05/2010 22:33

I just look at my cat and say very, very sternly. meow, MEOW, MEOW AND BLOODY MEOW.

She tends to eat after that

LetThereBeRock · 08/05/2010 22:33

Broccoli Kitten

pedrothellama · 08/05/2010 22:39

Yep, that was my Eric, he loved broccoli and pumpkin seeds

alicatte · 08/05/2010 22:52

Our cats (rescue cats) are experts at playing us off against each other for food. I don't think they would care whether there were starving cats anywhere but I shall remind them tomorrow.

I actually feed them slivers of chicken by hand before Sunday lunch - maybe it is my fault.

Macforme · 08/05/2010 23:00

I have two cats. One is of the 'I couldn't POSSIBLY eat that muck' variety. Her idea of slumming it is Iams and Felix best pouches, will nag endlessly for proper fish and will park her arse on my laptop if I don't move fast enough. She weighs about 8 pounds at best

Cat 2, is best described as a long haired barrel. Ok He's a Maine Coon so they are a massive breed, however when he sits down he is basically a pyramid of fur covered fat. You can't even stand up without him chirping hopefully for food, and he times it so that each person who enters the house feeds him... 6 of us... he gets fed a lot and THEN wanders down the street to beg!
Currently at 22 pounds in weight.... but he does make a great draught excluder..

Original poster
juneybean · 08/05/2010 23:01

Ooo maine coons have big feet if I remember rightly lol

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pedrothellama · 08/05/2010 23:11

I swear this is true, my cat could work the stereo, open doors, open the tumble dryer and eat a can of can food with his paw (not at the same time mind you)

He was once rescued by a neighbour going downstream in a boat with her grandsons who had tempted him on board with a chicken leg

alicatte · 08/05/2010 23:14

One of mine can open the fridge - she can break the seal with her claw. We had to put the child lock back on.

pedrothellama · 08/05/2010 23:18

The very same cat also got chased up a tree by a pheasent - ex dh had to rescue him, he was shivering with fright twelve feet up (the big furry wuss)

Vallhala · 08/05/2010 23:19

Whilst you're educating your cat, can you educate mine please. Since I moved to the country last month I've been gifted:

1 mouuse, dead, on the sitting room rug.

1 pigeon, dead, by the front gate.

1 pigeon wing, 1 foot and various innards but no head and lots of blood on the kitchen floor

1 starling, decapitated by the pet ferret's hutch. Good try cats, but Charlie did not unlock his hutch, kill thestarling, eat half of it and then return into his hutch and lock it behind him.

1 mouse. Dead. Wet. Flat. Dumped in the pile of dirty washing overnight and only discovered when I'd grabbed the washing all up and lobbed it into the machine next morning and washed him.

I thought it was a stray sock until I reached into the washing machine and put my hand on it.

pedrothellama · 08/05/2010 23:19

Cat not ex dh that is!

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