To the group who wrote “let your cat in jerk” on the sidewalk with our coloured chalk last night: Your graffiti art is a monument to the human indulgence of judging and condemning someone while ignorant of the facts.
(1) Duh, you used our coloured chalk from our front steps. Coloured chalk on front steps = young children live here. Nice to write what you did for their benefit.
(2) The cat in question is having some health issues, which involve cat excrement dripping out at random times wherever the cat happens to be. We happen to have thought it better that the cat be outside for one summer night rather than drip excrement on our dining table, kitchen counters and beds, until we could set up a cage for him the next morning, so we can nurse him back to health in a better situation. Sorry if you feel differently.
(3) We happen to be awesome pet owners, and have spent so much time, effort and money on this poor cat’s health problems that I am embarrassed to disclose the amount.
(4) Your tactics of condemning us very publicly by marking our property with our alleged crime (a cat outside on a summer night—call the cops!) is one used by other groups who love to vilify innocents: Nazi party, KKK, those involved in witch hunts. A minor act in comparison, but taken from the same playbook. Obviously this is an act of little consequence (although the younger kids were a bit shaken), but I hope you will think twice (or how about just once?) in some other situation in which you really don’t know squat, that might carry serious consequences for someone.
To show you that I have no hard feelings, I offer you this particular cat to make your own pet, so you can be sure it is well and properly taken care of. I will even throw in a few bottles of RestoraLAX. -Think Before You Act
This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2014.
Seriously? – Being labelled “jerk” in colored chalk is in the same vein as Kristallnacht.
Can’t wait to catch your standup tour – “From Mauschwitz to the Catskills”
Oy vey.
Instead of restoraLAX give them SNORLAX!!! (he’s a pokemon for you older folks and a common comparison to a fat guy “wow he looks like a snorlax!” for example)
I have nothing constructive to say, but i rhymed restoralax so i think i’ve done my good deed for the day.
So your cat has no bowel control (yes I know a medical condition), which you are fully aware of and you let it outside where it goes anywhere (again not the cat’s fault). And you call yourself a responsible owner? For shame.
I understand your predicament. But maybe, you made your anal leaking feline everyone elses problem when you put him out.
I had a cat that would lick the shit out of my girlfriends dildo (I have a small white penis obviously) and because of the lube the cat would get the squirts occasionally. We figured it was his food maybe. Then around the same time the lube got knocked over without us noticing and the cat had a yummy meal all night. Well the cat shit everywhere, fucking everywhere. By the time we got home the next day there was even wet shit on some of the dry shit stains. A puddle of shit on the top of the litter box, even inside the litter was a sea of shit. Poor kitty 🙁
I don’t know if I had a point….?
it’s irrelevant how much you have paid on your cat’s care, you left him outside when he was sick. how would YOU op like to sit outside when you had the runs???? rat bastard.
“4) Your tactics of condemning us very publicly by marking our property with our alleged crime (a cat outside on a summer night—call the cops!) is one used by other groups who love to vilify innocents: Nazi party, KKK, those involved in witch hunts.”
Because letting your cat out for a night is just as innocent as being born a jew, black, or female.
Must have Cat Scratch Fever, so OB you send a sick animal outside because you had to build a cage, not thinking it could make your cat sicker and maybe make other animals sick or even people.
He was that sick and you put him outside? WTF, why the hell wouldn’t you just put him in the bathroom, make a comfy bed and shut the door if it was that bad? Shit washes off linoleum and porcelain pretty damn easy, you jerkwad.
Update, for all of you career bitchers about bitches. Here is some more ammunition.
Lots of angry responses with escalating insults. Again, I believe, made in a state of some ignorance and false assumptions.
(1) The cat loves being outside, and chooses to spend 90% of his time in good weather outdoors. Probably better for his mental health to be outside where he is happy, then stuck in miserable confinement.
(2) Regarding his physical health, he wasn’t running a fever, no infection, disease, failing kidney, or on death’s door. I’ll spare you the details, but the drippy ass is a result of an old physical injury, which has affected his bowels. No other underlying health issues. It was simply the aftermath of treatment. Perhaps I should have spent a few paragraphs relating the entire history of his problem. Maybe there are a few of you who would like to berate me for what you think is wrong with him. Oh wait, some of you already gave me your diagnosis. Brilliant, but I’m gonna go with what my vet has told me.
(3) I was aware that the drops might be a problem, and went out early in the morning to clean them up. So, yes, I put my problem out in the world for the wee hours of the morning, but I went and did what I could to clean it up before many people might have been affected. The amount he left outside was not even close to the amount of dog shit I’ve had to clean up from dog owners who don’t pick up. Also, the amount was less than the amount any cat outside would normally produce in one day. Drips, remember? I suppose you are all advocates for not allowing cats outside at all?
(4) Thanks for the suggestions, but maybe you can imagine situations in which they are not practical. Every household has different circumstances, and these are constantly in flux.
(5) Regarding the comparison, I did qualify it heavily. Maybe you missed that part. But fair enough, I knew it was a bit extreme. However, a little hyperbole is called for in a bitch, no? Interestingly, some person was inspired the next night to write a racial epithet on our sidewalk, using our colored chalk. Also, I notice quite angry vitriol in the responses here. Seems to be escalating. Small beginnings……
I did not like getting the initial message on my sidewalk, certainly, but thought I might have some fun writing a bitch in the Coast. It’s been better than I hoped for so far.
😉
And you’re still a douche bag. This is one of the few times EVERYONE agrees that putting a cat outside in this condition is idiotic. Typical self serving to have others clean up your mess. So did you have a tracking device on it and check everywhere it went and cleaned up any mess? I didn’t think so.
“Also, I notice quite angry vitriol in the responses here. Seems to be escalating. Small beginnings……”
Quite right, because as Pastor Niemoller said:
“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the incontinent cat letter-outers…”
Seriously, I hope your cat gets better and doesn’t pass on his illness to the neighborhood animals, but be advised, while hyperbole can be fun, comparing just about anything in society to Nazi Germany almost always reveals nothing less than a profound ignorance of the subject and deserves all the derision directed at it.
So, lock up the chalk and for god’s sake, don’t mention the war!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW…
I also wonder if you would put your kid outside naked to “dribble” all over the place.
The cats sick & seriously messed up …kill it.
Its a F^(#!+g cat. Go get another one.
op, you are tango-ing all over hell’s half acre but you are dancing alone.
you wrote the original post thinking you would get sympathy? a ‘poor you’ or two? gad.
look bubbie, you said you left him out because you didn’t want shit on your dining room table, counters, beds. then come back and claim you left him out because he prefers it. which is it? no one had a gun to your had writing the first time, did they?
how does ‘let your cat in jerk’ written on the sidewalk traumatize your children? maybe they were upset from hearing their sick pet cry outside all night.
in original post you said you were going to ‘nurse him back to health’ later on. in your apologia you say he wasn’t actually sick. which is it?
how do you know it was a group that wrote the shaming? were you coyly peeking from betwixt the curtains?
man, I had the raging hourly trots on a non stop road trip to Vermont from here. I had to pooh outside. it was awful. poor cat.
nukka, lube is silicone. keep that damn stuff in the bedside drawer. poor cat.
Hi, you are a jerk for leaving your sick cat outside. Did you think leaving them outside over night would help or hinder their recovery? I mean, he can stand to suffer for another night, I guess. Cleaning up shit is kind of an inconvenience I guess. Also you are also racist and anti-Semitic as fuck for comparing poor baby you being called a jerk to Jewish people and POC.
Eh, OB’s nothing more than a ‘convenience’ pet owner. When it’s not convenient for them, they do shit like leave them outside when they’re sick or dump them at the side of the road when they don’t want them anymore or move and leave the cat behind. Standard neglectful cat owner shit.
And OB: don’t you DARE bitch about how much you’ve spent on vet bills. That’s just what you DO when you own an animal. Contrary to what you learned growing up, you don’t get a shiny medal every time you do shit you’re supposed to do anyway. I’ve spent over $2k on both my diabetic and anemic cats over the past couple months and I don’t complain or make myself out to be some kind of saint because that’s what I signed up for when I adopted the animals.
Do the cat a favour and re-home it. Give it to someone who will actually love and look after it and treat it with the respect it deserves.
“…don’t you DARE bitch about how much you’ve spent on vet bills”.
*immediately proceed to bitch about your own vet bills.
Hilarious.
Cedric, old bean – who said she was bitching about her vet bills. She’s neither complaining, nor patting herself on the back. She’s doing what any responsible pet owner does as a matter of course.
Actually, Ivan – That whole sentence about the $2k was irrelevant to her comment, which was why I pointed it out. Perhaps not bitching, but certainly back-patting.
Then perhaps you should have initially called her out for back-patting, rather than complaining. Her friends know it to be neither.
Sorry muffin. I guess if we were all her friends, we’d all know better. The inherent contradiction in her comment was what I found mildly amusing… which is what I now find you.
It’s called an example, fuckhead.
I mentioned I spent a crapload on my cats and I neither expect praise nor does it make me want to complain because that’s just what you do when you have animals. My example was a compare and contrast with OB’s statement that they spent an ’embarrassing amount’ on vet bills and thus claiming a pat on the back for going above and beyond (because fulfilling responsibilities certainly is ’embarrassing’ *eyeroll*) when that’s just what you do as a responsible pet owner.
Not my fault your reading comprehension sucks.
Coloured Chalk and the Dripping Cat Excrement Experience – now that’s a band name!
As usual, with folks who hang out in these comment forms (like you), the subject quickly strays from the original bitch. The inherent contradiction in your comment was what was mildly amusing. I waded in to get a rise out of the usual trolls (like you), and got called a name, which I think I glean the meaning of, despite my questionable reading comprehension. However, if you’re unable or unwilling to see that you are looking for a pat on the back for your $2k (now a “crapload”) spent on vet bills, it may be your own self-comprehension that sucks. Think harder.
No need to get cuntish, Cedric. You thought you spotted a logical contradiction and like every other keyboard litigator out there, you pounced like a spiny dogfish chasing a tampon. You were wrong and got called out on it. As a smarter, funnier, bitcher than I , said last week:
“Stop it with your condescending bullshit to our condescending bullshit. You don’t make internet friends that way!@!!!”
Whatever you say, bud.
“inherent contradiction” ?? man, that’s like slathering buttercream frosting on a cardboard muffin, there muffin. it may look fancy but there’s no substance.
as the cat lady said, it was an example. tuck your glee back in your pants.
Ummmm…back to topic: Why exactly was the cat outside again if it was sick? Because the OP didn’t want to deal?
Lame cat owner is lame.
It is nice to see so many kind people concerned for the well-being of my cat. He’s doing well. His poops are normalizing, as we try to find the correct balance of water and laxative to add to his food. Dripping is long over.
My main concern at this point is how to make sure to administer his particular mix of food, while giving him back his freedom, all the while preventing the other cats from eating the laxative laced food. Any suggestions? The only one so far was rather ugly and I am sure was in jest.
So, it seems many still take issue with putting out the poopy cat in the middle of the night because he was “sick”. I attempted to explain that the nature of his problem did not preclude his enjoying the great outdoors. That all fell on deaf ears (blind eyes?). I cannot really take that criticism seriously, since it goes against everything the veterinarian who treated him told me. I’ll take their diagnosis and recommendations above yours. In point of fact, I described the cat as having some “health issues”. Everyone who has posted has changed that to “sick” and assumed further that it MUST be something that would make it harmful to the cat to be outside. You were wrong, sorry. My comments about the cat enjoying the outdoor life was not a change of story, simply additional information. I suffer from long-windedness, but I was trying (with limited success) to keep the OP concise. In retrospect, I should have written a book.
Probably second most heinous in people’s eyes is that I put him out knowing he would poop. The fact that there were circumstances (don’t bother asking, I will not explain) that made keeping him inside extremely impractical, the fact that the time of day (night) would mean very few people might stroll by, the fact that his drips were each very small, dry up quickly, and amount to very little, the fact that I made certain to go out early and clean it up (and yes, I did a very thorough job – and it so happens that 99% was on our property) somehow do not mitigate the situation whatsoever in any of the posters eyes. You have an idea, and refuse to consider letting go of it. Further, ALL OUTDOOR CATS POOP OUTSIDE. You let your cat out, it will poop on other people’s property. Do you search out the cat scat and dispose of it at home? Didn’t think so. I felt I had no real choice but to put him out, but took what steps I could to have a minimum effect on the community. Also, as mentioned, there was no disease or illness to pass to other animals. He suffered a broken bone in his spine a while back, which we were told might lead to some loss of function with his bowel movements. Months later that came to pass. He needed some treatment, and now a special diet. No disease, no illness. Nothing communicable. No harm to him in being outside.
Third seems to be my use of evil groups by way of comparison of tactics (only). My comments were HEAVILY qualified, but I will admit that they may have been poorly thought out. Sorry, not perfect. Occassionaly I will say or write something that I regret. Of course that does not happen to anyone else. I do think that when a community turns ugly or evil, it starts with small things. People do not generally go from being kind and understanding to supporting leadership that carries out evil acts in their name overnight. However, I extend my apologies to my intended audience. (My use of hyperbole has been eclipsed by a number of other posters in this thread. I am pretty sure I have as good an idea of what the Holocaust means as any college student who has taken some history courses can. Nothing like the people or cultures who were affected of course.)
The entire money thing was, of course, taken out of context. It was not a bitch. It was also only one of three factors I mentioned, the others being time and effort. I mentioned them to illustrate that I am like other, what I would consider normal, well meaning cat owners, and care very much for my cats. I am not the only one who has done so in this thread. Why assume I was bitching about money, when I was simply trying to refute the criticism inherent in the message?
For the record, a self-selected group of people who respond to bitches online is not much of a survey of public opinion. I am sure there are a number of common factors among such a group that would not apply to the majority of the population.
My impression of this entire discussion is that people like to find someone they can feel disdain for, in order that they can feel better about themselves. That is a fairly well documented phenomenon. Maybe the first impression did not come across very well, if one made certain assumptions, but after that, it required ignoring any sort of further details to keep that up. Willful ignorance rather than just plain old jumping to the wrong, but perhaps understandable, conclusions. I suppose people do not like to give up an idea that makes them feel good. I can see why politicians and large news media present very shallow stories. Seems to be that many people prefer a quick news item that does not actually present the details and full context very well. Simple ideas are so easy to deal with. Too bad real life ain’t like that.
I fully expect more rants, and profanity, and I am pretty sure there will be nothing but the same old. (How about suggestions about how to separate the cats for feeding, instead? Anyone else have experience with that? And this would need to be a long term solution – rest of his life long.) Whatever I have to say will be ignored, except a few choice words will be selected, probably somewhat out of context, on which to base further comments vilifying me. It is all too familiar a scenario, especially in public, anonymous, online discussions. Of course, everything can be dismissed simply by assuming I am misrepresenting the situation, but what is the point of that?
I was not looking for any sympathy. Just wanted to have my say to the people who scrawled on my sidewalk. A bit of fun I thought. Maybe make them feel a little bit bad (but more likely the opposite). A low motivation, I admit.
I think it comes down to the fact that your cat, possibly unbeknownst to you, was being loud while you left him outside. Hence the chalk messege. Thats why I said “you made your anal leaking feline everyone elses problem when you put him out”.
You’re also right that cats poop outside. They bury it. Your cat would leave poop drips everywhere, thats what others were trying to point out.
It was the cat the wrote the message.
Both messages.
Tomorrow night he breaks your windows.
While I totally TL;DR most of your last post, OB, I will say that I sympathize with your battle to get kitty on the right treatment path. I have two diabetic kitties, one of which is doing well, the other – well, it’s a battle to get the insulin-food ratio sorted out. I do hope your cat gets on the path to health, soon.
1. read the name of this forum.
2. this place is littered with cat lovers – (except for that idiot more-on) ANY post involving cats will get scrutinized up the wing wang
A sick cat, or any sick pet should NEVER be outside “exercising their freedom”. You are still an irresponsible pet owner.
Fuck this board sucks now.
I should note that no cat should be an outdoor cat.
I will stand by this assertion till the day I die and haunt people who DO let their cats outside after I’m dead and burned and scattered to the wind.
i was thinking a viking funeral^^
Furious for the win.
Does furious miss woggers and BM/LS? Or maybe that lovely lady with the upscale shop?
Neither. The upscale shop on SGR stuff was especially stupid. I understand being vitriolic in the face of those other guys, but the Buddah bashing got tedious pretty much right away. Were you Buddah, Nukka?
🙂
Lemon curry?