You will want thick gloves, a thick towel, and a container with lid to insert the cat into. Beans is not declawed, and knows you will struggle to maneuver under the bed. You may need a spray bottle of water as well.
They didn't "create a reason to be upset." Declawing cats is a reason to be upset. It's inhumane.
How would you feel if someone cut all your fingertips off at the first knuckle and said "wow, impotent rage must be your identity" when you got upset about it?
You literally just contradicted yourself in two sentences.
You claim you don't support inhumane practices, but then you call it "unnecessary drivel" when someone speaks out against them? And then you try to normalize those inhumane practices as simply "perfectly well accepted terms"?
They're not just words, those words have meanings, and the meaning of this one is atrocious.
Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn't harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?
The top-level comment literally said "because the cat isn't declawed" not "because cats have claws."
It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm, when the reality is that cats with claws are the norm and that cats being declawed is the deviation. Not only that, but it's also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.
The top-level comment was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets, and the next person's response was completely appropriate and called for.
It's not unneeded. A lot of people don't understand what declawing actually is or haven't put thought into the harm it causes. They just think it's a harmless way to protect their furniture.
No. Eyes don't match. So the whole movie monster fails. The terror of cat's eyes (specifically in the dark, when you can't determine size and distance of the cat) is hard coded into our brains. An evolutionary thing as "cats" for most of the time used to be on the upper end of the food chain and your chances of reproduction massively raised if you were the first one to spot the cat - and run for your live. Just look at the typical cartoon panel symbolizing the dark and dangerous unknown, a dark place with cat's eyes looking out. You'll be subtily terrified - if the shape and proportions match the "cat" scheme.
Our Cleo once grabbed a whole KFC drumstick, and managed to swallow it whole. That was one expensive evening at Kitty ER.
She also frickin LOVES Parmesan cheese. I caught her getting into a large cabinet, and in the back she had a stash of those little packets, like you get at a pizzeria.
I cooked a lobster tail once, and our big alpha tomcat decided that he was just going to take it from me, right off my plate. I was more than willing to share, but he had other plans.
He had NEVER tried to steal anything before, he just really couldn't resist the smell of that lobster.
I had a cat that was like that with tuna. He never begged for any other food but he'd try to get that if you had it on your plate. It got to the point where he wouldn't even bother me while I was making the food, he would just go and wait on the desk where I ate. He never sat there otherwise so he was planning that shit out lol. He also once stole an entire McDonald's cheeseburger, wrapper, and all and hid under the bed with it like Beans when he was a very young kitten. That thing was bigger than him.
i think the point is that Beans has chosen to dedicate their entire weight to violence. they all know they outweigh Beans and shouldn't be afraid, but Beans has made Beans into the world's most dangerious teeny tiny little itty bitty kitty terrorist
Beans would learn about the spray bottle that day. He would growl and be wet at the same time. Sad thing he knew he was not getting any of this without taking action so he took his chances. You may chastise him but he has already won
My dog resource guards. I don't know if I'm supposed to do this but when she gets in that mood I feel it is important that she not "win". I'm thinking this would reinforce that behavior.
You should swap out the thing she has with something else of value. Treats, licky mat, toy, another piece of meat, whatever. This gets her used to something being taken off her and it not being a bad thing. Eventually the swap is just for praise or a pat, but for really valuable things you may still need something more valuable.
I've raised dozen of strays I picked-up from the streets over my lifetime. None but one was food motivated enough to steal our food, and the orange one that did isn't so stubborn as to push his luck, a simple hush was enough to deter him.
Though I'm South-East Asian, most of our food is plant-based and the occasional meat we have is drenched in seasoning I don't think they recognize it as food lol.
89 Comments
sundray@lemmus.org · 142 pts · 187d
was 9 pounds.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 187d
That 1% Nacho kid is going to have a new goal.
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d
Is now 18 pounds, until the chicken is digested 😂
Inucune@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 187d
You will want thick gloves, a thick towel, and a container with lid to insert the cat into. Beans is not declawed, and knows you will struggle to maneuver under the bed. You may need a spray bottle of water as well.
Good luck.
Gnugit@aussie.zone · 56 pts · 187d
Fuck it, I'm getting another chicken.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 187d
Beats getting another hand.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 187d
I haven't yet had my fingertips snipped off either. Lovely euphemism for "mutilation of extremities".
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 187d
Me, looking up what declawing actually does: wtf that's not declawing, that's amputation!
Reading further: "can lead to behavioural issues" no shit, you don't say...
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · -12 pts · 187d
Do you just go around looking to be offended?
Beardsley@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 187d
I take offense to that.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 187d
No, I'm just a guy who doesn't hate cats.
turdas@suppo.fi · 25 pts · 187d
I take offense to that. I'm a guy who hates cats but still doesn't think they should be declawed.
desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 187d
Right on, brother!
desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 187d
Fuck you. Clipping animals to make them more human friendly is atrocious.
spacesatan@leminal.space · 8 pts · 187d
Where did literally anybody support declawing cats.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 187d
They answered yes while creating a reason to be offended for having to answer yes.
Can't make this shit up. Impotent rage is some people's identity.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 186d
They didn't "create a reason to be upset." Declawing cats is a reason to be upset. It's inhumane.
How would you feel if someone cut all your fingertips off at the first knuckle and said "wow, impotent rage must be your identity" when you got upset about it?
Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 187d
In this instance I agree with his point though. I don't see you walking around without fingertips.
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com · -4 pts · 187d
On a whole I don't support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.
What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that's a perfectly well accepted term.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 186d
You literally just contradicted yourself in two sentences.
You claim you don't support inhumane practices, but then you call it "unnecessary drivel" when someone speaks out against them? And then you try to normalize those inhumane practices as simply "perfectly well accepted terms"?
They're not just words, those words have meanings, and the meaning of this one is atrocious.
Chicxulub@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 186d
Ok, but no one said anything about declawing their cat. No one suggested that declawing cats wasn't harmful to them. What exactly is the point of getting pissy with someone for using the correct term for a thing?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 186d
The top-level comment literally said "because the cat isn't declawed" not "because cats have claws."
It subtly insinuates that cats being declawed is the norm and that cats with claws are a deviation from that norm, when the reality is that cats with claws are the norm and that cats being declawed is the deviation. Not only that, but it's also harmful and atrocious to force that deviation upon them.
The top-level comment was an attempt to normalize the mutilation of pets, and the next person's response was completely appropriate and called for.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 186d
If it's a euphemism then it's not the correct term; mutilation is correct.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 186d
It is the currently used term, perhaps but it’s certainly not the correct one.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 186d
It's not unneeded. A lot of people don't understand what declawing actually is or haven't put thought into the harm it causes. They just think it's a harmless way to protect their furniture.
Chicxulub@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 186d
You think a lot of people on Lemmy don't understand that declawing harms cats?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 186d
I don't know what everyone on lemmy knows or not.
mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 187d
The thick gloves protect you while you grab Beans and put him in the container.
And it's just always a good idea to carry a towel.
darvocet@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 187d
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 187d
But claws are the fun part!
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 187d
same vibe
Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 pts · 186d
Trigger warning. Why you gotta bring artax into this?
b_tr3e@feddit.org · -7 pts · 187d
No. Eyes don't match. So the whole movie monster fails. The terror of cat's eyes (specifically in the dark, when you can't determine size and distance of the cat) is hard coded into our brains. An evolutionary thing as "cats" for most of the time used to be on the upper end of the food chain and your chances of reproduction massively raised if you were the first one to spot the cat - and run for your live. Just look at the typical cartoon panel symbolizing the dark and dangerous unknown, a dark place with cat's eyes looking out. You'll be subtily terrified - if the shape and proportions match the "cat" scheme.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 186d
That isn’t a cat.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 187d
Lommy@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 187d
Even the cats are splurging on rotiserie chickens in this economy?!
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 186d
They will never own a home
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 186d
Beans must be a millennial (/s)
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 187d
Our Cleo once grabbed a whole KFC drumstick, and managed to swallow it whole. That was one expensive evening at Kitty ER.
She also frickin LOVES Parmesan cheese. I caught her getting into a large cabinet, and in the back she had a stash of those little packets, like you get at a pizzeria.
Redstone1@lemmings.world · 21 pts · 187d
Beans hunted that bird and took it back to her lair let beans have her feast! 😤😤
heiligerbimbam@lemmy.wtf · 21 pts · 187d
Hupf@feddit.org · 5 pts · 187d
Greetings, fellow old person
bold_omi@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 186d
That poor greasy carpet...
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 186d
Become ungovernable.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 187d
I cooked a lobster tail once, and our big alpha tomcat decided that he was just going to take it from me, right off my plate. I was more than willing to share, but he had other plans.
He had NEVER tried to steal anything before, he just really couldn't resist the smell of that lobster.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 187d
So what kind of violin did you make from him?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 187d
Not my Jake, he was a varmint, but we loved him. He took his job protecting us very seriously. But that lobster just smelled toooo good. I get it.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 186d
I had a cat that was like that with tuna. He never begged for any other food but he'd try to get that if you had it on your plate. It got to the point where he wouldn't even bother me while I was making the food, he would just go and wait on the desk where I ate. He never sat there otherwise so he was planning that shit out lol. He also once stole an entire McDonald's cheeseburger, wrapper, and all and hid under the bed with it like Beans when he was a very young kitten. That thing was bigger than him.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 186d
Whenever I make tuna, I squeeze all the juice on a plate, with a few chunks of tuna. They slurp that up quick, and that satisfies them.
You have to keep an eye on them though, and make sure the one big one doesn't get it all. Everybody gets a few licks of the tuna juice.
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 187d
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 187d
Nine pounds apparently is around 4kg, that's well within the normal weight range for a cat, why are you calling beans out for it?
spip@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 187d
I think the point was that a 9lb cat doesn't need 2-3lbs of food. Beans is choosing not to share.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 187d
A cat can have an entire rotisserie chicken as a treat.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 187d
i think the point is that Beans has chosen to dedicate their entire weight to violence. they all know they outweigh Beans and shouldn't be afraid, but Beans has made Beans into the world's most dangerious teeny tiny little itty bitty kitty terrorist
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 186d
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 186d
tru. Beans won this prize fair and square
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 187d
I'll give you £9 for Beans.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 187d
£1/lb for fresh cat? In this economy??
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 187d
Bad deal. I got my beans for 30p
Ranulph@thelemmy.club · 13 pts · 187d
Beans would learn about the spray bottle that day. He would growl and be wet at the same time. Sad thing he knew he was not getting any of this without taking action so he took his chances. You may chastise him but he has already won
robocall@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 187d
I love eating chicken and beans
hector@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 186d
Hunt your own roitisserie chicken don't steal Beans' ya jerk! He found that one fair and square, ambushed it on the counter.
chocrates@piefed.world · 10 pts · 187d
My dog resource guards. I don't know if I'm supposed to do this but when she gets in that mood I feel it is important that she not "win". I'm thinking this would reinforce that behavior.
I get bit a lot.
saltesc@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 187d
You should swap out the thing she has with something else of value. Treats, licky mat, toy, another piece of meat, whatever. This gets her used to something being taken off her and it not being a bad thing. Eventually the swap is just for praise or a pat, but for really valuable things you may still need something more valuable.
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 186d
Looks like hes splurging on it.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 187d
Good show, old bean.
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 187d
Every single day I see something from a pet owner that reaffirms how happy I am to not have pets.
Johanno@feddit.org · 16 pts · 187d
My cat I got when he was a few months old.
Picked up from the street, would have died in the winter probably.
However I raised him to deny any of my food. He has its own food.
It was difficult the first 3 times. He begged for the food the whole time I ate. And even tried to get sth. But I was iron willed to keep my food.
The 4th time he never begged or tried to get sth.
And now I can even leave the food unattended for 2 minutes with him nearby and he won't try to get sth.
3 minutes is risky though.
gajahmada@awful.systems · 7 pts · 187d
I've raised dozen of strays I picked-up from the streets over my lifetime. None but one was food motivated enough to steal our food, and the orange one that did isn't so stubborn as to push his luck, a simple hush was enough to deter him.
Though I'm South-East Asian, most of our food is plant-based and the occasional meat we have is drenched in seasoning I don't think they recognize it as food lol.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
I guess I'm lucky my cat wont touch any of my food.
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 186d
How do you feel about children?
Vespair@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 186d
A very very happy uncle to many, love spending time with them, but also love going home to a quiet house a lot too
Rooster326@programming.dev · 3 pts · 186d
Yeah my daughter did this to a box of popcorn chicken one time....
Cordyceps@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 186d
Dragged it under the bed and growled at you for 40 minutes?
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 186d
get that money Beans
SethTaylor@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 186d
Nuh-uh. Caught that chicken fair and square
desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 187d
Beans is my spirit animal
PugJesus@piefed.social · 4 pts · 187d
apex predator
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 186d
Lmfao!
housedogpartyfavor@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 186d
ROAR
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 186d
Beans will whoop your ass if you touch his chicken.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
Beans with the mean genes and the sharp beans
preschool236@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 186d
let beans live
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · -2 pts · 187d
You should feed your cat more often.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 187d
just like my sister. under my. bed, flicking her bean.