Getting a cat. Help me out

How do you deal with one person being unfairly unreasonable?

From that person's point of view it's the other that's being unfair & unreasonable, it's all about perspective.

My cat lasted till she was 21, outlived her kittens and was entirely vicious to everyone except me. Considering she lived with my parents for years and years with me only occaisionally visiting I have no idea how they put up with the stroppy furball. She was lovely :)

Trouble is, if your other half doesn't want one, you need to be the bigger man and let her have her way. Get fish or something instead :P
 
From that person's point of view it's the other that's being unfair & unreasonable, it's all about perspective.

My cat lasted till she was 21, outlived her kittens and was entirely vicious to everyone except me. Considering she lived with my parents for years and years with me only occaisionally visiting I have no idea how they put up with the stroppy furball. She was lovely :)

Trouble is, if your other half doesn't want one, you need to be the bigger man and let her have her way. Get fish or something instead :P

and what hapens when a woman wants something and the man doesnt?

in my experience usually the woman gets whatever it was regardless!


woman wants cat, woman buys cat, woman goes home , SURPISE, woman lets cat out of box.


man wants cat, man asks woman if he can have cat , woman says no , man buys gold fish
 
Cats are great, they probably make the homes they live in.

I've had my cat since I was 7, got him at a few weeks old, He'll be 14 this September.

He's incredibly healthy, he went though a bit of a "sick" phase which worried me a bit, but we took him off "cat food" a year ago and we cook chicken for him now.

He's gone quite "big" and quite heavy, though not fat, his fur's gone really shiny and he's just all round a more perky and happy cat.

Also have him on mineral water (for those who might claim it's pointless, he ABSOLUTELY will not touch tap water at all. He actually cries for mineral water and sprints to his bowl when he sees the bottle come out.

Oh yeah, the thread.

Get a cat, I don't think you'll regret it. My "missus" is really apprehensive of animals, but she loves my cat a lot (though we don't live together, yet).

I'd say get a cat, she'll grow to love your cat.

You've been bitch slapped by a cat in your own house lol.

Give it a day or two and it WILL drink tap water ;)
 
Cats are great, they probably make the homes they live in.

I've had my cat since I was 7, got him at a few weeks old, He'll be 14 this September.

He's incredibly healthy, he went though a bit of a "sick" phase which worried me a bit, but we took him off "cat food" a year ago and we cook chicken for him now.

He's gone quite "big" and quite heavy, though not fat, his fur's gone really shiny and he's just all round a more perky and happy cat.

Also have him on mineral water (for those who might claim it's pointless, he ABSOLUTELY will not touch tap water at all. He actually cries for mineral water and sprints to his bowl when he sees the bottle come out.

Oh yeah, the thread.

Get a cat, I don't think you'll regret it. My "missus" is really apprehensive of animals, but she loves my cat a lot (though we don't live together, yet).

I'd say get a cat, she'll grow to love your cat.

Let the cat see you pouring the water out of the tap into his/her bowl, it's more than likely not the water that's bothering him, it's seeing that it's fresh etc. Cats tend to like moving water and avoid stagnant pools unless they're desperate. Also if the cat still won't drink I'd check my water tank - it might be smelling something off the water.

Then again my parents cat was the same, but it would drink water at my house from the tap, but not at my parents. It's just the water in the area had something in it he didn't like.
 
Let the cat see you pouring the water out of the tap into his/her bowl, it's more than likely not the water that's bothering him, it's seeing that it's fresh etc. Cats tend to like moving water and avoid stagnant pools unless they're desperate. Also if the cat still won't drink I'd check my water tank - it might be smelling something off the water.

Then again my parents cat was the same, but it would drink water at my house from the tap, but not at my parents. It's just the water in the area had something in it he didn't like.

He can 100% tell the difference, and the look he gives me when I try it shows. It's a "I do know what you've just done you know?"

I can pretend to give him water from a bottle, but give him tap water, he goes over to it, then gives me a dirty look and refuses to drink it.

I can give him water from the tap with him standing on the side next to me, he won't drink it.
 
mineral water :/ we give our cats fresh water but they seem to prefer drinking out of puddles and empty plantpots !

and will he get all the vitamins he needs from just chicken ? we where always recommended dry food for our older cats. mainly to be easier on there teeth
 
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Girls want kids.
Your girl will want a kid with you someday.
Having a cat is a good test of whether you're up to it.

So tell her if you can't handle a cat, you'd never be able to handle a kid.


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Getting a cat isn't a big deal, they're easy to look after and don't cost a lot to feed etc. They are a huge responsibility though - you either need to have insurance or make sure you have savings in case they get sick and you can't go away for more than a night without making arrangements for them to be looked after.
 
ideally you want to get 2 kittens from the same litter as one cat will get lonely

Alternatively the OP could get a cat from an RSPCA/other rescue centre. Most of the cats I grew up with have been rescued in some way or other. My mum is even thinking of becoming a cat fosterererer! :p
 
Alternatively the OP could get a cat from an RSPCA/other rescue centre. Most of the cats I grew up with have been rescued in some way or other. My mum is even thinking of becoming a cat fosterererer! :p

you miss out on some of the best memories you could ever gain from a cat when they are kittens though,
although its probably possibly to get young cats from rspca/rescue places
 
you miss out on some of the best memories you could ever gain from a cat when they are kittens though,
although its probably possibly to get young cats from rspca/rescue places

There's many abandoned kittens in rescues. We got ours at 10 weeks, he's been found on a building site with his sister. We've also got a Persian from the the same rescue so it's also not just moggies they've got if you care about stuff like that.

All cats need homes, older cats are more needy I think as once they pass the "cute" phase people are less likely to adopt. They're just as loving and can have just as many antics as kittens.
 
if you decide to get a cat then go to a rescue center, cats and kittens are always being obandoned and telling your gf that you are giving a little kitten a home when nobody else wants him will be impossible to argue with :p
 
they are quite easy to look after one they stop craping inside.

ours sleeps through the day and goes out at night, so we feed it morning when it comes in and before it goes out. other than that we dont do anything.

make sure you get insurance, ours got hit by a car and we got a few nice bills totaling around £2000,best £7 a month we ever spent.

once your gf sees the kitten she will completly change her tune.
 
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