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How To Bathe A Cat

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Please don't bathe the cat. I don't bathe my Siamese and he smells fine and is perfectly clean. Because: They bathe themselves. They're not retarded dogs. Please leave it alone. You will make its life a living hell and s/he will be traumatized and hate you.

Comb the cat to rid it of excess fur if you like.

Simple rule, if the cat doesn't want to, don't make it.

Protect yourself with furniture/floor covers (you can buy them at Petsmart or similar), proper claw trimmers specifically made for feline claw trimming(DO NOT EVER DECLAW) and do not trim too close to the root of its claws, assigned cat space - one s/he chooses, stay tfo, the cat will respect you if you respect the cat.

Work on a few basic commands and questions.

Things like c'mere, c'mere?, and Come. Here., work well for me and my cat.

Teach it 'good cat/boy/girl' and 'bad', and 'bad cat'.

Never yell loudly at the cat.

A very important one for it to know is 'it's okay'.

It will learn your facial expressions as you say them and help it to determine your mood. You may pet it or give some other kind of body language to help it understand what you mean.

Don't expect it to respond to verbal commands right away if at all. You may need to ask several times, or even beg.


Cats are willful, mostly independent creatures. Do not try to overpower them.
Cats require negotiation, which requires you develop communication skills with your cat.

Cats absolutely DO grow to care deeply for their owners.

My cat is my best friend. He's healthy, happy and actually obedient 85-90% of the time. That took some time. Years. But only a fraction compared to the many more having an awesome friendship with him.

When he is scared he runs to me. If I get scared or upset he comes and lays in my lap to make me feel better.

You have a lot more time to be here than it does. Protect and love it, and it will love you.

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i'm tired of chasing the happiness myth

DocteurRalph wrote:
I just can't relate. I've never had any problem being happy, this whole soul sucking life thing doesn't make sense. I think maybe you are trying to live up to some ideal that someone else planted in your head about who you have to be or what you have to accomplish in order to be happy. Forget all that. If you're not cold and hungry you are doing fine, smile about it. Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone.

That's cause the world is full of fake people who don't give a ****shit about you enough to bother giving up enough of their time to get to know your problems. I understand that and don't expect you to cause I don't give a ****shit about you enough to give up my time either. It is the miracle of places like this that people come together and bother listening to some ******fucked up stranger anyway. But if what you say is even possibly remotely true, i promise you everyone is crying alone then.

As for you, you freak, bottle that happiness ****shit and sell it cause you're not the only one who doesn't look around and see that life is full of ****shit, but if you're not crying you outta be selling. Stop being selfish.

Seriously though, if you're walking around and nothing has ever bothered you you're a freak.

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I knew I'd go grey.

PepperJ wrote:
I liked mine too :)I could "see" them before they were there, and it made me happy.

I'm glad you will have smile lines instead of frown lines :)

after reading this reply, something tells me hair isn't all you're seeing when it's not really there either. pass whatever drugs you're on over here i need some of that... lol

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I knew I'd go grey.

Araz wrote:

PepperJ wrote:
I will also agree that having a face that looks happy and shows laugh lines over the years is optimal.

Iโ€™m 32 and when I laugh or smile hard, I can kind of see little laugh lines around my eyes. Theyโ€™re not deep, but I can definitely see where they will be permanently in the future. I actually like them ๐Ÿ˜Š

32 wasn't bad for me either. i wasn't sweatn wrinkles Very much anyway. give it bout 5 years.


it's weird though isn't it? that grey hairs might bother me more than wrinkles? i think when i get wrinkles i'm going to assert my elder wisdom on all the stupid people. with my cane. and i won't mind if it takes giving you instructions multiple times with it either!!!

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I knew I'd go grey.

smiley wrote:

Araz wrote:
Theyโ€™re not wrinkles, theyโ€™re laugh lines ๐Ÿ˜Š

Thanks. Unfortunately, my forehead has been laughing since I was 19. I'm not a grumpy person, but these look more like angry eyebrows lines.

Maybe I needed to look more serious, and not be Smiley so much.

I don't recommend faking a smile(even tho i do it all the time) it's soul crushing. If you can genuinely smile, no you don't need to stop. Tell us how.

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I knew I'd go grey.

smiley wrote:
Its all how you look at it.

Now that I'm older, I've got a really cool silver stripe in my mouse-brown hair. I'm more cushiony for my children and pets to hug and snuggle. Sometimes an ache or pain will slow me down and make me take time to look around and think, not just go go go.

I haven't yet come up with a positive way of looking at wrinkles. Can anyone help me out?

No. I've noticed those too I'm just bracing for impact for the day I wake up and realize they've taken over my face. And everything else. I don't notice wrinkles even on really old people much so I could be wrong when I say I think they'd just make me look ugly. Maybe it's just cause it's me I'm thinking of and not anyone else.

But at least with wrinkles you're undeniably old or older. You can tell newer people what life was like without smart phones and virtual reality? Like our olders told us about walking 10ft in the snow?(which I still believe is highly exaggerated)

So I guess the only good thing about wrinkles is maybe people will be understanding when I'm a grumpy old man. For some reason dumb f*ks can't understand why I'm already a grumpy man. Maybe grumpy old man just makes more sense to stupid people?

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I knew I'd go grey.

Nix wrote:

TheClue wrote:
Actually its in your DNA from your family to how fast you go grey and loose your hair and sometimes your teeth. One of my friends was going bald in high school his great grandfather was almost bald at 20 with a comb over not much you can do about it. It doesnt mean that your going to die faster it just means you can thank your gene pool. :-)

your probably right there, my dads friend started going grey at 25.... he did just get married though.....

thtat's just funny. and you're probably right.

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I knew I'd go grey.

smiley wrote:

pinocchiothepuppet wrote:
This really isn't a post about grey hair. I mean it is, and the advice about dying is great, but I'm more worried bout DYING.

I don't want the grey cause it means I'm getting too old too fast.

I don't want to dye or die.

I don't want to be old and grey yet but it's already too late.

gerying early in your teens doesn't count lol.

Given some of the poor choices I've made in my life, I consider my grey hair to be an accomplishment.

I might too. If I knew what the feeling of accomplishment felt like.

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I knew I'd go grey.

TheClue wrote:
Actually its in your DNA from your family to how fast you go grey and loose your hair and sometimes your teeth. One of my friends was going bald in high school his great grandfather was almost bald at 20 with a comb over not much you can do about it. It doesnt mean that your going to die faster it just means you can thank your gene pool. :-)

I told you greying young doesn't count. But you at least made me feel better. I made it to 37 before noticing any. I guess I could probably go ahead and thank that gene pool now haha

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I knew I'd go grey.

This really isn't a post about grey hair. I mean it is, and the advice about dying is great, but I'm more worried bout DYING.

I don't want the grey cause it means I'm getting too old too fast.

I don't want to dye or die.

I don't want to be old and grey yet but it's already too late.

gerying early in your teens doesn't count lol.

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