kitties and turbos are awesome.
 

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we should make a thread for everyones cats

I'd fill the server.

Rofl
I have a modest 5 cats

my bitch has a very sweet, affectionate 4-month old kitten she's trying to give away for the cost of her spaying. This cat is pretty baller and sweet, she loves people. PM me if you want it and know how to treat an animal.

How much shipped UPS to 28693?

I loled

Probably easy to strap it to a pallet and send it freight.

both of our cats were shipped.

Indeed, there is in fact a website where you can mail order cats and have them shipped. (I can't make this shit up.)

LIFESTYLE PETS

(Sadly, most available information seems to point to the company being, to some degree or another, a scam. But I find the concept intriguing.)

"Little bundles of love, in a box, mailed directly to your door"

Fixed

I wonder if they mail them with a device that has a 50% possibility of releasing deadly radiaton at some point during the shipping process.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...rs-lolcat1.jpg

OMG you posted it! :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

Not to your door, per se. You have to pick it up at the freight office of your nearest airport, just like if you're shipping regular counter-to-counter freight such as DeltaDash, SWAC, etc.

Most (or at least, many) commercial airlines do in fact offer shipment services for live animals. In addition, there are a couple of freight expediters who specialize in arranging animal shipments. Here, for instance, is Delta's fee schedule for domestic cargo shipment of live, warm-blooded animals: http://images.delta.com.edgesuite.ne...rm_blooded.pdf

This page gives some general guidelines, and offers links to quite a few airlines' and expediters animal cargo policies: Article: Shipping Your Pet


I genuinely am saddened by the fact that Allerca seems to be a scam. (And yet surprised that despite all of the bad press I've read, they do still seem to exist, at least in name.) I first found out about them a couple of years ago, and truthfully, was pretty psyched about the fact that I might finally be able to have a cat in the house full-time. The basic science of the idea is sound (selective breeding to eliminate the genetic marker for Fel d 1 protein secretion) but it would appear that, as of this point, nobody has actually succeeded in taking the idea to the production stage.


As it stands, I need to find a Russian Blue or Siberian breeder and see if I can spend some quality time exposing myself to their dams.




EDIT: Full_Tilt_Boogie, you are the man! :D (But for the record, it's poison that kills the cat, released or not depending upon whether a radioactive isotope decayed and emitted a neutron into a detector.)

YouTube - PetsOverNight.com - Grand Theft Auto III

You guys have to play more Grand Theft Auto....

Petsovernight.com. "Delivering little bundles of love, in a box, directly to your door.."


omg, awesome.
http://www.rockstargames.com/grandth...petsOvernight/

One of ours came that way. The other was in a carry-on bag.

You need a bengal housecat.

http://www.kingsmarkfarms.com/bengal...lden%20cat.jpg

Kingsmark Bengals & Serengeti Cats

Huh. I'd heard of Bengals, but I never realized that they were one of the lower-allergen breeds.

Only reason I don't have a cat is I'm allergic. Never diagnosed, but I can't pet them w/o remembering to wash my hands. If not and I somehow touch my face, I need to find the benedryl fast! Sneezing, itchy runny eyes and nose. Helps clear the sinus I guess.


All you cat people have any suggestions? I'm not home enough to really have a dog. In summer I'm only home the 6 hours I need to sleep +/- 2 or 3.

Would love a pet but I live alone and figured my "budget friendly" thermostat settings wouldn't be too kind to a pet. Currently, it's 49*F in here... and yes, I'm insane. Last summer when I moved in I ran the A/C a few times, but generally the temp is somewhere in the 80's inside w/ windows open.

Would a cat find a warm place and just deal w/ it, or is that torture?

49* is nothing for a cat, honestly, just make sure it has a bed to curl up on. Its the wind/snow that would actually hurt the thing. We have had 3 strays brought in in the winters here in fargo, ND, one during feburary, so it was living for a few weeks in - temps.

As for our cat, we do keep the t-stat off during the day, but we have amazing insulation, so the temp is at least 55+ in the winter. The heat will be an issue more than anything, but 80 isn't too bad.

I would just get the cat a bed, and put it somewhere comfy, maybe a couch or something. Our cat loves hers.

they are? I just thought they were cool enough to suffer with.

Obviously not starving :-D

Also, 4th night in the row the cat decided to curl up next to the turbo for night time. She must really love those things.

My kitty (no, he does not like you!):

http://www.lightweightmiata.com/misc/lolcat.jpg

Joe you need an Ocicat, they don't have an undercoat so no allergies. They are Hepa approved :D

When I had mine it came on United airlines from LA to San Jose in a kitty carrier. Meanest SoB I ever owned, I sent it back 4 months later and found out it had to be put down. :(

http://www.pet-spot.com/blog/wp-cont.../07/ocicat.jpg

this isn't entirely true. the allegens from a cat are from their saliva and the sebaceous glands.

It is, in fact, 100% untrue.

The most common allergen produced by cats is a protein molecule called Fel d 1. This protein exists (as Mach said) in the saliva, and in the glands of the skin which produce the oily sebum. Because of cats' obsessive self-grooming regimen, large quantities of the protein are transferred to the coat from the saliva, which is most likely from whenst came this business about dander, undercoat, etc. Even a hairless cat produces Fel d 1 in their skin, transfers more of it to their coat from their saliva, and then sheds it onto damn near everything they come into contact with. So do Rexes, Ocicats, and every other member of F. silvestris catus.

The best you can do is to seek out breeds which are known to produce levels of Fel d 1 which are significantly lower than the norm. Such breeds include the Russian blue and the Siberian cat, despite the fact that the latter has an amazingly rich, thick, three-layered coat.

Thats the kind of cat you feed live food.