I adopted a special needs cat

[Perndog]

I can appreciate that it must hurt, but how do you get "awesome scars" from "surprisingly little visible damage"? Does it just start to look worse and worse every day because your cat has venomous teeth or something?

[FartinMowler]

My posts are often spastic and unwieldly

If you were a cat I know what I would do with you Kelly

[mburbank]

Pern, yeah, awesome scars is a huge exageration. That being said, the ones on my arm look worse than they did this morning, which is pretty much the way with cat scratches.

I mean I required no stitches or even butterfly bandages. I have been hurt way worse by animals. I think I must be some kind of masochist, because I've always loved animals, but have been hurt numerous times over the course of my life, twice bad enough to need stitching.

Like I said, I'm more concerned about Cordie who has as little sense as I did when I was her age, and mostly because this poor cat can't give you a warning before he starts whipping all over the place.

[DeadKennedys]

Originally Posted by Perndog

I can appreciate that it must hurt, but how do you get "awesome scars" from "surprisingly little visible damage"? Does it just start to look worse and worse every day because your cat has venomous teeth or something?

Actually, yeah. I was told there's something weird about cat saliva. Their bites are nasty, cause when mine was a kitten, he'd playfully bite and the next day my hand would look fucked up and red.

Originally Posted by ItalianStereotype

it's a cat, max, it's not going to carve your daughter up real tasty like.

Well, I once saw a cat's claw get stuck on a dog's eyeball when they were just messing around. Not a pretty sight

[mburbank]

Last night it bit my older daughter when she was trying to help it spaz down off the couch withouth bashing it's head in. This morning it peed and crapped in several places that were not the litter box. I think it is trying to tell us things aren't working out.

I feel terrible, but he's got to go back. The girls cried like crazy last night. My friend at the shelter says they'll foster him there until they can find someone for him and won't ice the poor bastard.

I think he needs a small confined space and maybe one person, which are things we can't give him.

And while I don't think a cat could kill you, I am here to tell you from personal experience (not this cat) that if a cat really wants to hurt you, it is nothing at all like the accidental and/or playful stuff they put you through, even when they are feeling grumpy.

[Perndog]

Sorry, Max. One of my friends had to give a cat back to a shelter after it didn't work out, and that was really sad. But we went back yesterday and she brought home a different one (hopefully without the same problems), and while we were there I met one that I want to adopt too, so I think I'm going to become a first-time pet owner soon.

[executioneer]

Originally Posted by Perndog

Sorry, Max. One of my friends had to give a cat back to a shelter after it didn't work out, and that was really sad. But we went back yesterday and she brought home a different one (hopefully without the same problems), and while we were there I met one that I want to adopt too, so I think I'm going to become a first-time pet owner soon.

just remember no sacrificies