My dog goes outside to piss and shit. He’s a very good boy.
Sure, I’ll take him out for walks once I’m up but, to be honest, I need the exercise as much as he does.
this is fake news. puppygirls for example do not like going out in blizzard.
I just want to hate having cats in peace but everyone in my life including landlords and family insists on having the maximum number of cats.
as a lesbian i sympathize
So, have an invigorating walk with your buddy or wake up with red eyes and a runny nose, but at least you were warm and comfortable?
Im not allergic to pets.
Are you claiming dog people who are being forced to walk through blizzards don’t get sick or something?
Does this happen to people who aren’t allergic?
It can but my body adapted after a few weeks. Others may not be so lucky.
Nothing wakes a cat owner faster than the sound of hyuk hyuk HYUK HYUUURK on the only piece of carpet in the house.
my cat likes to fake hyuk ON THE BED and then turn and look at us like “so you’re up! and my food bowl is mysteriously empty!”
I hope my cat doesn’t learn that trick.
True, but also no slop water drinking or wet dog smell. Give and take
Or a dog owner
Idunno, my flatmate has a dog and he’s never woken me up like that. The dog has though
Yeah I’m a cat person and when I go outside in the snow I want to go alone. No brown or yellow snow, no winpering because their paws are too cold. Just me and some crisp solitude.
Dog shoes my friend. They make fleece, rain boots, waterproof winter, lots of choices. I found a local grandma that makes them but they’re also sold at pet stores.
My last dog wouldn’t wear them. He was a rescue so I didn’t know his background, but if you touched his paws he freaked out!
No brown or yellow snow
you’re really missing out. can’t let the dogs have all the fun
You do you boo. One of my best memories is seeing my puppy frolick in the show for the first time. Just getting up the mountain is a bitch with him in the car.
Imagine sleeping in cat hair tho
Imagine doing laundry? Yeah the fur sheds, but you just clean more often to compensate, it’s fine.
Nah you can’t do laundry fast enough to not sleep in fur constantly. My dog has his own bed and he’s short haired and still I have have several air purifiers and clean at least once per day to maintain everything. So people who sleep with cats are straight up hoarder territory of nasty imo lol - tho I don’t judge as connecting with an animal like this might be well worth the mess for some people.
imagine not
Done
I find dogs shed significantly more than cats in general.
They smell a lot worse, too.
In my experience it depends. Most cats smell better, but I had one cat that wasn’t great at cleaning herself and definitely had a bit of a stink
Conversely, my dog is a northern breed and doesn’t have much natural smell, plus he likes to roll in my fresh sheets, so he usually smells like fabric softener
Y’all in this thread need to get yourselves automatic feeders and start putting out wet food during awake times and not the crack of dawn.
I will never understand letting your pets dictate wakeup hours, except in the special circumstance that it’s a puppy because they can’t hold their bladder. My cats have never woken me up for food. In fact my cats and dogs have always known that if they annoy me, I will stay in bed longer out of spite. I will wake up and lay in bed until I am ready to get up, and no pet is going to annoy me into feeding them. The closest I’ve ever had to a pet waking me up is my current golden who doesn’t wake me up for food, he wakes me up to cuddle, but is fine if I go back to sleep.
It’s not about what you feed them or when, it’s about setting boundaries. We feed canned food morning and night. Our pets sleep on the bed, and know they will get their food when I’m ready to be awake.
My cat knows she only gets food when I get up.
Once she gets hungry she doesn’t give a fuck about that and starts messing with everything next to the bed. I never give in to that and just put her outside the bedroom, but next time she will try doing it again anyway. She’s determined to get her food, even if her ways have never worked. She might just be doing it out of spite tbh.
As far as my cats are concerned, any time there’s not wet food available is awake time.
They make auto wet feeders now too, apparently…
Cats rule.
You’re funny. The cat woke me up for food is the reason the dog got to pee outside before the sun came up.
my wife woke me up for food (we shared the last bagel. it had no garlic) and it’s the reason the cats got extra snuggles this morning
This but with my cat standing on my chest screaming in my face for no reason
Lucky. Your cat faces you while standing on your chest screaming its head off. I wake up to the 'ol one eye winker.
On occasion though, that pic is accurate and so worth it.
Right before the unprovoked slash attack
Can’t argue with that; I’m nursing some scratches from this morning.
Make it 5, and only one or two are screaming. The rest are nipping at my fingers or nose, throwing paws in my mouth or on my eyes, or circling around my legs. All because we want breakfast, and breakfast time is “whenever moms alarm goes off, or we wake her up”.
the cat: “wake up and feed me instead of strangling me”
Smelly baby
Rainy season means this house gonna smell! Oude de wet dog!
My dog doesn’t have a shit box in my house that I have to clean constantly. That makes up for the 3 months it’s a little cold out.
Why don’t we just train dogs to use a litter box? 🤔
Or a toilet? One of my previous cats used the toilet all on her own. If she could figure it out without help, surely training a dog should be easy enough.
I trained my dog on a litter box. She only pees in it. I’m very glad I did.
However, I’m fortunate enough to have a basement I could put it in where it’s out of sight.
- I don’t train my dog to use a litter box because I don’t want to clean out a shit box.
- You probably could train one to use the toilet, but you’d probably need to make some modifications to make it possible. I don’t see most breeds of dogs being able to balance themselves quite well enough for things to work 😅
That’s a thing and people.do, especially apartment dwellers. Dogs learn it quick too.
It’s just no one would have an animal shit in a box in the house unless they absolutely had to.
Oh…
Clearly you don’t live as far north as I do. :P
Nah, it gets plenty cold here, I’m mostly just playing around with the classic dog people vs cat people war.
I’m fortunate to have a fenced yard and a dog that absolutely does not fuck with the cold. He’s out, does his duty, then back in within like 2 minutes.
Well, for reference, the city I currently live in has a -19C/-3F minimum average temperature.
I generally prefer cats over dogs for other reasons, though.
Are you saying you don’t clean up after your dog? Otherwise, you’re cleaning up shit daily. Litter boxes are not typically cleaned daily(constantly) and they make auto litter boxes that clean themselves.
There are reports that those automatic litter boxes are not safe for cats. Don’t use them.
Litter boxes are not typically cleaned daily
Your house smells like cat shit, you are simply nose blind to it. Please clean up after your cat shits.
None of that makes what I said untrue. I don’t even have cats, lol.
Then let me tell you as a cat owner, that you should clean litter boxes (at least) once per day 😅
What are you smoking? You need to clean litter boxes daily.
And your claim is that most everyone does?
Small dog in a fenced yard, picking up after him is a non issue. His business breaks down in a matter of a couple of weeks and there’s never enough to become a problem. If he goes while on a walk, i pick it up.
His business breaks down in a matter of a couple of weeks and there’s never enough to become a problem.
Your yard and shoes smell like dog shit, you’re simply nose blind to it. Please clean up after your dog shits.
Have we met? You have absolutely no basis to make that claim. My yard and shoes smell fine, my sense of smell is fantastic. Why don’t you worry about your own yard rather than making assumptions about mine?
I don’t have a yard. Now who’s making assumptions, hmmm?
It’s just your specific case. If you have an outdoor cat you also don’t have to maintain a cat toilet.
I don’t think it’s good to have outdoor cats. They’re very destructive to small animals (songbirds included) in the area.
No, I’m representative of all dog owners. If a cat is left outside, it is technically a form of mountain lion, which does not count.
Dogs rool, cats drool.
No, they just come and shit in my yard instead.
The neighbours cats have made it their goal to shit in our vegetable garden and buying the little turd there. I dislike them as much as people that dont pick up after their dogs.
Squirrels, chipmunks and rabbits must also piss you off. Also bears.
What do you mean “no”? Your cat-owning neighbors don’t maintain a cat toilet, do they? Just as a said, so “yes”.
No, as in they dont have to maintain their outdoor cat.
I get to do that instead. Oh joy for me.
Is scooping poo out of a box daily really any worse than bagging it up on a walk daily?
Bagging it up on a walk is decidedly worse than scooping it out of a litter box if the dog happens to have diarrhea. At least the litter clumps up, making cleanup much easier…
Good luck training a dog to use the box consistently though.
Especially with big dogs where you’re picking up fresh, steaming, human-sized turds with nothing but a few microns of plastic between it and your hand.
For big dogs, I wear boots and kick the dookie into a fine mist against my neighbors houses as a disposal method. I have warrants in 3 states.
Fenced yard with a small dog, so I don’t have to pick it up on the daily, only if he poops on a walk.
Having it in the house constantly coating everything (usually clean laundry) with a dusting of poo is definitely worse.
I’d say the weather is a factor
they have the genuine automatic litterbox that arent death traps, i see people hating scooping up poo use those.
My cat’s winter workout is walking from bed to food bowl and back.
Lol, you got me… But my dog would die for me. It’s my honor to walk her in the snow. In fact, I’m hardly even worthy.
You would be surprised by a cats loyalty.
My cat would die for me too. He’s my little one-eyer one-brain-cell angel
Aww. Snuggle pirate
My cat would kill for me. Innocent people. Minding their own business.
Did you copy paste my cat? He is an orange pirate as well
My cat went up against a dog that was twice his size because it was fucking with our other cat. He didn’t even like our other cat.
Adorable! My cat looks just like him. He is a rare neurologic FIP survivor, my miracle baby.
