is 9 pounds

was 9 pounds.

I'll give you £9 for Beans.

You will want thick gloves, a thick towel, and a container with lid to insert the cat into. Beans is not declawed, and knows you will struggle to maneuver under the bed. You may need a spray bottle of water as well.

Good luck.

I love eating chicken and beans

Fuck it, I'm getting another chicken.

My dog resource guards. I don't know if I'm supposed to do this but when she gets in that mood I feel it is important that she not "win". I'm thinking this would reinforce that behavior.

I get bit a lot.

Beans hunted that bird and took it back to her lair let beans have her feast! 😤😤

You should swap out the thing she has with something else of value. Treats, licky mat, toy, another piece of meat, whatever. This gets her used to something being taken off her and it not being a bad thing. Eventually the swap is just for praise or a pat, but for really valuable things you may still need something more valuable.

Good show, old bean.

same vibe

apex predator

That 1% Nacho kid is going to have a new goal.

declawed

I haven't yet had my fingertips snipped off either. Lovely euphemism for "mutilation of extremities".

Do you just go around looking to be offended?

I take offense to that.

No, I'm just a guy who doesn't hate cats.

I take offense to that. I'm a guy who hates cats but still doesn't think they should be declawed.

£1/lb for fresh cat? In this economy??

I cooked a lobster tail once, and our big alpha tomcat decided that he was just going to take it from me, right off my plate. I was more than willing to share, but he had other plans.

He had NEVER tried to steal anything before, he just really couldn't resist the smell of that lobster.

Beans would learn about the spray bottle that day. He would growl and be wet at the same time. Sad thing he knew he was not getting any of this without taking action so he took his chances. You may chastise him but he has already won

So what kind of violin did you make from him?

Not my Jake, he was a varmint, but we loved him. He took his job protecting us very seriously. But that lobster just smelled toooo good. I get it.

Bad deal. I got my beans for 30p

Beats getting another hand.

Our Cleo once grabbed a whole KFC drumstick, and managed to swallow it whole. That was one expensive evening at Kitty ER.

She also frickin LOVES Parmesan cheese. I caught her getting into a large cabinet, and in the back she had a stash of those little packets, like you get at a pizzeria.

No. Eyes don't match. So the whole movie monster fails. The terror of cat's eyes (specifically in the dark, when you can't determine size and distance of the cat) is hard coded into our brains. An evolutionary thing as "cats" for most of the time used to be on the upper end of the food chain and your chances of reproduction massively raised if you were the first one to spot the cat - and run for your live. Just look at the typical cartoon panel symbolizing the dark and dangerous unknown, a dark place with cat's eyes looking out. You'll be subtily terrified - if the shape and proportions match the "cat" scheme.

Beans is my spirit animal

Fuck you. Clipping animals to make them more human friendly is atrocious.

Right on, brother!

Me, looking up what declawing actually does: wtf that's not declawing, that's amputation!

Reading further: "can lead to behavioural issues" no shit, you don't say...

In this instance I agree with his point though. I don't see you walking around without fingertips.

But claws are the fun part!

Even the cats are splurging on rotiserie chickens in this economy?!

You should feed your cat more often.

They answered yes while creating a reason to be offended for having to answer yes.

Can't make this shit up. Impotent rage is some people's identity.

Greetings, fellow old person

Nine pounds apparently is around 4kg, that's well within the normal weight range for a cat, why are you calling beans out for it?

On a whole I don't support any sort of unnecessary bodily modification, declawing, tail bobbing, circumcisions, or whatever.

What bothers me is when people find it necessary to interject some unneeded drivel because of some passing word that's a perfectly well accepted term.

Every single day I see something from a pet owner that reaffirms how happy I am to not have pets.

I think the point was that a 9lb cat doesn't need 2-3lbs of food. Beans is choosing not to share.

The thick gloves protect you while you grab Beans and put him in the container.
And it's just always a good idea to carry a towel.

i think the point is that Beans has chosen to dedicate their entire weight to violence. they all know they outweigh Beans and shouldn't be afraid, but Beans has made Beans into the world's most dangerious teeny tiny little itty bitty kitty terrorist

My cat I got when he was a few months old.

Picked up from the street, would have died in the winter probably.

However I raised him to deny any of my food. He has its own food.

It was difficult the first 3 times. He begged for the food the whole time I ate. And even tried to get sth. But I was iron willed to keep my food.

The 4th time he never begged or tried to get sth.

And now I can even leave the food unattended for 2 minutes with him nearby and he won't try to get sth.

3 minutes is risky though.

A cat can have an entire rotisserie chicken as a treat.

I've raised dozen of strays I picked-up from the streets over my lifetime. None but one was food motivated enough to steal our food, and the orange one that did isn't so stubborn as to push his luck, a simple hush was enough to deter him.

Though I'm South-East Asian, most of our food is plant-based and the occasional meat we have is drenched in seasoning I don't think they recognize it as food lol.

ROAR

That poor greasy carpet...

Looks like hes splurging on it.