Mr. Hyde for Sale - Cheap!

“You're a cat owner. You go by their schedule, not them to yours. This is basic cat info here you should already know this stuff. LOL!”

“Oh geez, are y'all gonna start the big "Cat vomit vs. dog poop" flame war?”

“I think we need a vote....what is worse...Maybe I should start a vote thread ;)”

“Can we do one of those ever so meaningful on-line polls?



On the plus side, I just got an email saying that my AirZooka has shipped!!”

“The AirZooka arrived yesterday!!!

Haven't had a chance to put it together yet ("some assembly required").

I think Mr. Hyde saw the box for it because he was so quiet that I couldn't sleep, worrying about what he was up to!”

“My pup pissed on the freakin BED today. Needless to say, He's having a puppy time out in his room right now.”

“Get him checked for a bladder infection. That type of behavior usually means something like that is wrong.”

“LOL! Let me know how it goes, PM.”

“worrying about what he was up to!”
PowltryMan
3:21:26 PM
11/01/05


this will be the start of his revenge upon you. getting all his friends to help LOL

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“OMG! How am I going to sleep now?!”

“Poor Mr. Hyde. I feel your pain tho Bowlder. Lu-meister likes to wake me up too. By not settling down, or walking over my body, licking my nose or over at her litter box, digging and digging. It's frustrating.”

“The AirZooka has been assembled...







...and it is good.








However, believe it or not, my own family was - get this - laughing at me when I was putting it together. Just wait until they least expect anything....
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“I take it you're not exactly the "handy" type? Is this why they were laughing?

Or was it more of the "grown man assembling child's toy" type thing?”

“Isn't he an Engineer?
An Engineer is always 'handy'. ;-)”

“The laughing was due to the fact that I had obtained this thing at all. I only had minor difficulties assembling it. Oh, and I'm a civil engineer, so that doesn't help me too much assembling stuff....”

“One would think. But I've seen "engineers" who couldn't put up a level shelf.

With the help of my brother, I cleared two of my gutter downspouts yesterday. One was just a little clogged, but the other had 4 feet of matted leaves and debris in it. It took about 45 minutes to clear that one, using a drain snake and a hosepipe.”

“Oh..................

.........a Civil...........

That explains a lot....
;-)”

“You'll understand when Mr. Hyde laughs at you. There is no worse sound in the universe than a cat laughing uproarously.”

“Yeah, when they really start laughing they cough up hairballs!


Hey, will Mr. Hyde fit into the AirZooka?”

“Naw, for that you'd need one of these:

”

“I wonder how far a cat...”

“Well, if you grease him up real good...pretty far I bet.”

“They have a word to describe people who grease cats: Stumpy!”

“That's why Pam was invented...”

“I can't assemble anything either...and I'm another civil engineer. I didn't score well on the spatial analysis test that was given pre-college, so I knew better than go to into mechanical engineering!

Hopefully you don't scare Mr. Hyde too much, just enough to shut him up at 3AM!”

“He was watching me put it together, too. He wasn't impressed....”

“I'm ready to launch Little Bit. She's decided to take care of business at the front of the living room, on the carpet. Nuggets I can handle but I've had to soak the carpet with enzyme treatments to get rid of the pee smell.”

“I'd launch a cat for doing that too. Thus far I've never had to deal with it.”

“...3, 2, 1....

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“LOL areo...that's a good pic.

As long as we are punishing cats, I have a bad cat....

Tunces was driving me to the liquor store again yesterday, and again, drive off another huge cliff. Wrecked my car, put me in the chair.
”

“So did the Airzooka work? Enquiring minds need to know.”

“The AirZooka works if I can hit him with the blast of air. The problem is that he has learned to stay under the bed and meow, where I can't nail him with it. When he wants to go out into the hallway, he runs like hell!

The peepee and poopoo issues are completely solved. When we last left our intrepid pet owner (actually, this was before the meowing issue I think), Mr. Hyde was peeing on the garage floor. He had stopped pooping in the box long ago, although would usually poop right next to it.

Two possible solutions were to completely move his litter boxes to a new location (to sort of re-awaken him to their purpose), and/or to start him on the anti-kitty-alzheimers meds. We had to move the boxes anyway due to remodeling, and also started him on the meds. He has not only peed in the box with only one exception (during a party), he now has started pooping in the box again!”

“Meow!!”

“What's the name of that med? I have the same problems now with my cat and I plan to go to the vet about it.”

“Cholodon, I think.”

“Mr. Hyde, glad you've found use for the litter box again, now just quit that meowing!! Its annoying!”

“what's mr hyde in people's years, like 110?

if i live to be 110 i'll scream, schit, and piss when and where i want too!”

“According to the chart at the vet, he's 94! At this age, he ages at a rate of 4-to-1. On April 1st, he'll be 19 (96).”

“my point still stands.”

“Yep, I'd schit & piss anywhere I like as well. It would suck to live that long though.”

“If I'm still in as good of shape as Mr. Hyde is when I'm 94, then I'll gladly live that long!”

“What I don't understand is why you can't close the bedroom door to keep the cat out.”

“Cats "have accidents" not out of spite but due to anxiety or sickness. You removed his anxiety, he uses the box. Congrats on the success story.

PS, I don't recommend relocating boxes in general. For most cats it's a given they'll potty where the box was. They even recommend if you need to change the location to move it a foot or so every couple of days until it reaches it's new location. (Convenient, eh? LOL!)”

“Obviously, the cat has BowlderMan under his mental control so this idea never comes to mind.”

“Stove, closing the door would just make him meow and scratch at the door - much worse than dealing with what he was/is doing! Plus, our bedroom door has about 137 coats of paint on it and won't close all the way, so he could push it open anyway.

Pix, there wasn't any anxiety in his life prior to moving the boxes (the remodeling hadn't started), and they did tests to see if there was any kidney or other problems to cause him to just pee on the floor. That's why the vet suggested the two options.

I like the idea of gradually moving it (them, actually - I understand you should have one more box than cats, so Mr. Hyde has two boxes) to its new location, which we'll do before too long when the remodeling is done.”

“Lu has two boxes too... Picky little creatures.

Mr. Hyde could have had some anxiety you didn't know about. My vet told me a story once about how one of his cats started peeing on the floor and he couldn't figure out what was bothering her. (no medical probs either.) Then one day he saw her in the room she was peeing in and there was a big evil cat in the window harassing her. That was the source of her anxiety... So who knows what's going on in their lives...”

“One of my cats had a lot of anxiety yesterday - she was playing in a plastic grocery bag and got it caught around her. My cats live with my fiance, so he got quite a kick out of it. At least I know my other cat loves her, he apparently came over to clean her when all was said and done. LOL!”