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You just angered a lot of cat people
by vedaba 5mo ago
You just angered a lot of cat people
- delecti 5mo agoIn my experience most people lovingly refer to their cats in negative-sounding ways. One of the terms of endearment we used for our most recent cat was "stinky little piss baby". I think most cat owners are well aware that they're unsanitary creatures.
- jjtheblunt 5mo agodog person here : they're unsanitary how? they constantly fastidously clean themselves, from what i see. dogs roll in rotting anything for sport.
- delusional 5mo agoI suppose they're unsanitary in the same way all animals that aren't humans are: They don't was their hands? Cats don't strike me a particularly dirty creatures. They're not exactly clean and well groomed from nature, but no animal really is.
- jjtheblunt 5mo ago> they're unsanitary in the same way all animals that aren't humans are: they don't was[h] their hands Raccoons say "hold my beer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLuR7a-hPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLuR7a-hPs
- kevin_thibedeau 5mo agoIf you covered yourself in spit would that be sanitary?
- jjtheblunt 5mo agoyou just made me wonder if the fact we sweat serves a similar purpose as your spit covering example. (i don't know, but you triggered a thought!)
- imp0cat 5mo agoNope, it's evaporative cooling (like a swamp cooler) for your body.
- jjtheblunt 5mo agothat's only the famous part of the story, though. here's what i was thinking...presence of protein lysing enzymes in sweat as a protective mechanism. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874391917300064 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187439191...
- jjtheblunt 5mo agocheck this out: it's super interesting, even the air is full of genetic material https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
- Jtsummers 5mo agoIf your housecat stinks, it's likely unhealthy or you're not providing it with a clean litterbox or you have insufficient litterboxes for the number of cats you have.
- bluefirebrand 5mo agoCalling your cat stinky does not actually mean they smell bad
- delecti 5mo agoHe got the nickname while he was dying of cancer. He had stopped grooming himself because of his medications. So you aren't entirely wrong, but rest assured that we were agonizingly aware of the ways in which he was unhealthy.