People who want to "set and forget" a living thing under their care should have a houseplant, not a pet.

It irks me that so many people get cats because they see them as "low maintenance" when in reality they require a lot of care. You need to change their litter, clean up after them (often they vomit), vacuum cat hair, play with them, feed them, take them to the vet, etc. You can't just forget about them and only remember them when you want to pet something soft (and even if you do, they will probably bite and scratch you if you try).

So many cat people living in filth because they don't take proper care of their animal. Or they force other people to care for their cat by letting it roam outside onto other people's property and destroy it because they are lazy assholes who shouldn't be allowed to have a pet. And if cats aren't stimulated enough they can become destructive.

What do you think about this? I think they like being abused by a smaller being as they themselves are abusers in human environments.

Sorry this is long but I feel at my wit's end. My husband's cat is constantly going outside of her litterbox. My husband adopted this cat about 12 years ago and they didn't know her exact age at the time; only estimated it to be ~2 years. So she's maybe around 14. She didn't have any issues for a very long time but around 6 years ago she started going occasionally outside the box. Both pee and poop.

I do not like cats and never wanted a cat but he got this cat before we were married while we were dating. I was against it but we were long distance at that point and he claimed he was lonely and wanted a pet. I mention this to explain why I've been relatively hands off. After marriage we established that this is his cat and his responsibility.

~10 years ago: when we first got married and I moved in I found that he only cleaned the litter once every 1.5 or 2 weeks. I approached him and told him this was not an acceptable level of care and I've been stepping in to clean it b/c that's disgusting and not fair to the cat. He started cleaning once every week.

8 y ago: I got her an enclosed, top entry box cause she made a mess everywhere while scattering. He's still only doing the bare minimum and not cleaning the scattered litter. He started slipping on cleaning once a week and it was still not enough so I told him to please do at the very least twice a week. I also had to tell him to switch out all the litter once in a while cause it got so bad the ammonia smell would sting your eyes when cleaning it. I'm still stepping in occasionally to clean cause he's so lazy about it.

6 y ago: cat starts peeing and pooping outside the box a bit. He doesn't notice it. I'm spending hours carpet cleaning. The cat urine smell just is not coming out of the carpet and is driving me nuts. We keep fighting about it but he doesn't change anything. I say I'm 100% done cleaning litterbox at all.

For the next 3 years or so this state of things continues until I lose it and tell him I just cannot clean up after this cat anymore. It's HIS responsibility and HE needs to clean them up. He gets better about cleaning up the messes but he just "doesn't see them". And I believe him. He really doesn't fking see it. This man can be staring at the fridge and ask me where the butter is and it's literally right in front of him. He's so blind about everything. So many times I'll tell him "the cat shit in the living room".... only to hear a couple minutes later "where?" At which point I have to go point it out to him.

There was one esp egregious time when I stood 6 ft away from the cat shit on the carpet and gestured towards it to point it out to him. He still didn't see it. I cannot believe how fking blind he is. How do you even fix that? Not to mention the harder to spot pee spots. He's hopeless at seeing those. And no, this isn't a vision issue. He can read things further away than I can. I don't even know how it's possible to be his level of blind. Ugh!

1 y ago: I told him if I don't see him making a genuine effort to clean up after this cat, we are getting rid of her. I am at a breaking point with this whole "not seeing it" shit and he's clearly slipping on cleaning the box, and not thoroughly checking for accidents. He's not trying hard enough. So if he doesn't step the fk up, this cat is gone. I'm crying saying this to him b/c I may not like cats in particular but I am an animal lover. I never want to be one of those people who take on the responsibility of caring for an animal and then casting it aside. Besides, this cat is not that bad for a cat, all things considered. She doesn't yowl, doesn't randomly bite or scratch, doesn't destroy furniture, doesn't bother you constantly for attn. It's JUST the pee and poop thing. She still uses the box, it's just SOME of the time she goes outside.

But I'm so worn thin at this point. After that talk he now cleans the litter box every day and we got a second box. She stops peeing outside the box as much but now is increasing the pooping. She's pooping outside the box multiple times a day now. My husband has not gotten lazy about cleaning since the talk. I still have to point out spots to him but I've long since accepted his blindness.

But now the poop is so ubiquitous it's driving me nuts. I was vacuuming and nudged aside a bag on the floor with the vacuum. Surprise, there was cat shit behind it. Vacuum got shit all over the motorhead. Today I was picking up some fallen leaves from my potted plant and surprise! Cat shit amongst the leaves that blended in so I got cat shit on my hands.

I think the biggest thing that makes me angry at this point is that he doesn't try to seek out solutions. Doesn't research why, or how to prevent, or anything. He just cleans up the mess after the fact and has no thought towards fixing the problem.

I feel so done with this cat. Yet I feel sorry for it to kick it out and blame my husband for making me feel this way. Idk what to do at this point. We've fought so much about this cat...

“It’s the circle of life.”

“It’s just one bird out of billions.”

“They’re just being cats.”

““They’re predators. It’s what they do.”

I can curate a whole fucking list atp. I’ve heard the same tired, recycled excuses and phrases a thousand times. I genuinely don’t care.

These cat nutters will literally pull any excuse out of their ass to justify cats’ behavior and everything they do. Anything to avoid being held accountable and taking responsibility for the damage their cats cause. Apparently, both become optional when the animal in question is a cat.

Cat nutters act like cats have some God-given place in every ecosystem's food chain, as though being a predator automatically entitles them to terrorize and destroy wildlife wherever they please.

Well, sorry, but times have changed. Maybe cats had a place in the food chain 10,000+ YEARS AGO, but we’re talking about their WILD ANCESTORS, not the domestic house cats people keep as pets today. 🤦

So, bottom line, domestic cats aren’t wild animals, they’re invasive and have no place and serve no role in the ecosystem.

“But still cats need freedom and they’re predators, they need to hunt!” 🥺

Then do your fucking job as their owner and provide them with appropriate enrichment instead of expecting the local wildlife AND your neighbors’ peace to pay the price for your negligence and laziness.

Why are we acting like natural instincts are something exclusive or unique to cats and cats only?

Literally every pet has natural instincts, but somehow, cats’ instincts are treated as more special and deserving of endless excuses and special treatment. Cat owners should be held to the same expectations and standards of responsible pet ownership and accountability as everyone else instead of getting a free pass to excuse their cats’ behavior under the guise of “natural instincts.” Don’t get mad or offended when someone else finally takes matters into their own hands and does what you should’ve done as a responsible pet owner.

Also, wolves, coyotes, and other animals are often euthanized, killed, or culled for attacking livestock or other animals, even including cats. Yet when cats go on these killing sprees and repeatedly kill and torment birds and other wildlife, suddenly it’s all “they’re just following their natural instincts.”

Your orange tabby cat does not need to be outside “hunting for its next meal”when it literally has a full bowl of Fancy Feast at home. Be so fucking serious right now.

Am I supposed to be jumping for joy that your cats are making my yard filthy and terrorizing and killing the birds at my feeders?!

Like, hooray! A fat-ass, ugly, overfed cat is camp farming my bird feeders!

Apparently, I’m supposed to find it adorable rather than irritating and disgusting that someone else’s annoying cat is turning my yard into its personal hunting ground and litter box.

Also, if you choose to feed stray cats, you don’t get to conveniently wash your hands of all responsibility by claiming, “Oh, they’re not my cats. I’m just feeding them.” What’s the difference?

You don’t get to encourage them to loiter while pretending you have absolutely no responsibility for the consequences. You cannot have it both ways. If you’re going to take it upon yourself to feed the stray cats, then take immediate responsibility of the situation instead of leaving everyone else to deal with the consequences.

Some of y’all are taking the whole fictional concept of Warrior Cats way too literally. Your house cat is not going to be the next Fireheart, but it might be the next face on a missing cat poster.

Why did I see people on here bragging about the fact that they hardly had to clean their cats box because it was going outside. WHERE outside? Just their yard? Or did it go into the neighbors yard to poop and pee?

Why is it normalized in our society to just let pet cats roam around unsupervised? They kill the local wildlife, they do their business in other peoples yards/garden beds and they’re at risk themselves. It’s all bad!

I’ve seen the argument that you can’t control wild animals from coming into your yard but cats are not wild animals so what is the correlation? If this was another pet doing this they would be pissed but since it’s their kitty it’s fine and dandy? It’s so inconsiderate of others.

I know if I posted this anywhere else I’d be flamed so I came here.

I recently got my first home a year ago and had I known that one of the neighbours on my row had 9 cats I wouldn't have bought the house.

There's been a lot of cat-related issues in the past year (on top of my own health issues - I was recovering from surgery when I moved in) and it's been hell trying to keep her cats and stray cats out of my garden

In a nutshell, I do not want to be picking up their business, seeing them in my garden or walking across the top of my garden fence like on a tightrope anymore and I do not want to be subjected to the sounds they make when mating/SA'ing each other (which I and the other neighbours were subjected to for months over the summer and I am a very light sleeper - it would start at 3/4am and go on for hours and I had to resort to wearing earplugs in my own home to accommodate for animals that aren't mine. I have also been unable to enjoy my garden or buy any furniture, plants ornaments for it as other neighbours told me they spent loads in the past on their gardens, only for catwoman's cats to crap and pee all over ornaments etc and generally be destructive.

I dont understand how anyone could have the brass neck to be so selfish having 9 outdoor cats that they know are encroaching on other people's private property and peace.

I have had a few words with catwoman and she has offered to help me figure out if it's her cats or the stray ones in my garden if I get a camera set up but just wondering if anyone else has had a similar situation and what things have worked as permanent deterrents to keep the cats out altogether?

I am thinking of getting some plastic spikes for my fence and walls and an ultrasonic scarer to plug into the outdoor mains. For now, I keep spraying them in the face with water until they leave my garden. The final straw for me the other day was when I found a dead mouse in my garden - they're not even my animals and I don't have any pets! Crazy!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated 🤍

Seriously, the cult like attitude I find online is ridiculous. I'm really glad there's a sub like this with like minded people that are sick of cats and cat freaks clogging up bandwidth.

(This post is written facetiously from "Reddit's" point of view.)

"Oh, I know what you would love... How about a sub about THIS breed of boxshitter! No? What about THAT breed of boxshitter?

"Still no? Well, then, how about a subreddit devoted entirely to boxshitters laying their filthy selves in this type of kitchenware? Oh, absolutely not? Then, what about boxshitters in this OTHER type of cooking vessel?

"No, wait, I've got it! What you really want is this sub that orbits photos of close-ups of this one type of boxshitter body part when it's a specific color! Okay, well what about this different body part of a different specific color? What about all these photos of them opening their nasty maws? Or their tongues? Don't you wanna see those 'teefies' sink into everything ever? Why are you gagging at the word 'teefies' now?

"Nope? Not even this entire community dedicated to these two specific tufts of fur that occur on this hyperspecific part of boxshitters? How are you even a person?

"What do you mean you don't want to see every single boxshitter in the world that some rando has decided to name Bingledybob? Okay fine. But at LEAST check out every boxshitter in the world that some rando decided to name Bangledybob..."

Like STOP SENDING THESE TO ME I DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT CATS lol
Every video is about cat being a total moron or acting insane i’m tired of it. I do not think cats are cute and basically everyone that I know is obsessed with them.

This is post argument with my gf. I’ve posted about this before but I just don’t get it!
Recently her cat has “claimed me as his favourite” and this has made her very jealous. I DIDN’T ASK FOR THIS!Even though I don’t care for this creature living in my home I’m not a cruel person so yes I spend time with him and play with him.. the problem is now somehow I’m the one always cleaning up after him, trying to train him to not jump on the counters with his shit paws, vacuuming constantly cause he sheds like crazy and feeding him because nothing seems to bother my gf.
HES NOT MY CAT SO HOW HAS THIS BECOME MY RESPONSIBILITY. She hardly spends time with him so no shit he likes me more. We moved in together only a few months ago (she had him 5 years prior) and after that short time I’m his favourite?
She claims she “can’t live without him” but YOU DO LIVE WITHOUT HIM! I swear people just get cats because they are “cute” and “low maintenance” but don’t actually want the responsibility.
Anyone here with more sense than me thinking about moving in with their partner and cat. DON’T!

Normally I think baby animals are absolutely adorable. I melt in happy when looking at baby animals. However, I think adult cats are better to look at than kittens. Just wondering if I'm the only one who thinks kittens are kind of ugly. Maybe it's their weird eyes? People will post kittens all over for free and people talk about how cute they are and I just feel like I'm looking at rats.

Why don't cat owners recognize the absolute stench these creatures create? You can invest in the absolute top of the line litter box, fill it with great litter, clean it consistently, and these things will still reek. And that's WHEN they use the litter box in the first place! It's so common for them to piss in corners, on sheets, on clothes. I've come home several times to the apartment just smelling like absolute shit because my fiance's cat decided to poop outside his clean litter box. I can't wait to get rid of that animal. These vile creatures make for awful pets and people who love them are sick.

I saw a TikTok video of a girl from the Southeast Asia who have around 8 cats and 4 other pets. She is far from rich, not even middle class, her house doesn’t have a proper roof and her ceiling leaks every time it rains.

I dont understand what pushed her to adopt that many animals when her circumstances are already not that good? Her house doesn’t have proper flooring, it’s small, and believe me, it’s far from the houses you typically see in suburban neighborhoods in first world countries.

What is the thought process here? Your cats will not help your situation. In fact, they can make it worse. One of her cats got sick and she had to go on live until 2am while selling candy on the streets just so she could afford her cat’s medical bills. Do you know how dangerous that is for a young girl to do in Southeast Asia? I believe she’s still a student so she only takes part time jobs too.

Like why? Isn’t it a bit irresponsible to adopt those cats when you can barely scrape by? Those cats don’t care about you. They will leave you the second they find an owner that gives them more food and a better home!

The effort she exerts for her ungrateful cats, she could easily just do it for herself to help make her life at least a little bit more comfortable. Imagine living in a small, shitty house and living with 8 cats and 4 more pets that you have to feed and pick up after. Youre already poor, why not prioritize yourself and rehome them??

Note: I dont want to mention the exact country as there is a chance that she may get recognized. I dont want to dox her, so I will not mention her account name either.

There are multiple videos online explaining how selfish and even dangerous some people who hate cats are because the “real reason” we hate cats is because we want discipline from creatures and we can’t take boundaries, we always expect stuff in return etc etc

no

They’re effing smelly and disgusting. My husbands cat shits 3 times a day and even when it pisses, the whole apartment smells really bad. Even the clean cat litter is terrible smelling imo. Also there’s bits of litter at random places around the house that makes me gag. We have that stupid cat carpet in front of the litter like it makes a difference.

I also hate how people are letting their cats outside like they’re not invasive and annoying. There was a gang of cats where I used to live as a teenager that always started whining, meowing, annoying the shi out of me at 3am and the garden was always full of dead birds. They don’t even eat them, cuz obviously they get fed, they just kill wildlife for fun.

I don’t understand how cats are good pets. They’re up all night, being noisy, they smell very strong, and believe it or I’d be happier if they had even more boundaries. But also what about my boundaries? Stop coming up to me, ruining my jeans and touching me. Fucking jumping on the furniture brother ewww

#myautismishaveigntheworsttime

And I'm tired of pretending like they do.

When a person gets a pet, usually they're aware of how long the pet is going to live. As a hamster owner, you're mentally prepared that it's most likely not going to see more than the next 2 years, so you'll try to give it the best life possible for that time.

But, a cat can live 16-18 years, if not more. Wouldn't someone who simply loves them so much want them to reach that age so they can be together for as long as possible? So why is it that these cat owners, who love them so dearly, most of the time just let them roam outside, where every day is a gamble, where every single person, animal, vehicle, weather issue etc is a threat to their livelihood, where they could literally die a brutal death every single day? How do you claim to love a pet so much but you're risking their life and not protecting them to your fullest - every single day?

And then when Fluffy is inevitably hit by a car or gets mauled by another beast, as these cats usually never make it past 10 on a good day, let alone reach old age, they cry and sob and talk about how they lost their soul animal. Your stupid animal would still be alive had you simply not opened the door for them to go get killed. There has to be a brain disconnect there somewhere.

I can't comprehend why a human would want or allow a cat or cats to shit and piss in a box in their home. What the fuck?

I’ve been obsessed with cats lately and wanted one but realized that they would quickly piss me off to no end since they are untrainable animals with no sense of loyalty, except when you feed them.

That turns into them expecting a meal everyday, while also treating your stuff like it’s expendable.

the cat had surgery and ripped it’s stitches open over 6 times somehow even with a cone on and it’s costing so much money. giving it medication to chill the fuck out is near impossible. i know this is horrible but the cat is elderly i cant wait to never have to deal with a cat ever again

I wish the sub would allow images because I don’t know if my words can do this justice

Anyways my friend messaged me “ (name) I just scratched someone’s car and now they’re pissed at me 💔💔💔” followed up with a close up photo of a cat with a oops speech bubble and like a cartoon sweat drop that I guess was intended to be silly?

You could probably brush it off as irony but coming from someone that knows the guy I just KNOW he was not being ironic.

And it’s either that, or when you say you don’t like cats and simply express your own preferences:

Cat people:
“People who choose __ over cats have clearly never had a cat.”
“Anyone who doesn’t like or prefer cats just hasn’t experienced owning one yet.”
“People who say __ is better have definitely never owned a cat.”

Bro are we fr 🫩. Holy cope and control issues.

Maybe some people just aren’t fucking cat people and genuinely don’t like cats. And actually, some of us have owned cats and still don’t like them. But genuinely, who tf cares. You don’t need to have a million reasons to dislike cats or not be a cat person.

Not everyone has to prefer cats, and cats only. That also doesn’t mean they’re missing out on anything, settling for less, or that they’ve made objectively wrong choices. The world will survive someone not wanting a cat or being a cat person, I promise. 😭

Also, I can assure you that having a cat doesn’t guarantee you’ll suddenly become some die-hard cat person or, as cat people seem to believe, “convert” after completing the sacred journey of enlightenment where you finally discover that cats are apparently the most “amazing” and “superior” creatures on earth.

Sorry, but sometimes the enlightenment backfires and you just end up liking cats even less. Take me, for example, I owned a cat once, somehow came out of the experience even less convinced, and will absolutely never own one again.

1. Their natural, instinctive behaviors and the entirety of caring for them are gross and unsanitary. Completely incompatible with me.
2. They don’t gaf about anyone’s boundaries except their own.
3. Their natural temperaments are all pretty much the same, and they’re insufferable. They switch between their multiple personalities every five minutes, scratching and nipping if you breathe the wrong way. They’re unpredictable, unstable, intolerant, and narcissistic all at once.

Having owned a cat before is literally one of the reasons why I ended up disliking cats.

So I moved in with my fiance around a year ago. I knew they had a cat when I moved in and had met the cat, but at the time I didn't actually hate the little vermin. In fact if you would have asked at the time, I would have said I at least liked cats. Since I moved in and actually got to know the little monster, I've had a shift of heart. I've been scratched, bit, screamed at, had my clothes pissed on, and generally just had my entire quality of life upended. Having grown up with golden retrievers that are well trained, this just was completely unacceptable. So, I started to train the overgrown rat.

I started by banning him from the bedroom. He now sleeps outside on his own and our door stays closed at all times of the day. No more bed for the shit paw freak. If he screams at all we make a loud sound, say no and promptly toss him away. We don't have any issues with him even trying to get in at this point and my fiance has mentioned how nice it is to have a pet free room. That made me realize, yeah it is really nice not to have him in the room. So I moved on to phase 2. When I go into a room he's in, I toss him out of it. If he tries to come back in, I make a loud noise and scare him out. At this point, if he sees me walk in to whatever room he's in, he just slinks out. I haven't been screamed at once making dinner in the past five months because he just avoids me and my fiance has commented how "calm" he's became.

Is he bearable now? No not even slightly. I'm slowly building my case for how nice it is not to have this disgusting and vile creature in our apartment. So far my fiance is on board and I can't wait for the day he goes to the shelter and I don't have to see, smell, or hear him ever again. In fact just last week my fiance asked if maybe he was too much work for us to deal with! Victory feels so close...

It all starts with kindness and empathy. He loves nature and can't stand watching any animals suffer. He has always fed strays, but when he bought this new house with my mom, thankfully there were no strays here. Eventually he took up the hobby of feeding the birds and the squirrels. It was cute at first, for about a year. His idea of feeding the birds isnt simply putting out bird feeders, he leaves PILES of bird seed all over the yard that inevitably become moldy. Do you see where this is going yet?

Birds eat bird seed, and cats eat birds. Skipping over the omen of the bear in the yard, fast forward 5 years and of course cats have been baited here. This led to a year long struggle of my mom trying to keep the cats fed and warm all winter, until this spring a Coyote showed up. The cat had a litter and the Coyote ate the mom and some of the kittens. I was the one who actually chased off the Coyote.

So here I am writing this, unfortunately im stuck here, now we have 6 captive ferals in the house. Its been months. We now have a flea infestation and my allegies are driving me insane.. They are disgusting and my mom is too old for this shit. Cats take advantage of our kindness and empathy and leave us stressed, dirty, and worse off.

Don't let your parents feed the birds!

video starts as a regular random tiktok video, then immediately cuts to a close up of an ugly cat laying down, and theres a Gofundme link on the posters page, asking for donations. I am actually disgusted by seeing the close up of that things face, really disgusted. what was it that these toxo zombies keep telling us? "Ignore cats if you dont like them"? How do i ignore when I keep seeing the ugliest and filthiest abominations hidden in normal videos. and they get donations? wow. these people get thousands of dollars in donations just for these shit rats.