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No thanks. I’ll get an emotional support cat and you can’t brick my cat. Take that, big tech!

Careful with that one. Big pharma killed my cat once.

My cat came down with Feline Infectious Peritonitis which is a coronavirus that is lethal to cats when the virus mutates and becomes FIP. FIP is 100% fatal without treatment, and there is now a treatment (originally developed at UC Davis) that is now owned by a big pharma company. They shut down the feline clinical trials in 2020 because they also make Remdesivir, and there was a concern that if there were any problems with the feline drug trial, the FDA might not approve Remdesivir for COVID. You can buy the drug on the internet from China, but it’s a 12 week course of twice daily injections, and you’re gambling on whether you got a good batch every time you get a shipment.

By the time we found this out, it was too late to save our kitty, so he crossed the rainbow bridge.

I’m sorry to hear about your cat. 🫂

Just to add on about FIP treatment— if your cat ever gets FIP then on Facebook look for “FIP warriors” or “global fip cats” (iirc) to find volunteers who can help supply medicine

Also note that there IS an FDA approved compounded version but many vets aren’t aware about it, and even if they were aware since it is compounded they won’t have it in the office. This means that it will take a few days for you to order and treatment is often time sensitive from what I’ve heard.

FIP Warriors is who we went through, but it progressed too quickly because the fluid accumulation was in his lungs, not his abdomen.

That medication is quite new to the market and wasn’t available when this happened about 4 years ago, but I will mention this to our current vet so that she knows about it.

not even doom music

you can’t brick my cat

Have you tried putting socks on it?

you can’t brick my cat

Is this a challenge

A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

Try this only with familiar cats with whom you have rapport.

Don’t leave them for too long. A few minutes at most.

That’s where the term “catatonic” comes from, or so I’ve heard, and it’s a reflex because mother cats carry their babies by the scruff of their neck. From what I understand it’s totally harmless.

Someone who actually knows these things can correct me if I’m wrong of course.

As the owner of various cats over 50 years it does nothing to adult cats. It will hurt an adult cat because their weight is too much for the skin to hold. As a kid I tried it many times because I heard the myth and it only made my cat more angry.

I don’t believe kittens are affected other than being physically unable to do anything. Sort of like if you were put in a half-Nelson hold. You wouldn’t be catatonic, just unable to fight back.

As an owner of a less cats over less years, this is absolutely a thing and is sometimes referred to as “disabling” or “deactivating” the cat. You can do it at home with a clothes pin.

You don’t pick them up.

Here’s an example from what looks like a professional setting. https://youtu.be/T9TmmF79Rw0

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A clamp (padded, preferably) on the scruff of the neck will temporarily brick a cat.

You don’t pick an adult cat up by the scruff! But – at least for some videogenic cats – they will instinctively relax.

My cat relaxes, but then my cat gets all loungy anytime I interact with him.

Pet tax: He is one with the universe in a box.

You’re wrong.

Catatonic syndrome was a diagnosis first used by a German psychiatrist in the 1800’s. Before that it was described by ancient Greeks.

It’s a category (also a word that has nothing to do with cats) of major depression and schizophrenia.

Scruffing a cat poisons it into a coma?

Why would you try that with any cat, especially one that you’re close to? The fuck.

But he only said he scruffed them (if I am reading it right), not that he grabbed them by the scruff, is this apparently something that is considered abusive or something? If a cat claws at my leg and I pinch there to make it stop that is absolutely not the same as grabbing them there. I would never actually try lifting them that way.

It doesn’t work on all the cats, though. ~~Also, I heard that it’s not painful for a cat to be lifted that way, but~~ I would prefer not to.

Edit: I was wrong

Whatever you do to that cat I will do to you

You’re going to snuggle me, feed me, and clean my poop?

…ok man…

I was talking to that specific person about that specific cat.

But yes.

Oh yeah? Well I’m gonna love him and cherish him forever

It’s not even a challenge, one drop of rogaine will brick any cat. All you have to do is touch them with it.

Edit: don’t fucking do this you sickos.

oh my fucking god. is this why when I was a kid my friend’s cat went from super healthy to extremely sickly and died the next morning? his dad definitely used rogaine

Oh goodness, that’s really sad and probably.

I’m unclear, and I’m not going to do this, but what does that do? Is it poison to them?

It contains an enzyme their body cannot process and it effectively poisons them to death. I believe it attacks the nervous system.

Oh. Damn. Good thing I found this out.

I mean, I never have actually touched rogaine, but this is kinda like when I was 4, and I was going to feed a dog a piece of chocolate. The dog wanted chocolate, I wanted to share, suddenly I’m getting my hand slapped and yelled at.

Like c’mon! We JUST watched a seseme street last week about how good sharing is! Now my wrist hurts!

THEN she tells me dogs can’t have chocolate! Like I’m just supposed to just KNOW a dogs digestive system! I’m still learning colors and shapes, and you’re asking me to know biology of dogs!

So, no dogs have died from chocolate from me, and now I know if I lose my hair, and have a cat, I can’t have rogaine. Because I assume I’ll be sleeping, and you just KNOW my cat is gonna be the weirdo cat who licks people in their sleep. Suddenly I wake up with a dead cat.

So good thing I learned now.

Turns out dogs are perfectly fine eating milk chocolate. I know this because I had a dog who jumped up on a table and ate an entire package of Hershey’s kisses once. We thought she was a goner, but poison control said she’d be fine and she was. High quality dark chocolate is what poisons dogs

🤨

Somebody call SPCA!

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