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delecti 8 hours ago

In 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.

Jtsummers 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If 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.

delecti 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He 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.

bluefirebrand 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Calling your cat stinky does not actually mean they smell bad

jjtheblunt 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

dog person here : they're unsanitary how? they constantly fastidously clean themselves, from what i see. dogs roll in rotting anything for sport.

delusional 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I 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 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> 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

kevin_thibedeau 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you covered yourself in spit would that be sanitary?

jjtheblunt 2 hours ago | parent [-]

you 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!)