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Review: Juvenile Felis Catus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the some-assembly-required dept.

MBCook writes "Looking for something new? Well Dan's Data has a review of something called a "Juvenile Felis Catus" (or "kitten" for short). The review goes over everything from how to aquire one, to required maintence, to storage, to a comparison against other ways of spending your money (kitten vs. puppy vs. baby vs. new video card). The article is full of useful and informative links such as your average kitten's standard configuration. A well reasoned and interesting review."

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  1. A "Pets:" Section? by MMHere · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What, a Pets: section now?

    First /. gets into Politics by adding that new section. Now this.

    What's next, RealEstate: ???

  2. Two words in cat care by droleary · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All you need to know has long been at: Bonsai Kitten!

  3. Tuna by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I know there's one way to make a cat your instant friend: feed the fucker tuna. It's like a drug to them. Plus the cat gets nice and muscular too.

  4. news for nerds?? by $tendec · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't mind slashdot posting articles on politics but it would be nice if it were more balanced....if slashdot is going to bash Kitty supporters then why don't they bash puppy supporters as well.

    I should qualify this....i do appretiate slashdot's choice giving exposure to third party pets.

    ok i can't go on any longer....i for one welcome out new fluffy faced overlords and in soviet russia our kittens own us.

    stendec@gmail.com

  5. Please post more "I LOVE MY KITTY" bullshit by stratjakt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    we don't cover insane cat people enough on slashdot.

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    I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
  6. Re:Fun fact by pla · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Did you know that only about 1% of the housecats in the world are pure breed?

    Did you know that the entire concept of a "purebred" counts as total BS, a fictional concept designed to allow a small number of people to profit from an activity this particular species engages in prolifically (and loudly)?

    Not to mention that a "mixed" breed will usually have fewer health problems (some defensive cat-slaver will no doubt chime in to dispute that - True, under optimal conditions, you can breed genetic disease out of a line. It simply does not happen in practice, as the largest motivation to breed involves profit, which you don't maximize by "rendering nonviable" two out of every three newborns).

  7. Please stop having cats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can't be bothered to care for a cat, don't get one, please. Cats should not be allowed outside to kill the local wildlife, get and spread disease, and be injured/killed/tortured by local dahmer-to-be's. Indoor cats live longer, healthier lives, and assuming you give them a toy or two, do not need the outdoors for entertainment/exercise.

    1. Re:Please stop having cats. by mad+flyer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      That's stupid. Cats have their own personallities, some can live only inside, some need to be outside.
      Maybe their life is shorter, but it's THEIR LIFE. Like you may die faster if you ride a motorbike. You have no right to chose for others, btw in countries were they belong (i/e: everywhere except australia/newzealand) they just act as pest control.
      Mine is a house tornado but she's ill at ease outside, so she stay at home. But my father's cat was a sleep at home hunt outside boy. No way to keep him inside when he was awake, but no way to let him sleep outside.
      YOU CAN'T JUST DECIDE FOR CATS learn this and stop nazification "in the name of god" or "for the sake of children/cats".

    2. Re:Please stop having cats. by paganizer · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you can't be bothered to let your cat LIVE instead of turning it into a life accessory/interactive toy, please do not get one.
      In order for a cat to be happy and whole, it MUST hunt, it must have a chance to explore. It's cat nature.
      Keeping one locked up it's entire life is no different than doing a bonsai kitty.
      Oh, and PLEASE consider cutting off your fingers to the first joint before you consider de-clawing a cat; if you can't live with a clawed cat, Kill It, it's more merciful.

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      Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
    3. Re:Please stop having cats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      No, stop trying to put your feeling into your cat. Cats live perfectly fine indoors, and have no need to hunt anything or explore anything. If you want your cat to experience the outdoors, TAKE it outside, don't LET it outside.

      And I do find it amusing that you on one hand support cruel and neglectful treatment of cats, and then in the next breath are against cruelty. I don't know why you associate being a reponsable owner with mutilating animals, it seems kinda weird. I don't injure my cats, or my dogs for that matter. You aren't "supposed to" chop off ears and tails just because people are used to a dog looking a certain way.

    4. Re:Please stop having cats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Girls should not be allowed outside unattended to be raped by men, getting and spreading disease, unable to defend themselves against threats to their safety. Indeed, if you make sure to provide the finer things in life for them, there is no need at all for them to go outside.

      Freedom and safety are in many ways a direct one-to-one tradeoff for each other. Both are desirable, neither is the correct choice. Such are the difficult decisions in life.

      I suppose this wouldn't appeal if you're the sort of person who intends to force their children to become doctors when they want to be musicians, but personally, I believe in letting them choose their own fate. There is no proof a cat is actually smart enough to make this decision, but I believe they are. Regardless, I have had some cats who show no interest at all for going outside, and others who trod outside happily during the coldest, darkest, most miserable blizzards. Every cat is different just like every person is different.

    5. Re:Please stop having cats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Good analogy, wrong age. A cat is not able to make decisions like a teenager, they are like 3 year olds. And you are correct, 3 year old girls (and boys) should not be allowed outside unattended.

    6. Re:Please stop having cats. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yeah, sure, let it roam outside at will. Cut its life expectancy in half (or less). Way to show you care.

  8. Hey, this is highly amusing by inflex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I actually just bought myself a kitten about 6 weeks ago. The place is a mess, my keyboard has even -more- fur in it (aside from my own shedding) and my mouse routinely is found hanging off the edge of my desk when I arrive in the morning (I have a home-office).

    This kitten was highly incompatible with the already installed old-blind-dog system. It took over a month of food and luck to get the two systems to cooperate without causing general-insanity faults with the owners.

    Despite all that I could never take it back. I tried to take the cat back 24 hours after I bought it but I got about 2km down the road before everything was too blurry from the sudden onrush of water obscuring my vision.

    http://pldaniels.com/photos/2004092001/mpic00008 .j pg

    These things are dangerously addictive :-D