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Knocking on the bonnet of your car before you get in could save a cats life

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  • #32
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    Lads there's no need to make stupid jokes, knocking on the bonnet could really help and if you don't even want to do that just install a doorbell.


  • #33
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    bbam wrote: »
    That's a stupid post.
    How do you think a cat is going to damage your engine.
    I once saw a cat caught in a fan belt of a van starting. Screech, blood, bits of cat but the engine was fine. Really, an engine is far more powerful and robust than that.


    This be true. I saw the very same thing few years back the mess was catastrophic << did you see what i did there haha, ya the cat lost all 9 lives in the turn of a key, the engine was still purring like a kitten.


  • #34
    fonecrusher1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭fonecrusher1


    The problem with this sort of thread is that it gives the cat hating dunce-folk a platform to vent their anger.


  • #35
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    "What's that smell, daddy?"

    "It's roast cat, honey."


  • #36
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    The problem with this sort of tread is, it gives the high horse brigade a place to make themselves feel a little bit more special.


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  • #37
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    This is why I get into my car as stealthily as possible. Kudos to the poster who got three! Remarkable!


  • #38
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,408 ✭✭✭bbam


    kylith wrote: »
    How about :

    Cat owners, be aware that your pet may crawl up into someone's engine seeking heat and get killed, causing expensive damage to their car. Make sure you keep them in your house where it's warm, and the possibility of them getting shredded by a fan belt is practically nil.

    Great. And the house smells like a litter tray.
    Message to dog and cat owners:
    If you let or keep them in the house your house smells like cat or dog and most probably smells like their toilet. So many pet owners think their house doesn't smell. Well it does, if the animals are in the house, your house SMELLS.


  • #39
    Fighting Irish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,062 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


    When you turn on the engine will they not jump out?

    I rarely jump in start the car and fly off down the road straight away


  • #40
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    cruiser178 wrote: »
    The problem with this sort of tread is, it gives the high horse brigade a place to make themselves feel a little bit more special.

    You can explain that one if you don't mind, and try not to sound ridiculous when you do.


  • #41
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    Shryke wrote: »
    You can explain that one if you don't mind, and try not to sound ridiculous when you do.

    I think you'll probably have to choose one ;)


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  • #42
    4PP
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 756 ✭✭✭4PP


    I prefer cats in pairs, one each side.
    They clean the tyres much better that way ;)


  • #43
    cruiser178
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭cruiser178


    Shryke wrote: »
    You can explain that one if you don't mind, and try not to sound ridiculous when you do.


    can you not figure it out all by yourself, ahh bless.


  • #44
    longshanks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Cats are dickheads. All of them. If they die they die, no loss.


  • #45
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    Two questions.

    One aren't there enough cats n kittens around anyway and isn't a wee seasonal cull a welcome thing?

    Have you actually been successful in getting a cat to run away after banging on the bonnet?

    Well I had no luck getting one perisher to move and I was afraid of his claws damaging my engine so I just drove off, that was after quite a delay in trying to get the beast out and neighbours calling all sorts of people who never turned up anyway.


  • #46
    Shryke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    cruiser178 wrote: »
    can you not figure it out all by yourself, ahh bless.

    Typical non-reply for fear of having to actually engage on something and a particularly loathsome Irish strain of saccharine. I'll give you a 1 out of 5. Very little effort. Must try harder.


  • #47
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    I don't think you realise how indestructible some cats are:
    http://itsalwayssunny.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Bauer


  • #48
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    bbam wrote: »
    Great. And the house smells like a litter tray.
    Message to dog and cat owners:
    If you let or keep them in the house your house smells like cat or dog and most probably smells like their toilet. So many pet owners think their house doesn't smell. Well it does, if the animals are in the house, your house SMELLS.
    So what if it does? My house smells of dogs, people who have babies have houses that smell of poo and gone off milk, people who like gardening have houses that smell like flowers, or possibly well-rotted manure. So what?


  • #49
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    Cats eat electrical wires and puncture radiator hoses, can be quite defensive and territorial towards anyone trying to extricate them, they may have been going into your car, van or truck for a few years already and their offspring follow suit.

    After my own incident where the mother was killed we culled two more kittens from the same litter and in ten years I have not seen any cat in the engine activity, not even for that cold winter of 2010.


  • #50
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    The problem with this sort of thread is that it gives the cat hating dunce-folk a platform to vent their anger.
    We don't hate cats, we do love winding up cat-lovers though ;)


  • #51
    UCDVet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭UCDVet


    bbam wrote: »
    Great. And the house smells like a litter tray.
    Message to dog and cat owners:
    If you let or keep them in the house your house smells like cat or dog and most probably smells like their toilet. So many pet owners think their house doesn't smell. Well it does, if the animals are in the house, your house SMELLS.

    That may be true....but ummm....that seems like a much better alternative than letting the animals roam all over the neighborhood.


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  • #52
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Serious bunch of psychopathic scrotes on this thread.


  • #53
    gbee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,384 ✭✭✭gbee


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    Serious bunch of psychopathic scrotes on this thread.

    Yippee. :) Name and shame, who had the best or should I say the worst most horrific story?


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why don't cars come with an extra horn that sounds like a Rottweiler?


  • #55
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Shryke wrote: »
    Typical non-reply for fear of having to actually engage on something and a particularly loathsome Irish strain of saccharine. I'll give you a 1 out of 5. Very little effort. Must try harder.

    Have you got a pussy in your bonnet?


  • #56
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    cruiser178 wrote: »
    The problem with this sort of tread is, it gives the high horse brigade a place to make themselves feel a little bit more special.

    The high horse brigade aren't affected by this issue.
    I've yet to hear of a cat crawling up a horses arse for warmth.


  • #57
    lau1247
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,332 ✭✭✭lau1247


    yeah i think a horn would do just fine.. show them who's the boss..


  • #58
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    thanks! We nearly lost our cat last year when this happened. He ended up needing surgery on his leg that cost over 700 euro :mad: Important thing is he is fine now and we managed to save the leg :)


  • #59
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    fonecrusher1 wrote: »
    The problem with this sort of thread is that it gives the cat hating dunce-folk a platform to vent their anger.

    Feel special about themselves because they cannot get that feeling anywhere else, only through an anonymous internet thread. Fixed your post :D


  • #60
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,000 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Um.....I have a question.

    Won't a cat thats frightened seek somewhere to hide ??

    So won't knocking on the bonnet only encourage a cat to stay in the dark warm place they are already hiding in ?


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  • #61
    Death and Taxes
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,775 ✭✭✭Death and Taxes


    bbam wrote: »
    Great. And the house smells like a litter tray.
    Message to dog and cat owners:
    If you let or keep them in the house your house smells like cat or dog and most probably smells like their toilet. So many pet owners think their house doesn't smell. Well it does, if the animals are in the house, your house SMELLS.
    Houses cant smell, they dont have noses!:D


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