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

tin79 · 12-11-2012 04:39PM

gbee wrote: »

Cats eat electrical wires

No they dont. They eat meat (they may chew wires - they dont eat them).

Wire is pretty low in essential nutrients. Except copper I guess.

gbee · 12-11-2012 04:40PM

tin79 wrote: »

No they dont. They eat meat (they may chew wires - they dont eat them). Wire is pretty low in essential nutrients. Except copper I guess.

I stand corrected.

gbee · 12-11-2012 04:42PM

opinion guy wrote: »

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

I strongly suspect that if we put this question to an animal psychiatrist, they would agree.

Ares · 12-11-2012 04:51PM

I remember we had a deaf kitten once, white with blue eyes. One day I was driving up to town to get the papers when I heard a little thud about half a kilometre up the road.

The poor kitten had been resting in the inside wheel and had never heard the car start.
He'd fallen out andthe tyre ran over his head. It was not a pretty sight. Poor misfortunate kitten.

lounakin · 12-11-2012 04:53PM

This happened to a neighbour of mine years ago. Her cat took shelter shelter under the hood, contact, boom... cat pulverised. Nobody every told her and for years she'd come out with cat food and call for the cat. It's horrible and I love cats but we laughed and laughed...

Capt'n Midnight · 12-11-2012 11:31PM

ROFL http://i.imgur.com/orHLM.gif

Local-womanizer · 12-11-2012 11:43PM

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

ROFL http://i.imgur.com/orHLM.gif

Evil bastard, if there ever was a reason to hate a cat there it is.....

gozunda · 12-11-2012 11:56PM

bbam wrote: »

Surely when you close the car door it's the same thing?
Pesky cats. Hate them!

Hippies! wrote: »

I hate cats

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I'd rather kill the cat

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

Knocking them down is better

longshanks wrote: »

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

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Evil bastard, if there ever was a reason to hate a cat there it is.....

Ahh lovely to see the usual deranged Ailurophobes have been let out again :rolleyes:

You are afraid of this

LINK
My my .. you are so right! The Catholic Church said cats were evil and guess what - there are twats out there who still believe fairy stories too!

WoollyRedHat · 12-11-2012 11:57PM

Look forward to catching the culprits

Local-womanizer · 13-11-2012 12:05AM

gozunda wrote: »

Ahh lovely to see the usual deranged Ailurophobes have been let out again :rolleyes:

You are afraid of this
LINK

My my .. you are so right! The Catholic Church said cats were evil and guess what - there are twats out there who still believe fairy stories too!

Looking them there, sitting there looking cute, lowering your guard, planning on killing you and taking over your possessions and life.

Cold empty eyes.....

areyawell · 13-11-2012 12:10AM

I leave cat food up in the engine so they'll go up there and then I fry the little ****ers. Fair annoying with there moaning riding outside. Have they any shame?

Fr_Dougal · 13-11-2012 12:17AM

areyawell wrote: »

I leave cat food up in the engine so they'll go up there and then I fry the little ****ers. Fair annoying with there moaning riding outside. Have they any shame?

They smell like chicken too.

gozunda · 13-11-2012 12:19AM

Local-womanizer wrote: »

Looking them there, sitting there looking cute, lowering your guard, planning on killing you and taking over your possessions and life.

Cold empty eyes.....

Like This?

LINK

Local-womanizer · 13-11-2012 12:23AM

gozunda wrote: »

Like This?

LINK

Exactly! That's the "I want your life stare!"

Pottler · 13-11-2012 12:27AM

OldNotWIse wrote: »

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

Townie alert:D.

Hippies! · 13-11-2012 12:34AM

gozunda wrote: »

Ahh lovely to see the usual deranged Ailurophobes have been let out again :rolleyes:

You are afraid of this
LINK

My my .. you are so right! The Catholic Church said cats were evil and guess what - there are twats out there who still believe fairy stories too!

I said I hate cats. Never said I was afraid of them.

Pottler · 13-11-2012 12:37AM

Hippies! wrote: »

I said I hate cats. Never said I was afraid of them.

I don't get this hatred for cats? Loads of people profess to hate them, but what's to hate, really? I quite like cats, not a single moggie has ever tried to mug me or burn my car, very few Toms have raped my missus and I've seldom been burgled by a kitten, so, what's to hate? They are also fluffy.:D

Hippies! · 13-11-2012 12:43AM

Just hate 'um.
Why do they keep pointing their bum holes at people? It's sick.

Pottler · 13-11-2012 12:45AM

Hippies! wrote: »

Just hate 'um.
Why do they keep pointing their bum holes at people? It's sick.

Stop dipping your face in Catlitter, you'll be grand.

gozunda · 13-11-2012 12:57AM

Hippies! wrote: »

I said I hate cats. Never said I was afraid of them.

"Hate" is a state normally reserved for intense fear or anger of someone or thing.

Ailurophobes are defined as hating or fearing little puddy cats - for shame!

The Phobos part denotes "fear" ie in this case the irrational fear or hatred of cats

It peculiar that people who claim to "hate" cats rarely can if ever can give a rational explanation of why this is.

They often come out witha list various alleged traits that cats are supposed to have they claim they do not like BUT in essence nearly all explanations come out as hate filled rants against an animal that really does not pose any real physical risk (and before anyone does start on the health issues - dogs can carry a similar health risk as cats tbh)

Imo this "hate" appears to be linked to a deranged notion that the RCC church purported that cats were familiar spirits with links to witches and the dark arts - ooohhhhhh!

The "hatred" of cats as something more than just a pet remains out there, often coming to fore whenever the word cat is even mentioned.

So leaving the middle ages behind u, do tell what exactly did some big mean pussy cat do to you personally to engender such hate / fear?

I might 'dislike' spider but I dont "hate" them tbh I might dislike curry but I neither fear not hate it....

I am of course not a psychologist but I'm sure there must be one on here somewhere that might be able to point you in the right direction

Best of luck with that"hatred" thing there anyway....

Hippies! · 13-11-2012 01:00AM

gozunda wrote: »

"Hate" is a state normally reserved for intense fear or anger of someone or thing.

Ailurophobes are defined as hating or fearing little puddy cats - for shame!

Phobos denotes "fear" ie the irrational fear or hatred of cats

It peculiar that people who claim to "hate" cats rarely can if ever can give a rational explanation of why this is.

They often come out witha list various alleged traits that cats are supposed to have they claim they do not like BUT in essence nearly all explanations come out as hate filled rants against an animal that really does not pose any real physical risk (and before anyone does start on the health issues - dogs can carry a similar health risk as cats tbh)

Imo this "hate" appears to be linked to a deranged notion that the RCC church purported that cats were familiar spirits with links to witches and the dark arts - ooohhhhhh!

The "hatred" of cats as something more than just a pet remains out there, often coming to fore whenever the word cat is even mentioned.

So leaving the middle ages behind u, do tell what exactly did some big mean pussy cat do to you personally to engender such hate / fear?

I might 'dislike' spider but I dont "hate" them tbh I might dislike curry but I neither fear not hate it....

I am of course not a psychologist but I'm sure there must be one on here somewhere that might be able to point you in the right direction

Best of luck with that"hatred" thing anyway....

I'm not reading all that but fair play anyway for typing it :pac:

gozunda · 13-11-2012 01:06AM

Hippies! wrote: »

I'm not reading all that but fair play anyway for typing it :pac:

No worries...the cat did the typing anyway.

Yamanoto · 13-11-2012 01:06AM

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

We found a cat yesterday that was caked in engine oil and missing from the far side of the town.

Glen Quagmire is assisting police with their enquiries

JustAThought · 13-11-2012 01:27AM

Aw - you ' re all so wicked!

OP - ill do that in future to save a poor cold pussy.

Lots of my neighbours have them.

There : )

ArtSmart · 13-11-2012 01:33AM

marketty wrote: »

Yep see that's your problem right there, you got a cat in your turbo. Gonna cost ya bud

LOL.

terminator2 · 18-11-2012 08:07PM

Ares wrote: »

I remember we had a deaf kitten once, white with blue eyes. One day I was driving up to town to get the papers when I heard a little thud about half a kilometre up the road.

The poor kitten had been resting in the inside wheel and had never heard the car start.
He'd fallen out andthe tyre ran over his head. It was not a pretty sight. Poor misfortunate kitten.

nice one

Demonique · 20-11-2012 04:17PM

I've seen one of our cats descend from the engine once

We had an iguana behind the speedometer once, he spooked, ran between my father's feet and up behind the dashboard

flutterflye · 20-11-2012 04:44PM

I always knock on the bonnet to warn cats I'm about to drive off. But the cat just shouts "fcuk off, I don't want any of whatever you're selling".

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

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