Cats are repugnant animals and why anyone would keep a pet that shits in the house is a mystery to me. Good luck with your butthole trimming and shit box emptying.

Dayyyyyuuuuuuummmmm! Does NOT sound like a very smart cat at that. He ate THAT much grass huh? WOW! I could not have that high a maintenance animal in my house give me a short haired cat anyday.
_______
The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

Mozart was a Shameful shitter. He wouldn't go if you watched even. He Hated it if something like that went wrong. You could tell he was soo embarrassed. In the long run he was low maintenance because we could party all night and not have to worry about getting home to let him out.

PS. Just read about Mountain Dew black turning poos green. Has anyone experienced a jet black poo after guacamole? Discuss...

Have you tried clamping him in a welding vise and taking a belt sander to that kitty bung?

Did Mozart compose his first symphony or opera yet?How about Requiem for a Litter Box? It's a shame he didn't compose The Wedding of Figaro which is also a cat food brand.

I was thinking more along the lines of taking a burnzomatic to his ass!

_______
Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

Not a bad idea Shitwit. I was just trying to be a bit more eco-friendly.

I'm just gonna have to leave this one alone.
_______

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

My significant other's cat, Farkleberri Furri, is a rather elderly (about 20 years old) semi-longhaired calico who has the same problem. Last year we took her to get shaved down... she looked like a poodle afterwards (in fact, I kept calling her 'Poodle-cat'). We gotta do the same thing again this year.

I got electric clippers for the pets some time ago and never regretted it. They make jobs like this very quick. And scissors can be so dangerous. I'm glad that you didn't hurt him!

_______
.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Our short-haired cat is so shameful I've never seen her defecate. She detests kitty litter and won't poop in the house (she spends most of her time outside anyway). Once or twice I've noticed discreet little black turds fairly well hidden in the yard--that's it.

Bilge, I don't blame ya. I wouldn't want to clean my ass with a cat that doesn't even know how to clean his own.

You nailed it, buddy, my thought exactly.
_______

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Dave, I don't suppose we can expect to see Lilian Jackson Braun publishing a mystery novel about a cat that needs turd trimming in the near future? Nice story Bran Lover.

"The Cat Who Trailed A Turd", or perhaps, "The Cat Who Turded A Trail"?

This story makes me glad my long-hair keeps his asshole clean. I've seen many a Persian with shit stuck to his/her asshole and it always made me SWEAR I'd never own a longhair. Unfortunately, when one comes meowing at your door, half-starved in the December rain, there's no other choice. Thank God for a clean longhair!

_______
Born right the first time.

I'll wait for the movie.

I'm thinking more along the lines of a Broadway musical, with maybe Nathan Lane and Clay Aikin, with Angelica Houston playing the Evil Step-Mother.
_______

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Maybe "Cats (with shit on their asses)"

Thanks hum bunger. I can't tell if people liked my story or not, so I appreciate your compliment very much. This is my first time to be published EVER! I was so excited when Dave told me that he published it all ready! It was almost better than an enema! lol. Definitely more fun than the diahrear dance.

_______
To affect the quality of the poo, that is the art of life. ~Thoreau, sort of.

Yes, Bran Lover, like some of the others mentioned above, having her rear half shaved with electric trimmers (poodle style) might help a lot. You could even have the vet do it. My Mother-in-Law had the vet give her cat the poodle cut. Her cat had a skin allergy, and shaving helped it. The cat looked ridiculous, but it became much happier with it's symptoms relieved. You would save yourselves the scratches and relieve your cat the trauma of backwards visits to the bathroom sink.

We adopted a starved kitten / young cat from our yard a while back. For the first month or two he had really bad diarrhea cuz I don't think he was used to real, consistent meals. So, sometimes in the litter box, when he was doing his back-kick to bury his doody, he'd get it all over his paw. Then, happily having shat, he'd race out of the box, and all over the apartment, playing and being a rambunctious baby cat. It was many a time when I'd get a faint whiff of poo, and too late realize he'd gone and, as we termed it, gotten "poopy-foot" again. Likewise, it was a two person operation to hold him in the sink and wash off his foot. Much worse though, was spending the sometimes hours it took to trace his post-poop movements, and wash the poop footprints off all of the floors, the counters, bookcases, stairs, desks, chairs, bedding, etc. All of the places he'd gotten to before we realized what had happened.

Now, I'm happy to say he makes big, long, steamers that are quite solid. Also, he no longer bothers to bury his poo (something about trying to show dominance over the other cats). So we've not had an episode of poopy-foot in years.

Aww, cat poopy! So cute!

Bran Lover: A have some great advice for you, so hopefully the next time your cat has a poop-stuck-on-body experience this may help. At one point in my life I found myself working for an agency that took care of young disabled people. They were all minors, between the ages of 5 or 6 up to 18 years old. They were all basically vegetables..incapable of talking, eating (must bring the fork to their mouths for them)...completly incapable of basically everything. So of course, they would shit themselves routinely. Like just after you put clean clothes on them of course. after the first two weeks of struggling to wash them (2 baths a day are required, not counting shit incidents..) my co workers finally revealed to me the secret of the trade. okay, let me tell you, washing a grown boys hairy ass for 30 minutes is not a happy thing. it makes you hate your job. the shit just somehow sticks into those hairs like some kind of chemical fusion. and of course the more soap you add, the tighter it holds on. they FINALLY revealed to me the trick of the trade. I swear it works, even on animals, its shaving cream. shaving cream makes the turds seemingly dissolve into your hands (wonderful isnt it? poop melting into your hands? hahahha) best wear gloves for this of course! I swear, this bit of info has been so useful since I learned it. I can tell you that when I take a shower, I even wash my own but with shaving cream, just to make sure the clingons have been completely removed. this is also great for my german shepherd, who has tootsie-roll sized clingons at least once a week. a quick shot of my shaving cream on her dog-hairy ass and its gone. hope that helps, and ps, 1/16th of a 25 mg xanax stuck inside of a piece of ham will make your cat much more cool to wash (hahahahh, no, hey drug your cat if you want, thats not the best advice, but I know it works for getting my dog to take a bath). Have fun washing poop!

I'll have to remember that shaving cream trick the next time my corgi gets crap stuck in his butt fuzz. He hates the electric clippers, so sometimes I let him go a little longer than I should between manscapings.

lol. that happened to my cat with christmas tinsel once. it was both horrifying and strangely hilarious.

One time Mozart thought eating a strand of a straw broom was a great idea. The broom was a decoration at my mom's house. The next day or so back at my house I walked by the litter box...and did a double take. There lying on the gravel...drum roll...was a shish-ka-poop. Poop on a stick! In little sections the poop broke apart like skewered pieces of black meat. I had to run back and go get my husband to show him. (I was late to the proctologist...lol, no j/k)

_______
To affect the quality of the poo, that is the art of life. ~Thoreau, sort of.

I love the term manscaping.

Trimmers are great, and if you can find a place that lets you test them, you can buy a clipper set that's quiet. The clippers I have are very, very quiet, and the animals don't seem to care too much.

The worst thing that can happen is that you don't have the blade screwed on well enough, and the hair catches instead of cuts. Watching a cat freak out during a butt-shaving because the clippers pinched her is an experience. Sorry kitty!

_______
.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

What Daphne describes is precisely why I keep my chainsaw preventively maintained. It just doesn't work well as a machete.
_______

The proper order is kiss me, then go smell the other dog or cat's butt. I cannot stress this enough.

Great story Bran Lover. My wife and I have indoor cats also so I can sympathize with your plight. Several times I have seen my wife rushing from the room with a cat destined for an ass scrubing under her arm. As for C Everett Poop I can only hope that some day as he aproaches his breakfast nook he observes a diseased alley cat sitting in his cereal bowl.

_______
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Turn those bran flakes into Raisin Bran.

I am very curious. To all the people who have posted that they've had a cat with backdoor brown dreadlocks - do you feed your cats wet or dry food? And, what kind?

The reason I ask is that the only time the cats here have runny poo is when they get wet food treats.

_______
.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I too have a kitty that collects poopsickles on his bum. He is elderly and often poops outside the box which means my daughter and I are constantly on turd watch. In answer to your question daphne: we feed dry food mostly with wet food only a couple times a week. When he becomes really fragrant we know its time to break out the Kleenex potty wipes.

Daphne, We have two cats and feeding them dry food (usually Iams) seems to be the best way to go. Our youngest cat is a neutered female almost one year old. If we feed her wet cat food from a can she deposits stink bombs in the litter box that are unequaled in stench. She also has a black belt in farting which is less pronounced on the dry diet.

Our neutered 5 year old male is a true gentleman cat and deposits practically odor free nuggets and farts only on rare occasions.

_______
Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

Daphne, I feed my cats dry food just for that reason. Same with the dogs. Every time my cats/dogs get wet food they end up with soft serve and some of it gets stuck to things. Not to mention the HORRIBLE gas it produces. I think that wet food just has too much fat and chemicals in it.

_______
Born right the first time.

"It ain't Christmas until the cat shits tinsel"
-- comment (with graphic) on a friend's T-shirt.
_______
You have the right to remain Silent but Deadly....

We often had problems when my mom or husband's mom would feed Mozart too much tuna. (Too much LOVE from the grandparents. I kept trying to tell them not to overdo it. Noone ELSE had to deal with the "soft serve" as Shit Volcano so eloquently put it. Nastayh brown Dairy Queen!
_______
To affect the quality of the poo, that is the art of life. ~Thoreau, sort of.

Do we have a new word here? "Diarrheaesque," have we seen that one before?

Cats are amazing creatures, arn't they?

I hate cats. I had one that always liked to knock over the garbage, and everyday shat all over the house, it ruined the carpet. Dogs are worse.

Phat, funny you should say dogs are worse. This morning someone left the bread drawer open and my dog ate a six pack of bran muffins, plastic and all. I'm waiting for the explosion.

I thought the wet food might the culprit in some shittykitty cases. We've recently switched our wet food treats from Friskies buffet to Nutro and Innova canned. What seems to be the biggest difference between them (besides general quality) is the moisture content. Nutro and Innova have less moisture than Friskies, and they cats don't have as stinky poops now during snack time. I wonder if the extra moisture in canned food is something a dry food-eating cat isn't used to.

That's weird in itself, considering many recent veterinarian studies stating that domestic cats don't get enough water even though they may have bowls available all day. Many vets have said that cats die from kidney trouble due to bad water or not enough water, and that because water has an actual smell, it should be changed daily or twice daily if possible. This is also why those water fountains are selling now - they push the smell of water to your cat. Bullshit? Maybe. Maybe not.

I have noticed that our cats drink the water more when it's fresh, and now wonder if that's because of the smell. Our bathroom water bowl gets changed about twice a day due to the high traffic. It makes one wonder if it's high traffic because it's changed (and thus smells fresher), or the other way around (it has to be changed just because they like that bowl more). Either way, moisture is so important for cats that it feels wrong feeding them dryer wet food, even though them getting the runs meaning they're losing more moisture than taking in.

I know, I know. Yawn.

Sorry.

_______
.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

Daphne: re your questions about cat food varieties and poo consistency. I think a lot may have to doo with individual kitty constitution. I feed all three of my cats the exact same diet - all-you-can-eat kibble all day, and a little serving of wet food in the morning (for the moisture). One cat shits little, dry, odorless rabbit pebbles. The other two doo long, moist steamers, but only one's is paint peelingly noxious. Go figgure!

Our shittens are fed dry food and get plenty of water. They both poop identically. They are shitter-mates (brother and sister) and I can't tell the difference b/w one's poop from the other's. It all stinks horribly.

_______
Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

Daphne, I think people have to look at the water situation this way. Would YOU leave out a pan of water in the kitchen and let every other human in the house come by and lick up water, getting spit and everything in it all day? Would you continue to drink that warm, spitty water for three days? A lot of people (meaning those who leave out water for days for their cats), don't look at it from this perspective.

My cats have a circulating water fountain (which I have to set up again) that they seem to enjoy tremendously. I should recommend it to my sister, who has a cat with chronic and progressive kidney disease. Indeed, I didn't think of this until you mentioned it. Thanks!

_______
Born right the first time.

TSV, another thing to think of when someone offers you a swig from their almost empty bottle of water. It's mostly spit.

lol!!! i know EXACTLY the sound you were trying to imitate, bran.. when my kitty was younger she ate some of those silver icicle things at xmas time... bout the same deal as yours, i saw one on her, tried to pull it off of her long fur, and needless to say, thats when the yowling started... :D

Both my dogs graze on grass like horses. The past few weeks, the grass in the fields has gotten pretty tall, and they don't even have to reach down to eat it. This evening, when I took them out for a walk the little dog squatted to do his doody. He was facing me so I didn't see what was happening. After a few seconds he got this look on his face like "what the...?!?" and started running around in circles chasing his tail. I took me a few more seconds to realize he had a big turd hanging out of his butt. Fortunately I had a poopy bag with me and managed to get him stopped--there was a 5-inch mass of matted grass and shit that he couldn't get to drop off. I grabbed it--eeechh!--and pulled and pulled and pulled--all in all about 14 inches of long grassy stems and crap. And the smell! The dog, however, looked extremely relieved and went about his business of sniffing for bunnies to chase.

I had a cat that used to eat my hair out of the trash. At the time my hair extended well past my knees. he had what looked like a line of link sausages following behind him when he tore through the house. What a fun clean up that was.

CC, Ooh that's clever.......like a toilet lever and you're neat........like a toilet seat.

Mrs. Crapper, the same thing here only my cat ate a dropped piece of birthday cake off the floor and picked up one of my waist length hairs. I was sitting in the living room with a view of the kitchen and noticed my cat with legs splayed and straight up in the air, sleigh-riding across the kitchen floor. About 2 ft behind him was a little turd, just bouncing along. I didn't know whether to shit or go blind!