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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
by delecti 6mo 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.
- jjtheblunt 6mo agodog person here : they're unsanitary how? they constantly fastidously clean themselves, from what i see. dogs roll in rotting anything for sport.
- kevin_thibedeau 6mo agoIf you covered yourself in spit would that be sanitary?
- jjtheblunt 6mo agoyou 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!)
- imp0cat 6mo agoNope, it's evaporative cooling (like a swamp cooler) for your body.
- jjtheblunt 6mo agothat's only the famous part of the story, though. here's what i was thinking...presence of protein lysing enzymes in sweat as a protective mechanism. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1874391917300064 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187439191...
- jjtheblunt 6mo agocheck this out: it's super interesting, even the air is full of genetic material https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01099-2
- delusional 6mo agoI 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 6mo ago> 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GLuR7a-hPs
- Jtsummers 6mo agoIf 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.
- bluefirebrand 6mo agoCalling your cat stinky does not actually mean they smell bad
- delecti 6mo agoHe 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.