Why can't you hug a FISH??????????

[HereSince1628]

SO is thinking of replacing nasty, dirty, filty, flea ridden cats with a DOG. ARGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH@!

What is wrong with a nice quiet pretty fish??????????????????????

[Systematic Chaos]

1. Same reason why you can't tune a fish?

:shrug:

[HereSince1628]

2. I have no problem tuning a fish in water instead of oil

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. I hug my birdies every day, and they don't have fleas.

Of course, they also shit on my clothing. So you've gotta take the good with the bad, I s'pose.

[HereSince1628]

4. But there are no FLEAS!!!!!!!!

These other things...well, they happen. Nothing personal.

[Phillycat]

5. Cats are remarkably clean animals.

If they are flea-ridden, that is the fault of the owner, not the cat. Cats clean themselves unless they are very, very ill, in which case that is again the fault of the owner. If the cats are filthy or flea-ridden, I strongly suggest your SO takes them to the vet.

If you are just exaggerating because you are not a cat fan, I imagine you're not going to get very much support in here.

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. They lick their anuses. Then they lick your plate.

Yeah. Real fuckin' clean.

[pagerbear]

9. What I want to post here would get us in trouble.

Just use your imagination.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Oh dear....

:o

[HereSince1628]

14. And then they lick YOUR face!!!!!!!!

What can I say. A fish is completely incapable of such sociably inapproriate behavior.

[Magrittes Pipe]

15. "Troy McClure? I thought he was dead."

"No, I said he sleeps with the fishes...."

[HereSince1628]

8. No offense intende but cat litter is filthy

Cats have been gone for about 4 months and I am still sucking up litter as I vacuum the basement carpeting.

I'd rather clean-up fish poop.

[Phillycat]

13. There are probably 100 solutions to that problem.

You can get covered litter boxes, and place them on mats that are specially designed to catch the litter on kitty's paws after he gets out of the box. We had those and I never saw a single stray piece of litter on the floor around the mats. Once a month, we took the mats outside and shook the litter out of them. We used hard-clumping litter and there was never any smell.

You could walk right up to the closet that contained the boxes and never know we had cats. But it took a little effort.

[pagerbear]

6. Got news for ya HereSince1628

Life is nasty, dirty, filthy, and sometimes flea ridden.

[HereSince1628]

11. Ouch, Like I didn't KNOW that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nonetheless, I appreciate your gloablizable generalization. It is so appropos.

[pagerbear]

19. Yep. I got apropos-ness comin' out da wazoo!

[sniffa]

12. "i beLieve that man and fish can coexist peacefuLLy"

g.w. bush

[HereSince1628]

16. Only if it is a profitable fish...

I can imagine support for catfish but I really see no purpose for dogfish that only show up for dissection in lower level biology courses

[redqueen]

17. Nothing is wrong with fish.

I like fish... nice and quiet and no shedding.

I really miss that. :(

[HereSince1628]

18. Yes, only the occassional cleaning and replacing of water....

Fish are SO civilized.