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hows joo get in ther?
We is goin to see “Gramma”
Whu dis “Gramma” persin?
Pleez help! Call poleese!
Gramma haz da cheezbuggers! An schmoo an fishee an yarns an warm sof lap an hugs an bugs! Gramma teh WIN!
Get a cat carrier! This is how cats escape and get hit by cars! Thanks.
Um, what do you think those are in the picture, lamps?!
I’m tired of this holier-than-thou complainey @#%&. Take your self-righteous bleating somewhere else.
Cats are not getting hurt in these pictures. They are hardy animals and they love to play. They do things worse than this to themselves 10,000 times a day.
What’s in the picture is two sets of two laundry baskets each, held together with bungee cords (whatever their official name is). NOT carriers. There’s a suitcase propped against the one on the left, just waiting for a bump or a sudden start/stop in traffic to lean into the top of the makeshift carrier causing the top to shift loose and/or collapse further into the bottom basket. You can see that it’s already started to shift because of the weight.
I’m tired of the “self-righteous bleating” too (the iPod thing – Jeez! ::eyeroll::), but my first thought when I saw this particular picture was – “oy, tell me they’re not really gonna DRIVE like that, because when that cat gets out, driving’s going to become very difficult all of a sudden.” Hopefully they’re laid-back, calm and unrufflable kitties.
My second thought was, the cats are going to associate the laundry baskets with a few minutes of unpleasantness, and I feel sorry for any clean clothes that get left lying around in the baskets afterwards! Hee.
elayne r goddess who splains why this is NOT GOOD LOLCATS!
if i wanted to see “poorly cared-for kittehs” I got whole f^&%$ing YouTube of morons who owz cats.
Jeebus. Laundry baskets. As I sed to huzband in car today after latest “dog killz bebeh” newz story, “poor animalz and baybeez left in teh hands of STOOPID ADULTZ!!!!”
at least the hoomans did not tie poor kittehs on top of car and drive very fast for a long trip, like the guy who wants to be de presedent
Ummmm…. what? Linkage please?
I herd bout dis, but nao I haz red bout it, hez a bigger jerk dan I even thot bfor: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-06-29-romney-dog_N.htm?csp=34
Mit Romney used to strap his dog carrier, with the dog in it, to the top of the car on family vacations. He says that he’d rigged up something that kept the wind off the carrier, but still. BAD IDEA.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1638065,00.html
OMG! Pleeze, NO!
Tank fur teh link, Q. I cannot believe the stupidity of that man!
Ahem …. wee now reetirn 2 r regoolarly shedooled proegram.
dont ya want himz mayking laws fur YUR luffed ones?
I know, I know…I promissed no mor snarky stuff, but srsly…WTF wuz he thinking?? What an absolute moron….glad I’m not one of his kids!!!
i tink dat mebbe da ‘no more snarky’ can be commuted fur pawlitishuns? dey not lolfrens, aftpurr all….
Hey there,
Number 1. Hello. I’m the person who took this picture.
Number 2. We were in the very sudden process of EVACUATING Louisiana for San Antonio Texas due to the little rain shower called Hurrican Katrina. Heard of it?
My boyfriends father, and owner of Casper and Rascal up there, wasn’t planning to evacuate the night before, so when the storm turned in morning, and everyone rushed around like mad men trying to pack essentials, the stores were sadly already sold out of cat carriers (yell at Wal*Mart, not us), so he rigged up these much roomier and perfectly safe carriers for the kitties. It gave them plenty of room to walk around, stretch out, sleep, and basically be more comfortable than us cramped humans in the seats. They were coddled and talked to the whole ride there, as well as being securely wedged (for lack of a better word) in place in the back.
If anyone wants to complain to me about the way the guys were transported feel free to email me. And I’ll ask you when that last time you evacuated one of the worst natural disasters in history was.
epblash@yahoo.com
myspace.com/erinpatriciab
Just felt I needed to add my $0.02 here.
These cats are ri-donk-u-lously spoiled and loved. They were the first things considered in the evacuation.
I actually thought this was a clever idea. I’m not sure what kind of cat carriers other people have but I can’t imagine the one we own for my cat being this roomy or comfortable. Not to mention reusable and easy to clean.
ftw!!1!
You didn’t need to explain yourself, but you did, and anyone who second-guesses you on this one needs to “walk a mile” first.
had to buy a cat carrier? How did you ever take them to the vet without already owning cat carrier? You need to have one carrier for every car you own. I went to a rabies clinic the other day (free shots FTW!) and some lady brought 2 cats in one carrier and two more in a towel each. Of course the second they openned the double occupency carrier, one shot out and was never seen again. If you’re going to own a cat you need to have the supplies to care for it, including a carrier…in case of emergencies….
Veterinarian House calls.
My mother’s vet(now mine as well) does them, so no need to stress an animal out by driving them around in a cramped carrier. Also some of us actually know how to order our pet’s meds online and how to administer vaccination properly to our pets. Which by the way if you vaccinate your own animals, in my experience, they think of it as even more attention. I have six cats and ten dogs currently and I go to refill my ink cartridges(via needle) and I have them all over me thinking it’s medicine time.
I’s red dat diffarantly.
I thot elvencat juss nycely sayen “B cairfull wiff ur cats.” Dyd knot thynk whiney or complayny. Elven eben sed “Tanks.”
I wuz coming bak to commint pozatively on Elven’s commint. Sum ownurs due put 2gedder fallty carryiers an teh kittehs due get owt. Dat’s all. Elven nebber sed dese kittehs wur b-ing hurted.
uumm dey talkin ’bout D.r. I bleeve.
CBSB was talking TO D.R., about Elven, who posted the first comment.
Also, to conserve posts: Ronniecat- i r goddess?? WOOHOO! (c:
OOHHhhh. I jus got back to werk from 9 dayz vacay. my brainz still on vacay.
mebbe kittehs been taken to cleeners
Actually, these folks were fleeing Katrina, so cut them some slack, eh?
They got their kittens out of a freaking hurricane/devasting flood.
there it is – it’s the “OH SNAP” heard around the icanhascheezburger !!! LOL’S
once again stend… u da breaker of ice. r u wearin dat afro?♥♥♥ yes u may bow.
( bows )
JESUS CHRIST IT’S A HURRICANE GET IN THE HAMPER
…ʇuǝɯɯoɔ spɹɐʍʞɔɐq ɐ ǝpn1ɔuı oʇ ʇobɹoɟ ʇsoɯ1ɐ ı
ı ɐ1ɯosʇ ɟoɹqoʇ ʇo ınɔ1udǝ ɐ bɐɔʞʍɐɹds ɔoɯɯǝnʇ…
lol, wth, how did u do that?
*starez*
mucho WIN.
WIN—living in Florida, I get to say that phrase at least once a year. So much LOLs for Stend.
Aaaaaaaaaand WIN.
WIN
SRS LOLs! Love you Stend.
And really. As someone who lives in New Orleans most of the year, I would rather put my cats (if I had any, as the living situation doesn’t allow pets) in a laundry basket in my car than leave them to fend for themselves if I evacuate. Then again, if I had cats I’d probably end up having cat carriers too.
In all fairness, there’s no way of knowing that from the picture. Of course that makes a difference as to one’s opinion of the kitteh ownerz, but not of the less than optimal nature of the transportation. If you think people aren’t dim enough to do this without having a natural disaster as motivation, I envy you your optimism about humanity, and wish fervently that I shared it.
bull.
everyone calmly places their companion animals in an almost empty vehicle, in patently unsafe transport containers, when fleeing a hurricane in brite sunshine.
I actooly tend to wear the cats as hats when fleeing hurricanes, but that’s just me. I trained my last cat to be a hat when she was just yamika sized, but then when she was older she could put her back paws on my shoulders. she tolerated it but I could tell she was thinking ’stoopid hoomans’
the purroblem wif dat, ob course, is whut happens iffen its a erfquake? i meen, duz dey NOES it da sayme drill? or du dey tink, in troo cat fashun, “unh unh, dis ain’t no hurricayne, i ain’t getting into hat pose”?
aftpurr hurricane andrew, i tink, cat fancy mag ran an artikal on dizaster preparedness, wherein dey purrposed dat peeps trayn dere cats to run into dere carriers upon verbal command. tawk about imajining da looks frum da cats as you stand in da middle ob da libing room yelling, “fire!” or, “flood” or eben, “catnip!” yeah. rite.
i fink only way to do that is yelling “lunchyyyyyyyyy tttiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeee” and then placing da food bowl in teh carrier…
I mean, who carez about teh mess in there, as long as kitteh be safe, right?
Heh.
I have three cats and two dogs. I kennel the dogs at night, because one has bladder control issues and the other likes to crowd me off the bed. The dogs are trained to go into their kennels at the command “Dogs, house!” Once they are in their kennels, they wait patiently for their (small) nighttime treat.
When the cats hear me call, “Dogs, house!” they are in the kennels long before the dogs get there – because they ALSO get nighttime treats. Then it’s a mess trying to get them OUT of the kennels so I can close the door for the dogs without locking the cats up.
It took my new kitten about two days to learn the drill. And in fact just now, which is about the time I usually go to bed, I came into the room and glanced over at the kennels to see all five animals sitting in there looking patiently at me, wondering why I haven’t told them to go to bed (and given them their treats) yet.
I wantz a treet nao too.
Cat hats FTW! Works better with kittens/very small cats. Grown cats make better lap blankets.
Or a lovely fuzzy shrug.
Ever evacuated from a hurricane, THC?
Unless you’re an idiot, you leave BEFORE the storm hits. When there IS bright sunshine. That picture was taken on August 27, 2005. The storm hit on August 29.
How do I know? Because those are MY cats, part of a caravan of eight people and six cats who escaped that storm together. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough carriers, and by the time we realized that the storm was heading our way, the local stores had pretty much been cleaned out of such pet supplies. The laundry baskets were the only way to keep them relatively in place in the car for a 19-hour evacuation drive. My girlfriend and I talked to them and tried to keep them as calm as possible, but they weren’t happy. Nobody was happy.
If it makes you feel better, once we got to San Antonio (where we evacuated to), we did buy carriers for them for the eventual ride home. But if it’s a choice between leaving them behind and putting them in baskets? I think we made the right choice every damn time.
WOAH. Noz sees that comin.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition ;o)
Stend: Wil U marree meh?
Halp — next dey clips iPod Shuffles on r earzes and aks us if itz safe.
LOL LOL LOL! *koff* *choke* LOL LOL LOL
Yoo gonna startz a fite!
Dat wuz not mah intenshun.
nobody expects the spanish inquisition ;o)
(sorry, stend, but it jest seemd to fit here too well)
Cheapo kitteh caryer. DO NOT WANT!!!
we got laundry baskets and bungee cords…
where ducttape?
cuz, srsly? ef yooz gonna maek a kitteh carryr owt ov kraps, yoo NEEDZ ta uze duck taep. it fixez everting.
ten thousand ded, cities destroyd, finanshul-status-related disastr responces, FEMA run by a pony club, incomptent muthrfukrz fistin tha planet an wurld leedrz hoo stil thinkz climate change happenz evry 3 munthz – DO NOT WANT!!!!
Brought to u by the “heckuva job” ol’ boyz club … i wish they’d all get swept up in a flash flood or sumthin.
Up with kittehs … down with politishuns!
feed them to th hungree. solv 2 problms at wunss. “heckuva b-_-job” moar like.
den dere’s da t-shurt whut camed out aftpurr da pet-fud recall:
FDA: we make FEMA look good
Wows. I’s nebber saw dat t-shurt. Purdy funnee. Ware can I stand in cuple-ov-dais-long lyne 2 bye 1?
Fer sure….I wud pay gud monees for wun of doze shirtz!
durn, can’t find it nao….. it were on one ob da mayn sites dat were cobering da recall….. http://www.itchmo.com (widget conbenientlee locayted on da rite sied ob da payge) mite habe a linky fur it sumwhere.
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/FDA/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_19300828/opt_/fpt_/c_360/
oh, WUNNERFUL dat you finded dis, yvi! hee hee hee…..
nao u can haz funnay merchandize!
Iz so muches of de dum! No reezon for Naw Orlanz to not be rebillded bettah dan evah naow. Shuld have de leveez fixed and de land builted up higher and howzes builded, too. Peeps shuld have homez and jobz and skoolz and roads…
But, Nooooooo. We haz to spend deh billyums of dollahs to kill peeps in othah landz to maykez dem haytez us even moar.
Heckuva job, indeed!!
mebbe evrybodee mayd homeless by the George&Dick show shud juss live free at the Bush ranches, Halliburtonz hed office an da wyte howse until awl dis shit getz sawted thafukowt.
and i want to queue for daze wiv CBSB to getz me wun ov dem shurtz. iz frickin howlarious.
i’ll chek more and see iffen i kin find da linky fur da shirtz, cuz dey R klassiks….
jest be greytful dat halliburton not be inbolbed in da pet-fud recall–or all dat bad stuff’d now be going into da skool-lunch purrogram. jest tink ob da soshul ills DAT’D solve.
u iz malted beenie
por kittehs stuc in cheapo baskeets. HALP DEM!
Seriously, this is not only el cheapo, it is also an extremely unsafe way to transport cats. My well meaning but ….. MIL did this with one of her cats who propmtly escaped.
That said, it is a funny picture.
But buy a carrier! Preferably with a big door on top (vets love that!) or that can be taken apart easily. Cats hate being dumped out the front door.
I agree!
Great. The whiners again.
am i the only one who sees a HYOOG difference between this thread and the dress-up-the-cat-in-clothes and/or lay-a-set-of-shuffles-atop-one’s-head ones?
sumtimes dere be a fine line–liek da post wif da betta about da kit’s head habing been glued to da taybull. but we all KNEW dat were a joke, rite? and dat no cats were harmed in da mayking ob da comment.
i’m wif doc shera and cbsb and da othfurs here, fur sure: i din’t heer her post as preechy or whiny, and to be honest, i cannot get da piture ob kittehs squished on da siyde ob da road frum bein in unsafe carriers out ob my hed. just happened to folks in know in catifurrnia.
mebbe it’s da venum behind da negatiff comments dat be bothfuring me da most.
ment dis to be at da bery end ob da comments, but oh, well.
No, you’re not the only one. There is mass hysteria with uncontrollable handwringing and moaning, and then there is “Hey, cute, but.. um.. buy a carrier, dude. You do NOT want a pissed off, frightened cat trying to climb out of the car via your ear.”
Catifurrnia. Hee hee. Dat’s ware I’s has lyving an dat’s whut I b kawling it noww.
wrong.
can we have a negative cheezburgers option for voting?
ya noes, i’ve wunndered da sayme ting meny tiems.
We uoost 2 hav dat but wif wurd pres dat abillaty went aweigh.
Mebbe dere could b a negative rating scale — click on li’l iPod shufflez.
Here’s your treat, Susie – an awesome idea like that deserves it.
my old kitteh (RIP Robert) had turrible panic attacks in the carrier (when he got older, they were life threatening). so i held him in the passenger seat, and he would wear a kitteh harness and a kitteh leash. in the vet waiting room, he would bury his head in the crook of my elbow and pretend we were alone, and at home. even if a giant slobbering dog barked at him, he was fine as long as he was on my lap wif his head in my elbow. he was a funny kitteh.
seriously, deese kittehs are funny. but shera has a point about the carriers.
Lawndree kittehz sai, “Weez dry cleen onlee, pleez!”
An afterthought: At least they tried to separate the whites…
yah I was just thinking “white kitty looks more worried cause she used to be B/W until they washed her”
Win
HAY iz no cheezbrgrs in here!
We’s innasint! Get da damn dawg. HE eeted ur cheezburger!
Damn dawg!
We gitz lawyercat u bees sorreh!
Aktuly we gitz Harvee Birdman. He gitz us off.
Den we eets him.
Luv da birdman. dat kartune is owt dere!!!
um, sum ob yur household companyuns mite NOT be happy to rede dis, ‘lissa
Hahahaha! I dinnit fink of dat! Like I said, brainz still on vacay!
hai weez wyte trashez kittehs!
hedn to da traylupurrk, drinkin wild purrkey an lissnin ta jon cougar mellencat
Not evry won hoo liv in traylr park be wyte trash! Sum of us r Q-tips, quite happee wif r littl tin boxes (an NO MORTGAGE or RENT!). We plantz r pritty flourz an mow r lawnz … no rust bukkits on cement bloks, neithr!
An we put r kittehs in the propr contaynrs (that said, if a majr hurricane waz headin this way … an in FL, they usually r … then the important thing is to get u and urs OUT of harmz way; if laundry baskits were the only carriers available, i’d use them, too!).
*chuckle* Q-tip. iz funnee. iz troo tho Meno – Zappa style. U iz hoo u iz. Jessica Simpson in a manshun wiv fancy shtuff an a schwimmin poolfool ov munny iz still wyte trasch an reellee only useful foar d live awgan tranzplantz… or throwin d poop at… or crab-farming.
neber herded da term q-tips–eggsplane betterer, plz? (so i kin call us dem, too, and noes what i talking bout….) was gonna post bout dis last nite, but i keep saying “i resemble dat remark” to TINA alla tiem enyway, so was wayting fur sumfing kooler to pop into my heds.
and yeppers, in an emerjency, all bets be off–i just wudn’t be stoppin’ to tayk pitures ob it. (but i’d sure as heck hab a litterbox and a water contayner in dere, too.)
Q-tipz, mai fren 10xkitteh, iz old fartz … toppd wif teh whyt fuzzy hairz, see? Or, in sum casez, no hairz!
gotcha! (hee hee–was tinkin, cheez, is i da onwiest one not getting dis? i meen, i know it were afore my furst cup ob coffee, but….)
tanks!
vizualeyezing signij: “onwy qtips need apply”
yoo shud woch wonderfalls. iz ekslint gud teevee sho on DVD. onlee 13 eps, but soooooooo gud. yur comment remyndz me uv teh mayne kairkter.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderfalls
I have lived in menny traleers in mai life, and I has never evur been trash….onlee poor! Mai houze is allus kleen, an I m vury quiet….no partees, no drugz, no loudness…..lots of folkz wit lots of munnez be trasheer dan me
an COL aint nevr bin in D12 neether. 10HC – wot woz dikhed TINA bringin da resemblementz wiv last nite an iz it awl unrezembled naw?
da “i purroud to be trayler-park bayge-trash” one, ob course, TINA! but now, “i purroud to be qtip.”
and, COL, rememember dat sum peeps’ trash be othfur peeps’ treashure–i ’spect i fit into dat CATegory (i meen, sum folks tink it trashy to habe more cats dan relatiffs who be welcom in one’s house. imajine dat!)
Ok, guyz…WTF is D12….and jus for teh record…I lulz mai kritterz, I jus toleratez mos peeple…sorree-didn meen to offend….jus gotz tired of everbuddy theenkin dat jus cos yu lif in a trailer, yu is “less than”…dat is not tru. I haf known menny peeps livin ta trailer life whu had teh bestest harts an did lotz of wunnerful thengs….but udders only saw dem as TPT….so rong.
hoomins sure notz MY faborite speshies. and da more i do resq, well… (went to da store today–nice spiffy minivan parked in da sun. wif two boston terriorists in it (smushed faces, can’t breaf to start wif), and two ob da five winnows not eben rolled down a bit, and da othfur two just down two inches. den i saw dere were two hoomin children, under 5, in dere too!
tooked da manager 20 minutes to find da hoomins what belonged to dem. it onwy (!) 80 out today, but iffen it been hotter, dem liddle ones all cud a been gone.)
so trash be relatiff–and we all noes what relatiffs can be like.
home be where da heart is, and iffen you gots heart, dat all dat matters. (my trayler’s got authentic purrsian rugs–hand-mayde effury day by my purrsians, eben!)
D12 iz grupe dat MNM bustz rapz wit.
well, no WUNNDER i not noes dem. no bagpipes!
u tink day can bloe lyke dat wifout bagpypez?
Iz how Mooncat wuz trayned foar mishun.
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/05/13/god-speed-moon-cat/
Is a rat trappe, an u’ve bean coght.
Nayme da band.
Boomtown Ratz!
Dat’s ez, Boomtown Rats.
I wanna shoot ooh ooh ooh oot..da hole day doawn!
Gud jawb, grrrls!
“Up al nite
Oooooooo
Oooh stayun up al nite”
(knot a vrey gud song ov dere’s)
(Wuzn’t dere a snayke in teh videoh or sumfin?)
I’memberz. I fink teh onlee time I hurd dat song wuz whin I SAW it on teh MTV!!!
the Empty V. No want mah emp – ty – V. Bunnehz 4 nuffin & yer lawlz fer free.
Plez no, mithr rommny, no want ride on roof!
(sorry, iz political)
Shaddup, kid, Ah’m runnin fer Mormon Presidnet!!!
And hoo named you Tagg?
An don leave no brown river on de back winnow dis tiem, Seamus!!!
(see erlyer–well, layter–refurrence to da way dat romney’s goggie went on fambly bacayshuns.)
yo, hyoomiz, invest in a carryer. I r not laundree and I preefer to ride in lugshery thx. also, maybe call limozine next tyme.
Again? How many of these do we have to see?
Seriously, if I have to deal with the nosy crybabies every time I read this site, then I’m not going to post.
Sounds like a plan!
Nobodee is really goin off dude. It’s just concern. did u go a few posts back and see all the hoopla about a kitty with iPod shuffles on it’s ears? If you really wanna get your dander up go check that out. Just about every one who commented on this thought it was funny or made a funny comment like emyp here. Go read the comments about the iPod kitty and then read these. This is nothing.
I hope this isn’t a trend. This is what happened to stuffonmycat when they got big. Too many fights. And not just fighting but spitting mean comments personally cutting down the other posters. SOMC used to be fun. Oh please oh please don’t take ichc away from us too.
I, oh so agree, CBSB! Lately it’s been quite testy around here (she says, having just finished up her own mini-rant … see above!). There’s enough misery in this world without LOLfrenz infighting. So … i personally promise never to say anything mean-spirited or whiny, ever again … at least not HERE!
and i haff to agree, tho i stand by whut i’ze sed–jest mebbe not how ize sed it.
i apawlogize fur my fits ob peek and rudeness. sarcasm be my furst langwidge, and sumtimes it too easy to slip bak into it. (MeowChat be my thurd, wif LOLCat my fourth.)
jest cuz we CAN say whuteber we wants on da innernets, dont meen we HABS to.
“all we be meowin’, is gibe peace a chance….”
Here, here!! Lolfrens gotz no business bein all snarkie!
azacktly! if sum peepz makez da whiney or nazty or alarmizt kinda commentz, da REEL lolfrenz cud juzt ignor em and reelize dat we iz da rashunal onez, chuckling to ourselfs abowt how sum folkzez do carry on. let dere be peas in da werld, n let it beegin wif us!
tho i not sure dat “rashunal” be da mostest appropryate werd fur what we b.
i’m all for that plan. buh-bye!
I usually put the cat carrier in the back seat. I do. But I had a new cat once who I thought might need reassuring, or the back seat was full and we were running late, and I put him up front with me. Of course he was very upset, and at one point at a red light I put just the very tip of my finger through the door so he could rub his face on it for comfort. He grabbed the whole finger, dragged it in and latched on, so it was like a cage full of cat was dangling from my finger by claws and teeth. I drove one-handed and screaming until I could pull over. So much for calming anyone down. Good times.
yeah well MY cats used to try to get under the brake pedal as they tried to hide by my feet while driving. that went over REAL WELL – never let them out of the carrier after that one
Yah. Mines cry an cry – dey so skeered of de “earthquake box” no matter whut momma say dem, nuffin helpses de skeery noises an shakins an can’t run hide!
When I poor I had 2 good carryers an 3 beeg kittehs. Willem so beeg, he gets hisown carryer, RC always rolls into a lump, so I put lil ROscoe in wid her – I forgot she hayte bebbe kittees! Poor Roscoe had bigeyes when I rescoo him frum RC’s box! Den I got 3rd box an all us happee!
Only big big doggeez ride out of box – an dey get harness, seat belt AND leash!!!
akshually dogs shud ride in the trunk wif a net separating teh trunk part from the passenger part of teh car. or even better: u puts gigantix dog box (like used on air planes) into trunk of big car and attach it to the car wif sumfing so it cant slide around.
is safest fing to do for dog and passengers. 
i asoom yoo meenz trunk ov SUV or hachbak, not suhdan, ryte?
i mean big car! obvsly trunk haz to be big enuff for big doggy box, and needs to haf windoze for light to dum in… but big carz alwayz haz windoze in trunk secshun.
ugh, nao i get wut u ment infamousqbert!
of course i didnt mean to put poor doggy into small “flat” type of trunk wifout teh windoze! dat wud be cruel.
if u haz flat trunk type of car, u can haz a net separating back seat section from driver section and put doggeh in back seat. :>
i lernd da hardway dat u shud put towwl in kiti carryer. one my kiti’s do uranayshun insyd an den it getz all ober kiti and she shaykshaykshayk herz foots to gets rids ob dat uranayshun. sad fing is, kiti was in frunt seet beesyd me. so shaykshaykshayk ob da uranayshun gets alllllll ober mee too. not so grayt acktuly. i putz towwl in da carryers nao. an sellz da peepee kar.
DR
The posts do not come up instantaneously. When I posted, there were not any other posts about the “carriers”. They came up when I looked later.
It is my job to educate owners about pet safety. I use several methods to do that. Posting on the internet is one of them. I don’t think I was “holier than thou”. I illustrated my point that some people (even ones who should know better) do transport their pets this way and it is not safe.
Please contact me at drdickie@stjulianscatcare.com to tell me what I was “wrong” about.
I appreciate your comments — cats can easily escape from carriers and if they are at the vets parking lot they can get lost, perhaps forever. Also a hysterical feline bouncing around the car while you’re driving can be a problem for the driver. I once had my cat Twerp (R.I.P) get loose and hide under the accelerator and brake WHILE I was driving. Fortunately I was able to pull over and secure her.
And the inexpensive cardboard carriers are not good for cats that are really terrorized of driving. I’ve had 2 different cats on 2 separate occasions totally rip apart a cardboard carrier and escape in about 10 minutes.
Cat carriers aren’t cheap, but a good one can be gotten for about $30 and it’s worth it.
And, for a multi-cat household – do you have enough carriers to evacuate ALL your cats at one time in case of an emergency???
I have eough carriers for all three cats and both dogs. Where the hell I’d fit them in my teeny tiny CAR… now that’s another question entirely. (c:
Ya, I still needa make a carrier for ma snakie… altho in a pinch he has traveled in hims feeding bin. Birds easier – grab cage & go! I don’t gots no other animals ekcep hubby to worry for… sigh..
Yes, but do you have a CAGE to safely transport hubby in?????? Dat is teh important queshun!
oh, i were JEST gonna aks dat! and b it eazier to get himz into it dan da birdies and snakie?
Amen. However, while we’re saying Amen, let’s pause for a moment to reflect on my beautiful kitteh Bella, who drove all the way cross-country with me seated quietly under my legs, almost under the driver’s seat, like the angel she now is. Oh, she was the best baby. I know most kittehs could not do this, but she wuz speshul.
Bottom line I think here is that we’re all in pretty much agreeance that this is not the ideal way to transport a pet, but if this is truly a pic of kittehs being evacuated before a storm, then props to those peeps. Who are we to sit and biatch about how they are transporting teh fuzzy ones when we don’t know all the details of the situation? Look at the pic closer, and there is a big azz tub of litter and what appears to be a full bag of teh kitteh kibble (nom nom). That’s planning. Who knows what these people had to leave behind in order to fit all this into their evac vehicle? True, these are makeshift carriers, but it is very likely that there will be a *lot* more stuff packed in around them–someone that cares this much for their felines would probably pack them in securely and as comfortably as possible. Maybe these people HAD good carriers, but gave them to friends and neighbors who had less than they did so that those people might save their own pets?
At least they’re not leaving the fuzzy ones behind to fend for themselves. I can’t even imagine the heart-wrenching decisions that had to be made about what to take and what to leave. Those of you who haven’t had the joy of living in a severe weather region, let me try to illustrate a very real possiblity of what happens after the storm has past:
Evacuee family: “Whew! Glad that’s over. Let’s go home”
Very Nice National Guard Person: “Small problem with that”
Family: “O rly? what problem is that?”
VNNGP: “It’s not there any more. Neither are the power lines that brought you electricity, the pipes that brought you water, and umm…what else? Oh yeah, the roads that brought you to your house.”
Family: “Well, can we at least go try to salvage some of our belongings?”
VNNGP: “Yeah. You see this 3-mile wide barren field of mud here? That’s what’s left of your town. If you look a mile or two north of here, you might find one or two things.”
I live about 7 states away from LA. That storm was how many months ago, and our shelters up here are *still* dealing with refugee animals from down south.
Getting off my soapbox nao. Thanks for your time.
Thanks TB for putting it all in perspective! +++++5 burgers for yu!
I has a cunning plann…..
U wooden no a cunning plan if it…..
LOL! Black Adder FTW!!!
When I used to work for a vet, people would bring cats in all kinds of make-shift carriers which would fall apart in the parking lot when I tried to carry them in. Then, they would blame ME.
Please, people, splurge $20 & buy a real carrier. It shows respect not just for the cats, but for the people who handle them. Thanks!
NOW U tell me!!!
My meezer luvs to sit in laungree baskets like dis – he pesters me wen I do da laungry until I emty one for him to sit in and put wun upsidown on teh top. Dehn he sitz and purrs and smiles and pretens hes a tiger. But he knoes how to get out kwik, too.
I hav teh hard clamshell carriyrs for all my bebes for trips in teh car – but in mergency I dink the methud in the picshur wud be betur than carbord, or – nononono – nuthin.
dem’s two REELY BEEG kittehs. don’t get cat carriers, get Grayt Dayne Carriers.
Mah kitteh Armani (tuxeedo) b so beeg he taykes a meedeum dog syze carrear. Mommah prowd. Hard fur meh 2 carree d’oh. In cayse ov emergancee I’s wud need 2 depend on teh kindnuss ov stronge strangurs!
Lukkilee, I’s b lyving neckst dour 2 2 stronge bouys.
Dat iz can be berry luck indeedy (wagglez eybrowzes).
Shame on yu, Susie…dat kinda comment spozed tu come from pervy ol ladiez like me!! LOL
oh, yu LUFF bein a bad inflooence, and currupting da yung
Itz what I live for!!!♥
“Gee, Brain. What do u want to do tonite?” (narf!)
“Same thing we do every night, Pinky–try to take over the world! Are you pondering what I’m pondering?”
“I think so Brain, but where are we going to find 4 red laundry baskets, some bungee cords and a flashlight at this time of night?”
vry phunnie!!1!
Are you pondering what I’m pondering, Pinky?
I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find a duck and a rubber hose at this time of night?
(Brain)Pinky, what rhymes with June?
(Pinky) No it doesn’t
Pinky, are you pondering what I’m pondering?
I think so, Brain, but me and Pippy Longstockings? What would our children look like?!
I’ll be here all week.
Jack.
El CheepO Kennelz
Maydz frum Laundree Day Baskitz
Kittehz Do Not Want!
Hewminz are awayrz
Dooinz teh best taht dey canz
Rode Trip nawt taht lawng
Feeld Xpeedeeentz
Beez sumtymz nessessaree
Kittehz undersandz
Jack.
*awwwwwwww*apllawz*snif*
We can has lok-pik? kthx
Your paws can’t repel plastic of that magnitude!
Am I the only one who got what this caption was about? I admit, I could have missed someone else catching it when I glossed over all the hater comments…
Huh? Dere wuz a kapshun????????????????
Whut frum? Inlyetinn us.
jus onna side note…. i wunnerz wai it iz dat da kittehs doan lyke da ridez inna carz, but da goggies jus LUBZ it, speshully wen dey kin put dere hedz owt da winnowz n da windy blowz in dere facez n eerzez. i fink abowt dese fings a lawt. i can haz a hobbee plz? k thx bai.
Theze wallz they not stop da halitosis it’s cheezin’ us orf.
This is CLASSIC! OMG i have never laughed so hard… well ok…maybe a few pics back i did…great site!
Sandy
We shooda lisnd 2 Admrall Akbar!
dood i sez dis bee admirul axberr.
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