I have this theory, based on how cat pee stink feels like it will kill you, and how the poop causes birth defects, and dander can make you suffocate, and apparently now just being around them can f your mental health and cause dumbening, that cats are pretty much an advance guard softening us up for the alien invasion.
FTR, I have one curled up on my lap as I type this. I'm not saying the warmth and purring vibrations and all are a bad thing. Just that they will eventually lead to our demise as a species.
But it'll be a nice way to go. Purring, warm weights, sucking you down....
Amon had a, well, carnal relationship with one of the mink blankets on the bed. We couldn't blame him, because it was so soft and snuggly, but he was fixed, for heaven's sake. But there were the occasionaly soggy spots. Either from ecstatic drool or ecstatic, well.
I've come to terms with it.
But seriously. If you have any doubt whatsoever, it's not cat pee.
Well, that's good to know. Not that I'm thrilled to have my pillow soggy from cat drool or snot (they do both have colds), but it beats the alternative.
Connie, Amon wasn't the only one. Percy the Emo Cat has a carnal relationship with a pink snuggly blanket. And he's fixed. I just wash it and give it back, and try not to think about it.
This is why I have girl pets.
Burrell was a drooler. Folly now, she pees. I'll take drool on my bed over pee any day.
Isaac still to this day will sometimes suck on his shirt or his pillow until it is foul and wet. Cracks me up. Kids are gross.
Girl pets can be almost as bad. When Burrell was closer to a kitten in age and behavior she'd confiscate Cody's jacket and go nuts with it, kneading it and purring. And drooling all over it. Of course the man himself? She'd barely let him touch her.
We had an Argentinian Red-Footed tortoise when I was a kid. It had a thing for one of my suitcases. We called it Lust.
... sometimes I realize I had kind of a weird childhood. Mostly because of my middle brother, who collected all sorts of wacky animals. (Snakes, lizards, orphaned birds, broken-winged hawks, orphaned fox cubs...)
