Have to convince roommate not to get a cat
This is not about the merits of cats. I don't like cats, but regardless of what kind of small animal you replace cat with, I hold the same position.
I don't live in a big place, and it's shared. I've had some minor issues with this guy in the past, but all in all no problems. I'm pretty easy going, believe it or not. To paraphrase an excellent movie "The cat is not the issue. The issue is drawing a line in the sand, over which you do not!" Except in this case, the cat is partly the issue. I'm allergic to cats, and I think he's just trying to piss me off.
Last time he brought it up, I told him that if he got a cat, I would get rid of it. I think he took this to mean I would kill the cat, since he has seen me put the boot to the gecko problem that he uses as an excuse to get the cat, and since he brought up a number of animal cruelty laws immediately afterward. I was more thinking along the lines of trapping the cat, and releasing it near some dumpsters several miles up the road. But I think that this has all just made him more resolute.
I need some better reasons to stop this, because I don't want to have to spend an hour on the weekend transporting a cat from the house to its natural habitat. Plus, this won't be a good thing for diplomacy.
The whole allergic thing isn't cutting it, since he claims that he can restrict the cat, and the air, into his rooms alone. He is a smart guy, and has a mechanical engineering degree, so the whole truth behind air handlers doesn't phase his foolish notion of containment. I need some clever, manipulative people to help me hatch a plan. I'm not much of a manipulator. Usually I just threaten castration, and that does the trick.
I don't live in a big place, and it's shared. I've had some minor issues with this guy in the past, but all in all no problems. I'm pretty easy going, believe it or not. To paraphrase an excellent movie "The cat is not the issue. The issue is drawing a line in the sand, over which you do not!" Except in this case, the cat is partly the issue. I'm allergic to cats, and I think he's just trying to piss me off.
Last time he brought it up, I told him that if he got a cat, I would get rid of it. I think he took this to mean I would kill the cat, since he has seen me put the boot to the gecko problem that he uses as an excuse to get the cat, and since he brought up a number of animal cruelty laws immediately afterward. I was more thinking along the lines of trapping the cat, and releasing it near some dumpsters several miles up the road. But I think that this has all just made him more resolute.
I need some better reasons to stop this, because I don't want to have to spend an hour on the weekend transporting a cat from the house to its natural habitat. Plus, this won't be a good thing for diplomacy.
The whole allergic thing isn't cutting it, since he claims that he can restrict the cat, and the air, into his rooms alone. He is a smart guy, and has a mechanical engineering degree, so the whole truth behind air handlers doesn't phase his foolish notion of containment. I need some clever, manipulative people to help me hatch a plan. I'm not much of a manipulator. Usually I just threaten castration, and that does the trick.
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Personally, I hate cats. Can't stand them. Love dogs. Hate cats.
Dog's thought-process: This person feeds me, gives me water, plays with me ... he must be God.
Cat's thought-process: This person feeds me, gives me water, plays with me ... I must be God.
BUNNIES ARE SOFT
Originally posted by adamrao
Have you thought about looking into non-cat-loving roommates?
The real estate is too prime. Not worth passing it up. I'd rather take the weekend drive, get the point across, have him whine for a few days, and incite desire for him to leave.
Hate dogs, but the bottom line is that he's being a dick if he doesn't consider the people he lives with by simply dropping an animal into the picture.
Does he really want to get a cat or does he want to push your buttons?
Is he home much? Cats are very self sufficient, but why a pet and why now?
If he's such a smart guy then he should really realize that confining a cat to one room of your shared space is quite cruel and not at all a cool thing to do to any animal.
Besides, the cat won't stand for that. It'll be dying to get beyond that door right from the start. Cats are very curious and clever. It'll find a way if it can.
And if it can't get out, it'll want to so much that it's going to be meowing like a mofo to get out when no one's there (neighbors hate that).
You can't confine a cat to a room - if that's what he's thinking. That sucks as an existence and it's just very inconsiderate to make this move when you've told him that you are allergic.
Tell the guy that it's cruel to the cat, it's cruel to you and if he really wants a pet then he should go get a better job and move out to his own place where he can make decisions like this without adversely effecting his housemate(s).
Yappy pet animals of any kind are more annoying than anything else.
Dogs are generally incapable of feeding themselves. Cats hunt.
As for clever arguments indirectly against the presence of pets... claim to habitually leave chocolate everywhere. Lethal if snookums discovers OD quantities.
But what's wrong with Geckos?
Walk on glass with VanDerWalls forces in microhairs is cool. Mosquito eating is cool.
Originally posted by Splinemodel
This is not about the merits of cats. I don't like cats, but regardless of what kind of small animal you replace cat with, I hold the same position.
I don't live in a big place, and it's shared. I've had some minor issues with this guy in the past, but all in all no problems. I'm pretty easy going, believe it or not. To paraphrase an excellent movie "The cat is not the issue. The issue is drawing a line in the sand, over which you do not!" Except in this case, the cat is partly the issue. I'm allergic to cats, and I think he's just trying to piss me off.
Last time he brought it up, I told him that if he got a cat, I would get rid of it. I think he took this to mean I would kill the cat, since he has seen me put the boot to the gecko problem that he uses as an excuse to get the cat, and since he brought up a number of animal cruelty laws immediately afterward. I was more thinking along the lines of trapping the cat, and releasing it near some dumpsters several miles up the road. But I think that this has all just made him more resolute.
I need some better reasons to stop this, because I don't want to have to spend an hour on the weekend transporting a cat from the house to its natural habitat. Plus, this won't be a good thing for diplomacy.
The whole allergic thing isn't cutting it, since he claims that he can restrict the cat, and the air, into his rooms alone. He is a smart guy, and has a mechanical engineering degree, so the whole truth behind air handlers doesn't phase his foolish notion of containment. I need some clever, manipulative people to help me hatch a plan. I'm not much of a manipulator. Usually I just threaten castration, and that does the trick.
Normally there is rules for sharing home.
At your place, I will simply say that if he take a cat, you will sue him. He will be responsible of your health problems, unless the door of his room is sealed. Seriously I think it's technically possible.
Killing the cat, or transporting in it's natural habitat (it does not do any sense, it's not a wildcat) is not the solution. The solution is that your roomate does not bring the cat, or if he is fool enough to do it, that he bring the cat back.
Personally I've always wanted a sugar glider. It's a domesticated flying squirrel.
Tell him if he gets a cat your going to get a snake, and leave it's cage door open with cat nip inside
Originally posted by ast3r3x
It's a domesticated flying squirrel.
Yeah, like a koala is a bear and a kangaroo is a rat.
Mendosi
Then find a new place to live. Leave Scortched Earth in your wake.
Sorry, best that I can do. Negotiation and playing well with others is not my strong suite.
Aries 1B
Originally posted by Aries 1B
...Leave Scortched Earth in your wake.
Sorry, best that I can do. Negotiation and playing well with others is not my strong suite.
As I would expect from someone who was ardently Republican and pro-Bush.
Oh, I'm sorry... This is outside Political Outsider?
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I hope everything works out for you.
If you get a cat, I will kill it.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
I will kill your cat.
If you get a cat, I will kill it.
Wrong answer. The cat is innocent.
The right answer is : if you have a cat, I will kill you , and your testicles will be a good food for your cat.
Originally posted by adamrao
Dog's thought-process: This person feeds me, gives me water, plays with me ... he must be God.
Cat's thought-process: This person feeds me, gives me water, plays with me ... I must be God.
Originally posted by Powerdoc
Wrong answer. The cat is innocent.
The right answer is : if you have a cat, I will kill you , and your testicles will be a good food for your cat.
It's just a threat.
But you have to look like you mean it.
"I will kill your cat."
Originally posted by adamrao
Dog's thought-process: This person feeds me, gives me water, plays with me ... he must be God.
Cat's thought-process: This person feeds me, gives me water, plays with me ... I must be God.
Yeah. Dogs have owners, cats have staff. True that.
But forget Shetline's bunnies. Yes, it does bear repeating that they are indeed soft.
But look at this.
Hello. I am a lemur and I am the cutest creature in the world.
Originally posted by Hassan i Sabbah
It's just a threat.
But you have to look like you mean it.
"I will kill your cat."
But me, I was serious with my own threat