"Meth-addled crocodile emporium"

We filter about 90% of our monthly household transactions through a credit card that earns points, and we pay off the balance every month. We have enough points saved up now to get a week's vacation for two people. I also like the security of credit cards - fraud protection, disputing incorrect charges, etc. Also, it…

Ha ha, yeah! That would be terrible making the mailman lug big things of cat litter up multiple flights of stairs! S/he would probably start spitting on your mail or something. :-D

Yes, we do the prescription thing too at Target. I forgot to mention that. Before we had the cat food subscription, we would wait until cat food went on sale at Target (sometimes they had these awesome sales where the food would be several dollars off per box AND you would get a $5 gift card with the purchase of every…

I never heard of any company offering it as a benefit either before I started working here. I think that's pretty unusual (a lot of companies don't even offer good human insurance, much less pet insurance).

We got a monthly subscription to Target for our cats' food. Subscribing gives a 5% discount, and using the Red Card gets another 5% discount, for a total of 10% off the normal shelf price, AND it automatically comes right to my door every month so I don't have to actually drive to Target to get it. You can also get…

Amazingly, my pet insurance is partially subsidized by my workplace! I signed up for it on a whim last year during our enrollment period, and it paid off pretty much immediately. One of my cats ended up with a UTI only 3 months later, and then both of them had dental work. The pet insurance paid for something like…

You are welcome! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

I found this article a while back, and it has completely changed how I think about taking lunch to work: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/diy-in…

Wow, that cat is quite literally climbing the walls!

Sadly, this tutorial came a few days too late. :-( But now I know for next time! Thanks!

I posted this downthread, but you probably didn't read it. This study indicates that declawed cats are MORE likely to end up in shelters than non-declawed cats, not less.

Google is your friend. :-) I could probably find more.

Ok, that's fine. I'm going to stop talking to you now, because I think this conversation is just making you more defensive and stressed, which is unhelpful to the overall goal. But please, please just think through this the next time you have to make a decision about declawing - it IS mutilation, despite the fact that…

I know, right? I have rented multiple apartments and houses in four different states as an adult, and I was never not able to easily find a place that accepted cats without declawing. In fact, the vast majority of rentals I have looked at do not require declawing. I would never have declawed in order to live in a…

You're being defensive and lashing out with derisive names like "Kitty Social Justice Warriors" (as though 99% of the other people in this thread are all crazy PETA hippie cat ladies or something) and appealing to authority by bringing up your vet (who may have felt, as described in this thread, that s/he was just…

After having owned a number of cats, I have come to the (completely anecdotally-driven) conclusion that male cats are easier than female cats. I had a female cat once who lived for 16 years, was always touchy and bossy even as a kitten, and for the last 6 years of her life she was just the most autocratic, cranky old…

Kitty Social Justice Warriors = Anyone With A Conscience

Or...get another rental. :-(

I fully support this ban, and wish all states would do it. Declawing is unethical and a cruel thing to do to cats. Anyone who thinks a couch is more important than the health and welfare of a living being should not own a cat.