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submitted 1 year ago by ashinadash@hexbear.net to c/pets@hexbear.net

This is my cat, Max. His dad was a feral maine coon and his mum was a lazy barn cat. He is simultaneously weirdly crafty and the most head-empty animal you could meet.

He yaps a lot which is normal, he likes annoying the birds at our window. But also he will not stop eating hair? I don't exactly leave random strands of hair everywhere; my wife and I have shoulder length & extremely long hair respectively, but we always put stray strands in the bin.

Idk where he even finds it, but he eats hair. He loves to eat hair. He sits by the couch or our carpeted stairs and he chomps at the air, trying to grab a spare strand and eat it. He chomps like mad all day at random places. Occasionally I catch him dragging his ass, because he has a turd hanging from his butthole by a long strand of hair madeline-deadpan

Why on earth does he do this? How do I stop him? Why is my dog so dumb??

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[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

seen it before, pulled cat poop from a cat butt stuck with hair, just the way of the road kitty-cri-texas

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I desire to have this not happen kitty-cri pls

[-] CantaloupeAss@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

this is what happens when u have a silly lil hair-eatin kitty cat

idk, sweep/vacuum constantly to keep the hair away? but it will only mitigate the inevitable

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

He always finds them... I think it's just strands that come free from my head when I'm not paying attention angery sneaky dog

[-] the_itsb@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

could you make your hair taste bad or be otherwise unappealing somehow? is there a particular scent/flavor that he hates but you like well enough to wear it in your hair for a few months?

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Does my hair taste good?? thonk-cri Uh he hates coffee, I offer him coffee sometimes and he backs up lmao. Coffee perfume...? badeline-disgust

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Coffee shampoos are a thing

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Dangly poos though

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The face of a guy who jumped up on your bed at midnight and dragged his ass around on the quilt with a turd attached, requiring you and your wife to wash the bedspread in the bathtub by hand:

[-] magi@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When the cat moves so fast he'd assumed the crouching position mid air to fly across the bed before you had time to even react to what was happening lmao agony-consuming

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe get some cat grass? My cat likes to chew on random shit but if we give her some cat grass she will go to that every time. If there is no cat grass she'll just start chewing on random bits of fluff and hair on the floor.

The downside of cat grass is it doesn't really stop the turd hanging on by a thread problem cos the hair is now replaced with grass although its not as bad. Its also generally healthier and safer and also she REALLY likes it and gets super mad when we forget to refresh the grass

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Do the turds dangle from the grass then???

Also BIG YAWN, nice cat screm

[-] Gorb@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

They can do if she's eaten a big enough strand whole but mostly its chewed up. She's only tracked maybe 1 or 2 grass turds about the house over the last year

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminder to anyone dealing with hair-attached turds dangling from more turd that's still inside your cats butthole: DO NOT pull on the dangler, you could give your cat anal prolapse or mess up their insides

If you must, use scissors to remove danglers by carefully cutting through poop/hair, then just encourage your cat to finish their poopin business. Sometimes we just put ours in the bathroom with her litter box and close the door. Another thing you can do is dab some warm water around their butthole, to emulate the way momma cats apparently lick their little kittens buttholes to encourage them to go

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

See this is what I was looking for, ty. I have always wondered about the health concerns, my hairs are like three feet long. Might try the warm water thing tbh.

[-] magi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

He likes to eat our hair love, maybe he just likes the taste of queers? swole-chonk Fastest I've ever seen him move is when he was dragging his arse with a trail of poop attached Tfw half shocked and half bursting to laugh at how comical it looks anya-heh

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

visible-disgust never say this to me again, "taste of queers" edward-wtf

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago
[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Occasionally I catch him dragging his ass, because he has a turd hanging from his butthole by a long strand of hair

I love him

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

He loves you too, he has a preference for masculinity tbh, he fucks around. Guy hates that he lives with two lesbians screm

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