Today I came home to discover that one of the three cats tore open one of my daughters pillows. This particular pillow was filled with some sort of styrofoam-like material, with each piece being smaller than a pinhead. There are literally hundreds of thousands of pillow stuffings all over the house. The cat responsible was given a bath as she was covered from head to tail in the stuff. The other cats received baths as well because they picked up the stuff all over them just by wandering around the house. My daughters bed was completly covered in white pillow stuffings, most of which were vacuumed up. All of her pillows, blankets, stuff animals, everything needs to be washed. Most of it comes off in the washer/dryer but not all of it. This stuff is going to linger forever in the house. It's all over my clothes, my furniture, the bathroom towels, the carpet, the cats, its in my hair, absolutely everywhere. I'll have to wash everything at least twice.
Other than getting rid of the cat or doing other harmful things to her, does anybody have any worthy suggestions on how to clean my house?
Can you honk a boat horn at it when it effs up?
No, I'm pretty much land locked where I live. I'd have a better chance of finding a semi-horn or a tractor reving up. But how is a boat horn suppose to help clean my house?
Masking tape. Or one of those cat roller thingies. That should help pick up the little bittie bits that won't come off even in the wash.
(Not that I've done this before or anything./sarcasm. What is it about cats that they are automatically drawn to destroy anything that is filled with those godawful styrofoam bits? Even though I really like them we can't have beanbag anything in the house anymore.)
Masking tape. Or one of those cat roller thingies. That should help pick up the little bittie bits that won't come off even in the wash.
(Not that I've done this before or anything./sarcasm. What is it about cats that they are automatically drawn to destroy anything that is filled with those godawful styrofoam bits? Even though I really like them we can't have beanbag anything in the house anymore.)
Good suggestions, I'll try that on the mattress as well as the blankets. You know, if the situation wasn't so darn funny, I might actually be mad about it. I'm not though, I love my cats.
Well as long as you've still got your sense of humor, that's what counts. :) Glad to be of assistance.
You should have taken pics of it! :D Sorry about that... kitties are just that, curious little creatures
I remember when our kittens discovered the water bed . . .
You should have taken pics of it! :D Sorry about that... kitties are just that, curious little creatures
Wish I had.
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Can you honk a boat horn at it when it effs up?No, I'm pretty much land locked where I live. I'd have a better chance of finding a semi-horn or a tractor reving up. But how is a boat horn suppose to help clean my house?
It's like a can that you press and it honks real loud, and the cat learns that when it does stupid stuff, it gets honked at.
It's like a can that you press and it honks real loud, and the cat learns that when it does stupid stuff, it gets honked at.Can you honk a boat horn at it when it effs up?No, I'm pretty much land locked where I live. I'd have a better chance of finding a semi-horn or a tractor reving up. But how is a boat horn suppose to help clean my house?
I've been squirting them with a water bottle (called the naughty bottle), funny thing is though, they don't like the spray bottle but they otherwise like water. After I shower they climb into the tub, they curl up into the sink after its been used, and yesterday one of them let her tail fall into the dishwater, she just sat there like nothing had happened. They also like to go to the sink and look for a drippy faucet, then bat at the water drops coming out.
Yih. Swattin water's fun.
You do that too? I like water...I shower, bathe, brush my teeth, wash dishes, wash clothes, go swimming, drink it occasionally, I don't bat at it though. Perhaps I should try this sometime. Any particular technqiue I should use?
Here in Taiwan, we have these awesome feather dusters that generate lots of static electricity, and pick up dust and plastics like a magnet. Do you have them where you live?
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I had a similar incident a year or so ago, except that it was a large bean-bag filled with the microscopic-static-laden-beads-of-utter-annoyance.
The culprits were my son, Harrison, and one of his friends. They were jumping off of his bed onto the bean-bag, which of course ruptured.
They continued to jump on it until the finally realized that it wasn't supposed to be spraying little white dots everywhere.
Harrison rather sheepishly came into the living room (where my D&D session was going on) and said that there was a problem.
I was not happy.
The next day we literally had to move all of his furniture out, pull up the area rug and take it all out into the front yard. Cleaning up all those little dots took hours, even with static dusters and a shop-vac.
Man, I wanted to kill the boy.
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I used an oven mitt, with electrical tape rolled all over it sticky-side out, when I had a similar problem.
A ratty old wool blanket from the dollar store or Goodwill / Salvation Army might also do the trick, if it's 'static-y' enough. Or you might just shock the hell out of yourself and get little static beads stuck all over your body and in your hair (which will be sticking up by this point), to the great amusement of your cats.
Oh crap. You do realize that this thread is practically inviting the psychotic cat haters from 'Frakkin Cats' thread to come here and rant?
I like cats. Roasted. But I do like cats. j/k! I actually like cats, despite being allergic to them. Now KOBOLDS?!? That is a very different matter.
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Yih. Swattin water's fun.You do that too? I like water...I shower, bathe, brush my teeth, wash dishes, wash clothes, go swimming, drink it occasionally, I don't bat at it though. Perhaps I should try this sometime. Any particular technqiue I should use?
It's how younglings practice their hunting skills.
Oh crap. You do realize that this thread is practically inviting the psychotic cat haters from 'Frakkin Cats' thread to come here and rant?
Which is why I put a disclaimer within my original post, to keep the riff raff out.
"Other than getting rid of the cat or doing other harmful things to her, does anybody have any worthy suggestions on how to clean my house?"
After all, I'm sure the Paizo bunch are nothing less than honorable posters who would NEVER take a thread beyond the original posters request of intent.
You wouldn't do that would you kobold cleaver?
It's how younglings practice their hunting skills.Yih. Swattin water's fun.You do that too? I like water...I shower, bathe, brush my teeth, wash dishes, wash clothes, go swimming, drink it occasionally, I don't bat at it though. Perhaps I should try this sometime. Any particular technqiue I should use?
Me thinks you should practice your batting skills on KC! He being a naughty kobold again.
Why do kobolds always wear hats?
And warn me about changing the topic? What is this, the 'Pick on KC' thread?
...crap. Now someone's gonna make a thread of that.
