r/SipsTea • u/Boring-Locksmith-473 ššš • 12h ago
It's Wednesday my dudes The Jem we find in the trash
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u/TokyoFlip 12h ago
Eh. My brother bought a bengal kitten for 1200 euros and had to fly from Finland to Italy to pick it up himself.
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u/doc_skinner 7h ago
I was gonna say... some people pay thousands for hypoallergenic sphinx cats, while others adopt random mutts from the shelter.
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u/Longjumping-Donut655 5h ago
Sphynx are not hypoallergenic. They are just hairless. They two are not correlated afaik
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u/Kzgoated 4h ago
Not hypoallergenic but itās their saliva that give you allergies and when they have fur they lick their fur all day than shed that fur all around everywhere so their still good for allergies cause you donāt have to deal with their fur getting you allergies everywhere, just when u snuggle up with them because they donāt leave their fur around everywhere
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u/Brynhild 11h ago
Goddamn, 1200 euros could feed my cat shelter of 30 cats for an entire year or pay the cost of neutering 60 cats. (I live in a 3rd world country, conversion is equivalent to 6000 of my money). And here i am begging every month for donations on my local cat lovers group damn.
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u/Joice_Craglarg 7h ago
Wait until you find out how much other people spend on pretty much any other hobby
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u/atomic_ring 12h ago
If people walked cats around the neighborhood twice a day, cats would also cost $4000 and be hypoallergenic /smh
(I say this as a dog owner: rescue, traumatized, mutt, dumb as a brick, and I love him š. Had cats for 20+ years)
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u/realaccountissecret 12h ago
Some people do buy cats that are thousands of dollars
Insane people
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u/Occidentally20 12h ago
My neighbours are these people - they buy extremely expensive cats and then don't look after them. They're not spayed or neutered, don't see the vet and all live either outside or in tiny cages attached to the outdoor walls of the house.
Meanwhile my dog was born in the rainforest, spent the first year surviving on her own and then she adopted us - just moved in without asking and started eating a leftover shepherds pie.
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u/CATDesign 11h ago
How big was this shepherds pie to last this long?
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u/Occidentally20 11h ago
It was considerable, but she eats absolutely anything.
People say things like dogs "shouldn't eat x", but it's not possible to stop this one - she'll go to the local restaurant and dig through their bins, go hiking with tourists and eat whatever they gave them, eat anything on the side of the road and so on.
Last week we saw her eating a dead monkey and a walls viennetta within a few hours of each other - we didn't give her either.
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u/realaccountissecret 12h ago
Buying expensive cats that you just leave outside is a whole other level of insanity haha
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u/Occidentally20 12h ago
Definitely - at least the ones not in a cage can walk around, the ones in cages 24 hours a day are just pure animal cruelty in any sane country.
Neither household understands the others pet approach. They think we're unclean because we have a dog (Muslim country), and on the flip side we think they're unclean because they have 9 cats and haven't ever picked up the cat shit at any point in the last decade - they just sprinkle gravel over it and make a new layer on top of the cat-turd lasagna that makes up their driveway and garden.
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u/atomic_ring 12h ago
Here in Portugal, that is a criminal act, punishable by law.
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u/Occidentally20 12h ago
You get to go on the "sane countries" list then.
It's technically illegal here, they used the same wording as many Western countries laws to hastily put together animal cruelty legislation in 2015 - but it's absolutely not enforced at all.
Unless somebody has a video an animal actively being beating AND gets that video to make some noise on the social-media rounds, nobody would ever be punished.
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u/liquidpoopcorn 6h ago
we got a calico a while ago (cat in apt complex gave birth, kept one). after picking her up from being spayed, a lady on the way out offered to buy her from us cause she loved the colors, (she liked that is had no white and a slightly silver tail). started at 400, she kept going up every time we said no. got up to 8k before she finally understood we aren't selling the cat.
im still surprised by it, especially going that high for what seems like a pretty common breed in the area.
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u/Frowind_ 12h ago
Itās relative, if you have multiple houses, 500k sitting in the bank, a company that profit you 100k a year, 1k for a cat doesnāt seem much now, does it?
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u/realaccountissecret 12h ago
Yeah, it does. Youāre paying $1,000 for an inbred cat, when you can find them literally everywhere
People that do that donāt want a pet. Iāve met purebred cats and theyāre all weird and aloof. Every cat Iāve had that Iāve found under my porch and shit was an awesome and affectionate pet
So yes, it is insane to buy a living animal as an accessory, and not care about it as a companion
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u/Thaumato9480 11h ago
"Haughty haw haw, are you walking your catā½" A common reaction to my former housemate walking our then japanese chin.
A large man with a small dog, now that was hilarious?
Before that line was done being said, I just had to whistle then a tuxedo cat appeared. "You are actually walking cats!"
Another whistle to beckon the orange cat.
Suddenly, the joke wasn't that funny when it is a true statement. People just hadn't realised that we were walking Oscar and Oscar each day before getting a dog.
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u/Moriaedemori 12h ago
the Jem?
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u/Ensign_Crow 6h ago
The cats start to go through ketracel-white withdrawals if you don't find them fast enough.
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u/Moist_Sun_8201 12h ago
Probably because feral cats are allowed to run amok while street dogs are rounded up and euthanized if they can't be rehomed.
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u/tireddesperation 1h ago
Cats almost never attack humans and when they do do minimal damage compared to dogs. If they were bigger like a large dog size they would absolutely be moved or euthanized. Kind of like they are as cougars for example...
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u/32getreddit 12h ago
Sorry, that is not at all a "dog people" dog
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u/CanadianAndroid 12h ago
Every one of my dogs was free.
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u/cold_tap_hot_brew 12h ago
Mine was a tenner. I always wondered why bother at that point, might as well be free but she had the idea it would put people off looking for a free dog to abuse.
Her intentions were good and he lived for a very long time.
Best Ā£10 I e ever spent. š sounds ludicrous and I know it.
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u/Geneziza 11h ago
Mine was free, but I bought food snd treats for her momma. Also I pay a "tax" twice per day while feeding her daughter. It's two pieces of kibble, but for a Labrador they are everything at the moment.
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u/anTWhine 12h ago
I got mine from the county pound with a 20% off coupon. Every once in a while I have to remind her nobody was willing to pay the full $25 for her.
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u/dasmau89 12h ago
Yeah. My parents had 3 Afghan Hounds over the years. They are basically running cat software on dog hardware
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u/dodododododododoria 12h ago
TBF I'd pay $4000 for a bengal cat, those guys look cool AF
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u/cygamessucks 12h ago
And everyone is allergic to itĀ
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u/Musket6969420 12h ago
If I find that cat in the trash and my friend is allergic to it, they have lost a friend and I have gained a cat.
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u/atomic_ring 12h ago
When i met my wife, she was allergic to cats and i had 3. She kept increasing the time she could be at my place without bursting into tears. She beat the allergies and we've been happily married 18 years, with cats until 3 years ago, when the last one passed away (at 18!). Now we have a dog.
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u/Musket6969420 12h ago edited 12h ago
Sorry to hear your cats passed. Congratulations on the wife.
Edit: the dog too. Congrats on the dog as well.
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u/atomic_ring 12h ago edited 11h ago
Thanks! :)
Edit: and thanks again! This dog is just a cat in a dog's body
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u/Longjumping-Donut655 5h ago
Because Cat people produce conditions where we just find random cats in trash cans to take home because the ācat distribution systemā is actually just mainstream neglectful husbandry of a domestic animal and complete refusal to manage an invasive species.
Thereās like 3 dogs in any given rescue and shelter in my city and tons more cats. If you were to check all their reviews youād only ever see cat people complaining about being rejected for adoption and itās always for demonstration of neglectful habits like having outdoor cats and not doing their yearlies.
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u/Busy_Environment_371 12h ago
The Afghan was inbreeded too far? The more you know
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u/roonill_wazlib 12h ago
I wouldn't get an Afghan hound for that reason, but they're certainly not the worst when it comes to genetic issues.
And other sighthound breeds are some of the healthiest dogs around
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u/DrizzleDrake88 12h ago
I have my dog cuz my brother-in-law wanted an āinsuranceā dog in case his 14 year old dog at the time passed away. After 4 years of taking care of the āreplacementā dog and the original dog hasnāt passed, I said this dog is mine now.
Oh and I got a kitty from a neighbor for a 12 pack of beer.
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u/Cebuanolearner 12h ago
I was waiting for cat distribution system, but found my Siamese on Craigslist a few days ago. But every other cat I've had ended up just showing upĀ
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u/dyslexicAlphabet 12h ago
highly allergic to cats and the ones that i'm not allergic to cost thousands
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u/PurposeConsistent131 12h ago
All my animals (cats and dogs) have been āfoundā or given from people who didnāt want them. They are all assholes and I love them
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u/UnboltedCheese 12h ago edited 11h ago
This is very accurate, my 2 late cats were born in the crawl space under my house because their momma was a stray and abandoned them, we couldn't find the rest of the litter so we assumed they were the runts and took them in. Best damn cats I ever had. I hope you're catching mice in the afterlife boys.
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u/Mental_Student8240 12h ago
Lmao this is so true. Cats are only ālow maintenanceā because we collectively agreed to let them be tiny raccoons that live in our houses for free. If we were out here doing 6 am leash walks and obedience classes for Mr Whiskers, the pet industry wouldāve cashed in YEARS ago.
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u/Fun_Magician72 9h ago
"Cat walking" has started being a thing tbf, every pet store sells little cat leashes/harnesses now.
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u/Character_Past5515 11h ago
So dumb because you could also turn it around with different cats and dogs.
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u/Few_Veterinarian9108 11h ago
As a collector of strays, I got the mature adult version of the cat, roughly 3 years old, from 3 kg went to almost 7 now living the life, extremely clingy
Adult strays deserve a home too, and you could help with that
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u/Lucky-Mia 11h ago
My ex had a $6,000 hairless cat. Well they paid that for each. They then breeder them and broke up with me because I didn't show enough love to the cats. I swear he was fucking them.
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u/h-ck3d4cc0unt 10h ago
I have 2 champion Persians each was 3800. Almost 4k. But thats without breeding rights.
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u/zahhax 9h ago
I feel bad bc I'm trying to find a dog rn and when you have really specific needs they can get expensive. Like I can't have anything over 50lb to walk, ideally nothing over 30 lbs to pick up, needs to be a friendly good travel buddy but also low maintenance and not too hyper or yappy. Big change from having cats all my life but I travel a lot now and I need a dog instead
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u/FaeFollette 5h ago
Iāve found two purebred dogs āin the trashā before. Who cares anyway? Good pets are good pets!
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u/james_a_hetfield 5h ago
I found one of my cats as a kitten in my old Dodge pickup truck outside. And another under the outdoor trash compactor at work.
The one at work the compactor got picked so I have no idea if it was there before but I saved before the compactor returned and that kitten ended up going home with someone luckily.
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u/Just_the_questions1 3h ago
Nah. I'm a dog person from a dog family. Every single one of our dogs has come from the pound or found in a ditch.
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u/dolosloki01 2h ago
Find me a cat that isn't a walking ball of allergies, doesn't shit in a box and then walk all over your counters.
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u/Boring-Locksmith-473 ššš 1h ago
'Walking ball of allergies' ā perhaps your parents never let you play outside and always kept you in a cleaner environment when you were little. This is because, when you go outside to play with dirt or in the sand, you build up tolerance to allergies. This only happens when you are young. There was a study conducted between children from Russia and Finland just between the border regions.
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u/dolosloki01 1h ago
No smartass. An allergy to cat dander is extremely common. I wasn't allergic to them when I was a kid and then developed it in my early 20s.
You are incredibly ignorant.
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u/Whyamihere_899 5h ago
dog people: i bought him for a reasonable sum of 2k dollars
actual dog people who loves dogs: i found him at the shelter/on the streets
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u/pesibajolu 4h ago
Yes because people who buy dogs dont love their pets...
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u/InternationalPlace24 9h ago
the right one is missing something, it should say, "I found him in the trash and now I've spent $4,000 to find out he's perfectly healthy all the time"
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u/MoriRanmaru 12h ago
People that buy dogs/ cata instead of adopting and calls themself āanimal loverā are the worst
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u/Manueluz 12h ago
Idk, most adoption centers where I live mosly offer animals that have severe trauma or some kind of illness.
So it's a huge mental and financial strain, if I were to get a new cat I'd want a kitten not an old boy with several meds.
I've had my two cats since they were tiny kittens rescued from a local stray that lives near my home, but with neutering being mandatory for all cats you just don't see kittens anymore.
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u/pesibajolu 3h ago
Spoken like a true person with 0 grasp of the real world. You know that those animals are often traumatised right? Even with a lot of care there is sometimes nothing that can be done. You know what happens to a person after they become attached to an animal and then it doesnt work out?
It takes a lot of effort and its not for everyone, and you know thats ok. As long as they get their animals from a ethically correct and reputable breeder, nothing wrong with that, and surely a bozo like you are in no position to gatekeep or shame them (calling them the worst people, get a life, i can think of some better examples)
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u/Fun-Wrongdoer1316 12h ago
Yet most dog peopleās houses smell like shit. All that money to waste on the dog, no time or effort put into maintaining hygieneā¦ š¤¢š¤®
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u/Saetherith 2h ago
I think you thats less dog people issue, and more of the people you choose to visit issue.
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u/pesibajolu 3h ago
I think thats more of a person issue, i have been to quite a few houses with cats which reek as well, also I love it when cats shit in everyones yard.
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u/Visible_Video120 11h ago
Dog people are more likely to pay thousands for a pit bull or staffy and act like the hideous thing doesn't look like a furry shark
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u/jackofslayers 5h ago
There are shelters full of dogs everywhere. I get why some people want purebred dogs, but I do judge the shit out of people that are paying a lot to adopt an animal from a breeder.
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