Scribbled on the whiteboard in the office.

jk

You’ve got the right plan, but I just want to share some stories.

My recommendation is always to avoid adding a new cat to a cat household unless it happens during a move when no cat has a claim on territory.

1. My oldest had a cat. After a few months in their apartment they decided to add another cat. They followed a plan very similar to yours. New cat wanted to be friends. Old cat wanted to paint the walls in the blood of the new cat. They tried for months to get them to coexist, but they would separate them as soon as they started fighting.

After many, many months of the two cats essentially living separately in the apartment, they finally accepted that they would have to let the cats fight it out. It was distressing, and there were some minor injuries, but they’ve settled down.

2. Middle child and his fiancee had a cat (disabled: deformed back legs, walks on his ankles with the feet flopping around). They decided to add two more cats. One was missing an eye. The other was missing an eye and an ear. They wanted to give the best life possible to rescue cats that were otherwise screwed.

They again followed a similar plan. The old cat smelled the new cats in the room where they were segregated, and absolutely lost his shit. They ended up fighting under the closed door, and tearing up a 3 foot by 10 inch section of (brand new) carpeting at the doorway trying to kill each other. Bye bye security deposit. Any time they tried to carefully let the cats interact, the was nothing but attempted murder.

They moved to a new apartment, and nearly all violence ceased immediately. There’s still the occasional cat behavior where one decides to slap a brother, but it’s more like normal sibling behavior than attempted murder.

3. Many years ago a co-worker had a cat and she was asked to take on a new cat. I have no idea what process she followed to introduce them, but there was absolutely no violence. The cats didn’t fight at all.

However, her old cat was not happy with the situation and blamed her. He started peeing everywhere: on the floors, on her bed, on her clothes. If you think cats aren’t vindictive and capable of hitting you where it hurts, consider this: he climbed up onto the counter, straddled her toaster, and peed into it.

She ended up getting a prescription for kitty Prozac for the cat, which helped, but did not eliminate the behavior.

When the old cat eventually died, she had to tear out and replace the floors in her house too get rid of the cat piss smell.

4. My wife and I had a cat, and when we moved we decided to add a second. There really wasn’t time for the old cat to establish the new house as his before r added the second.

There were no problems except our old cat was old and lazy and the new cat was young and wanted to play. It was distressing for the old cat until one day when he was able to realize that I wasn’t going to do anything if he decided to beat the shit out of her. From then on if she decided to mess with him, he’d just give her a good beat down and then they’d be ok until the next time she decided to try her luck.

There was a hint for her behavior, as she was surrendered to the shelter because “she didn’t get along with and older cat”. At her first vet visit, the doctor noticed a healed fracture in one of her legs. So, in her previous home she pissed off an older cat who didn’t practice as much restraint as ours.

Yeah, I disinterested, “Who? Ronald Dump? Is this someone who matters?” Wouldn’t be bad either.

Just want to say, you absolutely should hate a large percentage of the American public.

You shouldn’t hate all of us, but there are plenty worthy of hate.

As a US citizen, I really wish the official reaction was just:

Fuck off.

They also happen to be linked up to a rapid and highly efficient super computer far outclassing anything that humanity has ever devised

A neural network that has been in development for 650 million years.

“You don’t come here for the hunting, do you?”

I’d argue that the last two months have been the culmination of the last ~50 years of US fascism.

Maybe not an average conservative in France, but pretty spot-on for a conservative in the U.S.

I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

Well, Americans are nothing if not terribly uneducated.

I guess I’d recommend watching Banshee.

In the years before the US existed, when the land was colonized by European powers, Europe had a lot of really annoying, prudish types who were a major downer.

Someone had the bright idea to encourage them to move to the colonies where they could live their prudish existence free from the naked bodies of Europe.

We ended up with all of Europe’s biggest prudes. Europe’s prudes have been trying to reestablish themselves, but they are at a serious disadvantage. Meanwhile, we in America have to deal with an overwhelming population of prudes that we’ve struggled for centuries to extinguish​.

While we’re on the subject, Europe also found it convenient to dump their criminals here. So we end up with a culture in which full frontal nudity is unacceptable, but gun violence is just fun entertainment.

I say that as someone who loves some good violence. Nothing quite so enjoyable as living vicariously through some bad ass beating the snot out of the bad guys in a movie.

I never would have thought of myself as a prude, but recently stopped watching the series Banshee because the amount of gratuitous sex in the show was exceeding the amount of gratuitous violence to such a degree that I began to feel uncomfortable.

I just want to say that while scrolling by the thumbnail for this post, my brain guessed that the article was about chickens playing checkers using their eggs as game pieces.

That’s why I stopped to check on what it was about.

Brains are odd.

I think we’d want Elon to go with him for technical support.

It seems like a shame to me that Stuttering John isn’t doing that shtick anymore now that our politicians communicate on that level.

MTG would make more sense if she just stood there shouting “bababooey” over and over.

I work at a hospital.

In IT.

For Radiology.

You don’t have to convince me to hate Siemens.

Oh, yeah, you’re right!

Alternative to learning to growl:

Aztec Death Whistle

I went to a Catholic University.

I was never Catholic, and I was agnostic by the time I received my degree. However, there was a religion requirement, and one of the religion classes I took was taught by a Catholic priest.

He mentioned he loved when JWs knocked on his door. He’d invite them in, sit them down, and just debate them until they couldn’t stand it anymore and practically begged to leave.

It sounded like he treated it like an opportunity to convert them to catholicism, not because he expected them to convert as much as he just thought it was funny.