“Shit-Teeth”
I'm not one to just go and post stuff from another site, but… this really brightened my day with cat shit related humor. The following is from Penny Arcade which is one of my few religious reads on the web.
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"I received a late birthday gift yesterday from Brenna's parents, one of these automated litter box things. That seems like a nice thing to do for a person - you're essentially saying to them, "I recognize that manipulating cat shit is unpleasant." I always see this thing in the SkyMall in-flight catalog, and the image in there always seems to imply that the device actually peels cats, devouring those that wander too near its plastic jaws. Turns out that's not true. I own the "Plus" model, but there's another one designated "X-VI Mega" which has a more refined cat shit algorithm.
Under ordinary circumstances I do not pay much attention to whether or not my cat is shitting. I have other things that I'm doing, including Origami, which is the Japanese art of paper folding. Now, that private act is my fixation. I sometimes berate the cat for not "doing its duty," I roar edicts and gesture gravely.
The trouble with this machine is that my cat is horrified by it. You would think that I dragged in a crocodile and asked her to just hop up on there and let it go. I don't know if it's the shape or what but something about this robotic bin evokes in my cat a primal fear. The actual operation of the rake or "shit-teeth" is also very loud, really loud, it sounds like the device is tearing itself apart. If I could suggest something to the designers of this machine, it would go something like "Please make your cat toilets less menacing. Thank you."
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That actually caused me to laugh audibly in my cubicle - I hope it made you do the same (even if you aren't in a cubicle).
February 26th, 2004 at 10:32 am
Yeah, anything that terrorizes cats is OK with me. Cats are basically assholes. If I owned a cat, I would buy this contraption. Just for fun.