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Are cats actually clean?

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MrOogieBoogie

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I know their mouths are vessels for all sorts of horrible diseases, but they generally groom themselves pretty well. When I see a friend's cat hop on the kitchen counter after burying its shit in the litter box, though, I can't help but wonder how sanitary that is. Isn't the cat just walking with shit-paws everywhere, all the time?

Same goes for dogs, too, I guess.

Or do most people just not care?
 
MrOogieBoogie said:
When I see a friend's cat hop on the kitchen counter after burying its shit in the litter box, though, I can't help but wonder how sanitary that is. Isn't the cat just walking with shit-paws everywhere, all the time?
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My cats wipe their paws on a towel after getting out of the litter box.
Try putting a towel nearby and see if they take to it.
 
yes, and probably not. although your query more has to do with how clean your friends are than their animals.
 
Jeffolation said:
Filthy creatures.
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Makes me lol when people say a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's.

Yeah, no.

mlclmtckr said:
Dogs and other animals have buttholes that slightly prolapse when they take a dump, cleanly pinching off the turd while keeping the butt clean with no wiping required

Cats don't do that though they just manually lick the poo out of their own butt
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Dogs and other animals have buttholes that slightly prolapse when they take a dump, cleanly pinching off the turd while keeping the butt clean with no wiping required

Cats don't do that though they just manually lick the poo out of their own butt
 
My cat literally buried her face in her ass and then buried her tongue in her asshole.

I've never been that committed to cleaning myself. So yes.
 
Twilight Princess said:
A cats asshole is probably cleaner than a human hand
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cats take a shit in the litter box, kneed it to "bur" it, when lick that same paw and all over their body.

after stepping out of their shit box, the proceed to jump on the counters and kitchen tops.
 
Cats (and dogs) are disgusting, vile creatures † . Self-grooming controls some of that, but not enough to eat off a surface they've been on. All we can do as their oddly-willing guardians is clean up after them and before ourselves.





† They're actually great, though.
 
My cat sometimes go on counter, but I go and take her off right away, sometimes I just need to get up and she jumps down. I assume it's just to get my attention sometimes. Only 8 months old so I'm trying my best to create good habits but I'm sure she doesn't give a shit and just go on it when nobody's there haha!

I pretty much keep the counter clean though, Always cleaning it with Hertel.
 
Any cat that gets on the counter top gets sprayed. Them's the rules.
And cats generally are clean, given how much they clean themselves, but that's not the point.
Human furniture is for humans. Animal furniture is for animals.
 
Dogs lick their asses and ten seconds later give "kisses" to their owners. As an owner of both a cat and dog neither are I counters or lick me on the face.
 
mlclmtckr said:
Dogs and other animals have buttholes that slightly prolapse when they take a dump, cleanly pinching off the turd while keeping the butt clean with no wiping required

Cats don't do that though they just manually lick the poo out of their own butt
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The more you know.
 
I live in a tiny Brooklyn apartment, the kitchen/dining/living room is all one area. I basically live in cat shit because it sure as hell completely impossible to keep my cat off the counters unless I forced him just to live in our bedroom, which is also very tiny, so yeah. Litter is cleaned 2-3 times a day and we use chick starter feed instead of normal clay litter which helps a ton. Doesn't track with the cat and is better for him since he doesn't have to ingest clay dust. We also clean often, so, yeah. I deal.
 
Well our cats are pretty much impossible to keep off of counters and tables and I'm not dead. Heck, I haven't been sick in years even so ÂŻ\_(ツ)_/ÂŻ

Just don't put food directly on unclean surfaces and clean regularly.
 
Mahonay said:
I live in a tiny Brooklyn apartment, the kitchen/dining/living room is all one area. I basically live in cat shit because it sure as hell completely impossible to keep my cat off the counters unless I forced him just to live our bedroom, which is also very tiny, so yeah. Litter is cleaned 2-3 times a day and we use chick starter feed instead of normal clay litter which helps a ton. Doesn't track with the cat and is better for him since he doesn't have to ingest clay dust. We also clean often, so, yeah. I deal.
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My apartment is a studio, where the only door other than the entry door is the door to the bathroom, everything else is just one (500 square foot) "living area."
The cats do what they want (which, right now, is sleeping on my bed).
 
Well, cats are a hell of a lot cleaner than dogs, since most cats will make the effort to actually clean themselves.

My cat pretty much has the run of the house and can go where she wants. Except the kitchen counter.
 
Our cats sometimes go on the dinner table. We used to make them get off of it, but we stopped caring. We don't eat at that table very often, but also, I mean, it's not like we have the food ON the table. It's on a plate. The food does not TOUCH the table.

Now, the kitchen counters, they occasionally try to get on, which is annoying and we discourage. But we clean it before we prepare any food, just in case they got on there while we are at work or something.

Let me clarify, too, that our cats are indoor-only.
 
This idea that cats are naturally clean is absurd. They lick their asses, then lick themselves and then throw it up. And that's not counting the whole litter box thing.
 
Also dogs saliva have something in it that kill bacteria (like when they eat raw meat) to help digest it, so I guess their mouth are cleaner than I thought?
 
MrOogieBoogie said:
I know their mouths are vessels for all sorts of horrible diseases, but they generally groom themselves pretty well. When I see a friend's cat hop on the kitchen counter after burying its shit in the litter box, though, I can't help but wonder how sanitary that is. Isn't the cat just walking with shit-paws everywhere, all the time?

Same goes for dogs, too, I guess.

Or do most people just not care?
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I always wonder why people let their dogs into bed with them. My ex would do that with our old dog and her side of the bed was filthy.
 
MrOogieBoogie said:
Makes me lol when people say a dog's mouth is cleaner than a human's.

Yeah, no.



Incredible information. Thank you.
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have you met some of the subway dwelllers ? I would trust any dog over them any day of the week. you people need to teach your cats to use the toilet, no more litter problems. no smells and cleaning hassle (except the toilet of course)
 
Kyoufu said:
I wish more cat owners would bathe their cats.

"they clean themselves!"

your cat fucking stinks
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My cat absolutely hates water and the last time she was given a bath my mother was bleeding from dozens of cuts all over her arms because my cat goes crazy and claws with all her might to get out. No matter how slow you try or how much you try to calm her during the process it doesn't help and the amount of stress it seems to put on my cat feels like it's torturing her. I am lucky to have a great cat though and she never jumps on anywhere she's not supposed to. Plus she's a senior cat now and the less stress I put my fuzzy through the better.
 
We had a rescue cat that was never taught to clean itself or understood the concept. Regardless he was stinky as fuck. Since then our older car has taught him.

But yeah, countertops are not for preparing food in our apartment.
 
My family cat gets a bath once every couple of months. That water is gray when we wash him. Could just be his thick ass fur though. Pretty sure my two dogs are cleaner tbh
 
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