Re: On its way now to your grocer's (NEWS) Author: Jesse Brink Email: jesseb*nospam*@elko-nv.com Date: 1999/01/13 Forums: alt.tasteless Iain Stuart wrote in article ... > ObT : Cat shit. What is that makes cat shit smell so rank ? Is it the high > protein nature of their diet ? Is it the mouse bowels ? What ever it is, I'm > glad my cat shits in other people's gardens 99% of the time. I've been living with cats for years so I know shit. Cat shit anyway. Nothing makes cat shit stink like giving them milk. It took me long enough to make the connection. I could have saved myself much pain and distress if I had figured it out earlier. I used to always take a certain cat I had into the bedroom with me when I went to bed, in order to keep him from pissing on the floor, as he would sometimes do if given the run of the house. After a few years, the sound of scratching in the cat box would bring me out of all but the deepest sleeps. *Scratch, Scratch* I began to tense up, even while mostly asleep. A feeling of impending doom came over me. Then a sound like mustard being squeezed from a nearly empty container: *Spllfft* "Oh god, not one of those!" (Milk also softens the kitty grogan from the standard "tootsie roll" into a thick paste) Often just for fun he would cut loose with a deep "mroowwWW!" at the moment of release. And then the sounds of more scratching as he buried it. But I knew I was in trouble as the wait began. Sometimes it was only a few seconds, and sometimes it took a minute or two before it hit me. Like a hammer across my nose. Now I have peeled the paint off of a few bathroom walls before myself, but one of his average, run of the mill, milk shits would have sent my most fearsome grogan running back where it came from in terror at the awesome stench of his little puddy-pile. Even though it was buried within seconds, it ran me out of the room many times. Literally ran me out of the room. And I can handle a rank smell too, but not that rank. Hard to describe the odor; it had components of cheddar cheese, and a touch of lemon, but intense and overwhelming. I would have to get up and change the box and/or swing the bedroom door open and closed like a big fan, trying to get some breathable air into the bedroom. Sometimes I had to laugh, but it got old sometimes too. And it was the milk that did it. Even a normal, non-milk, cat turd is nothing to trifle with, but when they have milk in their diet, their shit odor becomes one of the most powerful forces in nature. Beware!