RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

VanIslander, I know you're trying to help but feeding cats canned tuna is SUPER bad for them. It contains enough sodium for 2 weeks in the can for them. Vets have told me never to do this.

It's cheaper and healthier just to get some wet food for them.

I have chicken skin that I boil these days and put it in those rice trays and leave it around the neighborhood for the strays! Hopefully, it will help fatten them up for winter to survive. I have seen a lot of smaller cats recently but I cannot take them with me because my husband is allergic :( There is a shop near my house that has a lot of freezers and fridges outside and the flooring underneath has space, I always see lots of them go under the floor and I am guessing it's warmer underneath!

I'll be qualified to teach high school literature, so hopefully I'll get in somewhere in the world. My best year in Korea was teaching high schoolers from April 2017 - April 2018.

I really wanted to teach high schoolers, and sadly never got the chance! :(

VanIslander, I know you're trying to help but feeding cats canned tuna is SUPER bad for them. It contains enough sodium for 2 weeks in the can for them. Vets have told me never to do this.

It's cheaper and healthier just to get some wet food for them.

Oh wow, I didn't know that. I buy canned tuna and give it to my neighbours cats, however, I don't do it too often.
Usually a couple times a week at most. But, it's 9 cats sharing a single can.

VanIslander, I know you're trying to help but feeding cats canned tuna is SUPER bad for them. It contains enough sodium for 2 weeks in the can for them. Vets have told me never to do this.

It's cheaper and healthier just to get some wet food for them.

ah really. i didn't know it was that bad either, and i have a cat. no wonder my wife goes mental when i sneak my cat some tuna occasionally

update on the wet food some other people left out: untouched, but the dry food i give them was all gone. even street cats are fussy...

VanIslander, I know you're trying to help but feeding cats canned tuna is SUPER bad for them. It contains enough sodium for 2 weeks in the can for them. Vets have told me never to do this.

It's cheaper and healthier just to get some wet food for them.

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Tuna is kind of like crack for cats; something they'll go absolutely nuts for but isn't great for them. Crack might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I wouldn't feed my cats tuna more than once every few months. Even then, only in very small amounts.

It relates back to a post another user posted about people imposing human thought processes on animals. The cat might devour that tuna and love it, that doesn't mean it's good for the animal. Quality wet food should do just fine.

Just a reminder, though this should be obvious to most, cats are lactose intolerant, never feed them milk.
 

Theyre also obligate carnivores. Wet dog food isn't great for them either (dogs not being obligate carnivores).

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Tuna is kind of like crack for cats; something they'll go absolutely nuts for but isn't great for them. Crack might be a bit of an exaggeration, but I wouldn't feed my cats tuna more than once every few months. Even then, only in very small amounts.

It relates back to a post another user posted about people imposing human thought processes on animals. The cat might devour that tuna and love it, that doesn't mean it's good for the animal. Quality wet food should do just fine.

Just a reminder, though this should be obvious to most, cats are lactose intolerant, never feed them milk.

Another new thing I learnt today. I didn't know cats are lactose intolerant.
However, I've always given my cats water for a drink, as it's always been easier to give them water than milk. :o

Theyre also obligate carnivores. Wet dog food isn't great for them either (dogs not being obligate carnivores).

Yep, absolute best food you can give to a cat is (most aren't going to like this) a freshly killed bird, with the feathers and everything still on. Next best is raw food and 3rd is quality wet food.

Another new thing I learnt today. I didn't know cats are lactose intolerant.
However, I've always given my cats water for a drink, as it's always been easier to give them water than milk. :o

Yeah, most animals are either born lactose intolerant or become lactose intolerant once they're weaned. Humans are the only living animals that I know of where the majority continue to produce an adequate amount of the enzyme that can break down lactose in milk well into adulthood. For people who are born lactose intolerant (or who reach an age where their bodies stop producing enough of the enzyme to allow them to digest lactose without any issues), there is lactose-free milk and goat's milk (still has lactose in it, but the amount of it is so low -- while combined with other properties of goat's milk -- that most elderly can digest it just fine, hence why goat's milk is so popular with many elderly).

Also an FYI, kitten milk is not good for adult cats, either, haha.

There are individual cats out there that have a genetic advantage and are able to digest lactose well into adulthood as well, but those are a small minority. Raw goat's milk is safe for the majority of them, though.

Also an FYI, kitten milk is not good for adult cats, either, haha.

Good luck milking a kitten, though.

Good luck milking a kitten, though.

I've been having these weird and unpleasant dreams for the past week or so. I wouldn't call them nightmares, but they've been oddly specific, and they kind of poke me where it hurts. I'm not really sure where they're coming from all of a sudden. I haven't been anxious about anything, as far as I can tell. :/

But I did recently get roped into making a bunch of pies for a thing that I don't really want to participate in, and while that isn't a big deal at all it wouldn't surprise me if my subconscious is throwing a hissy over it, lol.

a little update on the street cats i feed

well, my wife went out the other night to feed them. she bumped into another woman who lives in our building who, it turns out, also feeds them (and who left the bowl out in my last update). in fact, she has been since the spring -- a bit before i noticed the cats hanging about.

anyway, turns out she wanted to tell me this (but was shy of approaching a foreigner) but she wanted to say that she usually goes out late at night and picks the bowl up after they've eaten, as some bitch old lady keeps complaining about her feeding the cats. i'm not sure what the problem is -- the cats don't do anything but eat and go somewhere warm. no cat poop, meowing, nothing. anyway, she sounds like a right jobsworth and i would have just told her to fck off and mind her own business, but this other woman seems scared of her / worried about her

the woman said she has even named the two cats. ha. although she said the smaller one was pregnant in the spring, but hasn't seen the kitten since :( poor little things. but at least they've got two households looking out for them now!

Talking of jobsworths, my kid l(5) likes to have a go in those massage chairs they have outside our local emart. He runs ahead sits in one for a few seconds, if there are any without old people in  them, then gets out of it when called.Last night he'd been in one for literally seconds when some guy comes up and starts telling me in English to get him off because it was'dangerous'. WTF? Short of some Mr Bean type scenario when a chair short circuits or something and starts moving up and down like a bucking bronco, i couldn't work out what he was on about. Guess in fact. He just didn't want the upholstery to get dirty. At the risk of raising the hackles of a certain poster, they do tend to overplay the safety angle here.
 

At the risk of raising the hackles of a certain poster, they do tend to overplay the safety angle here.
 

well, if it's not in regards to

construction
crossing roads
children bringing box cutters to school
fire hazards
fire doors
fire alarms
drink driving
speeding
going through red lights
driving on pavements
driving in the dark without headlights on
seatbelts in taxis
gritting pavements in winter
contractual law
black mould
going to work when sick

hmm. hope i haven't triggered anyone

well, if it's not in regards to

construction
crossing roads
children bringing box cutters to school
fire hazards
fire doors
fire alarms
drink driving
speeding
going through red lights
driving on pavements
driving in the dark without headlights on
seatbelts in taxis
gritting pavements in winter
contractual law
black mould
going to work when sick

hmm. hope i haven't triggered anyone

Meh. Nothing too bad with that list.

Only one that really jumps out is box cutters. Like I understand the big Mohammed Atta ones, but the smaller ones I think are fine. Freaking out over them is safety paranoia gone too far. Its not like there's an epidemic of box cutter stabbings.

well, if it's not in regards to

construction
crossing roads
children bringing box cutters to school
fire hazards
fire doors
fire alarms
drink driving
speeding
going through red lights
driving on pavements
driving in the dark without headlights on
seatbelts in taxis
gritting pavements in winter
contractual law
black mould
going to work when sick

hmm. hope i haven't triggered anyone

Yeah, I guess they're too nannyish in some areas, ocean bathing, walking on escalators  rough play in kids' cafes, massage chairs, and not enough in others, like you say. Different cultures and all part of the unentitled expat experience!

Meh. Nothing too bad with that list.

Only one that really jumps out is box cutters. Like I understand the big Mohammed Atta ones, but the smaller ones I think are fine. Freaking out over them is safety paranoia gone too far. Its not like there's an epidemic of box cutter stabbings.

yeah and i haven't seen any kid with them for many a moon anyway. although i wish they would bring their own pencil sharpeners...

Everyday gym f*ckery:

- Politely tell ajjushi, who is working out near me, to wear his mask properly (it's covering his chin). He tries to ignore me so I get into his face and sternly tell him. Other people are now looking and he does so after giving me the death stare.

- Like a pissed of schoolgirl, he tries to get his pathetic, passive aggressive revenge by walking in front of me, instead of going around me, while I'm racking my weights. Guess you sure showed me. Keep puffing that little chest out and standing on your toes as you walk past.

- FYI, said ajjushi was doing doing bench presses on the smith machine with the smallest ROM I've ever seen (probably moved the bar about 5cm per rep)... He did do about 50 reps a set though, lol!

- Had to stop multiple people from trying to take the weights off the squat rack, while I was using it.

- Guy was doing deadlifts, but loaded the bar with only 5kg plates! He was taking the 5kg plates off every piece of equipment in sight despite the fact that he had 10kg and 20kg plates at his rack. Obviously, he was trying to give the impression that
  he was lifting a really heavy weight by having the barbell loaded with 8 X 5kg plates as opposed to just 2 X 20kgs and 2 X 10kgs.

- Lady was hogging the leg press and had it loaded with.... 2 X 2.5kg plates. I know everyone has to start somewhere, but lady, if you're going to occupy a a leg press machine, loaded with no more than 5kg, you might as well stay home, save your money and just
  sit on a chair and stand up. You look like you're in ok shape, there are 90yr old grandmothers with arthritis who could push more than that. 

- Another ajjushi tires to steal the plates off my machine, in the middle of my set. I had a pair of 10kg plates and some 20s. I couldn't see properly (in the middle of a rep) and I thought he was taking the 20s, so I told him "No".
  After I was done, I saw that he was trying to take one of the 10s. Still a dick move, but I wasn't planning on using the 10s and since I'm not trying to make enemies, I try to call him over and offer the 10s to him. You know, just trying to bury the hatchet.
  He sees me and just ignores me in the same way as the other old guy and I just know he's pouting behind that mask. I just laughed, it was amusing to witness the immediate transformations of 50yr old men into sulking, 6th grade schoolgirls.

Anyway, session done and feel great.