butch points & bathing cats
Jul. 18th, 2008 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nabilokay, so my cat is big enough that he cannot clean his butt. meaning i need to do this for him. which i just did.
i am a geek, with an unpleasant recurring task. what to do, what to do?
1. buy nerd toys.
2. process optimization.
so, 1 was easy enough. i purchased the "pet jet" at bed bath & beyond. i was not, however, able to figure out how to install it. that had to wait until a visit from the zanawake, who helped me figure out how to remove the spout from my bathroom sink, put on the spout that fits the pet jet, and attach the pet jet. voila! water all over the bathroom floor, and a little bit of flowing water from the pet jet onto my cat's butt. imperfect, for sure-- but beats scrubbing, face averted, with a wet washcloth while the cat howls in agony.
the zanawake was also kind enough to tell me what sort of tool i should buy to speed and streamline the spout-swapping process. so today i obtained a vice grip from ace hardware-- are you impressed yet? i'm so macho! also dog shampoo from walgreens, which is significantly less macho. the process of removing spout1, installing spout2, hooking up pet jet, was significantly less heinous. the process of bathing the cat, well, still not a whole lot of fun.
still! i used a manly man tool from ace hardware! i am terribly impressed with myself.
i'm pretty good with math, and i can duct tape together software to do whatever i need it to-- i'm no developer, but i know how to open up a file, figure out what's going on, and tweak it to do what i want. but as soon as you get me into the realm of hardware-- of 3d objects that you need to touch and manipulate with your hands without using a keyboard-- i lose all confidence and style. so i'm excited that i got the pet jet hooked up by myself! & disassembled afterwards! & i have a new tool! & i used it by myself! w00t!
still tho. i could do without bathing my cat every couple weeks.
anybody on my flist ever successfully put a cat on a diet?
xoxo
nabil
i am a geek, with an unpleasant recurring task. what to do, what to do?
1. buy nerd toys.
2. process optimization.
so, 1 was easy enough. i purchased the "pet jet" at bed bath & beyond. i was not, however, able to figure out how to install it. that had to wait until a visit from the zanawake, who helped me figure out how to remove the spout from my bathroom sink, put on the spout that fits the pet jet, and attach the pet jet. voila! water all over the bathroom floor, and a little bit of flowing water from the pet jet onto my cat's butt. imperfect, for sure-- but beats scrubbing, face averted, with a wet washcloth while the cat howls in agony.
the zanawake was also kind enough to tell me what sort of tool i should buy to speed and streamline the spout-swapping process. so today i obtained a vice grip from ace hardware-- are you impressed yet? i'm so macho! also dog shampoo from walgreens, which is significantly less macho. the process of removing spout1, installing spout2, hooking up pet jet, was significantly less heinous. the process of bathing the cat, well, still not a whole lot of fun.
still! i used a manly man tool from ace hardware! i am terribly impressed with myself.
i'm pretty good with math, and i can duct tape together software to do whatever i need it to-- i'm no developer, but i know how to open up a file, figure out what's going on, and tweak it to do what i want. but as soon as you get me into the realm of hardware-- of 3d objects that you need to touch and manipulate with your hands without using a keyboard-- i lose all confidence and style. so i'm excited that i got the pet jet hooked up by myself! & disassembled afterwards! & i have a new tool! & i used it by myself! w00t!
still tho. i could do without bathing my cat every couple weeks.
anybody on my flist ever successfully put a cat on a diet?
xoxo
nabil
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Date: 2008-07-19 12:50 pm (UTC)you rock.
my advice is have a boyfriend with cats, instead of having one yourself.
oh... wait.
nevermind.
(by the way, he's an adorable being, more a gnome than a pet.)