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I'm "technically" allergic to cats actually, or at least according to my doctor when I was a teenager. My mom joked "Well, I guess I have to get rid of my kid." I was never bad. Just some coughing fits, more or less. They stopped when I was done with high school.Blasphemy! Don't even talk like that! That would be the worst kind of horror movie - allergic to cats! And chocolate! I shudder at the thought!
Incidentally, that high school was torn down and a new one was built shortly after. I'm betting mold. I don't know if I ever really was allergic to cats, because I'm fine now. I don't get any allergy symptoms whatsoever, and I have 9 + an ever fluctuating number of adoptable rescues.
I'm a lot like your partner. I notice the smell of everything and have a very strong nose.Brilliant ! I always wondered why my never been bathed grace smelt so good . When we first picked her up the first thing my very OCD partner said to the young girl who handed her over was: ‘she smells lovely ‘. She just looked at him like he was a weirdo . I always assumed she had some hidden soap in her paws when she cleans herself !!
To tell a funny story, one of my exes is a childhood friend, so, from the get-go, we were more comfortable than most couples are initially. Like, "pass gas in front of each other and turn it into a competition" comfortable. We'd known one another our whole lives.
Well, one day, we were showering together, which, in case you haven't done this with your partner, is way less romantic and sexy than it sounds, especially in this instance; he was under the faucet, and I smelled something: namely, ammonia. I laughed at him and said "Oh my gosh, are you peeing in the shower with me in it?" He turned beet red. It was great. I, of course, couldn't step out of the water fast enough. After I told him I knew because I smelled it, he started calling me Wolverine.
TIL: Cat spit has a kind of soap in it. That actually explains a lot. I wonder if any studies have been done on whether or not your cat licking your face is good for your skin. I have a few face lickers (one who is borderline obsessive with it, Aegon, the beautiful flame point in my avatar) and I can tell you one thing: cat tongue makes a great exfoliant!Weird fact I know for some reason: cat saliva actually contains a detergent that helps them clean their fur.
Thank you! The weird thing is, he's stripey everywhere, not just on the points. I guess it just makes him a really dark lynx point? It is cool to have a lynx point with lynx tips, though. If it weren't for overpopulation, it'd be cool to try and mix lynx point Siamese with Maine Coons to try and make the ultimate faux lynx breed. I know one already exists, and they're beautiful, but I think you could get a cat that looks more like a lynx this way. You couldn't get the short tail without throwing in another breed and adding more variables, but oh well.*Agree with everything you wrote* and what gorgeous CATS! Yes, I would definitely think Lynx Point. And I'm a big true crime fan, too. ID is one of my favorite channels on satellite and I also like all the channels that air these true crime shows. Some of them are too much for me (anything where a perp is abusive to cats gets changed quickly) but other than those, I'm really into them. I haven't seen "THE CHESHIRE MURDERS" but will have to check it out. I also read a lot of murder mysteries.
Right there with you on when they hurt cats. The man from Making a Murderer burned a cat alive, but the whole series is supposed to make you feel sorry for him. I don't, because of that one fact, and I really hope Avery spends his life in prison, because even if he didn't kill or rape anyone, that one act should be life in prison imo. Only watch The Cheshire Murders if you're really strong in distancing yourself from these things emotionally. That whole doc is a dark, dark rabbit hole to dive into. It's not just what they did, but the way/reason they selected the Petit family, how Josh Komisarjevsky refers to/acts about the victim he victimized in the worst way, his journal entry about what happened, and that both men spent hours getting to know the women of the family and then did what they did. Also, how the oldest girl died was pretty disturbing to me as well. It's just magnifier glass look at the abyss of the worst of human evil.
A great series, far better than Making a Murderer imo, was The Jinx. First of all, Durst, the suspected murderer, is a very interesting and intelligent person, even relateable at times with his witty quips about his dislike for people. He's funny, in an odd way, but also very creepy looking and he says suspicious things throughout. He had a terrible childhood, which makes you feel a bit for him. He's even caught with one case and goes to trial. Quite interesting how that turns out. Then, the last episode. . . Well, it needs to be seen/heard, not told. It's jaw-dropping. It's my favorite documentary, period. If you haven't seen it, you really should. I give it a 9/10. The highest I'll give anything is a 9.5, and I took .5 off because it's being claimed that the ending was edited to be deceiving, but we will see if it was or not.