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    Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit

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    Image of DigitalPasture DigitalPasture
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Being a cat owner in FL, I can safely say the last place I'd want my emergency supplies is tied to my asshole cats (they run from thunder... I'm thinking hurricanes). I keep them (the supplies not the cats) in a water-poof box that stays in my bedroom.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    This is just dumb, dogs I can understand but cats?

    They never come when called. They tend to run away in fact...
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    Image of DustyButt™ DustyButt™
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Headline:

    MAN DIES AS EMERGENCY KIT HIDES IN FAR CORNER UNDER BED
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Let us all remember that Zombies and the undead ignore pets and animals. Perhaps this can come in useful for the Zombie-pocolypse.
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    And if a flood happens, you just put more weight on Fluffy and you will know exactly where your supplies are. 5 feet underwater near the trash cans and car.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Oh Japan! Why must you torment Maxie and Dita so?!

    BTW: Frooch - do they have a feline version of the hooch barrel that St. Bernards wear?
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    Image of KahnSkript KahnSkript
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Jonesy should have been wearing this on the Nostromo... A pistola in each pocket would have saved countless lives.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    09/21/09

    @KahnSkript: The movie would have been about an hour and a half shorter too.
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    Image of TheWerewolf - Sotto voce TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Excellent - now my emergency supplies will be running a high speed as far away from me as it can...

    Or lie there in an angry lump for being forced to wear that.

    A win-win situation either way. :)
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    Image of EBone EBone
    09/21/09

    @TheWerewolf - Causing headlines!: My thoughts exactly.
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    Image of Slyd3z Slyd3z
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    This is great! Now your cat can look like Lady Gaga, too!
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    I'd suspect the person who took that picture of the cat has most likely already been killed by said cat.
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    Image of Cogito Ergo Bibo Cogito Ergo Bibo
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    If my future survival depends upon Fluffy doing anything other than demanding food, sleeping, hacking up the occasional hairball or pooping, I'm seriously dead.

    A cat invented this, right? It's actually filled with cat chow to munch while she watches me expire.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    You guys are misinterpreting this. The cat's not there to carry the supplies, its there to make sure you have a fresh supply of meat if things go really bad.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Make sure the animals can get away if you cant take them with you since they will fend for themselves in most cases. Keep the emergency kit in the car, because it is where you are.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/21/09

    @Curves: Unless the emergency is a flood or something of the like.

    Coincidentally, there's flooding going on right now in my area. The thought of my cat, emergency pack or no, trying to "fend for herself" is, honestly, a little hilarious.

    I love my cat. But she's seriously too senile and too timid to survive outside the front door. Any conditions.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/21/09

    @OCEntertainment: So many people leave their animals tied outside and leave, not realizing the pet cant escape fire or flood and they have doomed it. At least if its free, it has a chance. You probably already have a plan to save your kitty, but many pet "owners" cant even plan for their own safety, they would never stop to consider their animals.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    09/21/09

    @Curves: Great. My car will be under four stories of concrete.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    09/21/09

    @Curves: What if I don't have my car? Then I'm screwed. I say we all start wearing utility belts so we can be prepared for these kinds of things in advance.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/21/09

    @Curves: Yeah, our family has never been ok with the idea of cats or dogs tied up. We don't have the backyard or fence for a dog. Folks tell us to get one of those chains that go between two trees. But that's no way for an animal to live. Fire, flood or shine.

    @DigitalPasture: My cat once allowed a rabbit to do it's rabbit-y thing on her back, and then whimpered away without so much as a hiss. Age has got nothing to do with it. My cat is a pussy.

    Also, that's the last time I let my sister and her rabbit near my cat.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    09/21/09

    @EBone: I hadn't considered that, lol. I actually park my car under the window of my second story cell at work so that if, for any reason, I have to jump, I have something to land on.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    09/21/09

    @Curves: I could jump from my second story office's balcony to the roof of the antiques store next door, and then hop down to the street. But it still won't help my car in the garage.
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    Image of DigitalPasture DigitalPasture
    09/22/09

    @OCEntertainment: That's actually pretty funny and invokes a great mental image. I have to keep my three locked up in the morn. There's a momma duck (whore) with (literally) 13 ducklings who cuts through my yard in the morning. My backyard would become a killing floor. While I think it's funny when they catch a lizard or occasional bird, I'm not wanting to see wholesale slaughter.
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    Image of Palmer74 Palmer74
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    Yes this will save many lives. I know at any sign of danger my sorry ass cat will come to my rescue rather that running up the tree out front wearing the damn supplies that spooked him from the get go. Thanks sloppy.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/21/09

    @Palmer74: Perhaps if you gave Sloppy a more dignifying name, he'd not be more willing to abandon you.
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    Image of Palmer74 Palmer74
    09/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I always wondered if it was the name. I think I will change it to Stinky...or Wet.
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    Image of Anonymoose Anonymoose
    09/21/09

    In reply to Pet Emergency Evacuation Jacket Turns Your Cat Into an Emergency Supplies Kit
    great. you can't get cats to come to you in normal situations, but now let's place them in emergency situations and see if they'll respond with something more than a baleful look brimming with disdain when you call them.
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    Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea® promoted this comment Edited by Anonymoose at 09/21/09 2:48 PM Anonymoose was starred Anonymoose was unstarred
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