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Odin
11/25/09

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I'm seriously glad I don't have to bother with any litter box type device at all. We had one for a while when we first got the cat but we quickly moved it to just outside the catflap and then just did away with it completely. It came back when she had kittens of course but only quite briefly. Our cat has been fully house trained for years now though. She does her business outside and buries it so no one has to step on it.

That's why I love cats, if they're trained to shit outside they're pretty much zero maintenance pets. All ours needs is feeding and somewhere to sleep.
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Brian
11/24/09

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WTF is up with that Hydroglass idiocy? Just were the heck is one supposed to put it? I don't know about your house but anywhere with a drain at my place is too small. Outside? Starting to get cold out there.

Besides, $14,500 buys a metric boatload of massages at the kind of establishment that specializes on sending you away "happy."
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Kaiser-Machead
11/24/09

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No love for parakeets. My Parakeet R2-D2 used to love cat toys, the little mesh plastic balls with the bell inside. No one could resist watching him actually hunker down on his rump so he could jiggle the ball back and forth with both feet.
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thechansen
11/24/09

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I would recommend a recycled fire hose chew toy, and a fleece blanket. My parents lab drags the blanket around all day like Linus, and the fire hose has been the only toy my pitbull hasn't destroyed.
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ripfire
11/24/09

@thechansen: Agreed with the firehose. That thing is tough!
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Hello Mister Walrus
11/24/09

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I buy orphan children from third world countries for my rottweilers to chase. It's great entertainment for the money.
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Duckspwn
11/24/09

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Wait, whoooa, slow down here... dog therapy? As in counselling for your pets? Does that actually exist?
And if so, a fool and his money are soon parted.
But as an afterthought, I think I should sign my (human, before anybody makes a smart comment about a golden lab) girlfriend up for that.
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

@Duckspwn: You're girlfriend is a pet?

Are you two like this couple perchance? [news.bbc.co.uk]
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Duckspwn
11/24/09

@Nathan Obbards: No, what I meant is she fetches stuff for me, is a reliable, loving companion, I own her, and, you know... doggy style.
It was a sexist joke, sheesh.
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Nathan Obbards
11/24/09

@Duckspwn: I know, I was joking too. Also, I apparently can't spell and wrote you're instead of your.

Sometimes my humour is too subtle or not funny. That coupled with too little sleep because of MW2, and you know how it goes.
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Duckspwn
11/24/09

@Nathan Obbards: Ahh yes. Sorry, I didn't even bother clicking through the link. Now I get it. :P
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Kaiser-Machead
11/24/09

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I once put in something similar to the Catgenie for someone, and her cat watched in horror as a mechanized monster mouth ate its shit before its eyes. It never stepped back into it again.
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Duckspwn
11/24/09

@Kaiser-Machead: I had a good laugh at that mental image.
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lostarchitect
11/24/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, I've never seen a cat that liked anything motorized. I got mine one of those water fountain things, and he wouldn't go near it.
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spiegel1
11/24/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Maybe we should install them everywhere and create an army of non pooping kitties. Sure they move kinda slow and rarely eat but the smell would disappear FOREVER!
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Kaiser-Machead
11/24/09

@spiegel1: It's important to note that cats, cute and fuzzy as they may be, are one of the most vengeful creatures in the universe. In lieu of finding a proper place to drop their leavings, cats will turn to the only other worthy receptacle of feces, the human shoe.
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spiegel1
11/24/09

@Kaiser-Machead: Well in my world, shoes are outlawed after we deter all felines from pooping.
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KTK1990
11/24/09

@spiegel1: Might not want to outlaw them, hide them somewher the cat cant get to. Because eventually all that poop will have to come out, and I would want shoes then.
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AmphetamineCrown
11/24/09

@lostarchitect: Maybe our cats are strange, but we've actually had decent luck with motorized stuff. They actually liked the circulating water thing (and it certainly appeared to me to not be as nasty as leaving water in a bowl to stagnate) and they adapted to the LitterMaid automatic cleaner. I didn't really like it, however, and it looked nasty.

But... Now we have a ScoopFree, and it actually works. No stink. Change the box of funky blue crystals every week. No muss, no fuss. And we have two cats that share.
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fughedaboudit
11/24/09

@Kaiser-Machead: The CatGenie isn't that bad - you just want to put it in a bathroom you don't use regularly and away from where you sleep (gets loud and leaves a gross residue in the toilet). It's probably a lot better if you install it by your washer/dryer instead (but I don't have one).

I also tried the Petsafe continuous cleaning litter box. That's good and a much better deal than the CatGenie, but you still need to scoop occasionally. Also, I recommend tinkering with it a bit, using a timer, etc. etc. ([www.amazon.com])
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fughedaboudit
11/24/09

@lostarchitect: Another key thing is that if your cats are old, forget about it. I'd only try something like this with relatively young cats.
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Kaiser-Machead
11/24/09

@fughedaboudit: I've decided to just be diligent with the cats' boxes and use a traditional setup. I regret not attempting to train them to use the toilet. lol
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lostarchitect
11/24/09

@fughedaboudit: he was only 2 or so at the time, but he basically refused to drink water so i thought i'd try something else. he still never drinks water, so i feed him only wet food.

#tips
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Purple Dave
11/26/08

In reply to Buy Luke's Original Lightsaber for $185,000, Gizmo Animatronic for $5,000
Going by just that one photo, I can't conclusively identify which of the many known builds of the Anakin lightsaber hilt that is, but for damn sure it wasn't used in both ANH and TESB, and it's not even the only copy you'd see in whichever movie it's from.

For ANH, they had both stunt props (several) and show props (probably a few of those as well). Then they made a completely new hilt for the Holiday Special (not even using the same model of flash handle as the base), but I have no idea if they needed a stunt copy or not (I don't even know if I ever watched the Holiday Special, but if I have it would only have been when it was originally broadcast). And for TESB, again, they made several stunt copies and probably at least a couple show copies. Finally, they replicated the design for Anakin to use in RotS (I believe his AotC hilt was supposed to be a different, but similar construct), again making multiple copies. Obviously Kurtz wouldn't have the latter, and this isn't a stunt copy or the Holiday Special design, but it'd take someone with a much more practiced eye than mine to pick out whether it's an ANH prop or TESB prop, and that's assuming the photo is of the actual piece and not something that got pulled from some random webpage.
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Purple Dave
11/26/08

@Purple Dave:
Oh, if you want to see how the different versions are different from each other, go here:

[www.partsofsw.com]
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NeVeRMoRe666
11/26/08

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Hmmm...I guess Crystal Skull didn't make as much money as they had hoped...
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admoseremic
11/25/08

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Wow, now that I see it up close, I never really realized how unfriendly the handle to Luke's lightsaber really is. You'd think with all the Star Wars tech, they'd prefer some kind of sci-fi leather grip or something. . .
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Purple Dave
11/26/08

@admoseremic:
No, they pretty much stuck to windshield wiper blades from British WWII army vehicles on pretty much everything. Half of the lightsaber hilts we see in the OT, Stormtrooper blasters, Boba Fett's RotJ rifle (the TESB one has a smooth barrel)...
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MagnoliaX12
11/25/08

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Magui! Want!!!

You have no idea how hard it was to find the correct spelling for 'Magui', not to be confused with 'Maugua'. Not sure how I'd feel with one of those around
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headc4se
11/26/08

@MagnoliaBoy: I know I'm crazy late and all, having just gotten to work, but would it be wrong to point out that it's spelled "Mogwai" in the case of Gizmo?
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MagnoliaX12
11/26/08

@headc4se: Meh, I guess it's up for contention still, but the wiki link actually does have it 'Mogwai/Mogui' in Chinese culture' [en.wikipedia.org] It's a Romanised phonetic spelling of a Chinese word, so I'm sure it's debatable. I can't spell for shit though, and prolly typoed it above anyway.
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Yetibelle
11/25/08

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Really 185k...it doesnt even work!
A Lambo works and keeps on giving.
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scarbrtj
11/25/08

@Yetibelle:
That's some bull.
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scarbrtj
11/25/08

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oh great and now i pass out because all the blood rushed to my peni *CRASH*
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LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M
11/26/08

@scarbrtj:

Doctors have the strangest fetishes.

But even I didnt see your fixation on Gizmo coming. I mean, the lightsaber I kinda get. Its better then hamsters, ya know?
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tamoko
11/25/08

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A Geek garage sale!?!? Now if I could only rustle up the other $184,658...
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se7a7n7
11/25/08

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Impossible. Wasn't this light-saber lost along with Luke's hand on Bespin?
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Kaiser-Machead
11/25/08

@se7a7n7: His hand was sold for way more at an auction.
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GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
11/26/08

@se7a7n7: Lando had it recovered so he could sell it.
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