Yesterday, Nora must have found SOMETHING with dairy in it . . .

[xiphias]

Now, our little kitty Nora is a sweet and dainty thing, a bit skittish, deeply affectionate once she knows you, and adorable.

And very, very lactose-intolerant. In the "bad for EVERYBODY around" way.

I think I've mentioned this before. Anyway, yesterday, she demonstrated it again. . .

It started as normal -- "I promise you, Lis, that wasn't me."

"Oh, my Ghu, I think that smell is coming from some other room . . . "

"Nora just left the bathroom. I think she was using the litterbox. . . "

"You mean that was her?! How does such a large stench come from such a small cat?"

Nicky wandered past from the front room. He was about to trot past the bathroom door, when he slowed down, looked toward the bathroom, then staggered sideways three steps away from it, and ran.

By this point, Lis was doubled over, and couldn't breathe. From laughing, mind you, not from the chemical warfare that Nora had inadvertently waged on the household.

Nora decided to see what was going on, and walked back into the hall from the bedroom. She got near the bathroom, looked shocked, and ran away.

I lit my lighter to try to burn off the stink gas, which usually works . . . and it did very little. I eventually got a paper towel, put it in the sink, and lit it on fire, which helped SOME.

Eventually, we just turned off the heat in the house, opened a window, and went out for breakfast. By the time we got back, the house was back to normal.

I love Nora, very much, but it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to make sure that no dairy products are ever left unattended around her.

Comments

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Eyes tearing up laughing so hard. Poor kitty. Poor you guys!

In other news, I love it when one of our dogs farts audibly. They usually turn and look back at their own rumps, with this funny expression as if to say, I did THAT? Hilarious.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Cats do not have butt cheeks. Nora's farts are 100% silent, 100% of the time. This is one of the factors that makes it so dangerously unfair.

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

Oh, but somewhere I recall seeing a video of a really fat cat (ours would never qualify) sitting in a humanoid upright position and farting. Audibly. They may not have cheeks (really, neither do our dogs), but the mechanics are there if they sit in the right way.
For SBD, try sampling the stench from a 70-pound dog who's been uh, cruising through the compost pile sometime. Better yet, please don't. Most amazing. XD

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

And, yeah, our eyes were tearing up, too.

Not just from laughter, though. When she lets loose, it's bad.

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

Yes, it totally is! Our late doggie once scared herself awake with her own fart and practically launched herself across the room in terror.

[sproutntad.livejournal.com]

My fiancé did that once too!!

[cellio]

*laugh*

Just this morning Dani and I were discussing a recent pervasive stench that Baldur seemed to be responsible for. We found no output so I speculated that perhaps he had farted; Dani wouldn't believe that one cat could produce that much, ahem, "effect". I'll have to tell him about Nora! (No idea what would have set Baldur off; he certainly had no dairy that I'm aware of.)

[erin-c-1978.livejournal.com]

Oh ouch, you know the stench is beyond terrifying when the cats are running away from it too. XD

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Lighting actual matches instead of lighters helps IME.

[baka-kit.livejournal.com]

One of my family's dogs in particular has room-clearing farts. You can see their effect spreading by the fact that everybody else moves out of range.