“okay, so i’m not sure if i’m in the wrong on this one,” says melanie from sydney. “i have a long haired cat who sheds a lot, so i just used to pick up the bits of fur and throw them out the window.” (um, right, of course.) melanie continues: “i’m on the third floor and look out over the street, so i didn’t think it would upset anyone. but then i found this clump of cat fur in my mailbox.”
melanie adds: “i live in a block of 40+ units and my cat is an indoor cat, so a) no one really knows i have him, and b) it must have pretty hard to track done the owner of the multi-shedding, window-fur-tossing cat. that one clump of fur — which they would have had to have collected over a period of at least two weeks — says more than words ever could.”
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336 responses so far ↓
#1 KevinD
That clump of cat fur was fucking delicious!
Yessssss!
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:38 pm rating: 0
#2 Troy McClure
#1 Fur St!
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:38 pm rating: 0
#3 Troy McClure
Confound that Kevin….
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:39 pm rating: 0
#4 dragon
can anyone say stalker?
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:41 pm rating: 0
#5 Oti
Next thing she finds in the mail box will be the cat…
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:45 pm rating: 0
#6 Troy McClure
So, Melanie or Melody, that fur looks like a fairly solid clump, but you reckon it’s a couple of weeks’ worth. Did your neighbour/stalker sort of work the fur into a solid clump before returning it to you?
Are you sure the fur’s from your cat? I would have expected scrappy little bits of cat fur to blow away, rather than hang around long enough to annoy someone & be collected. So peculiar….
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:47 pm rating: 0
#7 Amperage
that cat was fucking delicious
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:53 pm rating: 0
#8 Troy McClure
Kerry, you could have fixed #6 while you were at it! Now I look insane!
Nov 4, 2007 at 7:59 pm rating: 0
#9 Wade
You seem to be very well-versed in this topic, Troy.
Perhaps a little too well versed… nah, couldn’t be.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:01 pm rating: 0
#10 Canthz_B
A rather large key, I think! LOL
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:03 pm rating: 0
#11 Canthz_B
Why would anyone gather just a few hairs to toss?
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:04 pm rating: 0
#12 Canthz_B
What does Melanie do with her trash?…eewwwww
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:07 pm rating: 0
#13 Wade
Interesting how the right side of the fur looks like the head of an animal.
A bunyip, maybe?
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:08 pm rating: 0
#14 todd
the ultimate revenge would be to find out who this person is, collect the hair from their drain, and put it in their mailbox.
that would definitely send a dont-fuck-with-me message.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:11 pm rating: 0
#15 GezD
Oh my god, I’d be very worries if I were the cat owner. I don’t think she was in the wrong, she couldn’t know she was harming anyone. If they went to all that trouble finding her, the PA pet-detective could have just had a word and asked her nicely not to do it anymore.
So, team cat-owner for me; unless the pet-detective had already had a word.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:12 pm rating: 0
#16 Canthz_B
I could settle for dead baby mouse, doesn’t look water-worthy to me.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:12 pm rating: 0
#17 GezD
*worried
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:12 pm rating: 0
#18 Troy McClure
I feel like I’m getting framed. Kerry set me up to look insane (it did say Melody for a few minutes, I just know it did), Wade reckons I’m the stalker … when was the delivery made? I need to check my alibi.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:13 pm rating: 0
#19 Canthz_B
I live on a top floor and so cannot imagine what it must be like to have one’s upstairs neighbor’s cat’s hair blow into my window.
Must be hackles raising though.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:15 pm rating: 0
#20 GezD
If melanie carries on I bet her cat will go missing and then she will get a paw in her mailbox.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:15 pm rating: 0
#21 Canthz_B
Chill Troy, there was a lecture that day! LOL
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:16 pm rating: 0
#22 Canthz_B
#20 ROTFLMAO!!!
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:17 pm rating: 0
#23 Wade
My guess is that Ms. Melanie does not actually watch the fur fall all the way to the ground. It is more likely wafting into the window of one of the two apartments below her.
I’m looking for this note to follow:
Glad U have great pet life, but we think it is time to replace yr old cat, Dear. Shed awful when U throw fur out window also U need mange medicine mate coz we can see seem took U so long to toss it all out & done with it!!
Yr neighb
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:18 pm rating: 0
#24 Canthz_B
A good luck paw to brighten up the darkness.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:18 pm rating: 0
#25 Troy McClure
Well gosh, while personally I’d be more likely to vacuum the fur if it were bothering me, I hold there’s no harm in throwing fur out the window. Sydney positively writhes with wild furry animals, particularly possums; somehow, all the fur they shed avoids gathering over the months into great shed fur drifts. (But get a hoover dammit.)
As for window wafting, yes I suppose, but if they’ve got their windows open without screens in Sydney then they clearly aren’t too fussy about what wanders in (moths, mosquitos, cockroaches, even bats maybe).
Wade, jeez that’d be hilarious, if it turned out to be the same apartment block.
I reckon Melanie’s stalker has tapped her broadband cable & knows she’s a PAN fan. This was a sort of “gift”; next he will ask her out.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:25 pm rating: 0
#26 Pockets
Disturbing….
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:26 pm rating: 0
#27 Claudia
A few more weeks and you would have a whole new cat
Nice site!
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:29 pm rating: 0
#28 HendrixIsTheCat
@Wade
LOL! yikes
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:30 pm rating: 0
#29 Wade
Of course, it could be a simple as a clump of fur clinging to melanie’s sleeve and coming off in the mailbox.
Team Brush Your Poor Cat’s Hair
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:31 pm rating: 0
#30 Fraulein N
Ew. Team Don’t Throw Trash Out the Window.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:34 pm rating: 0
#31 Wade
I thought about the screen thing, Troy, but since Melanie thinks nothing of throwing fur out the window, I assumed that screens were not an option on their windows.
I mean, wouldn’t it be easier to throw the hair into the trash can rather than remove a screen and toss it to the street below?
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:37 pm rating: 0
#32 Erinersss
Cat hair: it’s what’s for dinner.
And collected meticulously over the course of WEEKS is most definitely some p-a behavior. Or even if its just some random fur as a payback, thats p-a too.
I’m leaning towards the Crazy Pet Detective Team.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:38 pm rating: 0
#33 Wade
I also think Mel is fooling herself. If her apartment faces the street, everyone has the opportunity to watch her toss the fur.
That said, leaving a clump of fur in the mailbox is über creepy. At least it wasn’t shoved under the door.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:44 pm rating: 0
#34 Troy McClure
Wade, Melanie has screens over her windows too, but the cat has clawed them to shreds.
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:45 pm rating: 0
#35 Troy McClure
Or glued to a doll & left for her!
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:46 pm rating: 0
#36 Wade
ROFL, Troy!!
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:47 pm rating: 0
#37 Canthz_B
LOL “We have Boots. She is alive and well as long as you cooperate and do not contact the authotrities. As proof here is a tuft of her fur…now listen closely…”
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:52 pm rating: 0
#38 Canthz_B
Oh Troy! That was so…well, what the hell, FUNNY!!!
Nov 4, 2007 at 8:54 pm rating: 0
#39 lola
guard your pussy, melanie… it seems it has an admirer
was that over the top? I can never tell
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:06 pm rating: 0
#40 Troy McClure
Actually CB I like your kidnapping scenario. I believe that the “catnapping” was foiled by a very streetwise alley cat who just happens to bear a striking resemblance to Boots. The alley cat, Claude let’s say, had his ear to the ground, saw the crime coming & figured it could work to his advantage. He snuck into Melanie’s apartment by climbing the fire escape & jumping in through the shredded flyscreen. The perpetrators left the fur as a “teaser”—kidnapping is all psychology—but it’s totally inscrutible to Melanie because she thinks she’s still got her cat.
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:10 pm rating: 0
#41 Canthz_B
And Claude is livin’ large!
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:15 pm rating: 0
#42 Troy McClure
Well that’s right. There comes a time in a cat’s life when sleeping under cars, hunting rats & cockroaches isn’t as much fun as it used to be.
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:21 pm rating: 0
#43 anglophile
The strange absence of either a screen or a wastebasket in Melanie’s life makes me very troubled. What other things have found their way in or out of Melanie’s apartment? What does Melanie do with her used tissues, toe nail clippings, banana peels, etc?
And do we have a positive DNA test on this fur to make sure it is coming from Boots, or could it have come from that family of long-haired rats living in the mailbox?
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:21 pm rating: 0
#44 Canthz_B
So…now we know who’s tossing tampons to the sidewalk?
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:25 pm rating: 0
#45 Canthz_B
Sorry. That was just wrong!
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:26 pm rating: 0
#46 anglophile
I’m (almost) shocked into speechlessness, CB!
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:37 pm rating: 0
#47 Troy McClure
Oh for heaven’s sake. Someone says tampon & everyone runs for cover? Is it 1953 suddenly?
Hey I just noticed that “tampons” is an anagram of “stop man”. How bout that, eh?
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:44 pm rating: 0
#48 Canthz_B
You would see that Mr. Dundee! LOL
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:48 pm rating: 0
#49 Canthz_B
A cat jumping on your ass during coitus stops man too!
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:52 pm rating: 0
#50 Troy McClure
Muchos scratchy ass
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:59 pm rating: 0
#51 Troy McClure
(Sorry—that probably would have been funny at 9:53!)
Nov 4, 2007 at 9:59 pm rating: 0
#52 melanie
Okay, as I’m the creepy fur-thrower this post is about, I feel I should explain my trash habits… cat fur is the ONLY THING I chuck out the window. I have a rag doll cat who sheds more than you would biologically think possible, and it’s a pain having to walk the tufts of the damn stuff to the bin every three seconds when I’m strolling past the window/sitting on my lounge next to said window.
But like I said, I know I was probably in the wrong on this one, was just curious what others thought …
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:00 pm rating: 0
#53 Wade
hey, mel.
so, what’s the deal with the screen, or lack thereof?
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:05 pm rating: 0
#54 Shlosha-esreh
Okay, I’m new here, it seams in other threads that new people are not well liked, so is there some reason why ? If you don’t mind my asking.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:13 pm rating: 0
#55 Oti
hmmm
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:16 pm rating: 0
#56 melanie
No screens, you were right. Removing a screen to throw the fur out would be far too much work for someone who’s so lazy they can’t walk to the bin.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:16 pm rating: 0
#57 lola
toss that shit out the window, melanie - it’s biodegradeable right? if not, maybe one of your neighbors can weave it into a really cool cat-hair parka
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:17 pm rating: 0
#58 GVI
Team Cat-hair sweaters.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:21 pm rating: 0
#59 Wade
oh, my friend shlosha, it’s not that at all.
just stay on topic and contribute to the conversation and everything will be just fine.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:23 pm rating: 0
#60 melanie
I do live in a “trendy” neighbourhood… I’m sure they could knit something from it in no time. I go out in a layer of it every day anyway, it’s a great look.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:24 pm rating: 0
#61 Wade
which leads me back to the suspicion that one of your downstairs neighbours
may lack a screen and be on the receiving end of your “gifts”.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:25 pm rating: 0
#62 Wade
but even if it is, putting a clump of hair in your mailbox is definitely p-a, if not a whole lot of creepy.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:26 pm rating: 0
#63 Troy McClure
#55: New is fine. Welcome aboard the train to crazytown (insofar as my opinion matters). If you are sensitive about criticism, you may want to type with care, because skewering bad spelling & grammar seam to be a lot of the site’s appeal for some of us. It’s a character flaw, but don’t expect us to reform any time soon.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:28 pm rating: 0
#64 GVI
Hell, let’s just hope it is cat hair and not rocket pubes.
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:28 pm rating: 0
#65 Canthz_B
Maybe it’s just me but, why not just move the damned bin closer to the couch you are too lazy to rise from except to piss?…or do you?
Nov 4, 2007 at 10:57 pm rating: 0
#66 GVI
That’s what catheters (I think I spelled it right) are made for.
Nov 4, 2007 at 11:03 pm rating: 0
#67 Troy McClure
Trouble is, the cat keeps moving around, so wherever the bin is, there’s always fur at the far end of the unit. An idea might be to keep the cat in a cage suspended over the rubbish bin.
Nov 4, 2007 at 11:04 pm rating: 0
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