Our submitter found the following signage at an engineering office in Salt Lake City, Utah. Adds our submitter: “For the life of me I can’t figure out what ‘cat parts’ is supposed to refer to — or why people would need a note to know it’s not appropriate to leave them in the kitchen sink.”
![[Note 1:] Please Do Not Leave "cat parts" in the sink. Thanks. [Note 2:] Then we need a designated cat parts receptacle. Where else am I supposed to put my leftover cat parts?](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6186/6030782645_c5f0786af8.jpg "[Note 1:] Please Do Not Leave \"cat parts\" in the sink. Thanks. [Note 2:] Then we need a designated cat parts receptacle. Where else am I supposed to put my leftover cat parts?")
P.S. When I did a quick Google Image Search for “cat parts,” I ended up here:
related: “Place feral cats in box”
33 responses so far ↓
#1
Jesse
Why am I thinking that perhaps the note needs to be directed at the cat – that said feline is using the sink as a litter box.
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:35 pm rating: 3
#2
SnackBoxAcid
Woah, is that Forrest Gump’s cat?
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:35 pm rating: 6
#3
Diana
Oh man!! that cat parts website is hilarious!
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:38 pm rating: 5
#4
Tara
I was an apartment manager once and I had to replace a disposal in a KITCHEN SINK because the woman in the apartment had been disposing her “clumping cat litter” there. in the kitchen sink, where presumably, she washed dishes.
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:42 pm rating: 11
#5
Jenn
I dare say it means “cat” as in “caterpillar equipment” My husband laughs everytime they get a delivery because the box actually says “Genuine Cat Parts”.
Aug 11, 2011 at 8:46 pm rating: 47
#6
www.stuffistolefromtheinternet.com
Back in my day, America was a place where you were free to leave your cat parts wherever you wanted to.
Aug 11, 2011 at 9:07 pm rating: 47
#7
Lauri
Would that be the same as “pussy pieces”?? I leave those all over the place…
Aug 11, 2011 at 10:03 pm rating: 4
#8
GhostWriter
Through independent research, I have identified the following cat parts:
1. fur
2. animated tail
3. rubberized skeleton
4. a small cylindrical device that “purrs” when flipped over
5. walnut-sized brain with the processing power of a walnut-sized walnut
6. nothing else
Aug 12, 2011 at 8:21 am rating: 17
#9
Elmo
Thomas (Silence of the Lambs) Harris described a scene in Black Sunday where a man comes home in the middle of the day and finds his wife playing cowgirl with some other man so he grabs the kitten and puts it into the garbage disposal (legs first). THAT is cat parts in the sink.
Aug 12, 2011 at 8:57 am rating: 0
#10
JenStar
This would have made sense if it was a medical school, veterinary school or a Chinese restaurant.
Aug 12, 2011 at 9:59 am rating: 9
#11
Header Graphics
Cat parts are usually something viscous (like “erps”) or fuzzy (like fur.) Neither one really belongs in a sink where dishes are being washed.
But stuff happens. Especially when you have cats who like to drink water from the faucet. We try to limit ours to the bathtub because we’re trying to avoid turning into “Those Crazy Cat People Whose Cats Have Taken Over.”
I’m not saying it’s working.
Aug 12, 2011 at 11:00 am rating: 12
#12
Nunavut Guy
There should be no left over cat parts.When you kill a cat you should use the whole thing.
Aug 12, 2011 at 11:45 am rating: 12
#13
Eric
Car parts, maybe? I know, it’s far-fetched, but it makes a tiny bit more sense than CAT parts, for pete’s sake. Not much, but a little.
Aug 12, 2011 at 12:21 pm rating: 1
#14
Kim
Have no idea what Cat Parts are, but the website is AWESOME!!!
Aug 12, 2011 at 2:53 pm rating: 2
#15
SilentPsycho
My theory is that one housemate is a trainee mechanic, and they often bring home catalytic converters to clean out/dismantle/remantle/etc.
Aug 12, 2011 at 4:23 pm rating: 2
#16
Natalie
Idk why this sign would be up in an engineering office, but I’ve seen the same ones in the lab at school. I’m a nursing student and we had to do cat dissections, so saying no cat parts in the sink was, oddly enough, a very helpful thing lol! Not ot be gross, but the fur really does get everywhere haha!
Aug 12, 2011 at 9:15 pm rating: 2
#17
havingfitz
I’m wondering if by ‘cat parts’ they may mean ‘whiskers’. If guys are using the sink to shave, that would make sense.
Aug 14, 2011 at 9:20 am rating: 1
#18
Yolanda
Okay, poor white collar people, I’ll solve this crazy mystery. Construction companies use a tiny little digger machine called a “Bobcat.” These cats have a variety of cool attachments that make it a post hole digger, bulldozer, snow plow, grader, digger, pneumatic hammer, etc. They’re damn useful and appeal to men as grownup tonka toys. Cat parts will definitely be repair parts for this machine, and everyone on the site knows it, and they’ve been getting scrubbed in the coffee room sink because there’s no proper shop on site. The office guys are tired of it.
Aug 14, 2011 at 11:02 am rating: 3
#19
The Elf
Of course you shouldn’t keep your cat parts in the sink! After the vet does his little snip snip, you put them in a jar, carefully preserved, so that little tom cat goes to kitty heaven intact.
….What?
Aug 15, 2011 at 6:08 am rating: 1
#20
Carolyn
I think by “cat parts” they mean something along the lines of used sanitary napkins, or pads or tampons. It would fit, I think.
Aug 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm rating: 0
#21
Catherine
As a Pre-Med student/Biology Lab assistant, I can say that this probably was referring to a cat dissection lab. Speaking from experience, a drain clogged with cat parts is one of the foulest smells.
….Machine parts???? really????
Aug 21, 2011 at 12:36 am rating: 2
#22
Jana
Seriously, a cat dissection lab? ” Cat parts”—-the cat must be an acronym. It can’t be parts from heavy machinery or cut up kitties.
Aug 21, 2011 at 6:43 pm rating: 0
#23
Sarah
Not to mention, cats can’t read anyway.
Aug 23, 2011 at 11:59 am rating: 0
#24
erica
seriously people. the sign is probably in a science lab. many biology classes dissect cats nowadays.
Aug 23, 2011 at 10:46 pm rating: 0
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