10/10, would fuss again

April 15, 2017 9:22 AM

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posted by Lexica (28 comments total)

The one from the restaurbront is cute. What a great way to celebrant cats. I hope no one gets brent out of shape about their ratings system
posted by oulipian at 9:33 AM on April 15, 2017 [14 favorites]

I'm not sure what's more impressive here, the fact that a random cat allowed the person to play with her or the fact that the person actually is a dog wearing jeans.
posted by Foci for Analysis at 9:36 AM on April 15, 2017 [8 favorites]

Someone needs to review the cat living at the Hungarian Pastry Shop on the UWS. A very friendly beach ball with legs!
posted by orrnyereg at 9:43 AM on April 15, 2017 [3 favorites]

I'm fussing those cats so hard right now
posted by ilama at 9:45 AM on April 15, 2017 [5 favorites]

12/10 would click again, great cats Burnt.
posted by tofu_crouton at 9:58 AM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

Yes, good kitties. I may work up reviews on the neighborhood cats that will likely visit me today while I work in the yard. (They're all good kitties, Bront. 15/10.)
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 10:00 AM on April 15, 2017

They probably should have reviewed this recent cat wedding in my neck of the woods.
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 10:02 AM on April 15, 2017 [3 favorites]

Wow. That is...that is some late-stage toxoplasmosis right there :/
posted by sexyrobot at 10:09 AM on April 15, 2017 [6 favorites]

We appear to be particularly wealthy in terms of cats to pet on our route into town/to the pub. Two little tabbies about 200m apart and both friendly, one followed us home on Thursday night, which was unfortunate as it discovered we are cat slags and have one of our own at home (-> standoff under the camellia). Down the hill though there is a sweet little ginger cat who gets petted by everyone walking down the path into town, full on rolling on the floor and everything.
posted by biffa at 10:11 AM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

Clawing an adult and a child only gets one knocked down to 7/10.

"Cat detonated a neutron bomb when we tried to pet him" - 3/10 for fuss, 10/10 for sass.
posted by lagomorphius at 10:14 AM on April 15, 2017 [9 favorites]

@lagomorphius: A++++ would pet again.
posted by ilama at 10:19 AM on April 15, 2017 [3 favorites]

My favorite
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 10:24 AM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

10/10 for cat-related excellence.
posted by rmd1023 at 10:31 AM on April 15, 2017

(They're all good kitties, Bront. 15/10.)

Let's not have fussing rating inflation. It's playing havoc with the national stats.
posted by GenjiandProust at 10:54 AM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

I make it my business to know all the kitties in my neighbourhood. We've a running joke about my bicycle basket and bell: one ring means the basket is full, two rings means it's empty and I'm coming for you kitties
posted by Kitteh at 10:59 AM on April 15, 2017 [8 favorites]

I am a regular review contributor. Unrepentant cat fusser for lyfe.
posted by halcyonday at 11:54 AM on April 15, 2017 [6 favorites]

I have a cat, sort of. A feral black and white kitty has made my yard her home (I call her Sausage as she is quite plump), but about 20 feet is the closest you can get, 30 feet most days. I also have auxiliary volunteer cats, as backup (however, they don't live in the yard), including an impressive tabby, but lost another black-and-white a year or so ago.

The best part is I have very few rodents around the place, in an area where to leave a car parked outside for more than a day means you now have mice in it, normally. If Sausage goes to her kitty reward I will adopt a barn cat or two, as I have a shed they would be able to use as home base.

Thankfully Sausage and her "friends" don't seem to get many birds, and when they do they're american robins, which I suspect may be one of the least endangered creatures on the planet.

So 10/10 on cat rating site!
posted by maxwelton at 1:25 PM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

This is a cool and seemingly quite specific use of the word "fuss" that I had not heard before. Thanks!
posted by Stewriffic at 2:02 PM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

This reminds me of an incredibly friendly calico who used to live on Woodlawn, on my walk home from the U of C. She'd insist on being petted for fifteen or twenty minutes at a time, complete with enthusiastic lap-sitting. Excellent grad student therapy.
posted by thomas j wise at 4:10 PM on April 15, 2017 [2 favorites]

SO MANY CATS OMG YAYAYAY!

This is a twitter account I could never have in my stream because they post so often. But it's great to know it exists so I can dip in and out on occasion.
posted by hippybear at 4:13 PM on April 15, 2017

This cat's name should be storm.
posted by eye of newt at 8:17 PM on April 15, 2017

My fave.
posted by misskaz at 7:47 AM on April 16, 2017

I gave up Twitter long ago but I may have to rejoin. Sometimes I go downtown and walk through certain neighborhoods just because they have a high volume of strange cats ripe for the fussin'.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 8:54 AM on April 16, 2017 [1 favorite]

10/10 for jazz hands.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:11 AM on April 16, 2017 [2 favorites]

The Cat Reviewer is also on instagram for those of us not on twitter or fear the firehose nature of the twitter account.
posted by halcyonday at 9:57 AM on April 16, 2017

It's fun but it's no Properly Petting Puppies
posted by sixfootaxolotl at 5:14 PM on April 16, 2017 [1 favorite]

Cute, but wasn't WeRateDogs the groundbreaker in this field?
posted by TochterAusElysium at 10:45 AM on April 18, 2017

Well, WeRateDogs does the rating themselves. My understanding is that The Cat Reviewer reposts user (fusser) reviews. Similar, yet different?
posted by hippybear at 8:48 AM on April 19, 2017