How I got my trash cat Luigi

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that's why and by Luigi I don't mean the little green man with the mustache I mean the little cat may have little tail plans and a mustache my cat my son Luigi after my first year in college I told my parents I wanted a cat of my own I had grown up with a cat named cheeto all my life but now that I was in college I didn't have any little friends to come home to besides the ants in my disgusting apartment so my parents said alright you can get a cat but we can't help you pay for it so I stole one just kidding I adopted fast-forwards when I moved into my first apartment and the hunt was on I started at my local pet Mart and submitted an application for a super cute Siamese kitten I wanted two Siamese by the way because they're usually talkative just like my cat cheeto it makes me feel like they're a real part of the family with thoughts and feelings worth sharing and honestly they ought to be paying rent if they have so many opinions about the way I choose to live my life after I submitted my application something happened and the rescue group became oddly suspicious of me I got a call a few days later from the representative who said yeah it says here you'd kill the cat if it got sick or old wait wait what what are you talking about the question was what would you do if the cat was terminally ill oh I think I wrote something like I take to the vet talk about treatment options but if they found nothing could be done to cure otherwise help with the pain then I would consider euthanization so basically you'd kill it well wait what and that's why I was blacklisted for my local Petsmart not clickbait emotional so that meant I had to drive to my not local pet Mart and hope they all weren't in coats I went in with my friend and we were taken to the back to test-drive some cats this place had a ton of kittens and this lady just let him all loose and amongst this adorable tornado of fur my friend crouched down but realized something was hiding under her a tiny baby with a tiny baby tail the woman explained he was the last of his litter also the runt of his litter and part Japanese bobtail he has all the vertebrae like a normal cat's tail but his bones are simply what osteolysis would classify as small bubu baby bones at least that's how I understood it so the rescue group creatively named this bobtail kitten Bob that's lame what about Luigi and just like that his name was Luigi just look at him Bob whack Luigi snack I filled out the application successfully passed the background check and in 24 hours he was mine it all happened so quickly and easily and it suddenly hit me that this is my cat he's my responsibility he's gonna depend on me to feed him look after him and love him until I'm like 30 at least this was such a huge commitment but in time Luigi made it easy just kidding as the seasons changed so too did something in Luigi something sinister as it turns out bobtails are also talkative which was great but Luigi was fixed too early meaning he never went through cat puberty therefore his voice never got deeper making him forever sound like a two-year-old going you just want love sorry at night he'd endlessly scream in his tiny shrill annoying little blue baby voice he was also weaned too early so he'd suck on everything leaving the nasty stench of kitten breath lingering in every room he was also adamant that we weren't feeding him enough so he dangerously tried and failed jumping on to the counters for anything remotely edible when we wouldn't give him enough attention he'd bite our faces and teeth on our possessions and Luigi has expensive tastes I cannot count the number of head phones laptop cords and charging cables he's completely destroyed and if this wasn't enough his lonely meltdowns perceived starvation and destructive teething all work together in harmony to produce a dangerous habit of eating non-food items for attention so along with the late-night screaming and sucking and biting and chewing we'd get puking puking up hair bands twisty ties or seats the note my mom always put in my lunchbox leaves Pokemon band-aids toilet paper a shoelace not one time he ate a freaking balloon deflated of course but still he ate a balloon on free balloon day now when you adopt an animal especially a young animal you must keep in mind that a new environment can be very stressful and their personality and behavior is gonna be all over the place and I knew and understood this quite well so for that reason I wrote a huge email to the rescue group saying how much of a noisy rambunctious lonely literal trash eating hassle Luigi has proven himself to be and that I will be returning him so he may find a better fit phoner as soon as possible and I was just about to hit Send when something inside me said wait just take a deep breath and sleep on it and that was one of the best decisions of my life I took some time to actually get to know him get to know his personality I now understand he's a really curious cat and he's also very smart I just had to give him the chance in retrospect I think it was just terrible twos cat edition and he's doing great now I've done more positive reinforcement training to teach him how to do high-fives without claws and he gives me a hug and a kiss to show affection I still have not found that balloon he but I took him to the vet they did x-rays and he is fine I don't know where the balloon went but it's not inside of him anymore that's a one for me anyways thank you for watching my videos don't let your cats eat garbage and as always stay safe hello thank you for making it to the end card and thank you rebecca Parham for voicing some lines for me in this video if you'd like to support me directly I have a patreon and I'm also switching merch companies to creator Inc so check those links in the description and as always thank you so much for everything [Music]

Channel: illymation

Views: 4,893,972

Rating: 4.9510283 out of 5

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Id: AgeWrWUkGPI

Length: 6min 56sec (416 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 22 2019