Fez: Save Skippy

[RMPGP]

Getting rid of Skippy is the easiest solution, but her blood will be on your hands Fez.

Of course, Fez is free to do whatever he wants, but instead of listening to the negative & gossipy people of his life, he should consider a different perspective.

Skippy will surely perish once he returns it to Island Cats.... thanks to the needle of death.

How is giving away Skippy making progress with Fez's mental health? The whole point of Skippy is to think outside of yourself. Now Fez is undoing the one thing that gave him any outside reality. If anything, he is regressing by doing this.

Instead of giving up on Skippy, a better attitude would be to own up to the fact you ADOPTED a cat, and take responsibility. The cat has lots of energy, maybe understand why and then investigate ways you can fix this.

Instead of sentencing Skippy to death, take some action to resolve the situation. Instead of murdering Skippy, own the situation, don't run from the it. Fez, you have a large group of friends including Mellinda who will help you with Skippy and give you advice, ask them for help.

Skippy's life is in your hands Fez.

[Zorro]

Getting rid of Skippy is the easiest solution, but her blood will be on your hands Fez.

Of course, Fez is free to do whatever he wants, but instead of listening to the negative & gossipy people of his life, he should consider a different perspective.

Skippy will surely perish once he returns it to Island Cats.... thanks to the needle of death.

How is giving away Skippy making progress with Fez's mental health? The whole point of Skippy is to think outside of yourself. Now Fez is undoing the one thing that gave him any outside reality. If anything, he is regressing by doing this.

Instead of giving up on Skippy, a better attitude would be to own up to the fact you ADOPTED a cat, and take responsibility. The cat has lots of energy, maybe understand why and then investigate ways you can fix this.

Instead of sentencing Skippy to death, take some action to resolve the situation. Instead of murdering Skippy, own the situation, don't run from the it. Fez, you have a large group of friends including Mellinda who will help you with Skippy and give you advice, ask them for help.

Skippy's life is in your hands Fez.


You're so concerned...you take him

[moochcassidy]

fuck skippy

[RhinoinMN]

fuck skippy

Try Jif

or Jelly.

[TheMojoPin]

Kill Skippy. If Fez realizes he has the power of life and death in his hands over living creatures, it'll give his self esteenm the boost it so desperaely needs. DIE FOR THE GREATER GOOD, SKIPPY.

[jauble]

what mooch said.

[Sheeplovr]

all ready a thread skippy blows

[RMPGP]

what mooch said.

Why?

[RAAMONE]

Kill Skippy. If Fez realizes he has the power of life and death in his hands over living creatures, it'll give his self esteenm the boost it so desperaely needs. DIE FOR THE GREATER GOOD, SKIPPY.

so the real cure for the mentally ill is to have them kill kitties

who know...

[TheMojoPin]

all ready a thread skippy blows

This is the incorrect counterpoint, Sheepy.

[RAAMONE]

all ready a thread skippy blows

i think this thread is about skippy not blowing

of course it already turned into a "kill cats" thread

and soon it will be gay

[JPMNICK]

he needs to save Sheepy before Skippy

[TheMojoPin]

Fez should adopt Sheepy as his pet and then they kill Skippy together.

[RhinoinMN]

i think this thread is about skippy not blowing

of course it already turned into a "kill cats" thread

and soon it will be gay

check post #4

[JPMNICK]

Fez should adopt Sheepy as his pet and then they kill Skippy together.

i was thinking adopt sheepy and then skippy can defect to Paltalk and befriend deb

[Dougie Brootal]

Kill Skippy. If Fez realizes he has the power of life and death in his hands over living creatures, it'll give his self esteenm the boost it so desperaely needs. DIE FOR THE GREATER GOOD, SKIPPY.

youre really into the greater good today huh?

[jauble]

Why?

Fez hates the cat, the cat is always scratching him. Fez needs to get his life in order and if he wants a pet find a pet that is more affectionate. That doesnt mean get a dog but fez needs something thats excited to see him when he gets home rather than something that makes his life harder.


Just saying.

[Knowledged_one]

i think we can all agree that skippy died when this guy joined the show

http://arstfamily.com/samantha/images/scottvalentine.jpg

Why did he have to take Mallory from Skippy

[Freitag]

Getting rid of Skippy is the easiest solution, but her blood will be on your hands Fez.

Of course, Fez is free to do whatever he wants, but instead of listening to the negative & gossipy people of his life, he should consider a different perspective.

Skippy will surely perish once he returns it to Island Cats.... thanks to the needle of death.

How is giving away Skippy making progress with Fez's mental health? The whole point of Skippy is to think outside of yourself. Now Fez is undoing the one thing that gave him any outside reality. If anything, he is regressing by doing this.

Instead of giving up on Skippy, a better attitude would be to own up to the fact you ADOPTED a cat, and take responsibility. The cat has lots of energy, maybe understand why and then investigate ways you can fix this.

Instead of sentencing Skippy to death, take some action to resolve the situation. Instead of murdering Skippy, own the situation, don't run from the it. Fez, you have a large group of friends including Mellinda who will help you with Skippy and give you advice, ask them for help.

Skippy's life is in your hands Fez.

It's posts like this that make me fear animal lovers.

Fez got the cat for the WRONG REASONS. He thought it would make him feel better, and in the longer run, it made him feel worse. Sheepy (who is a lot closer to the situation) stated that the cat had no love for fez, was unaffectionate, etc.

Ultimately, when you're dealing with a critical point of Fez's mental health and recovery, guilt-coated crap like this is not needed. It's just a cat. There was no affection, no bond.

Fez has a hard enough time dealing with his own issues - he doesn't need or have to worry about a cat's issues as well.

[moochcassidy]

getting a pet was a good idea but this particular cat was a problem.

[paracetamol flanders]

Ok, Ok, I think everybody will be happy if Fez has Skippy killed so long as he then eats Skippy (aka Cat Burgers Syndrome)

[angrymissy]

Did Fez ever get the cat fixed? I can't remember and I know when he first got it, it wasn't?

They calm down a lot after that.

[Gvac]

Did Fez ever get the cat fixed? I can't remember and I know when he first got it, it wasn't?

They calm down a lot after that.

He brought it to the vet to get fixed while he was at Four Winds, but the vets discovered it had already been spayed.

[Thebazile78]

Did Fez ever get the cat fixed? I can't remember and I know when he first got it, it wasn't?

They calm down a lot after that.

If you adopt a shelter-cat, doesn't the shelter also give you a coupon for discounted (or free) spay/neuter services?

Also, the scratching thing could be resolved slightly by having it declawed. (I know that will be controversial for a lot of folks, but our cats were both declawed as kittens and they didn't turn out any worse for it.)

[angrymissy]

hrm. Well, we took in a semi feral kitten a few months ago. It's taken quite a while to tame her and she isn't 100% yet. A semi-feral like that would have done better in a household that had another cat for it to hang with. Also, you have to give a feral cat TONS of human attention and touch to even think about it taming. I can't believe the rescue gave a first time cat owner a cat that was previously feral. They are a lot of work.

The responsible thing, however, if Fez can truly not deal with this cat, would be to give it back to the rescue. Rescues generally do not put animals down unless they are 100% un-adoptable. A shelter will, a rescue won't.

Declawing a semi feral cat will just result in Fez getting horrible cat bites rather than scratches. I suggest Soft Claws:

http://www.softclaws.com/

I use them with 2 out of 3 of my cats and they work great. You can even have a vet put them on for you. (Not my cat, but they fit over the regular claws)

http://www.softclaws.com/gallery/corduroy.jpg

Is the main issue just the scratching?

[DolaMight]

Here's a nice non-feral replacement for you fez, g'head pet him. I think he likes you.

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For the love of god, Let him sleep in your bed, he's a nice cat. Let him move in with you.

[Freakshow]

That cat is breathing heavy. Is he having an asthma attack???

[Sheeplovr]

sounds like skippy is being kept

[DOHO@HOME]

Skippy would rather die then live with Fez.
Cats suck and dogs rule:clap:

[angrymissy]

The purring and meowing of that cat is making the aforementioned semi feral kitten we have go crazy.

[jlehane3]

Stuffed animals.Problem solved.

[paracetamol flanders]

I hope you're ready Fez, cuz here's how it's going to play out: You will take the cat to a secluded place in the woods because you won't have the heart to have him destroyed. Despite his meows, you will drive away. Skippy will then fall in with a band of abandoned cats who are then rounded up and destroyed in various ways in a circus-like atmosphere, because humans increasingly distrust cats. But Skippy will narrowly escape with a pleasure-cat and will seek out the maker of all cats. Skippy will see how assembly-line cat making is and will go to the bottom of the ocean in a futuristic helecopter/submarine where Skippy will chant to a sunken plastic sculpture of Puss 'N' Boots: "Please make me a real anthropomorphic cat in tall boots with no pants. please make me a real anthropomorphic cat in tall boots with no pants" for 2 thousand years. then an alien race will find Skippy there with a creepy mouse-bot who has retained a lock of hair from Fez's ass. Fez will be resurrected through the ass hair DNA, BUT ONLY FOR ONE DAY. On that day Fezzie will shamble around his sim-apartment, yelling at Skippy for getting in the way and complaining about cat smells until he passes out while watching his shows, TV dinner on his lap, never to wake again. This will be the greatest day in Skippy's life. Oddly, it will also be the greatest day in Fezzie's life. The end.

[Friday]

this whole situation is just depressing.

and i stand by my previous statement that if he had taken in one of my moms insanely loving kitties, this would have turned out much differently.
feral cats require a lot of patience, and unfortunately, i don't think fez has much of this to spare.

the cat does not "suck". he is a cat. and cats can be incredibly loving companions. i would probably be LIVING in a mental facility if not for my babies.

[WampusCrandle]

Getting rid of Skippy is the easiest solution, but her blood will be on your hands Fez.

Of course, Fez is free to do whatever he wants, but instead of listening to the negative & gossipy people of his life, he should consider a different perspective.

Skippy will surely perish once he returns it to Island Cats.... thanks to the needle of death.

How is giving away Skippy making progress with Fez's mental health? The whole point of Skippy is to think outside of yourself. Now Fez is undoing the one thing that gave him any outside reality. If anything, he is regressing by doing this.

Instead of giving up on Skippy, a better attitude would be to own up to the fact you ADOPTED a cat, and take responsibility. The cat has lots of energy, maybe understand why and then investigate ways you can fix this.

Instead of sentencing Skippy to death, take some action to resolve the situation. Instead of murdering Skippy, own the situation, don't run from the it. Fez, you have a large group of friends including Mellinda who will help you with Skippy and give you advice, ask them for help.

Skippy's life is in your hands Fez.

Who gives two shits about this stupid cat. It's a stunt that was kinda cute, but it's helping no one. People like you are the reason that I buy small kittens with flippers and stomp them to death with steal toed boots, like Lucy making wine.
http://www.thegrillstoreandmore.com/image/products/big-pics/1900475b.jpg

Skippy is a cunt. Fuck Skippy. End of discussion.

[Sheeplovr]

Skippy is a cunt. Fuck Skippy. End of discussion.

fred is wampus?

[Melissa the Accountant]

What if Fez held on to Skippy temporarily and looked for someone who actually likes cats to take her on? Everyone I know who likes cats loves cats. Despite her age and demeanor, there is a good chance that some cat lover out there would be willing to give Skippy a chance. It's OK for Fez to acknowledge that the cat was a mistake and not working out for him, although I think it would be reasonable to try and find a home for it.

[underdog]

Fez is giving all the reasons why he shouldn't keep Skippy.

I don't know why he didn't get a kitten in the first place. Start off with something young and raise it. Not get a wild, full grown cat.

[drjoek]

Fez is getting bad advice From Ron and his crew of yes men who fall in lock step behind him. That cat has got to go. He is unwanted and is not helping Fez in any way. Time to go down to the river with a burlap bag

[WampusCrandle]

fred is wampus?

i am assuming that you are equating me with Fred From LongWinded Brooklyn . . . well, if he says what i am saying, GOOD! Fuck that stupid cat. all i, and everyone else that is a true fan, should care about is Fez getting better - not some cat that was destined to be shit from day one.

[WampusCrandle]

Fez is getting bad advice From Ron and his crew of yes men who fall in lock step behind him. That cat has got to go. He is unwanted and is not helping Fez in any way. Time to go down to the river with a burlap bag

finally, a doctor i can agree with

[Tazznum1]

I'd love to swap cats with him for like a week just to show him a regular cat and try to help skippy. Water bottles will not train a feral cat, it'll scare and piss them off, which is why the cat would scratch him.

My cat won't shut up and demands love when you come in, until you go to sleep and even then wants to get rubbed. And guess what? He was a cat I got from the outside and grew up outside with no human contact.

[DOHO@HOME]

Skippy is coming home and Fez couldn't be madder.

[Thebazile78]

What if Fez held on to Skippy temporarily and looked for someone who actually likes cats to take her on? Everyone I know who likes cats loves cats. Despite her age and demeanor, there is a good chance that some cat lover out there would be willing to give Skippy a chance. It's OK for Fez to acknowledge that the cat was a mistake and not working out for him, although I think it would be reasonable to try and find a home for it.

According to Island Cats' website, each of their cats has a "free return policy" so they understand that this will probably happen with some of their adoptees.

More info about Island Cats:

http://www.islandcats.org/index.php?n=Main.HomePage

[TheMojoPin]

For the love of God, STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE FEZ TO KEEP SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING HIM MISERABLE.

[Friday]

For the love of God, STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE FEZ TO KEEP SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING HIM MISERABLE.

maybe you should stop yelling at other peoples opinions. :bye:

[TheMojoPin]

Maybe the cat should stop breathing.

[Friday]

Maybe the cat should stop breathing.

maybe you should go back to Mod school.

[TheMojoPin]

Only if they teach Cat Murdering 101.

Seriously though, for all the cat lovers out there, why do you guys want the cat staying in a situation like that? Fez is miserable and stressed out and the cat clearly seems to hate situation and apparently Fez himself...wouldn't it be best to get the cat elsewhere where it can be happy and for Fez to be less stressed? Why force both of them to keep on going in a crappy situation?

[King Hippos Bandaid]

I'd love to make a tennis racket made out of Skippy

[Freakshow]

For the love of God, STOP TRYING TO CONVINCE FEZ TO KEEP SOMETHING THAT IS MAKING HIM MISERABLE.

Are you yelling at us in message board land, or the people on the show? Cause I didn't remember us getting a vote when there were deciding it's fate.

[A.J.]

Only if they teach Cat Murdering 101.

Seriously though, for all the cat lovers out there, why do you guys want the cat staying in a situation like that? Fez is miserable and stressed out and the cat clearly seems to hate situation and apparently Fez himself...wouldn't it be best to get the cat elsewhere where it can be happy and for Fez to be less stressed? Why force both of them to keep on going in a crappy situation?

They need to divorce...for the sake of us kids.

[underdog]

Only if they teach Cat Murdering 101.

Seriously though, for all the cat lovers out there, why do you guys want the cat staying in a situation like that? Fez is miserable and stressed out and the cat clearly seems to hate situation and apparently Fez himself...wouldn't it be best to get the cat elsewhere where it can be happy and for Fez to be less stressed? Why force both of them to keep on going in a crappy situation?

I'm a cat lover and I think its a horrible situation for Skippy to be in. Why the hell should Fez keep the cat if he has no attachment or anything towards it?

[Tazznum1]

Only if they teach Cat Murdering 101.

Seriously though, for all the cat lovers out there, why do you guys want the cat staying in a situation like that? Fez is miserable and stressed out and the cat clearly seems to hate situation and apparently Fez himself...wouldn't it be best to get the cat elsewhere where it can be happy and for Fez to be less stressed? Why force both of them to keep on going in a crappy situation?



I would be for getting rid of the cat if he tried some alternate solutions to help the relationship. Squirting water at the cat isn't going to make friends or have it behave. He just wants to toss the cat and the problems instead of trying to understand why and trying to solve it. Just like his other problems.

I love Fezzy and want him to help himself.

[JPMNICK]

I miss ronnie B calling and making cat noises into the phone

[TheMojoPin]

Are you yelling at us in message board land, or the people on the show? Cause I didn't remember us getting a vote when there were deciding it's fate.

I'm impotently yelling at the world.

[DolaMight]

Only if they teach Cat Murdering 101.

Marge from the Little Shelter offers private tutoring.

[ShowerBench]

It was the right idea for the right reasons, but it was the wrong cat. A non-threatening, declawed kitten was the answer.

Dealing with a kitten, it would be harder to misinterpret playfulness and other behaviors (it's possible Skippy likes Fez and is being playful or showing off). And a kitten would be small enough not to be afraid of especially if it were declawed, and since it would grow up with Fez, both would better adapt to each other's boundaries and habits.

The psychological benefit of a successful Fez-pet relationship would probably be tremendous. Maybe Fez should be strongly encouraged to start over with a kitten, and this time assisted in finding the right breed, etc.

I doubt returning Skippy to Island Cats is the best solution, since they were irresponsible or stupid enough to pawn him off on a mismatched first time owner.

[CardiffGiant]

Feral cats are tricky seems like they can be great pets or awful ones, my brother has a male feral cat that snuck into a house he was renting years ago when he was wasted and going to smoke outside. He saw a striped tail and thought he let a raccoon in, turned it was a cat. Nobody claimed it or put flyers up so he kept it. He's awesome, really friendly with people and dogs. We think it's because he was feral that he's probably happy to have a home. My cat was never feral (got him as a kitten) but he's exactly the same, basically a cat with the personality of a dog. I will admit he was a bit of a handful for this first few months but he's super mellow now.

Maybe Fez should have got a male cat. I had female cat's growing up and they started out nice but gradually became snooty bitches.

[Thebazile78]

....

I doubt returning Skippy to Island Cats is the best solution, since they were irresponsible or stupid enough to pawn him off on a mismatched first time owner.

At least they wouldn't kill her, and that's part of what all the kitty-lovers in this thread are most concerned about.

The folks who run Island Cats are not professionals. They're strictly volunteer, so they probably do what they can within their own budget and use their own judgment. And Fezzie can be very convincing when he wants to be!

The bottom line is, Fezzie really shouldn't keep this cat. He may want to get in touch with the NYC Feral Cats Council (http://www.animalalliancenyc.org/aboutus/participants/nycfcc.htm) for better a course of action if he doesn't want to go back to Island Cats.

[S0S]

cookie cookie !
kiss kiss !

:lol:

[S0S]

Picture of Fez & Skippy:
http://202friends.posterous.com/fez-skippy

Video of Skippy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WPvu9k680E




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[ozzie]

Video of Skippy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WPvu9k680E

Holy shit, that bit went on for 2 hours?

[Melk]

Holy shit, that bit went on for 2 hours?
It was my least favorite show of the year. 2 hours of no content. I wonder if Opie was the guest producer that day. He loves rewarding listeners with non-content.

[fezident]

Holy shit, that bit went on for 2 hours?

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/190280_1845671974495_1021515674_2168997_2471798_n. jpg
"THIS IS NOT A BIT!"

[ozzie]

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/190280_1845671974495_1021515674_2168997_2471798_n. jpg
"THIS IS NOT A BIT!"

Listening to this shit makes me miss Al Dukes so fucking much.

Gay Randy, too.

[IamFogHat]

It was my least favorite show of the year. 2 hours of no content. I wonder if Opie was the guest producer that day. He loves rewarding listeners with non-content.

I want to say it was the final unraveling but he's still there.