I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their fax machines, or why.

August 21, 2009 4:31 PM

Cats for Clunkers? It had to be Michigan where the Humane Society is promoting its free cat adoptions like used car sales... That's right folks, Certified Pre-Owned Cats! Standard 4-paw Drive! 100,000 Purr Warranty! Made in Michigan and Better than New! But before you take that cat home, check out Catfax.org because nobody wants a lemonpuss. lol.
Found at Consumerist so it must be legit

...and yes, I had to do it just to bring back the "catscan" reference for the 437th time...

posted by wendell (20 comments total)

Do they pour sodium silicate liquid in your old cat so that their engines seize up?
posted by Frank Grimes at 4:44 PM on August 21, 2009 [2 favorites]

Countdown to a Carfax cease and desist letter for copyright infringement of their logo in 5, 4 3, 2 . . .
posted by quadog at 4:45 PM on August 21, 2009

Their heart's in the right place, but that youtube video is pretty cringe-inducing. What's that Dutch word that means embarrassed for someone else?
posted by dersins at 4:46 PM on August 21, 2009

Mine doesn't qualify, she gets over 23 meows per gallon (of hairballs)
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 4:47 PM on August 21, 2009 [1 favorite]

OH MY GOD I LOVE KITTIES
posted by ixohoxi at 4:54 PM on August 21, 2009

Fremdschamen
posted by sciurus at 4:57 PM on August 21, 2009

OK, we need more LOL in here so... LOLCATS in cars (from guess where) featuring Jesus Christ the Lion
posted by wendell at 4:57 PM on August 21, 2009

Turns out you get a bigger discount if you pick-up a hybrid cat.
posted by qvantamon at 5:42 PM on August 21, 2009

Yeah, but trust me, you don't want to clean the litterbox of a hybrid cat. You need special training to dispose of that waste safely.
posted by maudlin at 5:50 PM on August 21, 2009

"Where pre-owned is better than new" made me smile. And want to adopt a kitteh.
posted by artifarce at 6:10 PM on August 21, 2009

I CAN HAZ HYBRID?
posted by jonp72 at 6:49 PM on August 21, 2009

Aw. Kitties.
posted by Artw at 7:06 PM on August 21, 2009 [1 favorite]

You know what's awesome? Cats. Cats are awesome, that's what.
posted by BitterOldPunk at 8:03 PM on August 21, 2009 [6 favorites]

wendell: "OK, we need more LOL in here so... LOLCATS in cars (from guess where) featuring Jesus Christ the Lion"

close but not quite wendell.
posted by boo_radley at 8:38 PM on August 21, 2009

boo, I really can't recommend any kitteh who packed itself... let's just say I have some past negative experience...
posted by wendell at 8:45 PM on August 21, 2009

Does nobody offer adoption fee reimbursements for cats that eventually appear on icanhascheeseburger?
posted by jeffburdges at 8:49 AM on August 22, 2009

I started reading this out loud to my girlfriend. I got as far as "The Michigan Humane Society has started a program called 'Cats for Clunkers'..." before she screamed out, "What? You put your old cat down and get a new one in its place?"
posted by NotMyselfRightNow at 9:34 AM on August 22, 2009 [5 favorites]

How much for the eatin' cats?
posted by klangklangston at 5:42 PM on August 22, 2009

My apologies, NotMyselfRightNow, but I could not resist the most obvious used-car-related pun NOT already on the site, sincerely intended the "Clunkers" to refer to people who wanted to adopt a cat for free, and carefully worded the post to neutralize the 'trade in your old cat' meaning as quickly as possible.

But let me restate a long-standing caveat: DO NOT in any way rephrase a wendell MeFi post. It is written the way it is for very specific (if lame) reasons.
posted by wendell at 6:35 PM on August 22, 2009 [1 favorite]

This is cute and playful and I wish more people would get over themselves and do whimsy promotions for good causes. I find it really hard to be critical of this stuff. And cats bring out more of that silliness, so yay.
posted by iamkimiam at 4:02 PM on August 23, 2009