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Bonus Giggly Hotline: cats, chaos, and hosting disasters

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Bonus Giggly Hotline: cats, chaos, and hosting disasters

This bonus episode celebrates the wild, unpredictable, and heartwarming role cats play in social gatherings. Through vivid personal stories, the host illustrates how felines frequently disrupt or enhance hosting experiences—like a cat unplugging the TV during a game watch party or pooping on a guest’s bed during dinner. These anecdotes highlight the distinct personalities and behaviors of cats, from territorial guarding to playful mischief, showing how they interact with guests in nuanced and often hilarious ways. The host emphasizes the emotional connection between humans and cats, comparing pet ownership to motherhood—chaotic but deeply rewarding. A recurring theme is the importance of odor control, with Arm & Hammer cat litter positioned as a reliable, stress-free solution that allows hosts to feel confident during events. The episode underscores that despite the messiness, having a cat fosters a unique bond rooted in trust, loyalty, and shared humor. It encourages listeners to adopt cats, not just for companionship, but for the joy and unpredictability they bring to everyday life.

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this bonus episode is brought to you by arm and hammer cat litter we love a little extra bonus especially when it's about our cats i could talk about my cat for two hours i could do a full ted talk no literally she's stunning she's gorgeous she's model she knows she's pretty do you know how crazy i am about cats besides making everyone adopt them around me i know what kind of cats everyone likes so like when i see a cute cat i go wait but which person would prefer this cat for me to send it to so like i do have a ton of like um ragdoll cats on my feed because i send you all them and then i have tuxedo cats for grace and then for my mom's cats i have orange cats so i have so many cats in my algorithm of all shapes sizes colors dated with cats and i'm curating the perfect cat meme for everyone it's exhausting but it's the life i chose each one has a unique personality when you're meeting a dog it's like you know they're going to be excited you can generally suss out what their personality is cats are like you know they're going to be excited you can generally suss out what their personality is cats are like you know they're going to be excited you can generally suss out what cats are so different and especially when you have people over like butter doesn't butter's not into it she's not socializing she's not small talking with you particularly if a man comes in her direction she doesn't want to hear see she's hissing a woman she'll give a chance yeah there were teenage boys she was like i'm calling the police there's so many nuances of funny things cats do like does your cat ever use the litter and then just decide to sprint around why do they do that i think because they're like oh i'm so skinny i like to think that daphne's like hit my goal weight after that let's go oh let's party let's get out of here and then they're like it was a good run you know another thing people don't talk about in terms of like cats and dogs you get a dog you get a puppy you're training that puppy hey this is grass this is outside this is where we go you get a cat and you're like hey there's the litter box and they're like cool thanks for the heads up thanks and you don't have to talk about it anymore that's what i do that's all you talk about it with them that's so much smarter like than a child you know long you have to probably train your cat your cat is like perfect i looked up one time like what is daphne not daphne specifically but like what is what are rag dolls like brain capacity yeah and someone was like three years old and i was like yeah i have a three-year-old daughter who's really getting brushed i do have to say i've gotten people so but i have a really small small apartment i can't have it smelly yeah i was one of those people you were i was one of those people that was like i'm not having an odor in my apartment i'm not having like a litter box arm and hammer cat litters job is to make sure that after the cat goes to the bathroom the apartment does not smell cats actually could be a huge part of hosting yeah whether your cat likes to be around guests like daphne who likes to sit atop the stairs and watch everyone below her because she's like look at all these ugly people she literally does act like it's 1456 and she lives in england and she's the queen and she's like i don't remember inviting them over your apartment smells so good like you would never know the odor is nice but the cat lives there yeah okay so we asked some gigglers to send in stories about crazy things that their cat has done whilst hosting while people are around so we're gonna listen to some of them and make some comments yeah and hear what other crazy cats are doing hi page hi hannah so my kitty's name is margarita girl is a giggler she loves a couch roll loves watching tv and always puts little mittens on the tv when a yarn ball makes a special guest appearance so it's july 5th and i'm hosting a watch party for the mexico versus england world cup game since this is a sports podcast i'm mexican my family's mexican so my parents and friends are over i have a chilequile bar a margarita bar super cute the guests arrive marge is on her perch the whole game but then we're 70 minutes in my friend plays her margarita by the tv marge comes out into the living room and sees a soccer ball on the screen so she hops onto the council and tries to put her little mitten on the ball she knocks down the margarita it spills all over the floor and then splashes on her at this point marge is freaking out she runs behind the council and naturally she's unplugging the tv and the game turns off and mexico lost that day anyways this was my fault for hosting a sports event bye i love you girls she did everything but call the police to get everyone out of her home can a girl have a crash out it's literally like you know when you're having a bad day and then like you trip and you stub your toe and then like you get fired like that's what happened like your jacket gets caught on like the doorknob and you're like the building burns down i thought she was gonna say that the cat went over drank a margarita and got drunk i don't know why that's where my brain was going actually i was like because her name's margarita she should be able to have a little margarita at margarita yeah i think the cat's name is margarita oh well she was calling her mar which is okay but then you know that at the end she was like margarita she did her full name i need to train daphne to like turn the tv off when we're going to bed but can her little paws get the right button because they're kind of i don't know margarita can unplug i also feel like when you're a cat and they can open doors true if there's a tv with a ball going around i'm like that's my game so like i feel like it wasn't properly explained to her that she wasn't playing soccer and that's just that's on the host but also you knew afterwards that the host was like margarita i still like you're perfect yeah of course but like sorry she wanted a sip of her namesake sorry she had an amazing story she's like this drink is named after me it's mine also it sounds like a really fun party like invite us next time and there's just so many things when you're hosting that are out of your control like your cat turning off the tv dumping a drink on your friend's hand but one thing you don't have to worry about is arm and hammer cat litter and any odor while you're hosting because they're dealing with it hi my name's claire my cat's name is snow um and i also foster cats and at the time of this story i had four foster cats in my house plus my cat my cat does not like other cats and she was very unhappy about this um i was also newly dating someone and i had the opportunity to meet her and she was very happy about it and she was very happy about it and i had the opportunity to meet her and she was very happy about it and she was very happy and i had the opportunity to meet her and she was very happy over for dinner and they stayed over and then i woke up at six in the morning to a weird sound i'm trying to figure out what it is without getting up and waking up this man in my bed finally i go downstairs and i see that my cat has taken a huge dump on the living room floor uh and i start cleaning it up i think i'm being really quiet you know of course my cat's perfect she would never and the guy who had stayed over comes down the stairs with while i'm holding a paper towel full of cat shit at 6 a.m and yeah he's my boyfriend now wait that is a modern day love story you know that daphne has actually pooped and peed on multiple people yeah because she hates when she's gone and you weren't telling her where you were going one time i had my brother was spending the night at my apartment and she was not sure about she was not sure about him she's still not sure about him and he accidentally shut the door in the living room locked her in and so she went and pooped literally right next to his head on the couch and my brother didn't know what it was because he had never smelled her poop before because usually it's in the litter box we have very similar cats because butter's the same way to the point that like when i would bring a guy over i wouldn't even give him the whole spiel that i have a cat because they're not gonna see him right so it was like one guy i remember stayed at my house for like a long time like all day no he didn't have a job and he was we were just hanging out and he had nowhere to go nor to be um probably not a house now that i'm thinking about it and we were lying there and like hours went by and when it gets really quiet sometimes butter out of nowhere she runs across the bed across both of us yeah he squealed it seemed like it was a huge rat yeah because this is new york city and i was like oh yes oh my god she sprinted over us wait that would that would he shot himself yeah and also shout out to all the foster cats too out there if you foster you don't just save one life you save many one time i got home from a weekend trip with my husband and then had to go back to the airport to pick up my in-laws who were staying with us for the week we just walked in the apartment had enough time to unpack our own stuff clean the litter box and feed the cats then we left for the airport after we pick up my in-laws we walk back into the find that our cat mingo fully took a shit on the guest bed mortifying i think he was mad because he thought we were leaving him again we laugh about it now but i was so embarrassed and horrified one time two of my girlfriends came to stay with me and daphne woke up in the morning and like obviously wanted them to leave so she went onto the bed she looked at both of them and they were like oh my god she's so cute and she was just peeing they didn't know it until they felt something warm and she's a silent assassin has she gotten better with this though like i feel like as a she's better now wild with her bladder yeah now she's like okay i guess you can stay she hasn't had an accident when i'm like leaving in a couple weeks months a couple minutes there is something though about um cat litter where i think they love like it's a familiar smell so when you bring them somewhere new and you put down the cat litter they're like oh i'm home which is kind of like me when i go to a restaurant and i'm nervous i have social anxiety but then i go to the bathroom and i sit there and i go i'm at peace no time I go somewhere and I have to bring Daphne and I have obviously her emergency bag wherever we get to our destination I show her this is where your litter box is and this is where your food and water is that's all you really need in life yeah and I feel like she understands like okay cool where do I eat where do I shit and let's take on life together yeah yeah so when you have like friends visiting what do you do to prepare well I did everything for my girlfriends before they got there like let them sleep in my bed like did new sheets had like cute things on their nightside table and so like I tried to plan everything very adorable and Daphne just came in and was like no I don't think so see when I have guests they're coming into butter's house yeah I'm not changing my house for the guests I said the reason this little like spiral toy is right there is because that's where she likes to play I also just bought this huge play thing made of like recycled materials and it looks like it looks like a cave and it's huge and I just put in the middle of the living room and I have a full family visiting next week but they're gonna have to walk around because these cats are loving it I count on arm and hammer cat litter when I'm getting the house ready arm and hammer cat litter is the one thing I don't have to think twice about okay so we lovingly call our cat Pino the Mino because she is well she's a little bit of a psychopath but we're going to have to take care of her next week so we're gonna have to take care of her next week we had our buddy living with us for a summer this is a 33 year old grown man and he lived upstairs where the guest bedroom was and one night at like 11 30 p.m we get a call from him and we're like well what the heck like you are inside that like why are you calling us right now so this may be calling us because Pino the Mino is standing at the top of the stairs and basically guarding the stairs and will not let this man walk past her so a grown-ass 33 year old man is terrified of our cat and cannot walk past and has to call for reinforcements for us to protect him and let him get to his own bedroom so yes we were hosting because he was living with us and we were with us she didn't do anything yucky but you know I guess I guess she just she had some good judgment here she said no men allowed it's fine she's a woman with conviction she could have done anything in that house and she goes you know what I'm gonna do defend the land she's like this is my house and I must defend it wait I just like want I wish like okay can we come up with AI that's actually useful like what are our cats thinking in their brains like what was she thinking when she was standing at the top of the stairs like can I get past me bud like was she like putting her claws out I was like if you're a grown man what could the cat what bite your ankle I was just gonna say also like I think what the worst a cat can do is like scratch your leg well cats have bad PR because there's like in cartoons or movies cats always like scratch your face like you know like when you jump on your like no cats ever jumped on my face and latched on and not come off could he actually scratch me? I think I've been on that one for the first time last week yeah I was laying in bed sleeping I'm on my side and she and I'm on my side I'm not facing her my back is toward her she's laying like right here by my head I think she was falling off the bed because she put her paw up I'm not kidding she gripped my ear to like hold on wakes me up she was titanic-ing it she was going down with the ship I think she like rolled over she was like I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know too hard and was like oh oh no and also Pino the Mina like you have to be an it girl to have like lore that you have that kind of nickname that's being talked about on Giggly Squad like she's that girl yeah if people aren't calling me he know the Mina Hannah the banana the banana you're not it you're not doing it right yeah okay I love all of these stories because I truly feel like we're connected because we're all cat moms and it's a very special bond yeah and if you don't have a cat right now you should adopt one no you should literally look into it but look having a pet is always chaotic but because we love them so much it makes the chaos worth it it's like what moms say about kids it's worth it it's worth it even though it's really can be hard sometimes Arm & Hammer cat litter gives me peace of mind when hosting and it just keeps everything fresh so be guest ready with Arm & Hammer cat litter shop on Amazon or Walmart and upgrade your litter experience thank you Arm & Hammer for sponsoring this video Thank you for sponsoring this bonus episode, and thank you to everyone who talks about their cats.

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The host shares humorous and relatable stories of cats unexpectedly interfering in social gatherings, from turning off TVs to causing messes during parties.
  2. Cats display distinct personalities and behaviors—such as territoriality, social preferences, and playful antics—that vary by individual and situation.
  3. Hosting with cats brings both chaos and joy, as pets often act out without training, like knocking over drinks or pooping on guests’ belongings.
  4. The host emphasizes that cats are deeply attuned to their environment, using familiar scents like cat litter as a form of emotional security.
  5. Arm & Hammer cat litter is highlighted as a reliable solution that eliminates odor concerns, allowing hosts to feel confident during gatherings.
  6. Cats’ behaviors reflect deeper emotional and social dynamics, such as guarding space, showing gendered preferences, or expressing anxiety.
  7. The episode celebrates the unique bond between humans and cats, framing pet ownership as chaotic yet deeply rewarding.
  8. Real-life anecdotes from various hosts show how cats serve as playful, unpredictable, and often insightful members of social events.

Summary:

This bonus episode celebrates the wild, unpredictable, and heartwarming role cats play in social gatherings. Through vivid personal stories, the host illustrates how felines frequently disrupt or enhance hosting experiences—like a cat unplugging the TV during a game watch party or pooping on a guest’s bed during dinner. These anecdotes highlight the distinct personalities and behaviors of cats, from territorial guarding to playful mischief, showing how they interact with guests in nuanced and often hilarious ways.

The host emphasizes the emotional connection between humans and cats, comparing pet ownership to motherhood—chaotic but deeply rewarding. A recurring theme is the importance of odor control, with Arm & Hammer cat litter positioned as a reliable, stress-free solution that allows hosts to feel confident during events. The episode underscores that despite the messiness, having a cat fosters a unique bond rooted in trust, loyalty, and shared humor.

It encourages listeners to adopt cats, not just for companionship, but for the joy and unpredictability they bring to everyday life.

FAQs

Cats often show distinct behaviors depending on the person—some are shy and avoid interaction, while others, like Butter, may hiss at men or hide from strangers. These reactions reflect their individual personalities and past experiences.

The cat may become excited and try to interact with the ball, like putting a mitten on it, which can lead to unexpected chaos such as knocking over drinks or unplugging the TV.

Yes, cats may have accidents in the living room or on guest beds, especially if they’re not aware of the guest’s presence or if they feel threatened or stressed by new environments.

Cats often feel anxious in new situations, but once they find a safe space—like a familiar litter box—they can feel at ease, showing a sense of home and security.

Cats may view certain people, especially men, as threats or unfamiliar, leading to defensive behaviors such as guarding the stairs or refusing to let them enter the home.

Yes, a reliable litter like Arm & Hammer helps maintain a clean and odor-free environment, giving hosts peace of mind and allowing them to focus on the guests without worrying about smells.

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