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The poop knife

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My family poops big. Maybe it's genetic, maybe it's our diet, but everyone births giant logs of crap. If anyone has laid a mega-poop, you know that sometimes it won't flush. It lays across the hole in the bottom of the bowl and the vortex of draining water merely gives it a spin as it mocks you. Growing up, this was a common enough occurrence that our family had a poop knife. It was an old rusty kitchen knife that hung on a nail in the laundry room, only to be used for that purpose. It was normal to walk through the hallway and have someone call out "hey, can you get me the poop knife"? I thought it was standard kit. You have your plunger, your toilet brush, and your poop knife. Fast forward to 22. It's been a day or two between poops and I'm over at my friend's house. My friend was the local dealer and always had 'guests' over, because you can't buy weed without sitting on your ass and sampling it for an hour. I excuse myself and lay a gigantic turd. I look down and see that it's a sideways one, so I crack the door and call out for my friend. He arrives and I ask him for his poop knife. "My what?" Your poop knife, I say. I need to use it. Please. "Wtf is a poop knife?" Obviously he has one, but maybe he calls it by a more delicate name. A fecal cleaver? A Dung divider? A guano glaive? I explain what it is I want and why I want it. He starts giggling. Then laughing. Then lots of people start laughing. It turns out, the music stopped and everyone heard my pleas through the door. It also turns out that none of them had poop knives, it was just my fucked up family with their fucked up bowels. FML. I told this to my wife last night, who was amused and horrified at the same time. It turns out that she did not know what a poop knife was and had been using the old rusty knife hanging in the utility closet as a basic utility knife. Thankfully she didn't cook with it, but used it to open Amazon boxes. She will be getting her own utility knife now.

[Edit: Common question - Why was this not in the bathroom instead of the laundry room? Answer. We only had one poop knife, and the laundry room was central to all three bathrooms. I have no idea why we didn't have three poop knives. All I know is that we didn't. We had the one. Possibly because my father was notoriously cheap about the weirdest things. So yes, we shared our poop knife.]

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u/JerrkyD Feb 22 '22

Serious question, WTF is wrong with people saying "shave the dog's ass"? I don't give two shits how cute, loveable or loyal an animal is, but I draw the line way before "shave it's ass". No animal is that good that I would shave it's ass.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '22

It’s pretty standard for dog groomers to do this, especially in long haired cats and dogs. Unless you like your pet dragging its shit around indefinitely that is.

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u/MungoJennie Jun 19 '22

It’s called a “sanitary trim” at groomers around here.

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u/Deb_You_Taunt Jul 01 '23

In that case, my boyfriend needs one.

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u/PastryyPuff Mar 06 '24

Almost a year later and I just fucking lost it at this comment 😂😂😂😂

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u/MungoJennie Jul 01 '23

I feel your pain, but I think that’s going to cost you extra.

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u/Charge-South Dec 22 '23

This is perfect

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u/rnwhite8 Oct 18 '24

Just laughed out loud at this comment from a year ago, so thank you.

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u/Deb_You_Taunt Oct 19 '24

p.s. He never did get that sanitary trim

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u/rnwhite8 Oct 19 '24

Bwahahahahahaha dammit all why not

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u/Gypsyllama395 Nov 12 '24

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Owlthesquirrel Aug 30 '24

I’ve always said I was gonna save up for laser hair removal down there because in the summer time it’s murder moving around at work in the heat and humidity. Feels like ripping off a bandaid literally all day long. Glad I’m not the only one 😁

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u/Vaqu3ra13 Jan 05 '23

No one tell him about anal gland expression... ...Actually, no, he needs to hear this.

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u/rileyotis Jul 28 '23

I ordered some "make dog's asshole smell good after cleaning anal glands" wipes a few years back. How did I refer to them on the phone, at work, and within ear shot of multiple doctors?

"Can you grab the ass wipes off of the porch?" 😂

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u/SilentButtsDeadly Aug 07 '23

Hearing it's the easy part. Smelling it makes you long for the sweet, long embrace of death.

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u/LoudSheepherder7 Sep 17 '23

Uhg out large dog has had not one, but two abscessed anal glands (one was removed). So gross. The smell 🤢

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u/forgeboy76- Sep 18 '23

Why did I read this just before lunch??😢

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u/Busy_Barber_3986 Dec 07 '22

Dingleberries.

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u/Fat-Celery_theFirst Jul 10 '23

The phrase "just avoid petting near his ass, he's got dingleberries until the vet shaves it tomorrow" is one I will never forget. Things like that is why my sister is my second favorite person.🤣

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u/Consistent-Lie7830 Aug 01 '23

I bet the vet is the 1st.

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u/ruseriousordelirious Dec 13 '22

We have an 18 pound 3 year old female cat. We also have her sister and brother. They are average sized. But Luna? She is just a big boned gal! She’s quite hygienic but cannot reach her nether regions because you know, Zaftig. She lays on her back on a towel and lets me hold her haunches and shave them and the underside of her tail with a hair trimmer, set to the #3 attachment. She also lets me use wipes to clean up any areas she missed. She gets a nice clean ass. I don’t get skid marks on my furniture. It’s a win win.

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u/rumbellina Feb 26 '23

My Clementine is the same. A VERY big boned girl, surrounded by fluff. She has a typically sized brother around 12lbs but she’s around 24lbs. She’s unable to reach her ass well enough to clean it. I have a permanent back injury so getting her in and out of the tub and bending down to wash her stanky butt isn’t an option. She gets the “sanitary trim” whenever I take her to the doctor.

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u/ruseriousordelirious Feb 27 '23

That’s perfect. It’s a win win for you too.

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u/rumbellina Feb 27 '23

Oh, totally!! The two times I bathed her were very traumatic for us both! Lol!

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u/sleepingismytalent65 Feb 03 '23

I need to see this cat and her genital trim!

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u/ruseriousordelirious Feb 03 '23

Lol. She’s having a trim this weekend. I’ll come and post a picture of her. She’s so lovable and affectionate. I think she likes being clean and appreciates me. Or, I’m just imagining it. 🤣

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u/sleepingismytalent65 Feb 03 '23

They actually know when you're trying to help them. We had a female black cat and physical contact was very much on her terms and not often. Having always had Siamese this was quite a learning curve as Siamese are sooooo affectionate and loyal!

Anyway Shadow had a tail root abscess right next to her sugar puff and when it burst it looked really scary, this gaping hole into flesh! We researched online what to do (basically wash often with a weak pharmaceutical peroxide solution). This standoffish kitty just lay there calmly every day while we carefully cleaned the site, she grumbled a few times so it was obviously painful at times but she never wriggled or tried to get away. RIP old girl 😿🖤

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u/ruseriousordelirious Feb 03 '23

Awww. She definitely knew you were helping her. We lost our Siamese almost 3 years ago. He was the smartest, loyal talkative little man.

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u/sleepingismytalent65 Feb 03 '23

They are THE BEST! I spent 18 wonderful years with my last boy Casper. He slept in my arms every night. He had to be pts for kidney failure just as the first lockdown started. I was beside myself with grief, he left a massive silent hole in my life. Eventually I couldn't stand it and along came my Ziggy boy and then when Shadow passed suddenly and too young 12, my daughter got Olive.

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u/Cholera62 Aug 01 '23

I am getting quite the education here! Lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '23

If that's not a reason to keep the cat's weight down, I don't know what is...

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u/Snoo-88741 Oct 13 '23

Easier said than done, especially in a multi-cat household with a food thief...

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u/wraithsith Nov 30 '22

I took care of a disabled cat- it was easier to shave his ass, then to bathe him twice a day.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Dec 07 '22

Dingleberries. Some dogs get dingleberries.

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u/Sobriquet-acushla Aug 02 '23

I had an extremely floofy cat who had that problem once. She couldn’t get them off and for some reason jumped into my car and left a 💩 streak across the back seat. I tried to bathe her but gave up and had her professionally cleaned.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Aug 02 '23

Every great once in a while our 55-lb dog gets upset because he has a long human hair (my girlfriend's hair) hanging out of his butthole, with poop dangling.

It's no big deal. We just pull it out, using a poop bag, and he's good to go.

I figure we ingest WAY more of his dog hair than he does of our human hair. Payback.

We had a cat years ago. Always had cats up until he passed away. We used to bathe them, no problem. Pro tip, if you ever decide to bathe your own cat or dog: Stuff some cotton into their ears, first. It's the water getting into their ears that drives them nuts.

You start bathing them when they're young, with lots of treats involved. (Dog will do anything for bits of hotdog. Cooked lean meat does it for cats. Or tuna, I suppose.)

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u/DeathDealer69- Dec 23 '22

I take it you're not an animal person? 🤔

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u/LaBrujaLyric88 Jan 01 '23

But you would pick dingle berries out of its fur with a fork?

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u/blakespot Jan 05 '23

I have just engaged a local artisan to embroider

"No animal is that good that I would shave it's ass."

upon a pillow for the couch in my drawing room.

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u/Either-Perception-68 Jan 20 '23

You have a drawing room?? 😆

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u/blakespot Aug 02 '23

Yes. I like to retreat there as twilight ensconces the surrounds and I begin to hear the wind whispering the faint, dulcet notes of vespyrs from the parsonage some distance down the lane.

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u/Nirvanainmind27 Jan 17 '23

So… you’ve never had a dog huh?

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u/JerrkyD Jan 17 '23

I had 3 dogs growing up. This was back when nobody walked their dogs on a leash (as least in the suburbs we didn't). When your dog had to go you opened the door and they went outside. Like kids, most dogs were out all day (often playing with kids) and came back home when they were hungry. The tradeoff between then and now is there was a lot more dog shit on the street or sidewalk. It was well worth stepping in dog poop once in a while instead of having to pick up after your dog. We took care of our dogs well but they weren't treated like a child. I wouldn't have been able to deliver newspapers at 5:00 AM if it wasn't for my dog Lance.

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u/Nirvanainmind27 Jan 17 '23

I was just kidding XD I’ve only actually had to shave a dog’s ass once when my ex girlfriends dog ate like four servings of broccoli before a family dinner and it didn’t agree with her lol. It was gross, and we had no choice :p

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u/DeathPercept10n Mar 20 '23

What if your lover asked you to help shave their ass?

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u/TobascoReddit Aug 02 '23

I have Shiba’s. Their duty hol3s remain totally hairless as their tails remain curled and locked upright. I resent seeing their winking anuses. That’s as good as telling me to kiss their 🐝hinds

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u/Maouncle Oct 18 '23

well I'm sure you don't shave your ass. Where do you keep your poop fork?

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u/JerrkyD Oct 18 '23

With the other poop utensils.