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Xibanya posted:The toys were under the oven. My littlest loves his toy mice - when I can't find them I either go under the fridge or the oven first. I found one there this morning along with a small white marble and some kind of two-tined fork that must have been lost there by a previous tenant. Tomato Soup posted:It was his 10th birthday the other day and I took this picture to celebrate it Happy Birthday Jimmy!
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Tomato Soup posted:gotcha, was hoping there was something better than that to test for allergies Hehe if looks could kill.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I have learned a valuable lesson in why it's a terrible idea to allow cats to play "Feet under the blanket", no matter how much they enjoy pouncing on hidden prey. My cat likes to climb up on my belly when I'm laying down and knead around for a while. Sometimes he'll do this when I'm sleeping. One time he was not on my belly and I caught a claw to the wiener. Another time, he was walking around on my desk, which is clear glass. Took a while for him to figure out he could walk on it. Well, he stepped not on the desk, started falling. I tried to catch him, he dug his claws into my chest to pull himself up and continued flailing so he did fall down, turns out his claw was in my nipple and just tore a good 2" straight down through my nipple. Goddamned idiot cat. e:  Idiot. Sockser fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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So in the next month or so I'm going to be taking in my girlfriends olds cats. They've been living with her mom on her outdoor patio for a few years now. They are pretty affectionate and calm. I'm wondering if theres anything I should know about moving them and changing their surroundings? I also think one of them might beg for food, any suggestions for fixing that?
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flare posted:So in the next month or so I'm going to be taking in my girlfriends olds cats. They've been living with her mom on her outdoor patio for a few years now. They are pretty affectionate and calm. I'm wondering if theres anything I should know about moving them and changing their surroundings? I also think one of them might beg for food, any suggestions for fixing that? Don't feed them when they beg. They'll learn it's pointless.
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Deteriorata posted:Don't feed them when they beg. They'll learn it's pointless. Just note that before they stop completely, they will try harder. Stand firm.
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Dienes posted:Just note that before they stop completely, they will try harder. Stand firm. Got it. I assumed this was pretty much it. I think I've been watching too much My Cat From Hell.
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flare posted:I think I've been watching too much My Cat From Hell. Perhaps your cat has PTSD. I can sell you an herbal spray...
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Deteriorata posted:Don't feed them when they beg. They'll learn it's pointless. Lies. They. Never. Learn. You know why? Because EVENTUALLY you HAVE to feed them. Because you have to leave to go to work. And if you don't feed the cats before you go to work, they will eat MORE of the wires in your house. All I am saying is the cats Always Win. Assholes.
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My cat, Butternut I have had for 17 years died today. He had lung cancer and only had a few days left to live so we put him down since he was unable to breath. I will probably post some pics of him later.
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Toxsyl posted:My cat, Butternut I have had for 17 years died today. He had lung cancer and only had a few days left to live so we put him down since he was unable to breath. I will probably post some pics of him later. I'm sorry; saw the pic you posted earlier and he looked like a crazy motherfucker that seemed kinda cool.
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Lipumira posted:Lies. They. Never. Learn. Goodpancakes posted:Get a mechanical feeder?
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Lipumira posted:Lies. They. Never. Learn. That was me this morning, since I was up already, my cat started the begging 2 hours early. They know how to be obnoxious enough to make you want to throw them through a window, then they look cute so you can't.
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Lipumira posted:Lies. They. Never. Learn. If I don't feed my cat when he is being especially obsessive about food, he goes off and eats something inedible. So I either have to feed him or hover over him. He cost us $3000 that we can't afford again eating inedibles which while he didn't get blocked, he gave himself an infection which caused his digestive tract to shut down. I am freaking sick of it to be honest and he gets worse every year. He graduated from just eating plastic bags (which we then eliminated from the house) to chewing on literally anything chewable. It's impossible to ignore the begging if you don't have time to watch the cat. I walk around with a supply of cat treats in my pocket. I have to sit in the room with the cat at all times. I have to shut him in the bathroom when we go out. I have to crate him in a dog crate at night (the bathroom in this case is no good, as he has to sleep by our bed or he howls.) He opens drawers, he opens cupboards, he goes behind stuff and chews on wires. He pulls the bin over. He bit the pads off a game controller. He ate earphones. He ate a mobile phone charm. He ate the microphone off a headset. He can do this in a very short time and very defiantly (run off with the object, eat it behind furniture) and he knows he's not loving supposed to do it, that it's not considered food, I can tell that from how he acts very scared and skittish when he tries to eat poo poo he's not supposed to eat. He doesn't do this when he's not hungry, he does it when he's hungry and begging hasn't worked. It's not from boredom, it's noticeable that he sets out to do it when you don't feed him when he asks. Automatic feeders are no good. I tried. Apart from the fact he has to have wet food meaning extensive cleaning of feeders and use of ice (which won't last) he loving broke open the feeder he had. There is loving nothing medically wrong with my cat, apart from the fact he spent time as a stray, almost starved and only survived by begging and I assume, eating garbage. I can't break these habits he has and it's been 5 years now. If anyone has any loving clue what to do I would love to know because my life is being ruled by my cat. He isn't overweight. He's at ideal weight. He has had the full gamut of checks, blood work, fecal tests. It's all in his head, and his head is broken. Anyway I asked about toys before. ITS NOT FROM BOREDOM. I took a considerable time out in my day playing with my cat, and he still does it after he begs for food. After he sees us eating, and doesn't get food from us. I have to get up in the middle of a meal and follow my cat, or shake the cat treat bag. Then I have to give him a treat, which rewards the loving begging, but means I don't spend $3000, have a dead cat, or have another incident where I literally have to make my cat sick which is a horrible thing to have to do because if you have to force your cat to be sick he'll be visibly ill all night. And that's what happened last time. Emergency vet told me to make my cat sick with hydrogen peroxide. I felt horrible about it and spent all night worrying. Sing like a girl fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Retro Access posted:If anyone has any loving clue what to do I would love to know because my life is being ruled by my cat. You knew what you signed up for when you got a cat.
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Toxsyl posted:My cat, Butternut I have had for 17 years died today. He had lung cancer and only had a few days left to live so we put him down since he was unable to breath. I will probably post some pics of him later. I'm so sorry. 17 years sounds like a good long life and I'm sure we'd all love to ooh and ahh over the pictures.  My cat is 12 1/2 and I've posted about him before - he's being treated for IBD. Last night we went to the ER vet because I saw a little blood in his stool. While it turned out it was nothing to really fret about, the vet there referred to his diagnosis as "presumptive IBD" since we never got the biopsy, and started talking about that option again. When I first took him in last summer and got the initial ("presumptive") diagnosis and ultrasound, both my vet and the ultrasound tech said it looked a lot more like IBD than lymphoma. He's not lethargic. He's eating and drinking just fine. Since he's been on meds, he's gained back almost 3 pounds, he's soft and floofy again, and he's begging for food like he always did. He hasn't barfed since he switched to the duck & pea formula - except when we tried Budesanide briefly (he's now back on Prednisolone). He could be doing better, but the ER vet also recommended we see an internal medicine specialist. He was doing really well before the vet suggested we try switching him to Budesanide; that seemed to set him back a bit and he's been back on Prednisolone for less than a month, plus he just started another round of B12 injections. He's doing light years better than he was before meds, and like I said, he's not lethargic or acting oddly except when his belly clearly hurts. Everyone says he looks really great for being 12. His blood tests were great, his thyroid is fine; he's a happy, loving, fairly energetic old boy. Now I'm wondering... do I put him through the agony and stress of a biopsy?
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Butts continues to be weird about food: Has anyone ever known a cat to refuse to eat while home alone? He definitely eats when I'm asleep but doesn't touch his food while I'm at work. Then he chows down after yelling at me for being away.
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Pudding is a little like that. I'll put food down in his dish, he'll happily eat while I pack away the food bag, then when I wander off he'll straight out dash for me. "Hey you're not watching me eat!"  Pictured: Cat courting disaster. Cute as heck though.
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DressCodeBlue posted:Butts continues to be weird about food: Has anyone ever known a cat to refuse to eat while home alone? He definitely eats when I'm asleep but doesn't touch his food while I'm at work. Then he chows down after yelling at me for being away. It's harder to fantasize that he's eating you when you're not home.
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Retro Access posted:If I don't feed my cat when he is being especially obsessive about food, he goes off and eats something inedible. So I either have to feed him or hover over him. He cost us $3000 that we can't afford again eating inedibles which while he didn't get blocked, he gave himself an infection which caused his digestive tract to shut down. I am freaking sick of it to be honest and he gets worse every year. He graduated from just eating plastic bags (which we then eliminated from the house) to chewing on literally anything chewable. It's impossible to ignore the begging if you don't have time to watch the cat. I walk around with a supply of cat treats in my pocket. I have to sit in the room with the cat at all times. I have to shut him in the bathroom when we go out. I have to crate him in a dog crate at night (the bathroom in this case is no good, as he has to sleep by our bed or he howls.) He opens drawers, he opens cupboards, he goes behind stuff and chews on wires. He pulls the bin over. He bit the pads off a game controller. He ate earphones. He ate a mobile phone charm. He ate the microphone off a headset. He can do this in a very short time and very defiantly (run off with the object, eat it behind furniture) and he knows he's not loving supposed to do it, that it's not considered food, I can tell that from how he acts very scared and skittish when he tries to eat poo poo he's not supposed to eat. I obviously have no advice or options for you - my howlers are butts around food and they chew on things (probably from boredom although they have toys and get played with and there are 2 of them). I haven't ever tried an automatic feeder but I also use only wet food etc. The ONLY thing that I have that keeps them occupied and with food is a little feeder ball from Amazon that dispenses food as they play with it. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018CE8LQ/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1). Maybe that would work to occupy him if he's hungry? The problem with mine is that they are ALWAYS apparently hungry.
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Is there such a thing as a cat chew toy maybe? Possibly get them dehydrated meat, a dog chew toy, or try an untreated piece of pig ear/rawhide?
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Manslaughter posted:Is there such a thing as a cat chew toy maybe? Possibly get them dehydrated meat, a dog chew toy, or try an untreated piece of pig ear/rawhide? Live lizards that get in my patio tend to do the trick. Edit: As cruel as it may sound, my cats go nuts about them.
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Deteriorata posted:It's harder to fantasize that he's eating you when you're not home. 
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Follow up on my last couple of posts on the previous page about my cat Jake who's over grooming. I took him to the vet and she didn't see anything that might be cause for concern. She suggested the cause is most likely either an allergic reaction to food like you folks suggested, or psychogenic alopecia. I have him back on prescription food which I know he's not allergic to (he was eating it for a year with no ill effects), and got a Feliway diffuser which I haven't plugged in yet. My thought is that I'd like to first see if food is the problem and if his hair starts to grow back now that I've switched him back. Any ideas on how long that might take? I'm looking for some sort of cut off date for when I should start using the diffuser. He also has a heart murmur (drat cat and his health problems!) and his blood work came back with elevated proBNP levels, so I'm going to have to take him to see a veterinary cardiologist and potentially put him on some medication. Anyone have experience with this in the past? Anything I should be aware of? I'm assuming they'll probably want to put him on medication.
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In real life is it even possible to get a cat to sleep with you like a teddy bear? My ideal fantasy cat would. How can I get a real live snuggle cat?
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Ema Nymton posted:In real life is it even possible to get a cat to sleep with you like a teddy bear? My ideal fantasy cat would. How can I get a real live snuggle cat? All is not so great in the world though, I cannot get him to climb on any furniture while I am in the same room aside from bed/couch and his tree. I even made him a cat-padio on my desk. He's knocked over plenty exploring while I am not in the same room so I don't really know why he thinks he is sneaky. He also decided to eat, run under the bed and vomit just as I was leaving for work. I hope he did not do it as retribution.
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Ema Nymton posted:In real life is it even possible to get a cat to sleep with you like a teddy bear? My ideal fantasy cat would. How can I get a real live snuggle cat? Yes. There are also dogs who will do this. My only criteria when picking out my cat was 'large and dumb as a box of rocks'. I took to cuddling the cat as a defense mechanism: when left to his own devices he tries to take over the bed starting with the small of your back.
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Ema Nymton posted:In real life is it even possible to get a cat to sleep with you like a teddy bear? My ideal fantasy cat would. How can I get a real live snuggle cat? Mine do this at night. One on my shoulder, one on my stomach or side. Its sweet and cute and warm and lovely....right up until you want to move at some point during the night. I haven't been able to roll over in bed for years.
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Dienes posted:Mine do this at night. One on my shoulder, one on my stomach or side. Its sweet and cute and warm and lovely....right up until you want to move at some point during the night. I haven't been able to roll over in bed for years. Yeah, our cats refuse to sleep with us. They've been hurtled into space too many times by random movements in our sleep and run in fear as soon as we peel the covers back. They'll sleep on top of the bed during the day, though, and one particularly loves snuggling with my wife if she reads or grades papers on the bed (but not in the bed).
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One of mine, Marzipan, discovered during the great snow this year that if you yell in the face of a person at 2am they'll let you under the covers and then you can snuggle them for heat until 5am when you should loudly demand to be let out. Pistachio likes to sleep on top of the covers, but between my legs so that I can't close them and wake up with agonizing cramps. Dog is flopped against my back.
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Rodent Mortician posted:One of mine, Marzipan, discovered during the great snow this year that if you yell in the face of a person at 2am they'll let you under the covers and then you can snuggle them for heat until 5am when you should loudly demand to be let out. Pistachio likes to sleep on top of the covers, but between my legs so that I can't close them and wake up with agonizing cramps. Dog is flopped against my back. This is very familiar. If you start to roll over the claws come out and your comatose body stays where it was.
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Pizza sleeps under the blankets with me during winter months. Let's me hold him like a Teddy bear and doesn't even mind if I roll over (just not on him obviously). Purrs all night. E: evidence: 
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Toast spends the first half of the night sleeping underneath the bed. Then at around 5 a.m. he starts entertaining himself by doing flips across the bed. Finally around 7 or 7:30 he lies at my feet and waits for me to roll over on my back so he can drape himself across my shoulder and bury his face in my neck. It's cute until he gets a bug up his butt and uses me as a springboard off the bed.
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Iron Crowned posted:Why does everyone have cats named after food items but me? Mine are named after a Norse goddess and a French author / philosopher, so I'm with you there.
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I like to name mine funny sounding words, and they ended up having a food theme.
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Iron Crowned posted:Why does everyone have cats named after food items but me? My other cat is named after the princess of Oz (Ozma), and I had planned on naming Pizza Brother "Ojo" before we got him home (munchkin prince), but his name just kind of happened.
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Iron Crowned posted:Why does everyone have cats named after food items but me? Buffy the Rodentslayer is one, Oliver and his brother was Fagin, Xander, Franky... no food items on my lot over the years.
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