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Stepped on...something the cat expelled this morning.  I couldn't tell what it was, but it was somewhat bloody and had unidentifiable chunks in it. I don't think it was poo poo, cause it didn't smell like it. What the gently caress was that and should I be worrying?He's also had some blood in his stool in the past, and I recently grabbed a sample of it to give to my vet. They said they didn't find any bacteria or pests or anything in it so there was nothing wrong, but I kinda feel like blood is never supposed to happen. Fuckin' gross. Fuckin' cats.
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Did he catch a critter and then hork it up? I've had little shitheads do that in the past.
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:Did he catch a critter and then hork it up? I've had little shitheads do that in the past. From experience I can tell you you'd know if this happened. The smell of chewed up, half digested mouse is very strong and extremely unpleasant.
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:Did he catch a critter and then hork it up? I've had little shitheads do that in the past. He did find a mouse a couple nights ago, but it got away, so I don't think that's it. Unless it died under my bed or something, jesus I gotta rip this place up again one sec. Ratzap posted:From experience I can tell you you'd know if this happened. The smell of chewed up, half digested mouse is very strong and extremely unpleasant. I didn't actually pick up any particular smell from it. I have no idea what it was and I've never seen it since. What the gently caress. I'm a little worried about my cat's health now
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Sep 10, 2017 15:21
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Ratzap posted:From experience I can tell you you'd know if this happened. The smell of chewed up, half digested mouse is very strong and extremely unpleasant. Weird, I've never noticed a particularly strong smell. Still unpleasant though.
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I have a really dumb problem and I'm trying to figure out how to solve it. One day I went grocries shopping and everything was pretty normal. I was in a good mood but when I got home the flat screen tv in my room had been tipped off the stand and smashed. I knew it was one of my two cats as they like to recline around it and was pretty peeved but had a spare laying around so whatever. Over the next month or two I noticed Sunny, my recently adopted orange tabby has a habit of climbing up next to it and trying to climb ontop of it despite the fact the thing is like 3 times thinner then she is. I've had to chase her away from it a handful of times. It peaked today when Sunny finally managed to knock the TV over again (as well as my switch) before scampering away in a panic. Thankfully nothing is damaged but I have no idea how to get her to just knock this poo poo off so she isn't breaking things that I can't just casually replace these days. I have the same exact TV in my living room and she leaves it perfectly alone so I have no idea what makes this one so appealing.
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Sep 10, 2017 15:44
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Does she have a cat tree? If so, maybe move it nearby. Clearly she's decided this is an important spot.
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I have a huge one she sleeps in all the time in the living room. Maybe I'll move it in here as she already likes it.
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Sep 10, 2017 16:28
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Does your tv have a wall anchor or wall mounts? I have a feeling this problem is easier to fix by addressing the tv instead of the cat.
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The tv outside isnt helping her get to where she wants to go. Yeah wall mounts or make the tv unattractive to her. Cats dont like the feel of ouble sided tape or tin foil. Stick those on the top surfaces of the tv?
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There's not a lot of space in my tiny room to mount the tv but it's another option I can look into as well as foil and the like. Though was thinking of getting a second cat tree and a concern came to mind I probably should of asked a month or so ago. The one we currently have is freakishly tall. The thing can easily reach to the top of our sliding glass door and both cats love it (especially the top perch). Sunny the TV cat is this lightweight tiny girl that can somewhat nimble her way down and climb up the side with ease so there's no real problems with her but Sammy my Siamese is a *really* big cat and has decided to make the top perch her turf. Thing is when she gets down she doesn't jump to the nearby cushion, she doesn't jump to the couch next to it and she doesn't climb down at all. Instead she just does a big heavy leap all the way to the floor usually resulting in a loud THUD. I'm super concerned that she's gonna injure her legs with such a big leap but she seems perfectly fine with it and keeps choosing to do it on her own accord. Should I invest in a smaller tree just to be safe or am I severely underestimating the power of my giant cat? E: I'll fully admit this is the first time in owning a cat I've gotten a tree for them as my past cats usually ignored them. I'm super new to this thing 
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Sep 11, 2017 16:51
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It's warm and cozy behind monitors. Cats universally love it back there. If it is possible for your cats to get behind the TV, they will. Either make it impossible for them to do it or make it safe for them to do it. Don't just hope they won't.
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Sep 11, 2017 16:54
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teh winnar! posted:With this or any other fountain, you will need to be religious about cleaning the pump and filters, or you will burn one out every couple months. I totally agree with this, regarding the lovely stainless fountain. There's a plastic layer of the metal that wears off immediately. The flower-styled waterers are probably better, especially if you don't clean the surface and filter a couple times a month. I try to replace the filter monthly at least.
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Glory to Italia!
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First time posting here and it's just because we're taking our oldest cat behind the vet's barn tomorrow and I just needed to write it down to vent. Keep lovin' your cats to the end and beyond, kids.
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Sep 13, 2017 14:44
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Google Photos just automatically put together a video collage of a bunch of my cat pictures and called it "Meow Movie" and now I'm here at work trying not to cry looking at kitten pictures of my oldest cat. Not fair, Google. Not fair. 
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Wondering if anyone has experienced something similar to what my cat has dealt with. Been going on a few months. One day her rear end was covered in this nasty puss and blood. Smelled something awful. Hey o. Took her to the vet. Gave her some antibiotics. Continued to happen. Now her rear end would drip everywhere with blood, every day I would find 4-5 new spots. Her stool was covered in blood. Took her to the vet two more times. They settled on colitis (inflammation of the colon). We changed her diet (prescription high fiber wet food, high fiber dry food) and also gave her a laxative because her stools were really hard. I really thought that would solve it. Now her stools are very soft from the diet change but she has the exact same symptoms. Bloody stool, bad odor, making GBS threads outside her box. I am at wit's end, anyone have any ideas? The only thing left to do it seems is the vet gave us a prescription saying "in case it was an infection" but they are oral pills and impossible to give to her (she is wily). Any ideas, recommendations, or booze you can offer are appreciated.
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First, let me establish that if I see no improvement by 5:00pm today, catte is going to the vette regardless. Just so you know that as a baseline, I'm going to practice what the thread teaches. Second, let me explain the issue. Yesterday, my cat started vomiting up everywhere (even when she had nothing to vomit up) and was diarrhea-ing. She even peed outside the box once, but I am attributing this to 'we had her closed up in a bathroom for observation' before we could get a litterbox up there. With regards to the diarrhea, she even did it right in front of me (once) and on my wife (once, she had a blanket on over her and was laying in the bathroom with the catte). We emailed our vet in a panic (they were closed yesterday), and he recommended a 1/4 tablet of Pepcid (normal) which I administered much to her chagrin. This cleared up her vomiting and diarrhea symptoms, but made way for other symptoms to be noticed - namely, behavioral changes. At the moment, she is very lethargic (I would be after vomiting and pooing that much) and refusing food and drink. Moreover, she is doing her level best to hide throughout the house. Since then I've managed to get a little bit of water in her system, though she seems more content to keep her face near a water bowl/fountain rather than doing any drinking. My questions are: what do you think is wrong with her, and is it something that will clear up via simple waiting? Context for the catte: -When we got back from our four-day trip on Tuesday, I did notice that she pooed some diarrhea outside the box but had no other behavioral changes. The vomiting started yesterday (Wednesday), as did the behavioral changes (after the Pepcid cleared her up). The poo outside the box when we came home looked very similar to one I found in the kitchen yesterday, in that it was a solid piece surrounded by yellow-brown goo. -Our trip was a fishing trip with my father one or two states north, and we go wading in rivers. I left the waders out to dry, but it rained overnight on Tuesday and I moved them inside Wednesday morning to dry in the basement bathroom. I suspect that she might've decided to lick up the water drippings or eat something that might've been living in the waders - the initial vomits (the stuff with food in it) were in the basement near/in the bathroom, in which case it might be a mean stomach bug or a toxin reaction. -She is 12 years old, slightly on the heavier side (our vet did not recommend a weight loss regimen this past May and instead just wants her to maintain weight), and pees enough to create piss walls using litter as the substrate. She's done that ever since we got her, though. Some of her wet food gives her runny poos, but results in no other symptoms/behavioral changes. -She had a dry food gravity feeder while we were out. We've been out longer and we've never seen any problems remotely like the ones we are facing right now, though. -At the moment we're just trying to make her comfortable. LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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I'm moving from New York to Seattle a week from Saturday, and just wondering if anyone has any tips or experience to share for flying with cats? My wife and I will be bringing soft carriers to fit under the seats in front of us. I took my cats to the vet today and mentioned that one of them gets extremely nervous and flighty when introduced to strangers, so I was nervous about having to take them out at security. He prescribed a sedative for both cats, 100mg of Gabapentin. It seems that this is a pain medication that's sometimes used to treat fear and anxiety in cats. Does anyone have any experience with sedating their cats for flying? It sounded reasonable when I was talking to my vet but now I'm wondering if it would be overkill. The only part of the trip I'm really worried about is the security checkpoint, and making sure either of the cats don't jump out of our arms which seems like would be a nightmare. Other than that, we plan on stopping feeding them and take away their water about 8-9 hours before, spray their crates with feliway, and lining the bottom with wee pads just in case. We have harnesses but they have metal on them, so I think I might need to order no ones like this: https://www.amazon.com/TSA-Fast-Pass-Leash-Harness/dp/B008AWCLAW
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My cat isn't eating. I adopted her from a shelter on tuesday, she's been in my home for about 50 hours now. She wasn't really very shy, she came out from under the bed and poked around and cuddled the first night. However, she didn't (from what I could tell) eat or drink anything for the first 24 hours. On the second night, she started vomiting pretty much on the hour, just tiny puddles of foam, since her stomach was empty. I called the local animal hospital in the morning, and they reccomended I get a syringe and force feed her, just so she got something in her until she started eating on her own (which they said should happen soon), and call back if she threw up even though I'd fed her. So today I've been feeding her ~10ml wet food/water mix every 5 hours or so, and everything seemed fine even though she still wasn't eating on her own. Then about three hours ago she threw up again, this time it was some of the sludge I've been feeding her. The hospital said to bring her in in the morning if she still isn't eating and/or vomiting. She has however been to the litterbox a couple times, first night she did a tiiiny poo and peed, she peed a little the second night, and she's done a tiny wee today. She's one and a half years old. Recently vaccinated, the shelter fed her half a deworming pill just before I went home with her. I know that cats take time to adjust to new settings but 50+ hours without eating seems extreme, it's not like my home is a stressful enviroment. maikzor fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Sep 14, 2017 |
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maikzor posted:My cat isn't eating. It's good that she's still eliminating, but assuming she hasn't eaten or drank on her own by morning, go ahead and take her to the hospital. The cause really could be just about anything, but not eating for 3 days is dangerous.
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Not eating in a new scary place is relatively normal, throwing up is not.
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Took the cat to the vet - it's very likely that it's pancreatitis. Part of me wishes I'd gotten her there sooner (like on Wednesday, the day she started vomiting), that they'd have been able to take her yesterday (they weren't able to), and that we'd just gone straight to the emergency vet (which is where our vet just recommended that we take her so she can get overnight care/a definite diagnosis). I think force-feeding her did her a lot of good last night/this morning, and being around us helped calm her down. But she needs a little longer-term care with an IV to make sure that she can get through this and bounce back. LuiCypher fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Sep 15, 2017 |
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So I went to the vet. They gave her some "under the skin" IV and did blood tests. She has a slight fever, but her liver is fine thankfully so they're saying it's probably some sort of virus. She actually did eat a tiny bit of tuna this evening and I managed to get about 15ml of a liquid supplement in her, and she ate about 20/30ml of watered down a/d recovery off of my finger. So I guess I'm just gonna keep getting food into her and hope she gets better.
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Revalis Enai posted:Took my cat to the vet. No fleas and nothing turned up on her feces. Got a shot and was given special food and anti-bacteria gel. So I found out that it was the wet food that was causing her diarrhea. After switching her to the back-up dry food for a few days, her stool is solid again and no more accidents outside of her litter box. I was feeding her the Signature Select line from Wellness, specifically the skipjack tuna and shrimp one. I noticed they recently updated their packaging and label and the content looked different. I'm not sure what they changed but I can't feed my cat with it now. Cat does not like dry food as much so I will need to find new wet food for her.
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faarcyde posted:Wondering if anyone has experienced something similar to what my cat has dealt with. Get a pill popper for the medication
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duckfarts posted:Get a pill popper for the medication Mine likes the pill pocket treats you can stuff with small meds, but ymmv.
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So when I first got my Cat from the shelter, I picked up a cheapo cardboard scratching post with the intention to get a nicer one in a week or two. Once I did, it didn't matter she just didn't use it and exclusively used the cardboard one. I put the cardboard one next to the nicer one in the hopes that would help (it didn't). I tried a sisal rope one. Catnip doesn't work on her so catnip spray did nothing to help her use it. When I catch her scratching something I pick her up and put her in front of the nice post, mimic scratching, sometimes drag her paws along it. Sometime's she'll scratch once or twice then wander off. I'd REALLY like to avoid having to own a cardboard scratching post, but will if I absolutely have to. Anyone have any further suggestions before I go down that route?
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Spikes32 posted:So when I first got my Cat from the shelter, I picked up a cheapo cardboard scratching post with the intention to get a nicer one in a week or two. Once I did, it didn't matter she just didn't use it and exclusively used the cardboard one. I put the cardboard one next to the nicer one in the hopes that would help (it didn't). I tried a sisal rope one. Catnip doesn't work on her so catnip spray did nothing to help her use it. When I catch her scratching something I pick her up and put her in front of the nice post, mimic scratching, sometimes drag her paws along it. Sometime's she'll scratch once or twice then wander off. I'd REALLY like to avoid having to own a cardboard scratching post, but will if I absolutely have to. Anyone have any further suggestions before I go down that route? Your cat seems to be in fine working order.
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Revalis Enai posted:So I found out that it was the wet food that was causing her diarrhea. After switching her to the back-up dry food for a few days, her stool is solid again and no more accidents outside of her litter box. Same thing happened to us. The ingredients that changed that seemed to be causing the problem for us was the addition of xanthan gum and cassia gum (but probably xanthan gum).
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Spikes32 posted:So when I first got my Cat from the shelter, I picked up a cheapo cardboard scratching post with the intention to get a nicer one in a week or two. Once I did, it didn't matter she just didn't use it and exclusively used the cardboard one. I put the cardboard one next to the nicer one in the hopes that would help (it didn't). I tried a sisal rope one. Catnip doesn't work on her so catnip spray did nothing to help her use it. When I catch her scratching something I pick her up and put her in front of the nice post, mimic scratching, sometimes drag her paws along it. Sometime's she'll scratch once or twice then wander off. I'd REALLY like to avoid having to own a cardboard scratching post, but will if I absolutely have to. Anyone have any further suggestions before I go down that route? Just be glad she's scratching something designed to scratch rather than your furniture. My cats have a giant multi-level cat tree and another scratching post which they use regularly but they still just loooove digging into the corners of my drat sofa, adorable little shits that they are.
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Yeah, my my cat loves her cheapo scratch pad but she took to the 3-sided pet fusion scratcher I got her specifically to place in front of my (brand new leather) couch since she loved scratching the arm on that thing when I got her. I also placed a blanket for her on the couch so she doesn't use her claws on the seat, she knows which I side of the couch I sit on so she leaves it alone. Cats.
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So my cat has been making GBS threads on the floor instead of in her litter for the 3rd day in a row now. She pees in her litter, but all poop goes on the floor. I've tried spraying and cleaning with both lemon and vinegar. Her litter box is also clean with new litter in it (the same as she's been using all her life). She even watched me empty it and clean it the other day, and followed me outside to see when I threw it out. Then she went into the flower bed, and I thougth she did her stuff there, but then when she followed me back in, she shat on the floor in front of me. She even has a cat door so she can go outside and do it whenever she wants, and she loves being out there, running around the garden hunting birds and mice and bugs and what not. But she still poops on the floor. What can I do? I'm getting tired of spending 15 mins each morning before work to clean it up instead of just emptying her litter box.
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Datasmurf posted:So my cat has been making GBS threads on the floor instead of in her litter for the 3rd day in a row now. She pees in her litter, but all poop goes on the floor. I've tried spraying and cleaning with both lemon and vinegar. "Heavy Petting › The Cat FAQ/Megathread: Poop on her poop to show her who's really the boss."
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Get another litter box. She might piss in one and crap in the other. More work for you but less work than scrubbing floors. You can also try different litters. I have two right next to each other and my cat will use one primarily and the other is overflow in case i forget to scoop in a morning.
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So a feral cat had kittens in my backyard and I let them mature to about 5/6 weeks and trapped the mom and took her to get spayed and separate the kittens from her because they were getting wilder and less approachable every day. I was hoping to get them tamed and then let them be outside cats after they mature and get neutered but now I'm having trouble getting them to eat and I'm worried I may have jumped the gun on taking action. Any suggestions on what to do or did I gently caress up?
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Snazzy Frocks posted:So a feral cat had kittens in my backyard and I let them mature to about 5/6 weeks and trapped the mom and took her to get spayed and separate the kittens from her because they were getting wilder and less approachable every day. I was hoping to get them tamed and then let them be outside cats after they mature and get neutered but now I'm having trouble getting them to eat and I'm worried I may have jumped the gun on taking action. If you can stop them from being outside cats, do so. Feral cats have short life expectancies and do horrible things to the local environment.
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Spikes32 posted:Anyone have any further suggestions before I go down that route? Your cat will grow attached to the things they get to first...behavior comfort, their scent, whatever. Mine love their cardboard ones the most (I have a corner scratcher with a cardboard insert and two PetFusion lounges), but I've found they really dig carpeted posts and heavy cord scratchers too...along with the corner of my box spring, the sides of my old computer chair, and the front door frame leading to my apt hallway. Can't help but echo the folks saying you're pretty close to a best case scenario already. You could take the cardboard scratcher away and hope they switch to one of the others, but you're just as likely to have them switch over to the couch unless they have more favorable options in the same general area.
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Snazzy Frocks posted:Any suggestions on what to do or did I gently caress up? Have a Google. thecatsite had some articles about it, mostly sounding like the best thing to do for ferals is TNR, trap neuter release. They're gonna be horrified by everything for a long while, potentially years. It might take a day or two for them to get desperate enough to try to eat, but I'd wager nothing you're offering will actually seem like food to them.
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We adopted a couple of shelter cats about a month ago they've settled in well now. The one of them we are laying down has taken to biting us in the head and/or pulling on our hair while sleeping. Is this normal behavior? Is this new cat trying to eat us in our sleep? They have plenty of food, clean litter box, lots of attention and toys. Pic of the offending dingus  The other guy  Them together 
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