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Cythereal posted:Incidentally, that tells you something about how your cats see you. Burying their poop is a sign of submission. Not burying it means the cat thinks they're dominant over you. It's one of the ways cats express dominance over each other. Wait, really? Is that instinctual, or socially learned? Is it a bad sign somehow? I thought he liked me 
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Oct 17, 2017 14:46
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Pollyanna posted:Wait, really? Is that instinctual, or socially learned? Is it a bad sign somehow? I thought he liked me He's a cat.
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Oct 17, 2017 14:51
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I know for a fact my cat likes my girlfriend better than me, he always scratches and bites my hand and not hers
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Oct 17, 2017 14:53
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Man after raising and reconditioning a pair of formerly feral kittens by hand it's hard to give them away. 4 cats is too much for my household though...
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Oct 17, 2017 15:42
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Cythereal posted:Incidentally, that tells you something about how your cats see you. Burying their poop is a sign of submission. Not burying it means the cat thinks they're dominant over you. It's one of the ways cats express dominance over each other. So thaaaaat's what's going on with Freyja. I swear that cat just refuses to bury her poo poo
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Oct 17, 2017 15:51
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Pollyanna posted:Wait, really? Is that instinctual, or socially learned? Is it a bad sign somehow? I thought he liked me Just cause he thinks he's the top cat doesn't mean he doesn't like you. Also he could just be really bad at burying crap like my dumb idiots who paw at the walls of the litterbox and then wander out.
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Oct 17, 2017 16:23
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zxqv8 posted:So thaaaaat's what's going on with Freyja. I swear that cat just refuses to bury her poo poo My old cats are getting this way but that's just due to their age. Buffy (18) just walks into the tray, drops a log and walks out. Oliver (17) still tries to bury most of his, most of the time. A friend sent me this and since I'm posting, I'll share. Those eyes look nipped up but what a perky little moggy. https://i.imgur.com/LABtukm.mp4
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Oct 17, 2017 17:44
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My cat Henry escaped from the apartment and I am mounting a search effort, advised by the spca. I would really like any insights anyone cares to share about cat behavior so I can figure out where to search and place humane traps and wildlife cameras. They say cats usually stay close but the last time I saw Henry he was 2 doors down from my apartment, hiding under a car until this short middle aged drunken poo poo head that lives in a nearby shed scared the gently caress out of him by clumsily jumping over a fence right next to Henry after I explicitly told that dickhead where the cat was and that he needed to move away because he was gonna scare the cat away. Henry disappeared into the bushes near the yard this guy's shed was in and he wouldn't let me come into the yard to search because he didn't want me to wake up the elderly man who lived in the house, who was 96 years (as he told me 6 or 7 times). I am worried that this worthless loving dumb poo poo drunk may have scared Henry sufficiently that he has actually left the block entirely and is no where nearby my house anymore. Maybe he thinks he was chased off by me and the drunken gently caress head and now he won't even come back to look for food? What do you all think
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Oct 17, 2017 18:21
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Dog Jones posted:My cat Henry escaped from the apartment and I am mounting a search effort, advised by the spca. I would really like any insights anyone cares to share about cat behavior so I can figure out where to search and place humane traps and wildlife cameras. They say cats usually stay close but the last time I saw Henry he was 2 doors down from my apartment, hiding under a car until this short middle aged drunken poo poo head that lives in a nearby shed scared the gently caress out of him by clumsily jumping over a fence right next to Henry after I explicitly told that dickhead where the cat was and that he needed to move away because he was gonna scare the cat away. Your cat is likely terrified and is holed up under a bush, or a porch, or another car, or some other cubby hole somewhere nearby. He's not going to roam because he doesn't know where he is in a world full of enemies. He does know where safety and pets and food is, though. Give him a little time and he'll come back when he gets sufficiently hungry. Put some of his favorite food near the door and keep an eye out.
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Oct 17, 2017 18:27
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Deteriorata posted:Your cat is likely terrified and is holed up under a bush, or a porch, or another car, or some other cubby hole somewhere nearby. He's not going to roam because he doesn't know where he is in a world full of enemies. Yeah we got traps with his food in them set up in our backyard and in other peoples yards in the neighborhood. Plus I got a bunch of wildlife cameras and we bait them with his food in other places to try and catch a glimpse of where he might be. Its been 4 days now : (
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Oct 17, 2017 18:34
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Putting the litter box outside can help as well along with his bed if you can keep it dry. His own smells will travel a long way.
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Oct 17, 2017 18:37
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Boogalo posted:Putting the litter box outside can help as well along with his bed if you can keep it dry. His own smells will travel a long way. Ya we got the litter box out on the porch. We'll put other smelly objects of his out as well. Do you guys really think Henry didn't get 'chased' away and displaced? Im worried he will start to wander
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Oct 17, 2017 18:41
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Best of luck to you. Hoping to see a "We got em" post soon.. Makes me happy I live on the 7th story in a closed down apartment complex. The worst I have to worry about is chasing my cats down the hallway (which only happened once fortunately). That and never being able to use my balcony because I don't want my cats to try and get cute and fall off
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Oct 17, 2017 21:10
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Momo is a good boy who buries his poops but insists on only peeing in the hard-to-scoop corners of his box and it saddens me.
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Oct 17, 2017 22:33
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Sometimes though it's absolutely because a cat is a sloppy goon.
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Oct 17, 2017 22:50
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actually, come to think of it- would getting a larger litter box stop momo from peeing in the corners, do you think? I think maybe it's because he's a big boy.
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Oct 17, 2017 23:38
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Well one of my cats doesn't know how to drink and we tried both a larger bowl and a cat fountain and he still never figured it out. He just kept scraping his tongue on the edge of the bowl and got barely any water. Now he's figured it out a little. He dips his paw in the water and cleans it off 
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Oct 18, 2017 00:09
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My cat always gets into the litter box but half the time he's too dumb to pull his arse in so he just poos over the side Edit: it's a big litter box too. He just gets halfway in and then paws futilely at the litter while his turds lie there accusingly on the mat.
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Oct 18, 2017 00:30
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Sociopastry posted:actually, come to think of it- would getting a larger litter box stop momo from peeing in the corners, do you think? I think maybe it's because he's a big boy. Ours is a big plastic storage bin and that doesn't stop our foster cat at all from pawing at the litter then backing into a corner before peeing / pooping on the walls. Just watched him do it.
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Oct 18, 2017 00:41
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Well one of my cats doesn't know how to drink and we tried both a larger bowl and a cat fountain and he still never figured it out. He just kept scraping his tongue on the edge of the bowl and got barely any water. I've seen cats do that. Mine likes to drink from the opposite end of the bowl, probably because he likes the sensation of water on his chin. Also I've realised I'm child-proofing the flat because cats are like inquisitive 2yo's.
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Oct 18, 2017 01:50
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Well one of my cats doesn't know how to drink and we tried both a larger bowl and a cat fountain and he still never figured it out. He just kept scraping his tongue on the edge of the bowl and got barely any water. Our younger cat (BB) had a hard time figuring it out, but I decided to be the big cat and show her how it was done. She's figured out how to drink from it based on my example, but she is an extremely thrifty cat and never lets us see her drink from it. Our former cat (Cocoa) had zero problems navigating the fountain, though. Not only was she a huge water hog (which led to her being a kitty cement mixer - in the span of a day or two she could turn the back of the litterbox into a wall), she also stuck her mouth in the spout kind of like how the people of Pawnee drink from fountains in Parks and Recreation. We'll see how our new cat (Angel) will manage. She hasn't been exposed to the fountain yet because it's in BB's territory and right now, anything associated with BB = HATE. Literally - if we go up to see BB (we've sectioned them off into different parts of the house), Angel will simultaneously rub up against us and hiss because she can smell BB. That's to be expected with a new cat that you've had for less than a day, though. BB is definitely a cat's cat and wants to do nothing more than meet Angel and play with her. Angel wants nothing more than death (I'm exaggerating) for BB right now. We're going to introduce them to each other verrrrrrrrrrrrry slowly...
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Oct 19, 2017 17:40
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj6x-J_VkpM The foster kitten has gone on to his new pet teenagers, but if my apartment were bigger, I'd have kept him. The boys never let him up to the big-cat perch, though.
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Oct 19, 2017 17:52
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A second cat who doesn't know how to do cat things should learn how to do those cat things pretty quickly by watching the other cat. The 9 week old kitten currently slobbering all over my blanket has learned basically everything it knows so far from the three grown cats we already had. post-slobber nap: 
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Oct 19, 2017 17:54
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My cat loves to eat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UsMs5QjMMc
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Oct 19, 2017 18:54
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Well one of my cats doesn't know how to drink and we tried both a larger bowl and a cat fountain and he still never figured it out. He just kept scraping his tongue on the edge of the bowl and got barely any water. I’ve seen my cat try to drink by dipping the bottom of her paw in the water and then licking the top of it
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Oct 20, 2017 00:54
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Is it not possible to buy worming meds for cats over the counter in Canada? Or do all the pet supply websites super suck at listing that kind of thing?
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Oct 21, 2017 03:25
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sensy v2.0 posted:My cat loves to eat. Yeah ours can make those things disappear just as quickly! MIL is feeling very Empty Nest since her last kid moved out, so now she has a kitten called Poe. 
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Oct 21, 2017 04:36
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zxqv8 posted:A second cat who doesn't know how to do cat things should learn how to do those cat things pretty quickly by watching the other cat. That's what you would assume, and you would be wrong. Catspurr refuses to learn how to drink properly.
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Oct 21, 2017 18:37
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Just moved to a new place. Cats are scared and won't leave carrier. Coca has gone as far as shadow melding.  
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Oct 21, 2017 19:55
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How often are you supposed to go to the vet? My current place has me set up for semi-annual visits, which is fine but can get a little expensive sometimes. Is it bad if I go to yearly instead?
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Oct 22, 2017 00:28
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Yeah I just take my two idiots in for a yearly checkup and shots.
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Oct 22, 2017 06:17
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a report: I got momo a bigger litterbox and he no longer pisses in the corner, and also doesn't drag as much sand out with him. Success!
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Oct 23, 2017 12:07
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3 weeks in with Sancho and he's doing great! He's definitely a lot more comfortable around the home and us. Only issue we're having is that he will sometimes puke after eating but he's peeing and pooping fine. He's generally a nice puker will find us and do it on the wood floor instead of any of the rugs. We're feeding him blue buffalo wet food, and he has dry food(blue buffalo as well) out which he barely touches now. Is this anything to worry about? He's still a very slow eater and I guess that might be due to the dry food being available as a last resort.
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Oct 23, 2017 15:17
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KidDynamite posted:3 weeks in with Sancho and he's doing great! He's definitely a lot more comfortable around the home and us. Only issue we're having is that he will sometimes puke after eating but he's peeing and pooping fine. He's generally a nice puker will find us and do it on the wood floor instead of any of the rugs. We're feeding him blue buffalo wet food, and he has dry food(blue buffalo as well) out which he barely touches now. Is this anything to worry about? He's still a very slow eater and I guess that might be due to the dry food being available as a last resort. Very probably he is just eating too much for his little cat tummy. If so, your cat is an idiot, but that is nothing to worry about.
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Oct 23, 2017 19:05
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KidDynamite posted:3 weeks in with Sancho and he's doing great! He's definitely a lot more comfortable around the home and us. Only issue we're having is that he will sometimes puke after eating but he's peeing and pooping fine. He's generally a nice puker will find us and do it on the wood floor instead of any of the rugs. We're feeding him blue buffalo wet food, and he has dry food(blue buffalo as well) out which he barely touches now. Is this anything to worry about? He's still a very slow eater and I guess that might be due to the dry food being available as a last resort. He might be horking it down too fast, even if it looks like he's eating slowly. Maybe put out less at a time or try one of those puzzle feeders? Sometimes even just elevating the bowl helps.
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Oct 23, 2017 20:55
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I got a 7mo that poops when she coughs or sneezes, other than switching back to the food we used to feed her before she started this, is there anything else I can do to stem the brown tide?
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Oct 23, 2017 21:57
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So Shelly has bladder stones and there's a chance she's going to need surgery to get them removed. Has anyone had the procedure done and can tell me a cost? I know I live in a city so my costs are probably going to be more than most. Ugh, should have looked into getting pet insurance when I got her earlier this year since she's already 9.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:17
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Animale posted:So Shelly has bladder stones and there's a chance she's going to need surgery to get them removed. Has anyone had the procedure done and can tell me a cost? I know I live in a city so my costs are probably going to be more than most. Ugh, should have looked into getting pet insurance when I got her earlier this year since she's already 9. We ended up having to take my girlfriends to the emergency vet. He was fractious as hell and had to get a catheter and be flushed at least twice, with two overnights. Cost upwards of $3k, but getting it taken care of earlier (his poor urethra was swollen shut) and not having to go to the er would save a bunch. Ask the vet, they'll probably be able to ballpark something for you.
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Oct 24, 2017 05:22
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Glory to Italia!
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FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:I got a 7mo that poops when she coughs or sneezes, other than switching back to the food we used to feed her before she started this, is there anything else I can do to stem the brown tide? If nothing else works, cat diapers are a real thing that exists and you can buy:
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