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Devorum posted:And the kitten just ripped my neck open, and I might need stitches. A nice three-inch gash. Probably overstimulated from the time with the other cat. Nah, kittens are just clumsy. Adult cats learn to keep their claws in. Kitten claws are also tiny and extremely sharp, so they do extra damage. You'll have to teach it that play with you = claws in. Give it lots of attention/affection when it's doing it right, withdraw and withhold them when it jabs you. It will figure it out.
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Does anyone else's cat lick themselves compulsively as soon as you start petting them? One of my dumbasses has been doing this since the day we got her. She's not super into being petted in general but will allow it for a few seconds, and every time you do she just starts licking her fur like crazy. Not even necessarily the fur you're petting like she's trying to wash your scent off, just licking her chest/legs. It's very weird. 
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Hugo starts cleaning himself when he is brushed or patted in short strokes - being groomed or having something that kind of feels like it triggers him to start grooming himself too. I just think of it as him trying to 'help' me.
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Yeah I think it's cause being pet is kind of like being groomed it kicks in thier own instincts. You can see it a lot when two kittens clean each other at the same time. And don't feel bad about being sliced. Most kitten owners have a healthy array of scars.
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Glory to Italia!
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Jul 22, 2018 02:37
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Synthbuttrange posted:Keeping their claws trimmed helps. Yes very true. Start playing with their feet and mouths and undercarriage very early.
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Jul 22, 2018 02:39
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Tuna has learned the wonderful trick of knocking over the trashcan near my desk. Please tell me there's a way to make him stop. I'm considering just putting him in his carrier for a couple minutes every time he does it, but it occurs to me that making him hate the carrier even more is probably a bad idea.
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The Lord of Hats posted:Tuna has learned the wonderful trick of knocking over the trashcan near my desk. Prop things against it on the outside so he can't pull/push it over. Or put double sided tape or tinfoil on the outside. He won't understand why you're putting him in the carrier, that probably won't work.
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Presenting Lawn Mower Kitten (Not mine) https://i.imgur.com/nZpkyMB.mp4 (Right click and unmute)
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The Lord of Hats posted:Tuna has learned the wonderful trick of knocking over the trashcan near my desk.
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Mine likes to scavenge for pizza crust and crackers/chips.
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Jul 22, 2018 20:24
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Mine throws himself away because he's literal garbage
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Hey cat thread, I am posting to vent/get advice on my 11yr old cat Ada... the past month has been very stressful and I don't know what to do anymore. I don't suspect that anyone in this thread can help but... I am just sad. I don't want her to be in pain. First, the deets: Age: 11yrs Sex: Female How long have you had your cat?: 7months Is your cat spayed or neutered?: Yes What food do you use?: Blue buffalo senior dry food, primal freeze dried raw food for wet along with some blue buffalo kitten formula food (she loves it). When was your last vet visit?: July 11th Is your cat indoors, outdoors, both?: Indoors How many pets in your household?: 1 cat, 1 kitten How many litter boxes do you have?: 2 She is normally a very feisty cat with definite tortitude. On June 23rd she stopped eating, drinking or moving and stayed in one place all day. I gave her some time (she is a senior citizen) and then took her into the ER. They ran a blood test for liver/kidney/pancreatic function (all clean), gave her subcutaneous fluids and nausea medication. Sent us home with an appetite stimulant and the nausea meds. Apparently she had a history of doing this with her previous owner. This worked for a few days and then it stopped. At this point she was not moving at all and barely reacting to our presence. So back to the ER we went, where they did another blood test and gave her more fluids/drugs. They didn't have anyone on staff who could do some imaging so we were sent home. The next day no improvement so I took her to another ER who had an US technician on staff. They did an US of her entire digestive tract and only found one potential issue (a 7mm mass) but they didn't seem to be worried about it. We then took her to an internist who ran some very comprehensive GI panels and an expensive blood test (looking for some vitamin deficiency?). Again, nothing. She seemed to be doing a little better and was at least eating normally (if still very low energy). As of yesterday she is back to where she was... hiding under the bed and ignoring food. We gave her her nausea medication this morning in the hopes that it will help her feel a little better. I'm just not sure what to do at this point. She is very stressed by going to the vet (has bloodied her nose on the carrier multiple times) so I don't want to make things worse unless if the tests are likely to help her out. We are keeping her mostly separate from the kitten (who literally cannot leave her alone without human intervention). Honestly it helps to get that off my chest, any words of comfort or advice are appreciated. She is a good cat. Here is the cranky Queen of the Babies with her default expression Are You Seeing This poo poo?:  Please put away the camera and cuddle me more, human:  And bonus kitten: 
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I don't know what it might be that the tests wouldn't have spotted, but if she did it with her previous owners, maybe it's just something that will pass in time? Actually, thinking about it, that sounds exactly how I act when I get migraines and cluster headaches, I don't even know if cats can get those but it might be something of that nature? I hope she is okay whatever it is, she is so gorgeous!
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If you have the cash to spare or insurance to cover it, look for a cat clinic. These are specialised cat hospitals and learning centers for vets, usually near or affiliated with a vet school or university. They can perform every test that exists but it will be expensive (I left Buffy there for 3 days and it cost close to 2 grand). If your cat has a rare or interesting condition, they may offer to pay part of the bill if they're allowed to use her data for teaching. Worth a try as it sounds like you need the big guns to figure out the problem.
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put this in the OP thank you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5wmB3YQLs
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Any recommended brands of cat tunnels and play furniture? Adopting a kitten this weekend and she should have some fun things not already claimed by Evil Gizmo. Apparently she loves tunnels. 
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:Any recommended brands of cat tunnels and play furniture? Adopting a kitten this weekend and she should have some fun things not already claimed by Evil Gizmo. Apparently she loves tunnels. Armarkat trees have served us well. Not super cheap, but seem to stand up to abuse. We got this cat tunnel thing on a whim while walking through Ikea, and it has accidentally been our kitten's favorite thing. Best $8 we've spent. I suspect you can find similar stuff not from Ikea. Note that the hanging toys at each end are not important, but the holes midway through are (to our kitten anyway). https://m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/art/50386293/
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I had a pop up hamper that Shithead claimed as his. If you put it up to actually use he would flip it and lay in it clothes or not. Eventually we just let him have it because it was cute and not worth the fight anymore. We also got him a cat tree. He uses it solely to get onto the bookshelf beside the tree which is lower but apparently the better cat rest. loving ungrateful bastard USE THE THINGS WE BUY YOU
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POOL IS CLOSED posted:Any recommended brands of cat tunnels and play furniture? Adopting a kitten this weekend and she should have some fun things not already claimed by Evil Gizmo. Apparently she loves tunnels. She's adorable! I picked this up when Madam Fluffington was small, and she's been using it for almost a year now. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01J7KN23U/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Also...pop-up hamper like this? 
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FlyTB20C posted:She's adorable! I picked this up when Madam Fluffington was small, and she's been using it for almost a year now. Mine was like this Jesus Christ that link was huge
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Thanks for the suggestions! I've been trying to convince my partner to replace our ever more rickety cat tree with an Amarkat... maybe this will help. Amusingly, I already have that exact split tunnel for Gizmo. She loves it. Maybe I should just get two! And a pop up hamper is cheap enough... if neither cat likes it, at least it has other uses. It's been almost two decades since I've had a kitten so this is kind of exciting. She popped up a week or so ago at my dad's back door and cried until he noticed and let her in. She's already tame and didn't even have any of the usual foundling kitten problems besides being scrawny. She's already been checked out by a vet and we will be handling her spay and remaining vaccinations at our cat vet.
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I have one like this that's a favorite: https://www.chewy.com/petlinks-twinkle-chute-lighted/dp/130174 You can prolly find versions a few cheaper.
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I'm having a hell of a time with Glitch and water bowls. Little poo poo loving knocks them over, splashes water everywhere, and just doesn't seem to 'get' that water bowls are just for drinking. I've observed her 'cleaning up' the water like she's covering up pee in her litter tray. I'm gonna go to a pet store this morning and have a look at some new bowls, but other than a super wide base I don't have many ideas. Anyone else come across this behaviour?
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Gizmo does it. She likes to paw at the water most of all, and she won't readily drink from bowls that don't have shallowly slanted sides. Cats are goddamn weird. I've been thinking of making a slightly elevated tray to sink her water bowl into to see if that at least fixes her spilling behavior.
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Infinitum posted:Anyone else come across this behaviour? Almost every kitten we fostered played in the water bowls, get used to it. If you can't move their water to something easy to clean like linoleum, get a feeding station mat with a lip. Yes it will fill up and act like a pool if left too long but if you keep mopping up you can keep it from getting to the flooring. Mostly. The kittens will of course run all over while wet - weee my feet are slippery now... When they grow up enough to use a drinker, make sure you don't get one that trickles into a pool or you'll find out just how far they can spread it.
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So why does Lucy need to sit on the window sill next to me every time I go to the toilet like I need a lieutenant to help me excrete waste? If I close the door so she can't follow me she body slam knocks until I'm either done or so done and the door is opened in either case. She does not have this need to be my right-hand cat at any other time.
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Infinitum posted:I'm having a hell of a time with Glitch and water bowls. Domino did it until we got him a fountain he couldn't dump. Then he just did things like rinsing his paws in the fountain, and dumping toys, food, plastic bags and anything else he could get into it. Then we replaced that one with the catit flower and now he just dumps his food into the food tray. Little rear end in a top hat.
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Welp, ended up adopting new cats sooner than I thought I would: Gibson  1 year old male. His coat feels like a luxurious microfiber cloth floating over an undercoat of angel farts. I don't think I've ever felt a coat so soft on a cat before. He's very social, vocal, and has to explore everything. Sylvester  2 year old male. Shy, slow to explore his new digs, but when he does explore he prefers going vertical which should be interesting when he gets around to the big bookcases out front. Very social if you can coax him out of hiding. I don't think I've heard him meow even once so far though. According to the shelter staff these guys came in from different out of state shelters and became good cat buddies upon meeting so why not keep them together? Sylvester is still mostly hiding under the bed while Gibson has declared the kitchen as his kingdom and demands petting tribute from any trespassing humans. Overall so far I'll have to echo Bubbles' cat assessment: "That's one loving nice kitty right there!" x2 Infinitum posted:Anyone else come across this behaviour? I had a cat that would knock around the water bowl before drinking from it but he didn't do the cover up motions after. I think he was mostly trying to make sure water was in the bowl first? Who knows for sure. I caught Gibson doing the litter burial thing over his food bowl today after eating his fill. That's something I haven't seen before and was going to as the vet about. Fabulousity fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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No need to ask a vet, some cats just have an instinct to bury their food so other predators don't get it.
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Organza Quiz posted:No need to ask a vet, some cats just have an instinct to bury their food so other predators don't get it. Yup, both of mine do it from time to time. My kitten is doing great. She explores and plays all the time and LOVES being held or sitting on my shoulders. Old man cat Luke is pretty grumpy about her, but so far mostly in the 'sit somewhere high and stare grumpily' manner. He bopped her pretty good once when she climbed the cat tree near his perch a few days ago, but otherwise it has been some mewling and a bit of hissing. And staring. So much staring. True to cats everywhere, they refuse to eat their own food. As soon as the second bowl is down, they both start scheming to get at the other's food ASAP, which is somewhat entertaining, since they both want the same thing but don't want to interact with the other cat. I'm going to try switching the food I give them tomorrow to see if they can tell or are just being difficult. Any tips to perk up my 10-12 year old tripod? He seems generally put out by the kitten (it's been a little over a week now, she's had the run of the house for 5 days). I give him treats when he doesn't act negatively around her and try to give lots of pets, but if I smell like the kitten he doesn't seem to appreciate them. He's never taken more than a few days to adjust to other cats before, and the kitten is not particularly aggressively friendly.
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Organza Quiz posted:No need to ask a vet, some cats just have an instinct to bury their food so other predators don't get it. Yeah my calico Noot does this, does a bit of a scratch before having a break in gobbling  She's more worried about food safety than burying her own poos which is a bit different!
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How long do you leave wet food out before you throw it away. I'm reading some sites say to do it after only 30 minutes, but that seems way too short.
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Raimondo posted:How long do you leave wet food out before you throw it away. I'm reading some sites say to do it after only 30 minutes, but that seems way too short. I'm curious too, I sometimes leave it out for 12 hours or more while I'm at work (the cats like to snack) and it's never seemed to be a problem
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm curious too, I sometimes leave it out for 12 hours or more while I'm at work (the cats like to snack) and it's never seemed to be a problem Cats are very sensitive about spoiled food, so it's generally not a problem. If it starts to go bad, they usually won't touch it. I've left some out for as long as 12 hours before, and by that point I assume they're not going to eat it and toss it.
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Cats have enzymes that kill bacteria like salmonella etc. That’s why a leopard can hang his kill in a tree and eat off it for a week. Our little house cats just turn their noses because they’re prissy. 😼 Question- I have 6 kittens born a day ago. Local Humane Society is no kill, but I lost my job. I don’t want to give them away, but I have to once they’re weaned. Help.
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Wake_N_Bake posted:
Location might help, even if no one in this thread wants one, they might know someone nearby that does. I got my kitten through my mom's friend's mom 2,000 miles away. She just mentioned that her mom had found a kitten she couldn't keep, my mom knew I was thinking about it, etc.
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My foster kittens (10 weeks and 12 weeks) probably have ringworm, which I noticed earlier today. I'm inclined to dump them back on the rescue tomorrow because my experience with ringworm three years ago was pretty traumatic--lots of baths, soaps, and sprays. The rescue is swamped with sick cats right now, and I'm being pressured to keep them. "It's just a few pills for a couple weeks." I'm pretty sure it's worse than that, but I'm also highly susceptible to guilt. Is ringworm really that easy to treat now? I've already got two adult cats and fostering has gone on a lot longer than expected thanks to the younger kitten having a bunch of other problems. I know they'd be better off with me than in an overcrowded house with a bunch of other needy animals, but I'm worried about overwhelming myself. So what's the verdict on ringworm? nbd or burn the house to the ground?
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So there’s a kitten in our backyard that appears to be blind. We’ve had a few strays in our yard having kittens recently, and this one was part of a recent litter. The poor thing’s eyes haven’t opened, despite it appearing to be old and big enough for that to have happened already, and it may have leg and/or hip problems. It also DOES NOT LIKE TO BE TOUCHED OR PICKED UP, which we found out when we tried to get it in a crate, and I fear this may be an issue it will have for a long time (since it’s blind and can’t see what’s touching it). We just took it to the vet to have it looked at. If it’s healthy, my mom wants to keep it in our house as an indoor cat. I am trying to talk her out of this and have it taken to a rescue or a no-kill shelter instead. My reasons: 1. My mom is crazy about cats, and has a long and storied history of making bad decisions when it comes to adopting kitties. 2. We have three indoor cats already and I don’t know how well a blind cat would get along with them, or vice versa. 3. I think a rescue or shelter is FAR, FAR better equipped to care for a blind cat than we are. Please help me convince my mom not to adopt a stray blind kitten. EDIT: I was hoping there’d be a link in the OP to a directory of cat rescues, but I don’t see one. I’m in northeast Texas, and Yelp isn’t really turning up anything in my town, so... if any of y’all know a place, feel free to let me know. I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 23:31 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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Are any of the ones listed in this directory near you? https://www.nokillnetwork.org/d/Texas/ There seems to be a number of them in the Dallas area if you're able to get the kitten over there.
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