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My cat also sometimes stares at his water fountain without drinking it. It doubles as his zen fountain.
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Drint Blasters posted:So that was a night, thankfully the meowing and exploring lasts about 15 minutes then she gets back into bed, kicks off again an hour later. She jumped up on the bathroom window sill and got caught up the blinds, rescued her and raised the blinds a bit but she can't see anything, glass is fogged. Must've smelt something. Still hasn't eaten anything but I am going to try feeding her on top of the dryer, foster guy fed her on a bench in their laundry so she might be used to eating off the floor. Yeah sounds about right, it'll be a few nights before your cat figures out your patterns and roughly conforms to them. She'll eventually figure out you're boring at night and she'll either sleep when you do or find ways to amuse herself until you wake up.
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We got a bangle, so he'd swim in his waterbowl if he could. I definitely think I'll try one of these water fountains out especially reading the success people on here have had with them.
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Can someone tell me if this is a male or female cat? It’s a stray/feral that recently started coming into my apartment. I think I’ve seen it around here as a kitten, so I’d guess it’s 1-2 years old. I don’t want to accidentally fill your screen up with cat anuses so copy and paste: https://i.imgur.com/pNV9aOl.jpg It’s a bit blurry but that’s the best I could do without freaking it out. I think it’s a female from googling for pictures of cat genitals but I’m not sure. Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Mar 7, 2020 |
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Mar 7, 2020 13:50
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Boris Galerkin posted:I think it’s a female from googling for pictures of cat genitals but I’m not sure. That's a vagina - you have a girl. For the future, even neutered males have a prominent scrotum (just an empty one) and a backward facing slit (penis urethra faces forward/down) is a vagina.
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D34THROW posted:We use a Catit fountain with 6 streams and a 3-liter capacity. They all love it and it's very quiet when full. Easy to clean and filters are reasonable too. Same. rear end in a top hat would rinse his paws and drown toys in his water dish. Catit fountain prevents that splendidly
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seiferguy posted:It helped my cat drink a lot more. Evolutionarily speaking, cats like the idea of running water because it shows it’s clean. Cat's also have trouble actually seeing regular standing water (they have good distance vision, but poor close up vision) which is why you often see them pawing at it to create some ripples and sound which informs them of where exactly the water starts in the bowl.
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TMMadman posted:which is why you often see them pawing at it to create some ripples and sound which informs them of where exactly the water starts in the bowl. My cat does that with dry food. What's wrong with my cat?
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Mar 7, 2020 14:42
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Katt posted:My cat does that with dry food. What's wrong with my cat? Is cat, working as intended
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Mar 7, 2020 14:49
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Ratzap posted:That's a vagina - you have a girl. For the future, even neutered males have a prominent scrotum (just an empty one) and a backward facing slit (penis urethra faces forward/down) is a vagina.
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Paperback Writer posted:aren’t female ginger cats pretty uncommon too? Yeah, they are, but I'm guessing that female cat is probably a calico.
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TMMadman posted:Yeah, they are, but I'm guessing that female cat is probably a calico. Not a calico, but I did think it was a male before I took the picture cause of what I read about it being rare too. 
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Boris Galerkin posted:Not a calico, but I did think it was a male before I took the picture cause of what I read about it being rare too. Neat, although I think female orange cats are less rare than male calicos
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Severing posted:We got a bangle, so he'd swim in his waterbowl if he could. I definitely think I'll try one of these water fountains out especially reading the success people on here have had with them. There's certainly more expensive options, but I can highly can reccomended the thread favorite, basic & cheap Catit fountain. Cats inexplicably love it right off the bat. It's simple, holds a bunch of water and is easy to take apart and clean. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0146QXOB0
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Milly had trouble with cat acne when I had a plastic fountain. Switched to this stainless one that I guess sterilizes better and that problem cleared up. Its only 2 halves and the pump assembly so extremely easy to clean. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0037NKDSG
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Anytime I go to the bathroom and sit down one of my cats, Beans, a neutered male always runs up to me, turns around, shakes his tail and arches his back. Everytime. It seems like it's spraying behavior but he's not spraying anything. I've never seen him do it anywhere else and my other two cats never do it. What does it mean? Does anyone else's cat do it?
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Both of my girl cats do this. They know I'm stuck and this is prime time for butt scritches.
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Dipshit Boots follows me in the bathroom and Prinny follows my wife. Matter of fact, Princess follows my wife everywhere, literally sleeps touching her no matter where it is, and walks around merping and generally bitching if my wife is not home. Boots just climbs on top of me and merps for attention.
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My girl cat often ends up putting her feet on the lip of the seat between my legs and stands up meowing for butt scratches. She doesn't seem to understand when I tell her that I don't watch/bother her when she poops, so I'll just have to keep dealing with it and scratching her butt. The funniest ones are when she wakes up from a dead sleep and just comes running the second I sit down. It seems like it would just be better to keep sleeping given what I'm doing, especially since cat noses are more powerful.
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hypoallergenic cat breed posted:Anytime I go to the bathroom and sit down one of my cats, Beans, a neutered male always runs up to me, turns around, shakes his tail and arches his back. Everytime. It seems like it's spraying behavior but he's not spraying anything. I've never seen him do it anywhere else and my other two cats never do it. What does it mean? Does anyone else's cat do it? AFAIK, the "butt aiming, tail twitching" is a form of affection. I think in their minds they're shooting what I will call "love stink" at you.
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Anyone ever had a cat with chronic pancreatitis and/or chronic vomiting? My 8 year old cat has been vomiting on and off for about 6 weeks. He typically has an episode where he vomits, can’t keep anything down and will continue to vomit clear fluid/bile until we can get him to the vet. First time we took to vet he had an inflamed pancreas as seen on ultrasound and he got iv fluids and meds (antibiotic, pain, nausea, acid reducer) for a day. He was fine for about 5 days and relapsed. We took him back to the vet for the same treatment and he was put on an oral acid reducer and oral cerenia (anti nausea) daily at home. He was fine for about 9 days until this morning and started vomiting again. He is otherwise happy with good energy and appetite when not vomiting. No pooping or peeing issues either. On examination he doesn’t appear to be in pain and his blood labs are always fine. He had a similar experience two years ago but overnight fluids and medication cleared it up without any reoccurrence. Currently on a low fat diet (2% fat in wet food and 11% in dry food). I’m just kind of at my wits end on this, we’ve been to the vet 4 times in the past month and will probably go a specialist next week. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. slave to my cravings fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Feb 11, 2023 |
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So I think I had a bit of first time parent syndrome or something, Hildy has turned the corner and after 40+ hours decided to eat something, not alot but something. I was super worried cause I read that they can get very sick from not eating, so I was thinking "oh no I've only had this cat a day and a half and she's gunna get sick omg what do I do??" Anyway I put down 3 different types of wet food, some roast chicken and some dry food, she ate a little bit of 1 of the wet food. I assume this is just how she is cause she is thinner than other cats I've seen. Also just sleeps in my bed all day, only ventures out when I go to bed. Isn't interested in playing with toys at all, big time lazy bones. Oh and I noticed when she uses the litter box she scratches at the floor, i have wooden floors so nbd, just curious what that is about. Here she is btw, she got out from under the blanket long enough for me to get a pic  Edit: More info Drint Blasters fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Mar 8, 2020 |
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slave to my cravings posted:Anyone ever had a cat with chronic pancreatitis and/or chronic vomiting? My 8 year old cat has been vomiting on and off for about 6 weeks. He typically has an episode where he vomits, can’t keep anything down and will continue to vomit clear fluid/bile until we can get him to the vet. First time we took to vet he had an inflamed pancreas as seen on ultrasound and he got iv fluids and meds (antibiotic, pain, nausea, acid reducer) for a day. He was fine for about 5 days and relapsed. We took him back to the vet for the same treatment and he was put on an oral acid reducer and oral cerenia (anti nausea) daily at home. He was fine for about 9 days until this morning and started vomiting again. He is otherwise happy with good energy and appetite when not vomiting. No pooping or peeing issues either. On examination he doesn’t appear to be in pain and his blood labs are always fine. He had a similar experience two years ago but overnight fluids and medication cleared it up without any reoccurrence. Currently on a low fat diet (2% fat in wet food and 11% in dry food). Me, I'm the poster with a chronic pancreatitis kitty. Our cat is in her 2.5th year or so of steroids for it. She's had pancreatitis issues on and off her whole life; our cat is a chimera & the vet is convinced something wasn't routed right internally. (The vet had to fix some liver shunts, etc when she was a kitten.) Things that help: 1) Steroids. She has to take a 7mg pill of steroids every day at this point, but in the past she was able to get buy on half a tab every other day. Steroids for flare-ups, steroids for maintenance-- definitely ask about these with your vet, as they have helped the most. 2) Monthly B12 shots. Chronic pancreatitis means B12 won't be absorbed properly, which can cause nausea among other issues. You can probably learn to give these at home; our cat is a terror and so she visits the vet monthly for her shot. We can tell when, for schedule reasons, she has to get her shot late. Pancreatitis already causes nausea, so this is just going to make it worse unless it's addressed. 3) Cerenia to give pre-flare-up and during flare-ups. Sometimes a few day of anti-nausea meds are all we need and she gets herself back to normal without having a full-flare-up. We can tell when she's starting to feel bad-- takes longer to eat her food, begins leaving some of it, etc. The vet's main advice was to keep her eating, even if it's tuna or another incomplete food, until she went back to her own food. Cerenia definitely motivates her to eat, and it takes about 8 hours to work for us. 4) Low-stress environment. We noticed when strangers are in our house she gets flare-ups, so we've just resigned ourselves to only having people she knows inside. Figure out what stresses your cat, and try to mitigate it. Each cat is different-- when we first decided the pancreatitis was here to stay, our vet gave us 6 months to 6 years (the cat was 12 at the time). It can be treatable! A specialist should make a world of difference.
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Drint Blasters posted:So I think I had a bit of first time parent syndrome or something, Hildy has turned the corner and after 40+ hours decided to eat something, not alot but something. I was super worried cause I read that they can get very sick from not eating, so I was thinking "oh no I've only had this cat a day and a half and she's gunna get sick omg what do I do??" Daw, what a cutie. She'll eat more once she feels safer, it sounds like she's still in omg-scary-new-place mode. Give her time. All cats have an instinct to bury their poop, but this very often just results in scratching at the ground in the vicinity of said poop. Totally normal, is cat. One of mine will scratch at the plastic side of the litterbox and leave his giant stink piles completely open to the air. 
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effika posted:Me, I'm the poster with a chronic pancreatitis kitty. Thank you so much. Our regular vet has been fairly unhelpful besides getting him to stop vomiting and resetting him for a week and never really seemed to understand that he may need a longer treatment plan. I guess it’s unclear whether this is an extended acute case (based on how he recovered two years ago) or if it’s now a chronic condition (I’m leaning towards chronic now). The lab tests for the pancreatic enzymes came back negative but his ultrasound definitely showed an inflamed pancreas and upper GI tract. Our vet said the negative lab tests aren’t too unusual though. Do you use oral Cerenia or did your vet give you injectable to give at home? Oral is convenient but so far it’s kind of hard to stop an acute episode of vomiting when he throws up everything he eats after an hour or doesn’t want to eat period. He also seems to not like solid foods as much when he has a flare up, but will lick up some gravy. Did you ever do subq fluids? I will ask about b12 shots on our next visit as well. I’m hoping the specialist will be able to come up with an actual treatment plan that can handle both maintenance and flare ups. Seriously thanks so much it’s just good to know that it should be manageable at home and I won’t have to spend a thousand dollars to revive him every 2 weeks.
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effika posted:Me, I'm the poster with a chronic pancreatitis kitty. It took us 2 years to figure out how to keep our cat stable. The first iteration was just prednisolone to address the inflammation. Prednisolone reduced the inflammation but gave her horrible diarrhea, so we added metronidazole to stabilize her bowel movements. Even then, she'd still occasionally lose her appetite and/or vomit yellow bile for days at a time. Adding B12 and Cerenia solved that for us. Other stuff we've started doing: - Making sure she has access to food all the time. If she goes for several hours without eating anything, she might throw up clear liquid even on the Cerenia regiment. It almost seems like having an empty stomach for too long gives her indigestion and she throws up stomach acid. So if you're feeding your cat on a schedule, you might want to consider shortening the time between feedings, to keep food in his stomach more frequently. I have no scientific basis for this advice, just my own anecdote. - Washing her food dishes after every use. When she's feeling bad, I noticed that the kibble she left behind smelled really foul from contact with her saliva. Having a fresh dish with fresh food made a big difference. - Offering cat grass sometimes. When she's feeling really off, she gets obsessed with grain - bread, grass, crackers, etc. So we'll try to offer her cat-safe sources of fiber. That seems to help kickstart her appetite. - Rotating her food if she acts food-averse. She has a kibble that she sticks to most of the time, but we keep a few different foods on hand that we know she might accept. Cats form very strong associative bonds so if they feel sick on one food, they might associate that food with feeling sick, and you might have better luck swapping in a different food. This only works about half the time for us, but that's better than nothing. slave to my cravings posted:Thank you so much. Our regular vet has been fairly unhelpful besides getting him to stop vomiting and resetting him for a week and never really seemed to understand that he may need a longer treatment plan. I guess it’s unclear whether this is an extended acute case (based on how he recovered two years ago) or if it’s now a chronic condition (I’m leaning towards chronic now). The lab tests for the pancreatic enzymes came back negative but his ultrasound definitely showed an inflamed pancreas and upper GI tract. Our vet said the negative lab tests aren’t too unusual though.
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More good suggestions! Our little buddy seems to be doing quite a bit better now after resting all day. He kept some cat food gravy down earlier and now is eating a bit of regular food. It’s so bizarre how it just seems to come and go in waves, but the suggestions here give me confidence that I will figure something out long term. Thank you!
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slave to my cravings posted:More good suggestions! Our little buddy seems to be doing quite a bit better now after resting all day. He kept some cat food gravy down earlier and now is eating a bit of regular food. It’s so bizarre how it just seems to come and go in waves, but the suggestions here give me confidence that I will figure something out long term. Thank you! I'm glad he's getting some food in him! Ours loves gravy from food pouches, or the meat jelly in cans. She'll lick those up pretty frequently even if she doesn't feel well. Our cerenia is in tabs, and we don't do subq fluids. (She's had them at the vet occasionally though.) This cat is not one that's easy to stab but luckily she has kept her pills down mostly. Definitely get the vet to get your cat a cerenia injection to start you off and hopefully you can keep ahead of the nausea. It does seem to come in waves, so try to pill him when he's less likely to puke. Since we have to feed wet food we've sometimes had to come home at lunch, throw out what's left, and put down new. Dry is much easier to manage that way if you can do it. Seconding the feed more often advice, too! Multiple meal times definitely helps our cat.
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mistaya posted:Daw, what a cutie. She'll eat more once she feels safer, it sounds like she's still in omg-scary-new-place mode. Give her time. All cats have an instinct to bury their poop, but this very often just results in scratching at the ground in the vicinity of said poop. Totally normal, is cat. One of mine will scratch at the plastic side of the litterbox and leave his giant stink piles completely open to the air. Princess was courteous enough to bury her latest bedroom poo poo with a pair of my wife's sleep shorts. Ruby shits under our bed and in front of the front door. Princess shits and pisses on the bed - always on my wife's side. My wife sleeps in most days since she has health issues and I work from home 90% of the time, and doesn't always hear them scratching. Most of the time Princess doesn't meow to get out and I just get a text saying "loving PRINNY" and walk back to the bedroom to a blast of horrible shitsmell that takes an hour to dissipate. She's even pissed and poo poo directly on my sleeping wife 
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Should I be ignoring this cat completely unless it comes up to me first, or should I be trying to interact with it (like trying to get her attention but not actually going towards her or touching her) and hoping she comes towards me? Edit: She sometimes runs up to my hands/fists and head butts it repeatedly. She doesn’t rub against my legs or anywhere else like other cats do, and she does rub herself against corners and walls and stuff so she knows how to do that. Why is she head butting my hands? I see her sitting or walking around with the very tip of her tail shaking a lot. At first I thought she was cold cause she’d lay in front of the open door and it’s somewhat chilly outside but she lets me close the door now and still shakes the tip of her tail. Google says it’s anxiety? Boris Galerkin fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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I would say it’s best to give new cats some space. They will usually come to you as they trust you more. Cats will slowly start to trust you more as they associate you as a source of food and get used to your smell and movements. If she is rubbing your hand/head butting you that’s a good sign. She is sharing her smell with you and it’s a sign of affection at least in every cat I’ve known. Either that or they want you to do something for them (food, let me outside, wake up, etc.). For her tail she might just be alert and looking out the window for birds, etc. This is a pretty good summary of cat tail motions:  Basically unless it’s bushy, down between their legs, or moving rapidly they are probably in an okay mood.
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Boris Galerkin posted:I see her sitting or walking around with the very tip of her tail shaking a lot. At first I thought she was cold cause she’d lay in front of the open door and it’s somewhat chilly outside but she lets me close the door now and still shakes the tip of her tail. Google says it’s anxiety? Could be that or she's very excited to see you. My little one does this when we're playing fetch. Every time she comes back and drops her mouse in front of me her tail is vibrating like crazy. She does that when I get home sometimes too.
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Also do note that cats puffing their tail up is a reflexive action, not something they choose to do. It's a defense mechanism to the sudden and unexpected to puff them up and make them look bigger/more threatening to potential predators. If you make a loud noise or surprise the cat in some way and it suddenly puffs up it may not necessarily be angry with you, you just surprised it and it went into the cat equivalent of an adrenaline spike. Have had plenty of instances where something happened to freak out Mel and she puffs up like a balloon, only a few seconds later to realize she's in no danger and run over to me for reassuring pets while her tail is still completely puffed out. 
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Boris Galerkin posted:She sometimes runs up to my hands/fists and head butts it repeatedly. She doesn’t rub against my legs or anywhere else like other cats do, and she does rub herself against corners and walls and stuff so she knows how to do that. Why is she head butting my hands? Cats are weird little unique snowflakes and each one will have it's own behaviors and quirks, especially when it comes to how they relate to humans. As long as she seems comfortable and affectionate I wouldn't worry about how exactly she expresses it. That said, I've noticed most cats react to other CATS in very predictable ways. It's like each one comes up with their own language for people, but they all have an instinctual language just for other cats.
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slave to my cravings posted:I would say it’s best to give new cats some space. They will usually come to you as they trust you more. Cats will slowly start to trust you more as they associate you as a source of food and get used to your smell and movements. If she is rubbing your hand/head butting you that’s a good sign. She is sharing her smell with you and it’s a sign of affection at least in every cat I’ve known. Either that or they want you to do something for them (food, let me outside, wake up, etc.). Okay, but how can I tell when a cat is NOT being derisive, it being cat?
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Okay, but how can I tell when a cat is NOT being derisive, it being cat? When you get that very special "Human, I require assistance" meow and look from a cat that's gone on an adventure it currently regrets.
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TMMadman posted:Cat's also have trouble actually seeing regular standing water (they have good distance vision, but poor close up vision) which is why you often see them pawing at it to create some ripples and sound which informs them of where exactly the water starts in the bowl. My childhood cat, Mariko, would put her paw down the side of the dish til it hit the surface of the water, then guided her face down her wrist and held her paw there while she slurped.
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Katt posted:
So is the cat waiting to eat a mama bird or be fed by one?
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My cats afternoon: have a nap while I cook nearby. Wake up because hungry and meow at me. Get fed. Play for 1 minute. Back to spot for another nap. Nice life.
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