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Severing posted: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. They trained you well.
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BabyFur Denny posted:They trained you well. I could have at least got a treat for it.
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Severing posted:I could have at least got a treat for it. Come on, you get to live in their home. Be thankful. It's a good deal.
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I have an update on “my” ginger cat: She shows up about once a day and waits at my door until I let her in to eat. After she eats we play with a feathered wand. I’ve been trying to get her exhausted from the wand so that she falls asleep inside, hoping that she’ll realize it’s so much better than wherever it is she sleeps now. I’m hoping she’ll start showing up more often (right now about once a day, seemingly for food) and spend more time inside, especially more time waking up indoors. Eventually I’d like to take her to the vet to get checked out.
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Mar 15, 2020 13:32
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My brother has been house-sitting whilst we've been away. Three nights in and the cat is still in hiding, and is coming out to eat half a meal before hiding again and eating the rest in secret. My bro is great with animals and is chill, won't have been hassling her or anything. He brought treats to her which meant he was allowed a brief scritch but that's all. I'm really surprised that she's not tolerating it better because he's the one bringing food. It's made us feel really guilty for leaving her but obviously we need to have the freedom to go away! I know she'll get over it, but do you guys have any similar experiences? When we adopted her it only took her a couple of days to start relaxing around us so I'm surprised she's not settled considering there hasn't been a huge change to environment or routine. Definitely hope never to need to put her in a cattery!
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Mar 15, 2020 17:39
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Some cats are just shy around strangers. Not much to be done except let them be how they are most comfortable!
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Mar 15, 2020 20:14
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Some cats are just shy around strangers. Not much to be done except let them be how they are most comfortable! Cats gonna cat
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Mar 15, 2020 20:16
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Yeah last time we went on vacation my cat Freya, who was normally the most social chill cat and will beg for scritches from strangers while we're home all of a sudden decided to say "gently caress this" and hid under the bed for the whole 2 weeks we were gone, only coming out to get occasional food/water and use the litterbox in the middle of the night. When we came home she was the first one to greet us at the door like nothing had happened.
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Mar 15, 2020 22:06
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Boris Galerkin posted:I have an update on “my” ginger cat: This is assuming you know it's a stray and no one else has a claim on her, and can keep a cat in the apartment.
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Mar 15, 2020 22:54
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Still better to be chilling under the bed at home than in a small cage in kitty daycare.
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Mar 15, 2020 23:18
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We went on a two week honeymoon and came back, Sam had lost a significant amount of weight. Sometimes they just get depressed/lonely even if they're being regularly fed.  Poor things have no way of knowing if you're coming back, after all.
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I finally decided to switch back to dry food and so far I'm happy with the result. It's cheaper and I'm wasting less food, meaning the money I'm saving goes to getting more tuna fillet treat my cat loves.
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Mar 18, 2020 17:54
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Revalis Enai posted:I finally decided to switch back to dry food and so far I'm happy with the result. It's cheaper and I'm wasting less food, meaning the money I'm saving goes to getting more tuna fillet treat my cat loves. Exclusively (aside from treats)? I feed mine a mix of dry and wet but my friend feeds exclusively dry but it's some weird anti-something dry that stops them getting their urinary track blocked up because one of her cats had that one day and it was expensive to fix.
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Mar 20, 2020 06:40
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 I hope one day I can move Terry to a bigger place where he can run around and have supervised outside time. Being cooped up with him in a small apartment has me wishing I could give him some interesting experiences with other people and cats too. So my question is: Why do I care about this?
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Mar 20, 2020 10:15
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Is Feliway (the plug-in diffusors, not the spray) a one-time thing to jumpstart making a cat feel at home or is it something I need to use for the foreseeable future?
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Mar 20, 2020 10:53
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Boris Galerkin posted:Is Feliway (the plug-in diffusors, not the spray) a one-time thing to jumpstart making a cat feel at home or is it something I need to use for the foreseeable future? Some people swear by it but I found it to be a huge waste of money that did nothing at all.
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Mar 20, 2020 13:03
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Some people swear by it but I found it to be a huge waste of money that did nothing at all. Same here. Works for some but never for a cat of mine or my mothers.
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So my wife and mother-in-law were watching the news the other night, had a little candle from IKEA going next to the TV (Smatrevelig - loving wonderful little thing). Dumbshit Boots hops up in front of the TV and...walks over the candle. Starts nosing around behind the TV before the burnt-hair smell starts and he realizes what the gently caress he's doing. Charred a good 1/8" off the fur on the right side of his tummy and stank for hours. He still smells like burnt hair. Luckily no major damage, just a bruised ego. Believe it or not, this is the second time he's done something equally dumb. The first time, my wife was taking a bath with a candle next to her and dumbshit burned one of his whiskers off because he was being a nosy drat kitten and worried about my wife in the tub (him and Prinny both do this, they act like she's in distress).
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Mar 20, 2020 13:40
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Some people swear by it but I found it to be a huge waste of money that did nothing at all. Definitely mixed results as you can see from other goons, but it works like a charm on my two fuzzy morons.
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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 recently lost my best buddy Colin age 14 to GI cancer, after years of successfully controlling his chronic pancreatitis and IBD. He was first diagnosed in 2014, but had symptoms for years before that- namely periods of vomiting. Good news is for a long time the symptoms can be controlled with a strict diet, and other things like feeding much more often as stated above by other posters, those are good tips. Be aware that chronic pancreatitis is far worse than bouts of acute panc, and the prognosis is not as good. Sounds like your little guy has the acute form, and this can be monitored by doing a blood panel when is asymptomatic, if it still shows elevated pancreatric whatsits, it's likely to be the chronic form. Over about 8 years Colins timeline progressed from pancreatitis---------------------------->difficulty maintaining body weight--------->IBD--->Cancer My tips: -Join 'IBD kitties' group on facebook, it has a wealth of info on pancreatitis, and thousands of users if you need to ask questions. But don't stay too long or increase your anxiety by reading all the threads, they can be heartbreaking - Feed a good food with as high a meat content with as few additives as you can afford. For me in the UK this meant ordering from Germany (Zooplus) to find decent offerings. Read the labels on the foods at your local pet store (once nCOV has died back obvs) to see if there's anything with 95%+ meat content from a known source (turkey or chicken etc, not 'meat and meat deriviatives' which are sweepings and stuff jetwashed off the floor.) -Try to monitor their litter activities to notice any changes so you can discuss with your vet. In time, like my cat you may need to limit his outdoor access or eventually make it inside only. My cat did not seem to care one bit that one day the catflap was locked and that was that. -Recognise the signs of discomfort in YOUR cat. They hide pain pretty well, but you eventually be able to read when a flare up is in the post, and be able to enact measures early like pain meds or appetite stims etc. This will make a huge difference to their quality of life Here's a few pics of Col, he really was the best cat.       This is after getting home from a week at the vet after a really bad flare. He'd lost a third of his body weight at this point. I feel sad
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On the up side, I have just got TWO new cats, sisters, with 2 years on the clock. This was what I had a question about before I saw the panc stuff: I cannot get any cat litter for 2 weeks. I have ordered some that comes on april 4th, but everywhere is out of stock locally, and I don't want to get the 'rona by chasing around the shops for the one thing I don't have a months stock of. What can I use as a substitute? I mean I guess I could use a load of soil from the garden, but I don't want to drag bugs etc in the house. I was thinking either a big bag of compost from the DIY store (can order it no prob) or a bag of builders sand? Shredded paper? Anyone else with this dilemma? Cats are currently named Blackie and Ginger, that will change, need some ideas, never had female cats before. Sorry no decent photos yet.  Blackie  Melted Blackie  Ginger  Think I'm going to rename her Greta. It's the frown, like trump just walked past lol
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IffyNewtz posted:On the up side, I have just got TWO new cats, sisters, with 2 years on the clock. Sand would be good, I think? Your cats are GORGEOUS! I am no poo poo substrate expert, but soil would do a much better job of keeping the smell down than compost, I think. And bugs are just bonus cat treats!
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Boris Galerkin posted:Is Feliway (the plug-in diffusors, not the spray) a one-time thing to jumpstart making a cat feel at home or is it something I need to use for the foreseeable future? It's hard for me to say for sure but I put one in the safe room when I got my second cat and she seemed pretty chill in there, plus the vet recommended them for the integration period. I keep two of them plugged in with the multi-cat bottles. Refills are like $16 on Amazon for 2 vs $40 or whatever at the store. I figure it can't hurt.
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IffyNewtz posted:Cats are currently named Blackie and Ginger, that will change, Those are exactly the names I gave my childhood cats  I was five though, so I'm not saying they're very good or imaginative names.They're cuties! I like Greta as a name.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Sand would be good, I think? Your cats are GORGEOUS! Thanks  Bugs/snails I'm ok with, intestinal worms and flea eggs not so... Since my Colin stopped going out other 'hood cats have taken up the mantle of making GBS threads in my garden. Not a good time to go get their boosters etc they need at the vet. Although I half think like everywhere, they will need the business and I just ask for a mask and gloves to be available by phone first. I'm planning to keep these two inside at least 6 weeks so they can settle in their new indoor home with heating and soft furnishings everywhere they are loving it (They lived my friends workshop/garage because they brought fleas into the house that bit up their newborn son. His wife laid down the law. Hence I am re-homing them) floofyscorp posted:Those are exactly the names I gave my childhood cats Tbh I quite like the name Blackie, but I can't be shouting that out the back door Although my incredibly racist taxi driving neighbour would be pleased. Toxoplasmid fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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IffyNewtz posted:Thanks Are you just looking for clay litters, or have you tried looking for pine? There's specific pine litter, but a bag of pellets (like for a wood stove) would work too. Cross-cut shredded paper sometimes works, but since the paper sorta disintegrates it is very annoying. (Less so than finding a new carpet spot to clean, though. )
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Soooo question. What with the city and state wide shut downs across the country, what exactly is going to happen with vets and vet hospitals? My girl is 6 months and due for her spay but the vet is like check in with us that day to see if we dont shut down. Should I just wait to get her spayed so that its easier to get medical care for her if there are post surgery complications?
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My local veterinarians all seem to be abiding by a policy of treating emergencies and serious operations but leaving everything else to phone calls, mail, and medication pick-up.
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I've been trying to get my cat to eat more wet food and he's developed a taste for the tuna varieties. I've been reading that the cat foods with fish in them could be detrimental to their health. He really likes the Tuna varieties and i was worried about about Mercury intake and that's what got me started down the rabbit hole. He's not even a year old yet so I don't want him to get hooked on a food that's bad for him. I found this quote from a website, and this person was pretty adamant about fish in cat food being a BAD THING.quote:I feed no fish, ever. Aside from the possible hyperthyroid connection (which isn't a new discovery, it's been tossed around for a number of years now) fish is high in histamines, making an allergic reaction more likely. Is there any merit to this? I mean even if it's half as bad as this person is claiming I'll discontinue feeding him the fish varieties and try some others.
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IffyNewtz posted:On the up side, I have just got TWO new cats, sisters, with 2 years on the clock. You could name the other cat Hannah or Hanna  .
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Fruits, vegetables, foods, other animals, plants make excellent cat names. Blackie has such pretty torbie colors.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I've been trying to get my cat to eat more wet food and he's developed a taste for the tuna varieties. I've been reading that the cat foods with fish in them could be detrimental to their health. He really likes the Tuna varieties and i was worried about about Mercury intake and that's what got me started down the rabbit hole. He's not even a year old yet so I don't want him to get hooked on a food that's bad for him. I found this quote from a website, and this person was pretty adamant about fish in cat food being a BAD THING. The wording of it sounds very bullshitty. https://www.uwsheltermedicine.com/library/resources/does-fish-flavored-cat-food-cause-gi-upset quote:There is no evidence to suggest that feeding fish-flavored canned food is harmful to kittens or adult cats- we know because we looked! The idea that fish-flavored food can cause stomach upset in cats or kittens is somewhat widespread but when we tried to find any facts supporting this, we came up empty.
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Gaj posted:Soooo question. What with the city and state wide shut downs across the country, what exactly is going to happen with vets and vet hospitals? My girl is 6 months and due for her spay but the vet is like check in with us that day to see if we dont shut down. Should I just wait to get her spayed so that its easier to get medical care for her if there are post surgery complications? Follow up question, are there any issues with waiting to spay a kitten? Cause someone and their fur baby are about to take a little trip to an isolated house on a mountain.
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The big issue is going to be that if she goes into heat, that's going to be a nightmare -- tons of yowling and pissing. It's not a health emergency, but it won't be pleasant for either of you.
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Pissing.... In the litter tray or onto the wall to wall carpeting?
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Call your vet, see if they're taking appointments for it. Its pretty important to get done.
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Goddamn pandemic making my kittens healthcare complicated. I know the vet said she needed a cone of shame for 2 weeks, but realistically how long should i wait before taking a 2 hour car ride with her. (self isolation in the woods is great)
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Mar 21, 2020 07:22
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I think the problem with female cats isn't really spraying, it's that they go into heat if you don't spay them and then they get even nuttier than normal running around and meowing constantly every month or so.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:
I wish my apartment would allow more than patio furniture, or I would build a catio for mine. I feel the same way though, I spend a ton of time worrying about my cats being bored which has led me to buying tons of toys including that wheel they only scratch on instead of running and recently inspired by youtube 'for cats videos' like $300 on aquarium/fish/accessories. Enrichment I think its called. They actually REALLY enjoy the fish tank though so worth it imo and its something I've wanted to do for a while. I think we care because we look at their lives and think "I'd be bored if I was them" even if they might not actually be bored. Actually being able to lay around all day and have all my needs taken care of by your butler seems pretty ideal.
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