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massive spider posted:Idiot bastard cat came back. He’s 6 months old and had previously never shown any interest in going 5 metres from the house but last week got spooked and went on a week long grand tour where people responding to my flyers were claiming he was half a mile away. Sounds like a cat, functioning as intended. loving dickhead reminds me of Todd; he always used to want to get out and regularly did, often trying to make a break for it. WHo's gonna give you brain scritches on your little skull ridge if you run away, fuckhead 
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Some cat litter dust got in my eyes. It's used cat litter. Can that cause an infection?
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massive spider posted:Idiot bastard cat came back. He’s 6 months old and had previously never shown any interest in going 5 metres from the house but last week got spooked and went on a week long grand tour where people responding to my flyers were claiming he was half a mile away. Just as an FYI if you weren't already applying a topical flea/heartworm medication like Revolution to your cat, I'd suggest bringing them to the vet to get checked for both ASAP and then start applying said topical. In particular I'd bet good money that after spending a week outside your dumbass cat picked up fleas.
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Apr 8, 2020 18:43
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Pollyanna posted:Some cat litter dust got in my eyes. It's used cat litter. Can that cause an infection? maybe but your eyes are pretty good at preventing stuff from happening you could rinse your eyes if you have saline or boil some water to sterilize it
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Apr 8, 2020 18:45
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massive spider posted:Idiot bastard cat came back. He’s 6 months old and had previously never shown any interest in going 5 metres from the house but last week got spooked and went on a week long grand tour where people responding to my flyers were claiming he was half a mile away. keep your cat inside
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Apr 8, 2020 19:10
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Sydin posted:Just as an FYI if you weren't already applying a topical flea/heartworm medication like Revolution to your cat, I'd suggest bringing them to the vet to get checked for both ASAP and then start applying said topical. In particular I'd bet good money that after spending a week outside your dumbass cat picked up fleas. Yeah he spent his first night back in the bathroom being detoxed with flea spray. Deviant posted:keep your cat inside Oh is that what I was supposed to do? I've been putting up posters all week saying "please help find my cat he is an indoor cat he is not supposed to be outside" but sadly it turns out cats don't understand english!
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Apr 8, 2020 22:49
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D34THROW posted:Sounds like a cat, functioning as intended. loving dickhead reminds me of Todd; he always used to want to get out and regularly did, often trying to make a break for it. Cats!
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Apr 9, 2020 00:53
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Tamarillo posted:When I still had my 16lb megacat, we had to go horizontal for his scratching needs - this kind of thing: https://www.amazon.com/Kitty-City-Corrugate-Scratchers-Cardboard/dp/B01MZG54L6?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_1 Oh these look great! Thank you so much!
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Apr 9, 2020 03:04
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My 16 pound wondercat is back from the vet with prescription food for his gastrointestinal health and antacid pills i'm going to have to jam down his throat. I got one of those long pill dropper dealies but still I'm going to have to swaddle and pin him to do it. At least he doesn't have anything acute.
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massive spider posted:Yeah he spent his first night back in the bathroom being detoxed with flea spray. you made him sound like an outdoor cat
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massive spider posted:Idiot bastard cat came back. He’s 6 months old and had previously never shown any interest in going 5 metres from the house but last week got spooked and went on a week long grand tour where people responding to my flyers were claiming he was half a mile away. I am VERY happy you got your kitty back! Nobody should be deprived of their pets at a time like this... Cats are like this, though - and you shouldn't be too surprised or shocked that he bolted, because cats just... DO THAT, sometimes, inexplicably and with no precedent. And cats can and do get lost, at times. As embarrassing as it might be, calling out for your cat in YOUR voice in the area where your cat vanished can and does help - or for me it does, at any right. But cats naturally want to explore and investigate - even indoor cats. And yeah I would seriously consider getting a leash/harness if you want to let your cat out in the future. I'd keep him inside though. Bear in mind this is a REALLY important time. Indoor/outdoor cats can be really annoying just because they spend SO MUCH TIME standing at the door, scratching and meowing. I speak from experience. I'd honestly recommend that you commit to one or the other.
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Apr 9, 2020 21:32
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taqueso posted:maybe but your eyes are pretty good at preventing stuff from happening I appreciate the implication that OP is just walking around for half a day with cat piss dust in their eye like "What do I do? Is it safe to rinse this out or should I leave it in and call a doctor?"
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Apr 10, 2020 07:07
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mistaya posted:My cat pees red when he's stressed. It's happened three times (in ten years so like, not that often) and I've gotten him x-rays all three times and no crystals, just cat with a stressed out bladder. Well, the doc called back and said the urine culture suggested an infection, so I've got her on twice-a-day Amoxi-Clavulanate for the next 4 days, once a little after breakfast and once a little before dinner. At least so far, newer bathtub/sink pees aren't happening, and I haven't seen turds on the floor since yesterday. Also I need to chuck the heated cat pod that was recommended by thread go-ers. She only used it recently, as a new place to pee in.
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Apr 11, 2020 00:07
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I found a lump on my cat. She got spayed last week, and she just now started to be comfortable with belly rubs and pets. I felt a hard spot near the stitches about the size of a small cashew or almond, no bigger than the last knuckle of a pinkie. She has full kitten energy and appetite. Google searches say this can either be a hernia (worst case scenario), or small amount of internal bleeding. Im calling the vet tomorrow just to consult but if its the worst case scenario (hernia) how bad is this?
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Apr 11, 2020 09:49
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Gaj posted:I found a lump on my cat. She got spayed last week, and she just now started to be comfortable with belly rubs and pets. I felt a hard spot near the stitches about the size of a small cashew or almond, no bigger than the last knuckle of a pinkie. She has full kitten energy and appetite. One of my cats got spayed back when I was on low income and went to low income place to get her fixed and she has a small lump on her belly afterward too. I heard that the way she was spayed (probably one vet doing a bunch at a time considering the circumstances) may have caused it but it went away after some time. It never hurts to be safe, though!
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Apr 11, 2020 23:54
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 Bringing these 2 home on Monday. They are 3 mos. brother and sister. We have everything set up in the bedroom for their arrival and acclimation, but we hope to keep the litter box in a different part of the house. Can we move it to its permanent spot as soon as they start venturing out of the bedroom? Also does anyone keep their litter box in a bathtub, not sure if they will be able to jump in and out of there.
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Womyn Capote posted:Also does anyone keep their litter box in a bathtub, not sure if they will be able to jump in and out of there. First time cat owner, huh? Less flippantly, yeah they'll probably be fine, just make sure to show them where the litterbox is. And post more pics!
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Apr 12, 2020 05:22
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Organza Quiz posted:First time cat owner, huh? My cat would somersault 7 feet into the air and land on a jacket on the top of a coat rack to sleep on it. A bathtub seems pretty trivial haha.
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Anyone have any recommendations on water fountains? I currently have this  But my little fuckhead keeps tipping it over, spilling a container of water everywhere every 5min, so it's currently unused. I'm happy paying for a larger solution and saw there were stainless steel ones available, but would like to hear if anyone had any experience (With shithead cats tipping over the fountain) Something heavy, and hard to tip over, would be greeeeatttt
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Apr 12, 2020 12:45
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Alternative solution is to just hotglue the drat thing to weight.
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The larger one holds nearly a gallon of water and our dish tipping rear end in a top hat hasn't pulled it off yet and we've had it for a couple years at this point
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Hi, cat thread. Anyone have any tips on stopping a cat messing with themselves after surgery? Our guy has a paw problem, which is either the result of him overgrooming and biting his toe beans for years before we got him, or something nastier. He went in for a biopsy on tuesday and since then we've been going crazy trying to stop him grooming his paw too harshly. He pulled bandages off within two seconds of waking up, it's impossible to put them back on, and he gets out of his collar as soon as he feels like it. Our options are: 1) stay awake in shifts monitoring him constantly to stop him biting, 2) try to condition him somehow to stop. 1 has made us go slightly mad, 2 we feel we can do by spritzing a bit of water near him if he goes for his paw but I'm worried that's just being poo poo? He is healing from the damage and the biopsy, slowly, but we let him be a bit less supervised earlier today and he already bit himself bloody. Not sure that leaving him to heal at his own pace will work? Anyway any advice welcome.
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I have just moved in with my partner in crime and I have become acquired by his two approximately 13 year old rescue cats, Puck and Zohar! [i will edit in my photos] i love them and their little throat motors!
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One more day left of the medication, so far so good. Buddy's had 2 shits on the floor, so I bought some plastic coarse-ish litter mats to make it less "comfortable" to poop in those places, but she has attempted to poop on the small un-matted part of the bathroom floor. She sometimes still jumps in the bathtub to pee out of newfound habit, and I've caught her pawing at the sides in prep for peeing, so I've stuck some cardboard clutter in there to make it also less accessible. Strangely she knows to properly use the balcony litterbox without any training or aid.
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occluded posted:Hi, cat thread. Anyone have any tips on stopping a cat messing with themselves after surgery? Our guy has a paw problem, which is either the result of him overgrooming and biting his toe beans for years before we got him, or something nastier. He went in for a biopsy on tuesday and since then we've been going crazy trying to stop him grooming his paw too harshly. He pulled bandages off within two seconds of waking up, it's impossible to put them back on, and he gets out of his collar as soon as he feels like it. E-collar is probably the only way to keep a cat from going after its paw. We’ve had really good success with the inflatable kind- it’s not so cumbersome that the cat is off balance/can’t get into a covered litterbox, but restricts movement enough to stop them from loving with wounds.
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When my cat got spayed they put bad-tasting stuff on her stitches instead of a cone of shame and that seemed to work just fine to stop her messing with them. You might be able to find something similar?
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I saw a dead kitten on the road this morning.  It had been hit by a car. Don't let your cats outside, goons.
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Womyn Capote posted:
We had a cat who preferred to use the bath tub drain as a urinal. He'd just squat right over it he'd poop in the box in another part of the house. I think your guys would be fine.
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The inflatable e collar is probably your best bet, but the bad tasting goop could work too. Check out @tummyandgummy on IG, one of the kitties has EDS so he often wears inflatable collars and shirts to keep his skin intact/from him agitating his wounds
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 I finally got my cat to start using the litterbox again by taking the cover off and putting it on top of the spot where he used to pee...but now I have an open litterbox in the middle of my loving living room. Cats.
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Len posted:The larger one holds nearly a gallon of water and our dish tipping rear end in a top hat hasn't pulled it off yet and we've had it for a couple years at this point This is the one we have and it works a charm. I believe it's a 3L capacity and third party filters are available and much cheaper. I clean the fucker once a month and we're good. Hawkperson posted:
Let me tell you about our one cat who protests poop in the boxes by pooping on our bed and the one who protests poop in the boxes by pooping under our bed. And pissing. Or on the floor NEXT to the litterbox. Or in the foyer. Little fuckers.
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Oh my god these kittens are so good. They left the carrier right away to start exploring the room, playing, chasing eachother. One use the litterbox immediately. Then they jumped on the bed with us and fell asleep in our arms. So happy right now. Ill blow up the thread with pics later.
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Apr 13, 2020 21:32
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When I eventually have my cat put down. The vet always tries to sell you on separate cremation, urn etc. Every single time I go for the stupid separate cremation so I can toss the ashes in the garden. Even though I know I'm being scammed and the cat could not give a poo poo if her remains went into the medical waste yet I keep buying it.
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It's not stupid if it makes you feel better. These dumb little fuzzy things mean a lot to us. Eventually having to say goodbye was a lot to think about before I got a pet and I've already kinda planned ahead for what I want to do what that happens because i'll definitely be a total mess.
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Can anyone recommend any particular brand of waterless cat shampoo or cleaning wipes. Or if one particular type is better then other/alternative to them on the cheapish side. The one cat is 16-17ish years old and not cleaning himself too well on his back sides enough anymore and getting frequent matts. I don't want to give him a heart attack and bathe him for fear of a heart attack - that or him tearing me to shreds. Hell I wouldn't want to do it again if he was healthy either - had to do it a couple times because he diarrhea poops whenever he is put into a carrier for a bit to go to the vet and only while on the ride to the vet and not before. Fortunately there's plenty of time now to keep him brushed but would also like to keep those areas clean. Edit: Preferably available on amazon. nunsexmonkrock fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Apr 15, 2020 |
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First time cat owner. So does anyone else's kitty cry for them to go to sleep, mine has started to get cranky when we dont share afternoon naps.
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Sounds like a cat working as intended I get the claws if I'm not laying in bed when rear end in a top hat feels it's bed time
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My family's cat Patches trained my dad to go lay down on the couch at 11 p.m. so she could use him as a heating pad.
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Gaj posted:First time cat owner. So does anyone else's kitty cry for them to go to sleep, mine has started to get cranky when we dont share afternoon naps. Yeah, our cat bugs my girlfriend to go to bed. I apparently am allowed to stay up late, but the cat has decided her sleep cycles are of vital importance.
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My cat doesn't bug me to go to bed, but she does like to sleep on my bed and on one blanket in particular, and will meow at me to a) spread that blanket out so she can get on it, and b) for me throw the blanket over her so she can wrap herself up under it while she naps 
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