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Oyster posted:In my partner's reading she came up with "gurgling", and I can't say I disagree, she's gained a lot of weight since the steroids. We'll be calling the vet again shortly, the steroids are keeping her eating but her energy lasts for a shorter and shorter amount of time after each dose. There is also added stress in that I can't help with the steroids; I was concussed a few months ago and my motor control is not great, I'm not even able to hold her without shaking, leaving the dosing completely to my partner and our Luna has been less and less cooperative. Really sorry to hear about your cat. It's so incredibly hard and your resolve is definitely the right thing For what it's worth, when it was Socks' time it was really abrupt. Like on the Thursday we took her to the vet because she wasn't eating and they gave her some IV fluids. She perked up afterwards and she was snuggling in our laps and purring up a storm and jumping around the vet's office just like normal. Even before the fluids she was still acting like herself. Literally 12 hours later she wouldn't even touch wet food, and by the next day she just.. wasn't Socks anymore. Her brother was being very sweet and snuggling beside her and not bothering her because I think both she and he knew that it was time at that point. She would basically only get up to try and use the restroom, be unable to, then slowly pad back to lay on top of someone. I think cats are just like that a little bit, they hide what's going on really well until they can't and they let you know that it's time. Crossing my fingers for you guys Edit: sad first post on a new page for cat thread, have a picture of our two cats hanging out together: 
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Two things: 1. As an update, I last posted here 3-5 months ago that my one cat had a heart murmur, what to expect, etc. well, so far it’s good news, took him the the cat cardiologist (6 weeks to get in), and basically he’s at a 2 out of 4, but they gave us medicine to give him daily that theoretically should help give his heart a good extension. Fingers crossed, but good to at least do what we can to help said cat. 1. we now work at home. And of course it was like “this will be great, the cats will hang out with us, all fun!” Except what happens is they all hang out upstairs with my wife , ignore me in my downstairs office, and then start fighting in her office when it’s close to food time. So we are thinking we need a cat gate to control when they can go upstairs. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Safety...ps%2C101&sr=8-3 Not 100% sure if we want it at the top or bottom yet. Anyone have any recommendations or anything that can work well?
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Mar 3, 2022 19:35
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I don't have a recommendation, but I don't really see that gate stopping or even slowing down a cat unless it's elderly with mobility issues.
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Mar 3, 2022 19:46
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Duckman2008 posted:Two things: This: https://www.amazon.com/SHRRL-Running-Closure-Cat-Resistant/dp/B09FGL4KMM?ref_=ast_sto_dp Worked brilliantly for us when we got our new cat who, upon getting home and realizing there was another cat on the side of the gate, immediately started climbing over the previous one we were using. Be warned you absolutely have to put up the tacks though, the stickiness won't last.
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Mar 3, 2022 20:03
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Rotten Red Rod posted:I don't have a recommendation, but I don't really see that gate stopping or even slowing down a cat unless it's elderly with mobility issues. Even then an determined cat can overcome some impressive obstacles.
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Mar 3, 2022 21:25
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Yeah, don’t get me wrong I am sure there is both trial, error, and probably the cats will figure ways around it. But I figure we can get something that mostly works.
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Mar 3, 2022 21:38
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The mornings are getting lighter and Wednesday's sense that it's breakfast time is getting earlier. The bedroom door doesn't shut so we can't shut her out. Oh no.
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Mar 3, 2022 22:59
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My cat is fascinated by this other cat it sees in the mirror, why does it disappear when he runs around it? Unlike dogs cats can't pass the mirror test.
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Mar 4, 2022 06:31
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My cat completely ignores mirrors. I don't know if she understands it's just her reflection or if she's just come to a peace agreement with Mirror Cat. I did once catch her gazing into the mirror in a creepily human way, but who knows what was going on in that little cat brain.
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Mar 4, 2022 07:38
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pidan posted:My cat completely ignores mirrors. I don't know if she understands it's just her reflection or if she's just come to a peace agreement with Mirror Cat. I did once catch her gazing into the mirror in a creepily human way, but who knows what was going on in that little cat brain.
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Mar 4, 2022 10:42
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A lot of cats have very good spatial awareness and can recognize themselves in a mirror. In addition to the cat face filter reaction videos just being funny, a lot of the cats looked back at the person they knew was there but looked like a cat on the phone. Its a neat interaction for an animal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkzm2i91L38 (killing embed since filter face is kinda terrifying sometimes) Other cats are Milly who gets lost upstairs if the wrong door is closed even though there are alternate routes. She will try to dig around the edges to get the fish in the iPad though.
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Mar 4, 2022 16:10
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Last year during a heatwave we had to go to a hotel and our cat was SO perterbed by the huge mirror. Like he definitely thought there was another room there. The only mirror at home is the bathroom one which he never really sees. I was so worried being in the hotel would stress him out, but other than the mirror thing he was so chill. He even slept on the bed between me and my partner 
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Apologies if this isn't the right thread for this. We have 5 cats. We have many litter boxes. The litter boxes are all cleaned regularly. We use lightweight unscented clumping litter. I have a cat who is 10 years-old. She almost always refuses to pee in any litter box. She is slow to moving around. She has a few spots she hangs out at the most of the day and we put litter boxes near them for her to use. We have set up tables and pet stairs in a way to make it easiest for her to move from her chill spots to the litter boxes. She doesn't go far from her spots to use the litter boxes so we don't see her ever going outside of her main resting room. She always poops in the litter boxes. We've made stairs, ramps, gotten low-entry litter boxes, and she will always go into them in order to poop. Then to pee she will sit right outside the litter box. Almost always, without fail. We've started putting down pads under the litter boxes to at least catch the cat piss. We regularly use nature's miracle to try and get her to stop peeing in those spots, as well as making sure that the litter box has enough space in it and litter in it for her to comfortably use it. We've taken her to the vet, they've checked her out, done blood tests, taken samples, and everything has come back negative. She's healthy, she's fine, and for the life of us we just cannot seem to get her to actually pee in the litter box. It's infuriating because we can think we've finally figured something out to get her to use it and then a day later she is peeing outside of it again. We don't know what to do or where to go at this point. I can't get a senior low-entry litter box (the really wide ones) because unfortunately I have another cat who just scatters stuff everywhere unless there are high walls. We had modified a litter box in the past to have a lower entry level and the litter just ended up everywhere because this other cat would always stand on the edges flipping the whole thing over. What can I possibly even do at this point? I feel like I've done everything I can reasonably do to cater to her and she just refuses to cooperate. We've even moved the litter box to be over top of the spot she'll pee in and she'll just start peeing in another place just outside the litter box. I just don't know anymore and I'm hoping someone in here who is actually smart will be able to point out something I can do for her. We've tried covered, uncovered, high wall, low wall, wide, all with the same result of her occasionally peeing in it and then just peeing outside of it. Sorry for the big wall of text. Please help us.
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Mar 5, 2022 20:13
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Has she always peed outside the box? Have you tried a sensitive cat litter? Is she declawed? She may put up with whatever bothers her about the box to poop because pooping on the floor bothers her more.
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Mar 6, 2022 02:14
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She is not declawed. We have had trouble with her peeing outside of the litter box for a while, even before we moved (we moved about half a year ago), though the problem has become more obvious because the current apartment is entire hard floor and the old apartment was mostly carpeted so we didn't find some of her secret pee spots until we were moving. What is sensitive cat litter?
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Mar 6, 2022 05:07
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Sensitive litter is softer and smaller grained for cats that have paws that hurt or for whatever reason the cat needs (why I asked about being declawed). Random sample: https://www.chewy.com/dr-elseys-paw...AiAAEgJYhPD_BwE Maybe she's got a touch of arthritis or just is being a cat. We all know people that have bathroom hang ups, so there’s that too. 
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FirstAidKite posted:We don't know what to do or where to go at this point. I can't get a senior low-entry litter box (the really wide ones) because unfortunately I have another cat who just scatters stuff everywhere unless there are high walls. We had modified a litter box in the past to have a lower entry level and the litter just ended up everywhere because this other cat would always stand on the edges flipping the whole thing over. You could always vacuum more.  About 6 months ago my then 15 year old cat decided to start peeing in my bed on occasion even with a clean litter box. I was using a Clever Cat top entry without the lid because she's a monster. Once I walked in on her sitting in front of the box looking at it, like she was daunted by jumping over the lip. I got a low sided one, and the bed peeing stopped. Other than some frustrating UTIs in the last couple months everything has been fine. During one of the visits for a UTI, I had them x-ray her for stones, and while no stones were found the vet spotted some arthritis near her hips.
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Iron Crowned posted:You could always vacuum more. The point I was trying to make there is that our bigger cat will stand on the edges of the litter boxes and will end up flipping them over if they are lightweight enough, which is only a concern with the low entry wide litter boxes. Sure I can just vacuum more often but it doesn't change the fact that it'd be a waste of litter for him to keep flipping the boxes over or scooping out half of the litter in the box any time he goes to pee in it.
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Mar 6, 2022 17:18
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Put something heavy and flat on the bottom of the tray?
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Mar 6, 2022 17:23
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Nope. Julio Cruz posted:You can't train a cat to accept other cats in its territory. If you can't keep them out of your garden (with netting or similar) then you're just going to have to accept that there will be confrontations, and hope that generally they'll be more yowling and chasing and less clawing and biting. Thanks, I feared as much. This is a very cat heavy area and unfortunately Zeus thinks the whole drat neighbourhood is his territory. My last (and only) cat of 18 years was a female, I'm quite surprised a neutered male is so aggressive with other cats, especially since some cats in at the rescue centre were right up against the plexiglass hissing at the others but he was very chill.
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Hey cat thread, haven't posted in a while because busy, and also 2 happy and healthy kitties after a year of sadness back in 2020. Downside is these 2 fluffs have got a bit chubby, because we over-scooped on the dry (being happy they had good appetites and missed the bit where they stopped growing!) There's also some cross-bowl stealing going on, and Gaia is more likely to be bullied away from her food. In the interest of keeping consumption roughly even as we ration the dry food more quickly, I've ordered the back cowl thing for her Surefeed microchip feeder. Was there also a mode where it would close if it detected an invading chip? Currently it stays open if they're both there, and then when Gaia wanders off, Maple leans on the lid with her shoulder to finish it off. Having trouble googling that, anyone know how to activate it? Or did I make it up? Pics:  
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There's allegedly an "intruder mode" which yields this set of instructions courtesy of reddit (because it's not an "official" mode and usually you'll have to pry it out of a Surefeed help rep):quote:"Put your SureFeed into our Intruder Custom Mode by following the instructions below:
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Ah intruder, that was the magic word! Thanks. Yeah I think they keep it secret because the intruder can end up doing a DoS attack on the other cat, but I'll keep an eye on things. We also have a load of wet food I want Maple to get through without Gaia snaffling it, as it disagrees with her tummy. Plan A: clever use of chip bowls. Plan B: donate it to the shelter and put them both on sensitive digestion food 
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Update on the dastardly couch peeing villain: She seemed to stop a day after I posted, but still had the vet appt so I took her in. All healthy no UTI. When they weighted her, she weighed all of 4.8lbs. I couldn't believe it, so we rechecked. 4.8lbs. She's a ragdoll. Vet said she's healthy though!
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dervinosdoom posted:Update on the dastardly couch peeing villain: She seemed to stop a day after I posted, but still had the vet appt so I took her in. All healthy no UTI. The first cat we had never weighed more than I think 7.5 lbs at her heaviest. She had kittens when she was like a year old and so she was just super stunted. The friendliest girl I'd ever seen though! Glad to hear she's stopped going on the couch My wife and I were talking about this over the weekend, but in the 2 months we've had our newest cat it's incredible how much he's changed. He went from super loud crying all the time if he didn't see us or couldn't get to us for more than a few minutes to being totally content with snoozing in another room all day. Went from being pretty hyper and constantly jumping at the cat gates if he could see another cat to grooming his cat bro when he runs over before they have a fun play wrestle. He now tolerates a ton of petting, though he'll still get a little nippy if it's too much, and has become a pretty big lap cat throughout the day. He doesn't even devour all his food anymore as soon as it's put in his bowl, he'll just graze throughout the day no issues. Heck, during the shared feeding time he'll even share it with the other cat. He's almost a completely different cat since coming home from the shelter and out of the foster program now that he doesn't have anxiety about us disappearing. I hope he wasn't mistreated or anything in the foster program, though I think he was around other cats constantly so he was probably just very very stressed all the time between foster home and adoption center. Definitely a cat success story
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dervinosdoom posted:Update on the dastardly couch peeing villain: She seemed to stop a day after I posted, but still had the vet appt so I took her in. All healthy no UTI. Chino never gets above 3-4 pounds. He eats quite healthily but he's skinny as all gently caress. To the point where he's gangly - it's like the feline equivalent of Marfan syndrome or some poo poo. Elvis_Maximus posted:She had kittens when she was like a year old and so she was just super stunted. We always wondered why Perdy was so smol 
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Elvis_Maximus posted:Definitely a cat success story  Glad to hear.
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Her parents are big! I think 10lb and 8lbs. She just got the small genes! Which is good for her cause she can easily sleep on my arm.
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Elvis_Maximus posted:Definitely a cat success story Awesome!
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Bobstar posted:Ah intruder, that was the magic word! Thanks. Yeah I think they keep it secret because the intruder can end up doing a DoS attack on the other cat, but I'll keep an eye on things.
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I think my cat wants me to play fetch with it. 
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Raenir Salazar posted:I think my cat wants me to play fetch with it. Cats that play fetch are cool.
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Our Maine Coon loved to play fetch with crushed up paper balls, yeah. Loved popcorn too.
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We had about a week of fetch, we tried so hard to confirm the behavior with treats and praise but she stopped doing it and never fetched again. My greatest failure as a cat wrangler.
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My younger cat has loved fetch every since he was a kitten But the only thing he'll fetch is the stretchy hair ties my wife uses We periodically pick them up and put them in a bowl to try and keep them from being as easily found, but he has a hunter's sense for hairties and invariably I'll find him up there stealing them to amuse himself or bring over for fetch until they're all under doors again
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If you buy him enough of them,he might not mind if your wife uses a couple of his toys to hold back her hair.
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Gorgar posted:If you buy him enough of them,he might not mind if your wife uses a couple of his toys to hold back her hair. Yeah, at this point he has his set of hair ties that he gets to play with that goes in the bowl, I like to think it makes him feel smart that he "sneaks" them away from us Cause if we didn't, he would absolutely get into the real stash of hair ties that she uses lol
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FirstAidKite posted:Sorry for the big wall of text. Please help us. I had a cat that wouldn’t pee in litter box and it was maddening. I’m sorry you have to deal with this. For my cat it was a pain issue and she used the litter box happily when she was on a low dose of buprenorphine. It’s going to seem weird but you might try a baking sheet (with a lip) and put a scrap of carpet in there. If there’s no litter in it the flipping thing should not be an issue. If you can get her to contain her peeing to one spot you can test out different fillers besides carpet like paper towels or puppy pads that might be a good compromise. Even buying carpet remnants all the time may be cheaper than all the natures miracle. Good luck with your cat.
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Joburg posted:I had a cat that wouldn’t pee in litter box and it was maddening. I’m sorry you have to deal with this. For my cat it was a pain issue and she used the litter box happily when she was on a low dose of buprenorphine. Oh my god this is loving brilliant
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I think the advice was originally from Patricia McConnell or someone. The gist of it is, find what they like peeing on and make that into a litter box. Once you have your sanity back you can try to make it easier to deal with.
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