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KariOhki posted:Anyone here use the SurePet microchip feeder, and how have you liked it? I have one cat on Hill's Prescription Diet c/d and the other (recently acquired) cat has started grazing at that food overnight instead of daring to come upstairs to where his own food station is. Yes, we have three of them, but the ones without wifi or the base station. Absolutely keep the box they come in. We use that to put over the feeder and cut a hole in one end so only one cat can eat from it. The feeder supposedly is constructed so only one cat can eat from it but that's definitely not true. If you have greedy cats, they can still find a way to get in there. We love them and they're great for giving expensive food to only one cat instead of all six cats. The chip reading functionality works great.
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redreader posted:Yes, we have three of them, but the ones without wifi or the base station. Absolutely keep the box they come in. We use that to put over the feeder and cut a hole in one end so only one cat can eat from it. The feeder supposedly is constructed so only one cat can eat from it but that's definitely not true. If you have greedy cats, they can still find a way to get in there. Do you have the back plate for the feeder?
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Sep 5, 2022 18:02
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redreader posted:Yes, we have three of them, but the ones without wifi or the base station. Absolutely keep the box they come in. We use that to put over the feeder and cut a hole in one end so only one cat can eat from it. The feeder supposedly is constructed so only one cat can eat from it but that's definitely not true. If you have greedy cats, they can still find a way to get in there. A "good" thing in this situation is Lina (cat on the special food) hates Lucky (other cat) so much that she won't let him get near her at any point, so I think she'd slap him away before he'd push his way into the food. Dunno if he'd figure out how to get in it when she's not around, he's not the smartest cat.   (smart girl on the left, dumb boy on the right)
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Sep 5, 2022 18:41
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I’m really sorry that I keep posting about my cat’s problems but CW gory details he just used the box on front of me and…how do I put this. Ever squeezed ketchup onto your burger? Yeah  This dude is 100% still sick. At this point the vet has thrown both new diet and medicine at him and they’re probably at something of a loss now. Second opinion time, gently caress these guys. Edit: I am not convinced that this isn’t a parasite. The limited diet hasn’t changed much at all despite having already purged all the previous food from his body, and the metronidazole regimen only had maybe a 50% administration success rate so we can’t rule it out yet. I don’t know what tests the vet ran but I don’t think it was comprehensive enough. Pollyanna fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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Sep 5, 2022 23:13
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I hope the second opinion can find what is wrong with your cat Pollyanna. No animal deserves to go through that.
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Sep 5, 2022 23:44
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TTBF posted:I hope the second opinion can find what is wrong with your cat Pollyanna. No animal deserves to go through that. He certainly doesn’t. Poor dude. I hope this doesn’t permanently hurt him. Making this worse is that I’m away for a large chunk of next week, and he’s not in a place to be left alone right now (if for nothing else than to get his poop cleaned up). I think I may have to board him, ideally at a place that can handle a sick cat and administer meds if necessary. Has anyone boarded their cat with medical assistance before? Did you do it at a vet, or a boarding company, or something? It’s not gonna be loving Petsmart for sure.
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Sep 6, 2022 00:05
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KariOhki posted:Anyone here use the SurePet microchip feeder, and how have you liked it? I have one cat on Hill's Prescription Diet c/d and the other (recently acquired) cat has started grazing at that food overnight instead of daring to come upstairs to where his own food station is. It works fantastic for our two little guys. We didn't even need to use the learning setting despite one of them being a gigantic scaredy cat, they took to it right away. I think it helps that it's super quiet. We started using them for a similar reason, one cat needing prescription food that the other didn't
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Sep 6, 2022 02:17
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I always board my dog at a vet. I've never boarded a cat before, but I'd probably do the same.
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Sep 6, 2022 05:22
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Vet for sure then. I actually don’t know if my vet can board…I’ll take look around. I think for my second opinion I’m going to go straight to a veterinary internal medicine specialist. Someone who knows what’s going on. I’m in a major city where health is its biggest industry, there’s no way I can’t find one.
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Sep 6, 2022 15:01
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Good luck! I hope they can find what's going on with poor Jet  .It's really frustrating seeing your pet sick without knowing what's causing it and how they can be helped.
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Sep 6, 2022 15:05
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I’m sure I’m gonna spend all sorts of money to be told “yeah he just has idiopathic IBD and it happens sometimes”, but frankly having clear answers is good for the mind and soul and health is always worth spending money on so I regret nothing. He’s loving worth it. I may be an idiot and an rear end in a top hat, but I am loyal, dammit!
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Sep 6, 2022 15:24
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Affie went to the litter box 4-5 times in a row today, peeing small amounts every time. We are worried that she might have some urinary tract infection: she’s also been licking herself around that area. Might book a vet tomorrow, should we worry about this?
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Sep 6, 2022 18:16
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Yep, vet time. Insist on comprehensive tests.
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Sep 6, 2022 18:17
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Okay, booked a time for tomorrow. She's still purring, jumping around, running, eating and we haven't noticed anything abnormal in the litter box, but better safe than sorry.
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Sep 6, 2022 19:02
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Dienes posted:Do you have the back plate for the feeder? No, but a back plate would do literally nothing. The two cats who steal food get in between our other cat's legs, or go on top of her, and then stick their head in so that the feeder can't close while they're finishing her food, and this happens WITH the box cover I've made. I'll edit this to add a picture.  edit: yeah I'm aware it's dirty. I clean it fairly regularly. This old cat currently eats about 4 cans of wet food from it every day and is currently bullying me for a third can after vomiting up most of the second can. redreader fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Sep 6, 2022 |
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Sep 6, 2022 19:15
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So, I have two cats (basically) that I’ve mentioned before plenty of times - Jackie, my polydactyl 15-year-old female I’ve had for like 11 years now, and the ~2.5-year-old Mini Scratcher, who is DEEPLY attached to Jackie and follows her around, nuzzles against her constantly, and tries to cuddle with her when she’ll allow it. She’s gotten much more tolerant of him in the last year and barely ever growls or hisses at him anymore; I think the bond has reached a mutual stage and they’re both quite fond of each other. But then someone really weird and funny happened last week when they were both relaxed on my bed one morning, and I was petting them both and everyone was very relaxed and happy. But then Mini, who had been stretched out with his head buried in Jackie’s belly, started to actually knead Jackie’s belly, very intensely too. I tried to distract him, and get in the way a bit, but he was extremely intent on it and kept it up for like 10 minutes! I was worried he might be hurting Jackie but she kept purring away and didn’t seem too bothered by it. Now, I’ve only seen nursing kittens do this to their mothers - knead the lower stomach to circulate the milk or something, right? I guess I can infer that Mini definitely sees Jackie as his mommy (as if I didn’t already know). It was pretty drat cute, though
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Sep 6, 2022 19:29
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It's hard to say if that's exactly what he's thinking, but cats do often knead someone they feel intense comfort with. One of our cats kneads and suckles a Cookie Monster plush toy, but ONLY when he's next to my wife, who he is obsessed with. Our other two cats will sometimes just start kneading a pillow when no one is around, so sometimes it's just because they're happy and feel safe.
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Sep 6, 2022 19:56
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Look at this doofus 
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Sep 6, 2022 22:33
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Thumposaurus posted:Look at this doofus A perfect angel
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Sep 7, 2022 01:31
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It's been a real journey with a lot of protests, and there's still a ways to go but Tuna's down from 18.5-ish pounds to 15.5. He's a big cat, so his healthy weight is in the 14-something range. I see and hold him every day, so I can't exactly pinpoint changes there (plus his fluff is such that it's hard to tell anyways), but he's definitely gotten more vertically adventurous lately--he's returned to some spots that were previously too much of an effort to reach.
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Sep 7, 2022 01:56
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Jasper went home without warning. I'm going to miss that little boy like hell, and I'm sad I didn't get to say goodbye, but I know the person taking care of him and he'll be well taken care of. Just have to hope he'll be happy there. Down to 12 shelter cats in my room now. That's 6 of mine adopted in a 2 month span. More than the last ~8 months combined. 
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Sep 7, 2022 15:08
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https://youtu.be/yqazUGEnn1Q Well, I’m glad he’s peppy, at least. 
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Sep 7, 2022 18:20
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Helping with the housework too, a good catte.
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Sep 7, 2022 18:27
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If he really wanted to help with housework he wouldn’t track litter everywhere and would aim his butt properly.
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Sep 7, 2022 18:49
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My cats go through this ritual after every vet visit where Koto will be extremely mean to Dusty because he SMELLS DIFFERENT then she will swat at him for like 3 days. Then after the 3rd day they are back to being cuddly brother and sister. She will also forget she hates Dusty and hop in the bed at night only to figure out HE'S THERE and then she will hiss at him at 2:00AM. I swear, every year I take them in for vaccinations and I spend like $350 and then have to deal with sibling drama for half a week! I love my critters to death though.
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Sep 7, 2022 20:43
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That's normal, cats can't recognize each other by sight so if a cat shows up smelling weird it's gonna be an enemy until their scents mix again. My vet lets me schedule appointments for both cats at the same time so they both get to smell weird together. It seems to work.
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Sep 7, 2022 21:14
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I’m pretty sure they can recognize other cats and people by sight.
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Sep 7, 2022 21:32
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You wouldn't know it by the way they carry on after one's been to the vet. My vet only takes one at a time for a teeth cleaning appointment so when we brought Cinnamon back from the dentist the other week Loki spent the next few days acting like he'd never seen her before in his life.
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Sep 7, 2022 21:42
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One of my cats insists on sniffing your hand for a couple of seconds at least, before she lets you touch her. Just in case you became someone else since last time.
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Sep 7, 2022 22:57
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Maybe your cats are suffering from Goon Face Blindness. But maybe the problem could be averted if you rub the offending cat with a cat bed towel before letting her back in the house? That way she'd smell more normal.
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Sep 7, 2022 23:10
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Cats have a much better sense of smell than we do, and scents are probably linked to identity just like sight and sound. For people it would be like if someone you know comes home from the hospital, and their voice has changed. It would be pretty off-putting.
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Sep 8, 2022 13:26
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A temporary catgras delusion, lol.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:24
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My apartment has a screened sunroom that my cat loves to hang out in. I hadn't been using it much this summer because it was too hot, but have started trying to sit out there while working lately and for whatever reason she finds that incredibly unsettling. She'll just walk back and forth emitting panicky meows until I go back inside. I can't tell if it's because she doesn't like the change in routine (she'll happily follow me back to where I usually sit and sleep next to me) or because she's decided the sunroom is her exclusive territory. Cats, man, how do they work.
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Sep 10, 2022 03:10
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 M’dude is now boarded for a few days cuz he picked the worst possible time to need 2x daily medication  I’m leaving for vacation until Thursdayish so he shall also be living out of a kitty hotel for a bit.I hope he enjoys the break from me  I already miss him!!! I’m gonna annoy the poo poo out of the staff with photo requests.
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So, my cat Jackie kinda instigated a brawl with my roommate’s cat, Murfy - the 7-year-old Savannah Cat who is 14 pounds of pure bone, muscle, and sinew - and came out more or less on the losing end. Murfy lacerated the edge of her ear pretty good with his claw, and it bled what seemed (to me) like an impressive amount. It was really bad when she would shake her head violently while the cut was still open, as that would splatter blood obscenely all around. It stopped bleeding pretty promptly, though I had to just hold her in my lap and keep pressure on her ear for a few minutes to start with, but that seemed to do the trick. I wasn’t planning on taking her to the vet for this since it seemed pretty minor (aside from the initial bleeding) and as far as I can tell she seems totally recovered. I’m happy that she’s such a tough and bold brawler at an age of nearly 16, but I kinda wish she’d be a bit smarter - I guess it’s a good thing that Murfy is such a gentleman and never instigates any fights with her! But then he does instigate (and win) fights with the other two cats on occasion, so it might be that he actually respects/fears Jackie to some degree. Lots of dynamics to dissect in a house with 4 cats.
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Boy is he mad. He doesn’t enjoy being boarded. He is eating, and his medication is going down his gullet, but he’s not open to pets. At least he seems to be comfortable enough and doesn’t have any diarrhea!
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Does the thread have any recommendations on treat balls? My cat's kinda torn her old rubber puzzle ball to hell, and the ones they sell now just seem to all be those smooth, hard plastic balls that are meant to be batted around, but the cat can't really pick them up and throw around or bite at them like prey.
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Sep 12, 2022 07:24
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Maybe something like this? It’s a hard piece inside of a soft piece. If you’re just trying to slow them down I really like snuffle mats. They’re intended for dogs (and maybe pigs???) but idk, my cat loves it.
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She gets fed most of her food via timer feeder just fine, it's just the vet wants her to have only slightly more food than that per day to keep her weight steady, so I stick a couple treats and a few kibbles in the ball afterward to give her some enrichment at the same time.
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Put some treats in a cardboard box, poke a few paw sized holes in it, and seal it up. Whether your cat fishes out the treats or tears up the box, they'll be engaged.
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