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Had to put my cat Bear down today. It wasn’t completely out of nowhere - he had been losing weight, sometimes had a day or two of not eating and hiding - but it was a very steep decline over the course of a week culminating in hospitalization for 3 days. The vet thinks it was pancreatic cancer. He was 13 and I really thought he had a good few years left. Really gonna miss him. 
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spinst posted:I'm sorry. He looks like he was a very good cat. Thanks. He was kind of an rear end in a top hat, but I think he was doing his best. Or maybe I’m projecting.
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Smirk posted:Desperate plea: are there any Canadian goons who would be interested in adopting or fostering one or more cats from Abu Dhabi? I am not local and can’t help but isn’t that where Garfield always tried to ship Nermal to
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Jun 13, 2021 20:59
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teen witch posted:hello cat thread, I’m absolutely petrified I’m making the most irreparable traumatizing decision for my cats and I’d like some help. The absolute best thing for the cats is for your ex to keep the four. the second best thing is for you to take a bonded pair and your ex to keep another. the third best is for you to keep all 7. the fourth best is to rehome all of them as a unit. Switching off monthly doesn't even make the list. It might work OK if you didn't have 3 other cats you were bringing into the picture and your four cats were easy going and adaptable to new places, but as it stands your four cats and your new partner's 3 cats are going to have to figure out territory and pecking order for a time every other month.
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Jun 29, 2021 15:35
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xzzy posted:If it seems like it's the shape of the litter robot that's an issue or maybe they don't like pooping in a cave, there's other manufacturers to choose from. The oldest designs are basically traditional litter boxes with a motorized comb that would sift the poo and piss bricks into a little bin. Maybe skittish kitties would have an easier time with that. I had the Pet Safe Scoop Free Ultra and don't recommend it. The one I had used crystals so the piss just kinda soaked in and you would still have to replace all the litter every 2 weeks or so, which was a messy pain in the rear end process. You take the top out of the base, there's inevitably some stuff stuck to the comb mechanism which gets on the floor, etc - and meant that while there was no poop odor there was still pee odor. I ended up switching back to a manual litter box as it was less work. There may be better ones out there that use the same basic mechanism, though.
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Jul 22, 2021 15:37
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I had to put my cat down a few months ago and I'm thinking about adopting two kittens. The last time I "had" a kitten was when my parents adopted one when I was in middle school, so I don't really remember how much work they are. What I remember is the kitten wasn't really much more work than an adult cat; she was litter trained already and the main difference was she demanded a lot of attention all the time (there was a lot of mewing outside bedrooms doors at night, I think I "solved" that issue by keeping my door open). I'm thinking two cats would help with that part as I live alone and am pretty busy. Do they need to be fed more frequently? Is there anything else I'm missing?
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Jul 31, 2021 14:42
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IUG posted:Are there any cat DNA testing things that are worth the money? My wife love that Ancestery.com stuff, and I was going to try to get her something like that for Christmas, but for our cats. I wouldn’t recommend it. The FBI uses those databases to frame cats for murder
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drunken officeparty posted:How do cat brains interpret wiggling toes under a blanket? Do they know it’s my toes under there and play along for fun, do they actually think it’s a small prey animal, or do they not even understand the concept of “under the blanket” and the moving bump itself is what they are attacking? I’m no cat scientist but I think it’s pure instinct, no thought process behind it. A prey animal hiding under leaves or in grass would move similarly so it’s just “this is how I’m programmed to react.” The blanket also is going to have your scent, the cats scent, other familiar home scents etc; real prey would have its own scent and make different noises, so maybe that keeps the cat more in “play” mode.
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