Our daily hunting practice (I’m the one learning ofc) has worked out well then! He did indeed get all the treaties for his victorious efforts in protecting his territory! 😼
Got the all-clear from the vet this morning! She has her AirTag collar back on and full freedom to her garden. She’s been on patrol, munching on grass and basking in the sun 🌞 Well done my darling!
I was petting my cat Ozzy and I noticed this spiky thing in the tip of his tail and I’m really concerned about it.
I’m thinking if taking him to the vets to get him checked out. Would anyone know what this could be. I know it’s not a thorn because it looks like it’s attached to his tail. Any ideas and help will be much appreciated.
I don’t want my Ozzy being hurt 😢
Our gorgeous boy has decided to go out on a long adventure, he has done this before but never for this long, he’s been gone about a week. He’s lived with us for 4 years so I’m finding it hard to think he’s lost, but his litter boxes, beds and our clothes are currently out in the gardens.
I am looking for advice on the best cat tracking devices available in the UK, for when he returns. I’ve been looking at tractive but the subscription is putting me off, I will absolutely pay it if it is the best one out there but looking for other options too.
Missing our baby and praying he comes home safe.
I have 2, indoor-ish (cattio) boys, around 3yrs old.
They have dry compleat food, and are both good drinkers, mostly pirateing my glasses of water, or asking for fridge door water by tripping us up as we approach with a glass or kidnapping ice to drink melted puddles, or the ultra feral act of standing on the side of my bath to drink off my skin whilst I try to relax!
We tried them with wet food, but Mr X-semi-feral is a gannet with wet foods and vomits everything up!, box of frog! He has a dish with raised pattrns too, to try and slow him, but it seems to phase him not! - he dosent do the same to the shared grazeing dish of kibble tho, kibble makes him calm? 🤷🏻♀️
The other is compleatly saphisticated and really should be sat at a table with all the silver spoons, honestly.
Anywhos, Im not playing vomit the food daily, but I would like to vary the liquid intake, to prehaps have less melted ice and bath water licking?
Today, I stumbled across the idea of "food toppers" but like, for dry food? So the art, of... adding liquid, and I wondered, if, dishing up kibble, dribbled with extras would result in possessed skoffing or the more calmer, thoughful pondering by the dish?
Any home made, icecube type suggestions? Like? Boiled shredded chicken? Or tuna? Frozen portions
Or can I soak cat freeze dried meat "treats" in water to make a gravy? And throw that on?
There seems to be also powders for sprinkling?
What do others do?
:) Thank you
It’s been a great warm streak of sun!
He’s living the best life!
As the title suggests, I am looking to cat proof my small garden due to a constant wanderer. Has anyone got it installed and made it look less like a high security prison?! If you can please can you advise what you did and put some inspo pics on?
Thank you!
LONDON/ESSEX AREA I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask. Is there anyone who can take my cat in for a few weeks/1 month or so as I sort out my housing situation? I’m currently sofa surfing as I find a new flat and am not allowed to keep him. Is this a service anyone can help me find?
This is my sweet boy Miso, he’s only 10 months old, very cuddly and playful. He’s easy to manage and we have everything you need for him alongside.
He’s fully neutered and microchipped, healthy and has no fleas or ticks.
When my boy gets the zoomies after relieving himself, it's absolutely normal. But lately he gets similarly excited when the doggie in toilet training or even I use the bathroom. Is this something your cat does, too?
I realised my cat has trained me to:
-put a bit of a yogurt treat (for cats) on her wet food or she won't eat it.
-not move even if I really need to pee
-give her headbutts
-sacrifice my desk so she can have a bed there to look out of the window
Cat tax included
We've been experimenting with a harness and lead for outdoor time with our wee moggy to see if she wants to go outdoors.
The first time it was a struggle to get the harness on over her head as she resisted. But today she let me put it on and even pushed her head through it herself. But every time we take the harness off (had it on lots in the house for practice too) she sniffs it and then starts biting it!
Is this her takin her anger out on it or something else? Anyone elses kitty do this? Keen to know as I'm gettin mixed signals 🫠
I wonder if my cat thinks we live with an ever growing cast of people from across the globe. She definitely knows my voice, but I wonder if she recognises the voices hosts of podcasts I listen to a lot. I hate to be alone with my thoughts so almost always have some sort of talking sound playing.
This is Eris and Hermes my gorgeous bonded pair of 10ish month old kittens.
Hi. Can't believe how little options are showing up for me online re finding transport to collect my cat from a cat-hotel in SE16 & drop off to me in SE18. Can anyone suggest any leads? (Wow, talk about an unintended pun)
I got this Grinch toy in 2023 for my friend's cat who was visiting us for Christmas. It is now my kitten's favourite toy in the world. She runs around all day with it in her mouth chirping, sleeps with it, the works. We forgot to take it out of the bedroom one day and she was refusing to play all day and when she found it at bedtime ran around chirping for an hour 😂
If anyone happens to have this Grinch on a string Primark toy from a few years ago kicking about I would happily take it off your hands and replace it with some treats or a toy that your cat loves.
I'm aware she will get over it when the toy eventually falls to pieces but I just wanted to try and have a backup as she loves that Grinch more than she loves any of her toys, and more than she loves us some days 😂
But still in her onesie until she gets the all-clear from the vet on Monday. She got a little supervised outdoor time to enjoy the good weather, ate some grass and marked her turf 😂
Super long post ahead, apologies! (And it won't let me edit the title, that's supposed to say fecal lmao)
This is Honey, he turns 19-years-old later this year (I've had him since he was 6-weeks-old) but only started developing health issues in the last 1-2 years for which I am so incredibly grateful (especially as he was born with a heart murmur)
Initially about a year ago he was having problems with chronic diarrhea that was happening around the house, and various vet tests revealed that he had signs of kidney disease as well hypertension.
Amodip medication has the hypertension completely under control, and a change to prescription renal cat food has resulted in his kidney blood test results now showing as practically normal, and it completely stopped his stool problems, so he now only needs regular bloods taken and blood pressure read every six months.
But then his back legs started to slow down, and he's lost loads of weight and muscle in his lower half. The vet isn't 100% certain if it's arthritis or neurological (arthritis seems more likely), but it got to the point where he was dragging them and then not able to stand on his knuckles properly.
We tried Meloxicam but it made him sick, so we switched to Onsior but then he started to have bad bowels again and was beginning to miss the litter tray, and I'm trying to avoid Gabapentin as it makes him very out of sorts (he needs it for blood tests to be calm enough, and last time he barely moved and even the vet was concerned, it was very scary). So instead we started him on the Solensia injection.
No signs of improvement until about week four, and he's on his second injection now, he's still very wobbly and needs pet stairs to get onto furniture, but I have noticed that he is now able to put his toes flat on the ground without his knuckles curling up so even if it's nothing miraculous, it does seem to be an improvement that is hopefully making him more comfortable.
I've also got him on a daily half dose of Onsior, because the pooping problems returned full force so it seems the Onsior wasn't the trigger.
My best guess is that he's just lost muscle control in his old age. He mostly goes at night, and it can be anywhere and everywhere. His poops have never been completely solid but are a better consistency on the renal diet, but I don't think he can tell when he needs to go most of the time.
On a lucky night he'll try to use a litter tray, mostly miss and get it on a puppy pad.
On most nights, it'll be on the furniture. I have throws on everything to make for as easy a cleanup as possible, but I also end up usually having to scrub the floors, and he needs to be bathed at least five times a week.
I did email the vet about this a few weeks ago, but they conveniently ignored the expansive email of concerns in favour of only focusing on my request to pay for his Solensia prescription (I now administer it at home to save money), but I have sent them a nudge this morning.
I am at a loss as to what to do. I feel like the answer is probably just, "there's nothing you can do," but I wanted to reach out in case anyone has any experience with this.
I am disabled myself, so caring for him is becoming increasingly difficult, but he's still eating (though not as much) and drinking, and in recent weeks has really perked up after a short stint where he was very down in the dumps (stopped peeing because I was away for two days, needed a course of Gabapentin to sort it out), he's back to meowing at me for breakfast and asking to be picked up for cuddles.
So in terms of quality of life, it doesn't seem like we're at the end yet.
I've just measured him and ordered disposable nappies to try (only at night, to avoid developing sores), because I'm really struggling with the daily scrubbing of the house. I hope that if they work I'll only have to clean him in the mornings instead.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated, thanks for reading!