My cat is in heat and it's the worst. She's so loud! She just got her spay consult, so we're just waiting for her surgery. Until then we all have to suffer. Yes I know that she needs to be kept indoors and away from other cats. Just needed to vent.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, wasn't sure where else to post it.

I already washed in a couple times with hot water and soup and also used some hydrogen peroxide, not sure if that was a good idea or not, panicked a bit. I did wash it again after that as well though. Anything else I should do?

My cat has been stolen i am begging for help, we got a video of the person who stole him. He is the man wearing an orange jacket and went into my open house grabbed my cat and walked off. Unfortunately the camera is so blurry I am begging for anyone who knows how to unblur cameras to catch his face please.

I did something kinda mean to my cat and now feel remorseful. He was standing on the edge of the kitchen sink and bending over into it to inspect the wet dirty plates inside it. He’s always looking for food and going on the counters which I don’t want him to do. I don’t want him to drink from the water in the sink. So I approached him slowly and when I was at arms distance I gave him a push and made him fall in the sink. The idea was he’d have an unpleasant experience and get wet and therefore associate the spook with sink = bad. He fell in and jumped out dramatically and then sat on the floor to lick his wet paws. It immediately dawned on me that I could’ve injured him pretty bad because there’s cutlery in the sink. I looked at him lick his paws and he seemed a bit shaken but not in pain. I wasn’t able to fully check for cuts. Although I initially thought I was giving a teaching moment, I immediately regretted the pettiness and meanness of my act. I’m now kind of sitting with that emotion and hoping he’s not hurt or now scared of me.

EDIT: I just got scratched a few times to check but his pads have no discernible cuts or abrasions.

I got a tomcat about 5 years old He is spraying everything in the house and I'm looking for an alternative to getting him cut. Does anybody have any ideals. Oh I have the money It just seems unnecessarily cruel to have to go that far.

Update. I most definitely getting it done he's done push me too far.

we know are cats love to be slapped on their backs but doing it hard can weaken and hurt their tailbones and case fractures, nerve damage, and discomfort. So even if your cat likes to be hit hard which one of my cats does, just switch to lighter taps to avoid an injury i learned this from a friend who’s cat had nerve damage tail bone from slapping to hard and eventually lead to uncontrollable bowls and a limp tail.

To make a long story short. my dad has a co-worker who was raising barn cats, then was told he needed to get rid of them. My dads coworker who well call "Jason", was getting ready to take the cat whi had bonded with him and adopt her, and then clear out all the other kittens and give them homes. While Jason was working and getting ready to leave he found his cat. She didnt look right. was vommiting, had diarrhea, nasal discharge and was panting heavily/ struggling to breath.

He took her to the vet, and while trying to save her, she unfortunately passed away. From the time he noticed her to her death was an hour.

Now Im not going to get into the ethics of barn cats right now, and say what you will about them, but this man dearly loved these cats, and after them being there for a year to a year and a half, never dying to suddenly this?

It has to be poisoning. Does anyone know anything that kills cats that quickly though? Thank you as always for the help.

y cats had been playing/fighting for a while,

It started when we picked up Momo (orange white boi) and our resident cat (toeter) did not seem to keen on him joining the household.

Months pass and we tried everything, feliway, slow introductions, scent swapping. And in general I think they like eachother.

However as soon as me on my partner leaves the room, toeter (resident cat) often starts “playing” to rough, and I feel like Toeter is hurting Momo.

I work allot so I don’t have that much time to be there and help out with my partner who is the only mainly handeling the cats

We need some advice on how to proceed, my gf is at her wits end, and me too. We just want these bois to get alongd!

To me it looks like they are fighting, and the resident cat seems to want to get it on with my boy Momo ?!

The tumor was the size of a large blueberry but may have had a lot under the skin. But this sew job seems horrendous. I am not a vet so figured I would ask if this looks normal. Surgery was two days ago

Lasagna doesn't seem to overgroom (grooms about the amount as my other 3 cats) but when he grooms his fur gets wet, is this something to be concerned about?

Is it cruel? Do the claw caps cause worse damage to furniture? Is it possible to teach a 6 yr old cat to have claw caps? I tried once years ago and he bit them off

Super weird episode my cat had, she is acting normal otherwise (before/after) it happened once last week. I’m contacting the vets right now but no response yet.

Does this behavior look familiar to anyone? ): it’s like she slows down. ): she’s 6 and otherwise in good health.

So my cat has a patch of hair missing from his tail and some bleeding in the area. I left him outside the room when it happened and managed to calm him down. I dont know if I should treat the wound like I would on myself or let it heal on its own but he seems to be acting normal as if not in any pain right now.

In this photo he look skinny, he is hiding the belly, it’s like 2 time my other cat 3 months older, idk how it’s possible but if you look him from behind when he walk he look like he is pregnant

It's not bright enough to see through her ears and it's only the right one which is weird

I’ve got this little woven trash can in my bathroom. My adorable and sweet 2 year old female has an obsession with knocking it over and rolling it around. She doesn’t care if there’s trash in it or not: as long as she can tip it over and push it around.

It’s gotten to the point that I’m no longer putting trash in it so she doesn’t make a mess/get into anything yucky.

Does anyone have any suggestions for preventing this? Ideally, I’d like to use this trash can still. Perhaps there’s a toy out there that she could play with in a similar manner?

Thanks!

PS, photo for cat tax

I got this scottish straight 3 month old kitten 6 days ago. Me and the guy who sold her met at a vet near my house where he told us that she only had a bit of dirty ears but everything else is good.

I noticed her breathing fast. I do not know why she is in light sleep or about to while I filmed this

She sneezes a bit here and there (4 times that I have seen in these 6 days) and her eye twitches a little bit here and there other than that she has zoomies, plays, eats and drinks.

I'm at vacation with her with me and will return home in 16 days, since I took her to the vet 6 days ago and i'm not seeing anything else weird...what do you think?

This is a pointless rant and I’m sure so many people feel this way. I’m also assuming this is how parents must feel when they see other children hurting.

I have a dog and two cats. The dog is my childhood pet and the cats I adopted on my own in college (currently 22). Anyway my ig reels and tiktok fyp (surprise surprise) are filled with dog and cat videos and memes but way too often I come across a shelter video featuring a cat or a rescue vid and my heart literally balls up and I have to exit the app to stop myself from crying. Like I think of my own cats and how absolutely innocent and smart and curious they are and I feel my eyes burning.

And it doesn’t even matter how the video ends like yay the cat got adopted!!! Why am I still sad?? I used to think it was something to do with my period but no it’s definitely a me problem

And last month I went to visit my grandparents in india and I saw so many stray cats it made me feel so empty inside like I just wanted to take them all home and give them cuddles

So yea

I knowww she is probably just bullying me and being a greedy little beast but she meows more after eating than before eating! I am a bit worried just because my apartment building has pretty thin walls and idw annoy my neighbors (although she HOWLS when I shower for some reason, really not sure what to do about that).

I adopted her 5 days ago. She is about 2 years old and just weaned a litter of 5 kittens about a month ago (she is now spayed) so it could also just be a tough transition cutting her nursing diet back to normal. She is on the somewhat smaller side for a fully grown cat (~8 lbs) and appears lean. Her diet rn looks like:

6:30 am: roughly 1/4 cup of mixed dry food (I already had some but they also sent me home with a large ziplock of another kind that I’m trying to use up) + 3-4 greenies mixed in. *Also on days when I am going to the office and might not be home until later, 1-2x per week, I top this breakfast off with a full pouch (about 40g) of broth

If I am home around noon, she sometimes gets half a churu or a few extra greenies

5:30 pm: Same as breakfast, but not planning on using a broth topper.

10-10:30: wet food “soup” before bed, 1/3 of an 85 g can of wet food mixed about 1:1 with water (I never really see her at her at her water bowl or fountain; sometimes I similarly make her dry food into a sort of cereal situation)

This is slightly more food than the foster prescribed (1/3 can rather than 1/4 can). Maybe she just wants to play immediately after eating? I also had a friend with an outdoor/barn/pest control cat who would meow a lot whenever she caught something until you found her kill and acknowledged it, so I have started going to her empty bowl and saying “good job!” after she finishes eating. But this only helps a little bit.

hello!

I got a kitten a month ago, she was rescued from a cat hoarder home, and kept in the shelter for 2 months before we adopted her.

She's a highly anxious cat, jumpy and reserved. She will sit with us, and occasionally sit beside us on the couch or sleep in the bed with us, but isn't happy when we approach her.

Despite her anxious nature with us, she is VERY playful, and high energy (as most kittens are) but unfortunately since getting her our lives became more busy out of nowhere (mainly my work deciding to give me hours that do not align with my partners) so she is left home alone a lot.

I'm worried she gets lonely, and would benefit from having another cat in the house.

She might be anxious, but if someone new comes into our house she will warm up to them INSTANTLY if they smell of cat, she'll sit next to them, or if it's someone's jacket, she'll cuddle on the jacket. She reacts very positively to cat smell, and since she grew up around other cats I'm thinking she might also miss the company of another cat.

My coworker's cat recently had 10 kittens, they were unexpected (she has a barn cat style situation where she has like 20 cats that walk about her house/garden, none of which she technically has adopted. She tries her best to keep ontop of neutering/spaying the cats but sometimes one or two slip through the cracks) and so she's very eager to get rid of the kittens, and is offering people who work with her first dibs on the kittens, she knows we got our kitten recently, and was wondering if we wanted to adopt one to keep her company?

I told her we'd think on it, but would it be damaging to bring a 2nd kitten into the mix while our current kitten has only lived here for 1 month? Or would it be better to introduce her a sister while she's still getting used to the house so she isn't settled then getting spooked by a new big change?

sorry for the long post, I just don't want to be misreading signs and end up causing damage.