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>>5020213 (OP)
There's already a catgen dingus.

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Say hi to this little rascal

>>5020291
hi <333

>>5020242
>https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1752808011215203.mp4
Kek

>>5020291
Hello! What's their name?

>>5020455
His name is Milo and hes claimed my bedroom as his.

hi

i just learned about how fast cats can dilate and contract their pupils, cool stuff
apparently humans do it too

How do I stop my cat from pissing in my sink? I have 3 very clean litter boxes in a 5 bedroom house, between him and his brother.

>>5020467
He looks very chill

>>5020493
Mlem

>>5020497
lizard brained animals are cool. they operate without consciousness interfering with instinct so everything is way more responsive and their behavior actually makes more sense. there is no fumbling, stumbling, or second guessing.

>>5020681
I had cats do this in the past. Tried filling the sink with foil, but they'd just piss in the foil. I filled the sink with water when I wasn't using it, which stopped one. Another then started pissing in the shower. Turns out she had a UTI, so might be worth getting your cat checked out if it continues after you try filling it up first.

>>5020746
Kinda reminds me of when I see a dog eager to eat a random pile of shit from a neighbor's yard

>>5020773
why are you always bringing up dogs in the cat genera?

butiful

>>5020213 (OP)
My neighbor's outdoor cat just had kittens. They currently exist in his closet beside his water heater cause it's dark and warm there I guess. I don't have an apartment large enough for a kitten. It's an incredibly bad idea for me to get a cat just space wise.

I'm gonna take one anyway. I can adapt.

>>5020773
>"HIDE THE EVIDENCE"

>>5021115
its just a cat, they are pretty chill and don't need a whole lot of space as long as you get it toys/cat tree fuck even a box is good enough to them. Just get it something to keep it entertained and away from scratching furniture

>>5021117
I'm mostly not looking forward to my apartment smelling like cat shit all the time. I mean I know I can do things about it, but it'll always be there. It's a studio and I've owned cats before, just not here.

>>5020773
I have never seen a dog eat shit. This seems to be an issue with poor retards and malnourished dogs.

>>5021125
Nope my neighbor's dog does it and the neighbor is an experienced vet. It's just another nasty thing dogs do.

>>5021120
Get an air purifier and pic related to spray into litterbox after cat shits

>>5021162
Seconding air purifier. 1 decent air purifier works better than a hundred bottles of air freshener

I love my stupid cat

>>5021125
Sister's dog does it from time to time despite being healthy.

>>5021190
post abrams, dork

>>5021266
It's almost ready
The cat snapped off the antenna for the other tank

>>5021275
neat

>>5021275
What's the purpose of the grating

>>5021311
It's called a cope cage.

>>5021311
To catch stray grenades dropped from cheap drones and/or pre detonate shaped charge munitions

Hey fellas what breed of cat is this?

>>5021652

Slep

>>5020788
The mythical cyclops...

>>5021275
you should set the right one on fire for more authenticity

>cat meows when he's behind me to catch my attention
How is he this smart?

Attention: I have a new cat.
Thank you.

>cat needs new kitty litter
>the store is out of the stuff I regularly get
>lightweight shit is on sale
>fuck it, whatever, it should be fine
>cat has screamed constantly about it for the last few days
Jesus christ dude... Grocery day isn't for another week and I refuse to make a special trip just because you want to be a bitch about pooping in slightly different litter.
I've never had a cat so finicky about their litter as this one. Even the usual stuff he has to bury his shit six feet deep, and then he will drag anything within the vicinity of his litter box and try to bury that too. I can't tell you how many times I left a pair of boxers or socks on the bathroom floor when I'm getting into the shower, only to notice when I get out they're sticking out of his litter box.

>>5021275
Fuck, I've been wanting to build something like this since the war started. Is the cope cage your creation or do they actually sell them now, three years into the war?

very nice build, i'd only go way more wild on the weathering, they need more mud.

>>5022300
Very nice cat bro, congratulations. What's her name? How old? Looks like over or around 6 months

>>5022488
Please do not misgender Fergus, anon
He's actually 3 months old, but he's FUCKING LONG
Also, he is extremely rude.

>>5022503
Cute. They're so annoying at that age though, and you can't leave them alone, it's not good for them. They have so much fucking energy, especially at night.

>>5022503
Is that a wart on his eye?

Great cat btw

>>5022538
I was dreading the nights a bit but he has been exceptionally calm, he doesnt break anything and doesnt wake me at all. Going outside in the evening helps with draining him. Also he's fond of lambs.
>>5022541
Just a flesh growth, according to the vet. I'll monitor it in case it's something worse

>>5020213 (OP)
what a cute kitty! <3

>Live in an apartment with a 3 year old Aussie Mix
>Found a kitten outside in the storm drain
>Asked people if I should keep it
>Mix of yes and no
Is it a bad idea to adopt this kitten? I’ve never had a cat before. I’d like for my dog to have a friend, but my dog takes up most of my free time as it is.
But I figured after these first few months of kitten time, it wouldn’t be too bad.

>>5022574
Cats are generally chill and low maintenance id worry about the kittwn having fleas and or ear mites. Will need a vet visit asap

>>5022589
Vet Visit is in an hour. I got the earliest one I could.

>>5022550
Lovely photo

>>5022600
Call purina 800 number for some coupons and mention you just got a kitten and are looking to buy supplies. They sent me two 10 dollar litter vouchers and an 80 dollar voucher for a litter box kit system. Any pics of the little fella?

>>5022487
I hate acrylic mud, literally every nightshift/plasmo video I see is him going
>and now for some nice weathering
halfway through the video and the end result looks like the tank was pulled from the bottom of a bog 40 years later
I made the cope cages myself from square profiles I had lying around and my old mosquito net
You can see the frame for size reference of the side panels, next to the T-90, the top frame I eyeballed it
They sell the Russian trapezoid cope cage as a separate accessory, but trumpeter has kits with them included

>>5022628
And a picture of my cat as this is not the scale model thread

>>5022619
Thanks for the tips.
Vet found fleas and worms so they gave him a flea bath and treatment for worms. And then I vacuumed all the carpet in the bedroom I’m having him stay in.

>>5022670
He's adorable any name yet? He looks like a Mowgli

>>5022670
handsome fella

>>5022734
>>5022752
We've finally decided to call him Biscotti, or Scotti for short lol.
He's such a sweet little guy. Loves crawling all over me and then loves chasing and playing. But he's so shy.
This is my first cat so I'm a bit out of my depth.
Any of you have an aussie? Or another high energy dog? What was the timeline like to get them used to each other?

>>5022789
That's a great name! Sorry, I don't have a high energy dog so I can't answer that.

>>5020213 (OP)
Could use some advice, lads. Long post incoming.

This kitten ran into my house the other day while I was grabbing a package. He has claw caps, so he clearly belongs to someone--but there’s no microchip and no one has come forward despite me posting all over. He's eating wet food and using the litter box, so I'm guessing he's at least 8-10 weeks old? I’d love to keep him if no owner shows up--he’s super friendly and I've wanted a buddy for my other cat (he's 8) for a long time. The timing of this all could not be worse, however--I’m leaving for a 3.5-week trip overseas in two weeks. I was already worried about leaving my older cat that long, much less a kitten.

I had already planned to hire a drop-in sitter, and I don’t mind paying for extra/longer visits for the kitten. Right now, I've got him isolated in his own room while I slowly introduce him to my older cat--but even though my cat has a very gentle demeanor, I would imagine they won't be comfortable enough with each other in just two weeks to leave them unsupervised together, and giving a kitten free rein of the house while I’m gone seems like a bad idea in the first place.

The best plan I’ve come up with is to keep him in his room during the trip. I’ve asked several local vet clinics and shelters and they say it should be fine, but I still feel bad about leaving a kitten alone in a room most of the day with only occasional visits. I’m trying to kitten-proof and enrich the room as much as I can. I don't have anybody that can watch him full time. Boarding isn't an option--I don't have proof of vaccination and there’s not enough time to get him vaccinated w/ a booster. Surrendering him to a shelter doesn't seem like a great idea either.

I don't have any experience with kittens, so maybe I'm stressing out over nothing. None of the options are particularly ideal, but what do you guys think?

I love very vocal, whiny cats. There's something irresistible and innocent about the way she meows to signal she wants to be attended NOW.

>>5022865
I wouldn't leave him alone for that long, that's like a third of his whole life so far after all. He'll be bored all day, probably meowing for hours, i really wouldn't do it.

Go look for someone who seems trustworthy on craigslist or facebook or whatever, idk, maybe an old lady who's willing to take him in for the time, but for god's sake, don't leave him alone in a room for 3 1/2 weeks.

Hope you find a good solution

>>5022865
>Surrendering him to a shelter doesn't seem like a great idea either
it sure beats leaving him to go insane on his own, you are guaranteed to find a mentally damaged cat once you come back.

>>5022878
Biological clock is calling

>>5022865
bro don't leave him alone for so long just because you plan to keep him, that would be a very wrong decision. it could seriously damage him, being alone in a room for weeks is literal torture for a cat of that age. they need sensory input and company. if there's no alternative, please, just give him to a shelter as the last resort.

>>5022878
Get an intact female cat. They get unbelievably cuddly, clingy and very vocal for a couple weeks every once in a while. Just be sure to keep her indoors...

>>5022987
I think giving him up to a shelter so he can be alone in a tiny cage hearing constant barks and meows of the other animals for who knows how many weeks or months and having a good chance at not ever getting a home is far worse than being in a room for a few weeks. At least in the situation he's in he has a guaranteed home for the rest of his life and there will be the pet sitter coming for visits every day. He'll have room to move around, play, and sleep in a peaceful environment.
>>5022865
You said you don't have anyone who could take him for that period of time but maybe you can ask a couple of friends or family members to drop in and play with him a couple of times a week to help add more interaction on top of the the pet sitter visits? You also said you asked around and vets and shelter people said the kitten would be okay so I wouldn't worry too much. It may not be an ideal situation but it's a better situation than a lot of animals have.

>>5023022
>so he can be alone in a tiny cage
shelters really aren't that bad anon, cats don't get put in tiny cages. they're put in rooms in groups, after assessing their personality to make sure they get along. no shelter in the western world would put a tiny kitten in a cage, kittens receive special treatment.

>>5023022
>At least in the situation he's in he has a guaranteed home for the rest of his life
You can't imagine how long 3 weeks are for a kitten that tiny, there's a reason you're not even supposed to take them from their mothers before 3 months. It's the most important time for their development. Leave a 2 month old kitten alone in a room for three weeks and you seriously damage it, most likely for life. It's literal animal cruelty.

>>5023017
if you do this and you live closely around others, you WILL get toms trying to get into your house. they can smell that shit from a long way away. friend of a friend had an intact female. was leaving his house one day when a tom darted into his house, immediately found his cat and fucked it.

Thank you everybody for your input.

>>5022979
>>5022987
>>5023016
>>5023025
>bro don't leave him alone for so long just because you plan to keep him
Please understand that I do want what's best for him, I'm not trying to be selfish here. I've only had him for 3 days (this being the 4th) so I've had very little time to come up with a plan (on top of caring for him, spending a lot of time trying to find his owner, trying to find a sitter for my cat/keeping him chill now that there's a new cat in the house, and trying to get everything ready for this trip). I have no experience with kittens, but the idea of leaving him alone for so long doesn't sit right with me either, which was why I wanted to get some second opinions.

The ideal, of course, would be for his owner to step forward. My original plan was to surrender him to a shelter if no owner came forward--I called a cat-specific shelter within hours of him coming into my house to start the process of surrendering him. However, they *just* took in a fuckton of cats from some hoarder, and the earliest they *might* be able to fit him in is a day or two before the trip, which is cutting it really close (and I'd like to try to avoid burdening them even more if possible).

When I explained the situation, the vet clinic that recommended the shelter to me said they thought the kitten would be better off in an environment they're comfortable in (my house), provided I had a sitter making regular visits and tried to enrich his environment as much as possible. The manager at the shelter agreed--now I'm also a little bit worried that they might have implicitly taken the conversation as "yeah I don't want to surrender the cat anymore". Most places I spoke to said I should avoid surrendering him to animal services if at all possible.

That said, my understanding is the shelter DOES hold the cats for 30 days before offering them for adoption--so I think it's quite likely I could go back and adopt him as soon as I get back.

>>5023022
>maybe you can ask a couple of friends or family members to drop in and play with him a couple of times a week to help add more interaction on top of the the pet sitter visits?
Unfortunately, most of my family lives out of state, and most of my friends live in adjacent cities (and are all busy people). They also all have pets (mostly cats) of their own, which would put them in the same situation I'm in with my older cat if they were to foster. I have one friend whose wife could *maybe* watch the kitten while I'm gone (either at his house or mine), but it's a real stretch and I'd kind of prefer to hire a professional. I have one relative who lives close by, but he's a boomerus maximus type (e.g. "cats are loners, he'll be fine on his own!") and it'll be hard to get any help out of him.

I guess what I'll try to do now is see if I can find any full-time sitters or fosters--like I said, though, it's unlikely I can get him vaccinated in time to keep him at a boarding facility. Failing that, I guess I'll try to press the shelter again. There's a few other shelters I haven't been able to get a hold of yet, I'll try contacting them again tomorrow. Any other suggestions/advice is appreciated. As an aside, this is probably a stretch, but would it even be possible for the kitten and my cat to get acclimated in the next two weeks? Would that, in tandem with pet sitter visits, be able to provide sufficient socialization? That way the kitten wouldn't be confined to a room and wouldn't be completely lonely all day--but like I said, I'm assuming giving him free rein in the house is a bad idea and that this all-around wouldn't work out.

Also, any general kitten handling advice would be appreciated--I AM keeping him in a separate room (full of toys, scratch posts, food/water/litterbox, etc.) from my other cat, currently, but my mom and I are trying to keep him in our rooms as much as possible. I'm leaving dry food out and trying to feed him wet food 3-4 times a day.

>>5023122
motherfucker YOU asked.
and youve been told by multiple people that your idea is fucking retarded.
and now you shit out some further wall of retarded shit.

no. fuck off retard.

>>5023128
What's your fucking problem? Chill out, dude.

>and youve been told by multiple people that your idea is fucking retarded.
Like I said, it wasn't "my idea" and I asked here specifically because I didn't think it was a good idea. I am asking for suggestions on other ideas now. Did you even read the post, or are you just having a bad day and felt like sperging out on someone?

>>5023130
we told you the opposite of what the shelter and vet told you. you try to make it our problem to explain why we are right and they are wrong. this to me is underaged and retarded.

>>5023030
I have noticed at least one or two that have stopped by because of that, but theycare too skittish to get anywhere remotely close to my door.
The cutest cat ever stopped by. I wanted to capture him and keep him in my house forever. I wish I could find the picgure I took.

>>5023132
>you try to make it our problem to explain why we are right and they are wrong. this to me is underaged and retarded.
And you're either ESL or have some other kind of comprehension/personal issues. I have absolutely no fucking clue how you got any of that from my post, that isn't what I'm trying to do at all. I'm just trying to explain the situation as thoroughly as possible. Next time I'll keep the character count of my posts tweet-length for you so there aren't any misunderstandings.

>>5023128
>>5023132
You are being hysterical.

>>5023288
He's still right though. And that other retard, who's willing to seriously damage a young cat just because he decided he's going to keep it against all odds, is simply wrong.

>>5023122
Nigger it's a cat. They are pure instinct, 2% social tops. Get it shots, get it neutered on time, keep it indoors. They raise themselves.

>>5023358
>Seriously damage
>A cat got bored in a room for a bit
The cat likely won't even care. They rapidly adapt to new environments. I have taken feral outdoor cats and made them 100% indoor. They don't give a shit.

The alternative that most cats go through is a choice between growing up from birth to young adulthood in a shelter cage before being shuttled off to a county shelter as an unofficial euthanasia (this is what no-kills do to non-pitbull dogs immediately upon intake btw), or hiding in a hole near a garbage can and lucking out by not being eaten by a bigger animal (sometimes another cat).

>>5023379
>growing up from birth to young adulthood in a shelter cage
Someone said it before, they don't put kittens or even cats in cages you morons.

>growing up from birth to young adulthood
Ask any shelter, kittens are adpoted within days. Also, depending on where he lives, he could just pick him up himself after three weeks. Shelters where i live do that.

>The cat likely won't even care
You know nothing about cats. It's a kitten, not an adult cat. That's like saying a toddler wouldn't care about being shut in a room for three weeks because you could easily handle that. Please just don't comment on this topic anymore.

>>5023386
>They don't put kittens or even cats in cages
Lol.
>Kittens are adopted within days
No, kittens cause shelters to overflow and most that are adopted are promptly let outside to die.
https://apnews.com/article/kitten-season-foster-shelters-a7728f596e87ceeb89b38cd42d69ad3e
>It's a kitten, not an adult cat
It is a domesticated feline. They are dumb as fuck and almost entirely asocial. Again, I have trapped feral cats and made them into ideal indoor pets. I and family members have raised kittens in one room. It works fine. Cats are NOT people. They have almost no brain matter. They are asocial, instinct-driven animals. You don't even train a cat, you manipulate it without its knowledge.

>Don't raise that kitten in your bedroom it needs to go to a shelter so it can, uh, be raised by other cats!
>What the shelter ACTUALLY does:
And the cats don't really care

Raise that kitten in your bedroom. It will grow up accustomed to an enclosed space and be even happier being indoors only like it should be.

>>5023358
>And that other retard, who's willing to seriously damage a young cat just because he decided he's going to keep it against all odds, is simply wrong.
I don't know why you shitbrained apes are trying so hard to ascribe bad intentions to me, learn to fucking read.

The very first thing I did (after checking for a chip and posting him everywhere) was start the process of surrendering him to a shelter. It was the shelter (along with another clinic) that suggested drop-in visits would be sufficient (all the shelters in the area just took in a fuckton of cats from a hoarder so they're overloaded and told me they *might* be able to fit him in a day or two before the trip). I didn't feel comfortable with that idea and earnestly asked for second opinions.

If I was just some asshole trying to torture a kitten, I wouldn't have asked about it in the first place. And, of course, I'm still trying to find the owner, but I'm very short on time and have been frantically trying to come up with a backup plan if nobody steps forward in time.

>>5022865
>>5023122
>>5023123
An update: I was able to secure a full-time, professional live-in pet sitter for the duration of the trip. Thanks everybody for your input.

>>5023511
>I didn't feel comfortable with that idea and earnestly asked for second opinions.
The drop-in visit idea, that is.*

got my boy chipped fucking finally

>>5023562
>camera
>latex gloves
>ugly college townhouse tier cabinets
>tiny sink in the corner
>"Welcome Grapes" ???
what the fuck is going on here

>>5023570
The cats name is grapes.

>>5023570
Thats clearly the vet's office.

>>5023570
the cheez helps the chip go down easier

Are water fountains worth it?

>>5023633
Feed them only wet food or get a fountain

>>5023588
The easy cheese is what bad cats are turned into. The can sits there as a reminder to them to behave.

>>5023633
I got one for my cat. He was intrigued by the running water, but couldn't figure out how to drink from it, lmao.

>>5023633
My cat likes it.
You could build your own with an aquarium pump, rubber, some PVC, and a sawn off bucket.
But yes, anything that encourages your cat to drink more water is good. Just make sure to keep it topped up or you'll burn out the motor.

Look at this.

I know cats lose whiskers, but so far today I've found 3 in a row. Should I be worried?

>>5023658
Nah I wouldn't worry about it if the cat seems fine, looks like they fell out by the root.
Personally I like to take the whisker and poke my cat in the face with it when he's asleep.
See how he fucking likes it.

rawr

>>5023641
Cute fly!

wat the difference

>>5023393
>They are dumb as fuck
But enough about dogs

>present Fergus to my cat
>2 days of wariness
>best buddies forever on the third day
He's a good cat.

>>5023727
Cope.

>>5023727
Dogs are really smart and become neurotic if they dont get to live a full life, meet strangers, and see more of the world

Cats are really dumb and are happy living in an apartment with another cat

Which one do you relate to?

>>5023820
not the neurotic animal, that's for sure

>>5023820
The dog, because I'm not shut in an apartment with just me and 4chan

>>5023727
Kek dogredditors triggered by this post

my baby boy Banjo.
He used to be cuddly as a kitten and would always sleep in my lap, but now he only ever wants to play and hated being held. is this common for cats going through their "teen" years?

>>5024008
I know a horse named banjo.

>its my one year cattaversary with Blind Lemon
>i bought her a bunch of toys, new treats, one of those tunnel things
>she loves all of it and has been playing and is very happy
:3

>>5022865
Youre already planning to hire a cat sitter. Whats the problem?

>>5024061
all tuckered out!

I think my cat has a upper respiratory infection, no more zoomies and a lot of sleeping. Is that to be expected? It's been about a week will take him to vet friday

>>5023641
U

new shirt

>>5024061
>>5024065
Beautiful cat bro, what happened to her eye

Look at this creature

>>5024322
How is that suction cup cat perch? Is it pretty secure and easy to take off and put back on?

>>5024348
It’s pretty solid if you follow the instructions. Here’s a pic of it holding both of my cats before the tuxedo passed. They’re both about 15 lbs each here.

You have to boil the suction cups in hot water first before setting it up. We had to reposition it to the window that actually closes, but it has never fallen off and it was pretty easy to remove. Not sure on how it will do in the winter though.

Lately, I got a second cat (Kitty), because my dad's unwell and I took her in. She's old af at 15, and very skittish about noises/sounds/strange places, but socialised to other cats and they don't bother her.
The problem being that my cat (Milly) is an ex-stray who is terrified of other cats 100%. I knew it'd pose a problem from the start but decided to try it instead of giving up the old one to a shelter.
The main issue is that whenever Kitty gets the guts to come downstairs, Milly runs away or freezes up and stares. Kitty prefers to sleep in small spaces all day and comes out maybe an hour a day, and then when she does Milly just runs off. And sometimes growls if Kitty gets too close.
I've been trying to mediate their meetings and help Milly get used to things but it feels like it's not working. It's been nearly 2 months and Kitty is almost exclusively upstairs still, sleeping and pooping, since I feel like I can't trust them to be together downstairs.
What is /kot/'s advice, if anyone could help me?

>>5024434
Do you have a room you can use to keep Kitty in? You could try to do a slow process of introducing each other. I followed Jackson’s advice when I had my one year old cat and we adopted a 3 month old kitten. The age difference might help or be a negative factor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tsYT7yIOdqQ

>>5024440
She spends 95% of her time in my bedroom willingly. So, sort of. But I can't bring Milly upstairs, she won't even go near the door to the hallway that leads to the stairs, because she knows Kitty is up there.
Last week Kitty went close to Milly's bed and sniffed it, and Milly saw that happen, and she hasn't slept on it ever since. Maybe it's the problem I created by giving them visual contact too early.
The super avoidant behaviour is throwing me off but, in that vid he described slowly moving the bowls closer together, which sounds like it might work. Thanks anon.

Here's that old fuckin cat Kitty

And Milly who steals my seat every time I stand up without exception.

Giving my cat CBD did not work at all. If anything he seems completely unaffected. Also he is being a total asshole towards me because I guess he's mad that I tried getting him into the carrier. I think something happened in his past where someone must've put him in a carrier then abandoned him because everytime I try getting him in to go to the vet or whatever he acts like I just tried kicking him out onto the streets or something. Like he gives this forlorn glance around the house then looks out the window all dramatically like he's trying to psyche himself up, then he gives me this look of complete and utter betrayal and acts super cold and aloof for days and days afterwards.

Cats sure have a lot of personality. And can be a total pain in the ass. I tried petting him and he grabbed my hand with his claws and just gradually pressed in harder and harder and wouldn't let me slide them out. What a jerk.

I've been unable to get him into his carrier despite trying multiple times for months now and every time he also ends up having huge distrust towards me afterwards which damages the relationship a lot. I'm at my wits end desu. Eventually there will be a real emergency and idk what I'll do

>>5023668
>poke my cat in the face with it when he's asleep.
>See how he fucking likes it.
why do you do that?
sadcatface

>>5024008
Yes could be "teen" phase.
Also could be pain or stress.
Does he like the exercise wheel?
Thinking about getting 1 for my kittie.

Lovely photo!

>>5024061
She's lovely!
Is there a story behind her name?

I love my Bingus

>>5024582
Thumbnail looks like he is wearing a shirt lol .

Also he has rabies that is based

I've been thinking alot about things that many of us use to do that are now frowned upon. Like putting your cats outside at night. That's what everyone use to do and they rarely died, sometimes got lost maybe if they weren't trained to know to come back for food and stuff.

Remember in Garfield he'd get let out at night and prowl along the top of the fenceline. Remember that song Yakity Yak Don't Talk Back that said bring in the dog and put out the cat?

It seems to me deep inner city cats are really the only ones who should be kept inside 24/7. Cars always speeding 24/7, cat gangs, homeless, property damage looking for food.

Now let's look at the suburbs which is where Garfield lived. Less cars so it's safer in the middle of the night, no real predators maybe raccoons but most things kept clean and safe.

Then you have rural land which is where I grew up in the 80s and 90s. We were a in/out whatever the cat wants kind of family and the outside of my steel door has the scratch marks to prove it. They layed around outside and sometimes overnight. We always kept a garage window cracked so it could jump inside and we had a warm basket for them if they stayed out and didn't come back in time. Though sometimes today there are predators like coyotes and maybe a fox or buzzards.

So it's like I think the more urban you are the more it necessitates you keep your cat inside especially overnight. When you live out in the middle of nowhere the risk to yourself or them doing some kind of serious damage to others is minimal.

>>5024751
>And they rarely died
That's not true. They died often.

Letting cats out period significantly raises their death rate, shits up everyone elses land with diseased turds, pointlessly harms wildlife, and negates ANY effect they would have had on pests because cat vs. 1-2 intruder mice is more likely to result in a win for the cat than cat vs. endless supply of field mice.

>>5024756
My cat use to put dead voles he caught on the walkway. Not sure how he did it though, they are usually underground I thought. It's fine letting them outside if it's relatively safe but I would rather bring them in at night if predators are about and just let them explore and live an enriching life during the day.

>>5024765
Why would you want to kill voles? Voles are a crucial part of the native ecosystem and eat actual pests like slugs. The only people who dislike them are monoculture putting green boomers who probably don't notice or care if their cat gets sick/eaten either

>>5024751
the actual answer is the lead poisoned generations of the US were extremely lax and ignorant with animal welfare and the cats did not actually survive. they were casually replaced with similar looking cats by your parents
>remember in the cartoon? remember that 50s song?
thats not reality thats a cartoon and some ghetto chant

>>5024790
You've never seen vole infestations in a yard huh? There are so many vole control products...

>>5024794
Golf course issue.

My voles live harmlessly in the bushes and flower beds and eat slugs.

>>5024795
I bet you don't shoot groundhogs either and feed deer townie

>>5024799
>Don't shoot groundhogs
Why would I if i'm not eating them and don't maintain a faggy golf course
>Feed deer
Every fall before I eat them

My kitten has been super lethargic, sleeping throughout day, not eating well, makes strange congested sound when breathing and doesnt have zoomies anymore for a week. I will be taking him to vet today, im guessing I'll have to get blood work done to figure this out?

>cat sleeping in box on my desk
>*MEEEW*, *MEEEW*
>raises head and stares into nothingness

I know that she had a difficult childhood but this scares me. I pet her and now she seems fine and is grooming herself.

My feelings are really hurt. My cat completely turned on me and has been super standoffish and vitriolic towards me. He won't even let me pet him anymore he just claws and bites. He won't accept treats from me even though he loves them normally. He won't let me anywhere near him.

The reason? Because I tried getting him into carrier 2 days ago. I guess he hates my guts for that.

My 4 month old kitten has FIP and was prescribed (3) GS-441523 FIP tablets to hold me over for weekend i will go to a non profit vet monday maybe they can give me the pills cheaper. He has liquid around lungs and intestines, prayers please.

I just want to say the world lost an angel today, the most loveable cat I will ever know. Never hissed, never scratched, and always wanted to be handled in all of his 19 years. This is the end of owning cats for me. Rest in peace my boy.

>>5025573
RIP. Sucks losing your little pal but you got good 19 years from him

>>5025573
Sorry to hear that.

Hello, my new cat keeps fucking biting and scratching my legs every single day when he gets close to them to call my attention to play.
He's about 7 months and I got him in June.
Rest of my family can't be assed playing with him for long which is probably why he only does this to me.
How do I make him stop besides yelling in pain and stepping away after he bites?

>>5025482
I hope everything turns out alright, he seems like a lovable little guy

>>5026178
3 pills are 150 dollars from emergency vet, he needs 60. If I can get a prescription for chewy its 170 dollars for 30 im going to non profic vet center tomorrow. Apparently there's an 80% survival rate with these meds. With these pills its fucking insane how well they worked. I woke up at 3am with him jumping on my head to wake me up which was very heartfelt. For a whole week before hes been super lethargic and sleeping all day not playing with toys

my cat recently got kidney stones removed and the incision is slightly red, does anyone know if this is cause for concern?

i called the vet and described it to secretary, but they said as long as there was no discharge it should be fine. but this doesn't look very good

We just let these gremlins into our homes

I've had my cat now for about 5 months, I only let her out into the garden if I'm around to supervise. It's normally an hour or two every day and she clearly really enjoys being out there and will pine to be let out. She's figured out that when she shits in the litterbox I'll take it straight outside and she can follow me out, so now she's just pretending to shit by getting into the box and then going and sitting patiently by the door.

>>5023641
Snowshoe

guys can I give my cat a slice of ham?

>>5026536
No. Too much salt and such in it.

>>5026536
no, but it's not gonna kill the cat either if you do it once in a blue moon as a little treat

Thoughts on feeding cats plain boiled chicken breast?

>>5026579
That's fine as a treat.

>>5026567
>>5026573
And what about raw steak?

>>5026634
Yep, go for it.

My cat's giardia just refuses to get cured and it's driving me insane

My kot is a strange creature. He starts his day by meowing and pawing at my face until I get up around the same time every day. He does this for no reason as he usually already has food. Then as I get in the shower, he grabs his favorite rat toy in his mouth and yowls loudly through the toy most of the time I'm in there. After I'm done he leads me to his food that was already there so that he can eat. Then he spends the day alternating sleeping spots between my bed, his carrier which I leave out, the couch, the entrance mat or the floor. If I go outside he will once again pick up his toy and yowl through it (sometimes I come back within a minute and catch him in the act, upon which he stops). He enjoys pets but if I pet him from the front he'll swipe at my hands every time. He might protest pets by meowing but he'll still purr about it. Around dinner time he will once again meow for food even if he has some. When it's bed time, he will repeat his toy meowing routine one last time for good measure before hopping into bed with me and sleeping by my side or between my legs before repeating his alarm clock routine in the morning.

>>5026650
https://littlebigcat.com/giardia-natural-treatment-protocol/
Try this. It's worked for me the two times I've had giardia in my house, in conjunction with rigorous cleaning of the litter box.
>>5026688
He's not strange, he loves you! He wakes you because he wants you up and about with him. He howls around his rat toy because he wants you to know he caught it for you. He wants you to eat with him. He loves you very very much.

>>5022789
>>5022795
Hey all, it's me again. Biscotti has been doing great! My dog and him seem to get along fine? Right now, they're both roaming around and my dog is obsessed with the kitten, just wimpering, and licking the kitten and following it everywhere. He is obsessed.
Biscotti is running around the whole apartment taking cover under dressers and couches for a bit before bolting out around the room getting chased. I believe it's all fun, because his tail is straight up. He hisses when my dog moves at him too fast, but generally, I think they're having fun? Does this seem right? Or should I be concerned?

>>5026708
Sounds good, hissing is more of a warning to lay off, my cat does it to me all the time over nothing. He's only actually pissed if growling or swiping with claws.

She loves her new toy.

I haven't had more than 3 hours of uninterrupted sleep in the past year. I've developed a soft-dependence on stimulants (caffeine mostly) to get through the day. He destroys all his toys within a week. Right as I was falling asleep last night his 13 pound ass stomped on my stomach just for the lulz. Every time he tries to manipulate me into giving him more food than he should have at times he isn't normally fed I completely forget whatever I was doing and have this horrible anxiety attack like nothing else in my life has ever made me feel, where it takes 10-20 minutes to come down from it, like some kind of stress-induced psychosis.

>>5026765
You gotta tucker your cat out big time during the day or just give it drugs.

Consider getting a shikibuton to replace your western style mattress. I sleep better on it, but another benefit is that your animals don't jump on the bed disturbing your sleep because they can just walk on it. I've been using one for a couple months now and I get way better sleep and my back pain went away.

>>5026768
I don't care if he jumps on my bed, but he jumps on me :(

>>5026776
He goes on your bed and then leaps onto you?

>>5026779
yes

>>5026780
He launches himself into the air with a trajectory terminating on your physical body?

I love my cats!

>>5026785
yes

Several times he has jumped from the floor or furniture and grabbed onto my back, while I am seated or standing, and tried to climb onto my shoulder. It's not as cute as it sounds and he has ruined multiple shirts through climbing this way. He damaged the stove in my kitchen by jumping on it and kicking the control knob, breaking it off the stove completely. He like to wrestle and bites while playing. Not super forcefully, and there is no blood usually, but it still hurts. Sometimes he will touch my face with his paws until I get up out of bed.

>>5026798
You gotta lay down the law bro. Your cat thinks they can just walk all over you and that is what they do.

>>5026820
he literally walked all over me while I was reading your post

>>5026798
Try and get a wand toy and play with him right before bedtime for 20 minutes. Have you also tried just shutting your bedroom door at night? Unfortunately cats are difficult to train outside of their kittenhood, where the only thing I've found to really work is consistent positive reinforcement through treats when they exhibit a desired behaviour. I've always had long-haired cats that require brushing a few times a week - the difference between brushing cats that I actively coached as kittens and cats that I didn't is night and day.

>>5026820
>lay down the law
>with a cat
Never works. As I said in the last post, through my personal experience, only positive reinforcement will effectively train cats. If you "lay down the law" and yell at a cat/reprimand it with a spray bottle etc, it just becomes afraid of you and you see more dickhead behaviours.

Any idea what this might be? The fur only appears matted because I had applied some clorexyderm foam to help soothe and clean. There are dark dots, which I'm unsure if it's scabbing at the hair follicles, or some kind of infection.

>>5026952
Ringworm

>>5026956
I hope not. I should have added that I took him to the vets for something else yesterday, but they examined his paws and didn't seem too concerned, just told to keep cleaning them as I have done so far and that he should be better in a week, since he's also l wearing a soft cone and can't lick them.

>>5026876
It did with mine for some things, but not all things.

Owning a cat is depressing and unfulfilling. Once you realize cats are literally 100% instinct 0% thought with no actual understanding of cause and effect they become pathetically easy to manipulate with the bare modicum of technology (like, flintstones tech). I trained my cat to stay off the counter by tying a thin string to turn on a noise maker.

>>5026952
Could be yeast overgrowth. Is it brown gunk, especially around the nail bed?

he has this new thing where when we cuddle he pushes his paws against me. what mean

>>5027057
He wants it harder, so is trying to get leverage to push against you. Give that cat the ol' tailbase butt smack, they love those

>>5026798
If your kitten destroyed your stove, its your stove at fault not the kitten lmao
bet you bought Samsung

>>5027203
it is a lucky goldstar stove
this fucker destroyed my couch too

>>5026993
Stop sniffing your dogs asshole

>>5026993
Ikr

They're really lizardlike for a mammal

>>5026993
I don't think they are purely instinctual, but our lives must be extremely confusing to them. Unless you have a very high refresh rate display, your computer screen doesn't even look like anything to your cat, and yet your cat sees you staring at it all day. Millions of years of evolution hasn't prepared them at all for the horrors that exist in your home, while some retarded giant ape thing that isn't even the same species and doesn't always seem to know what they want is their only companion.

>>5027262
they are pretty stupid tho. compared to smarter pets like dogs and birds, it's really noticeable.

>>5027265
I am not saying they are geniuses. I think they are smarter than some dogs, maybe in a different kind of way.

>see a cat sitting to the right of a dog
>cat reaches over and tugs on the dog's left ear
>dog frantically looks left and then behind to see
>dog is very confused when nothing is there

>cat drinks out of a swimming pool
>dog tries to imitate the cat, falls in the swimming pool, and is deathly afraid of the swimming pool for the rest of its life
>growls and barks when the pool pump comes on

>>5027271
Dogs traded all of the brain space typically used for coordination for social cognition

They are basically the jews of animals. As in, if you handed a jew a basketball, he would hit himself in the face. Cats on the other hand are real ballers, straight outta tha sahara.

>>5027272
My dog is extremely coordinated, nimble, and has cat like reflexes.

>>5020213 (OP)
I wish cars were real

>>5025573
My condolences.

>>5022865

I don't have the exact advice you’re looking for, but lots of people struggle to tell whether a neglected cat has an owner. One simple solution that often gets overlooked is to buy a collar with a note holder attached. Write a message with your phone number, asking if the cat belongs to someone or letting people know you’re willing to adopt it. This way, it’s easy for the owner (if there is one) to get in touch.

Talk radio is also comforting for cats left alone. Something like BBC radio 4 or the BBC World Service, or whatever equivalents you have in your country.

After my gf and her cats moved in with me and my cat, my cat has taken to spraying on things. Mostly it seems like he sprays on one of the litterboxes instead of in it, but I've also found piss on a cabinet, on some walls, and on a desk

We're moving into a house in a few months, and I don't want the house ruined, so how do I get him to stop spraying on things? I don't want to banish him to living in the garage

>>5028000
Shock collar, cannabis+catnip brainwashing, or rehome

There's this feral cat that often takes shelter in our garden, he/she is extremely nervous and skittish around people and will not allow us to get close. We always put a bit of food out but cat won't approach the food until we are back inside the house. It's a very long haired cat that looks to be underweight and fur is falling away in clumps.

We do not have a lot of spare money so taking the cat to a vet, even if we could catch it, is out of the question unfortunately, however, we would like to try and help it in other ways if we can. I reckon it has fleas, maybe worms too.

Can anyone suggest any over the counter treatments that we could add to some food that might help? Must be available in the UK without a prescription.

>>5028002
do they even sell shock collars anymore?
i thought those went out the door with declawing

>>5028040
Shock collars are only banned in some nordic countries iirc

There's no reason you can't use a buzz collar on a cat. A shock might be pretty extreme unless nothing else works.

Fucking cat spat out all his medicine again

>>5028277
when my cat kept doing that i got a little syringe (without needle) full of water
then id push the pills into his mouth, hold his mouth closed, and use the syringe to push water into his mouth through a gap in teeth
swallow the fuckin pills or drown, bitch

>>5028277
Get a big spoon and a little spoon, put the pill in the big spoon, push the little spin down so it crushes the pill (careful a chunk doesn't go flying, you can do this inside a ziplock baggie), then put that into a dish of wet food, add a little water, and mix it up until its got the consistency of a thick stew.
Also tell your get to give you oral syringes. Most of that medicine can be given in liquid form. I miss when my old cat had surgery and they gave me some painkillers to give him, and I loved having that doped up kitty just nodding off in my lap for like five hours.
Or if the pill is a capsul, just pull apart the two halves of the shell, and its already powdered in there.

>>5028290
>>5028305
He's spitting his liquid medicine. I gave up trying to give his medicine in pills since they were too large, but now he just goes apeshit the moment I put the syringe in his mouth and starts shaking his head / trying to scratch me.

Best flea medicine?

>>5028350
bathe your cat with blue dish soap for a week or the prescription stuff.

>>5025573
you just ruined my day, man. death fucking sucks. the worst thing about getting old is that everything around you is getting old, too. parents, grandparents, pets. i fucking hate it.

then again, 19 years is a good age. i'm glad because it gives hope that there's still a lot of time. i hope he went peacefully.

>>5028350
frontline worked fine for mine, completely gone for all time after a few days of treatment.

>>5028354
please don't do this.

>>5024205
hell yes

Is it bad I only feeding my kitten chicken based mousse and pate cans?

These niggas cost less than 1000 together, best investment

>>5028542
They look like good kitties

>>5028455
>>5028542
nice fucking kitties bro, good job well done

He's been coming and going since 2023. Luv 'im simple as

>>5028557
nice fucking cat bro, good job well done

>>5028000
Have you done a slow introduction to your gfs cats, or did you just toss them all together? He's feeling insecure because his space is no longer his own. Change is hard for most cats; he needs reassurance that everything is ok and he won't be displaced by the newcomers. Spoil him, separate the gfs cats to one room and slowly introduce them (there's many guides for this online.) You can try feliway, CBD, other calming supplements, or even medications like prozac if it doesn't get better. Definitely do not use a shock or buzz collar.

>>5028542
The government doesn't want you to know this but you can just pick up cats and take them home.

My cat Smooch had to be put down today. I feel horrible. She was 18 and had gallstones that were blocking her bile duct. She survived the surgery, but not the post operation recovery. Just lost her about 2 hours ago.

>>5028650
I did that.

>>5028729
Sorry, anon. My cat had to have surgery lost year and it was the same - just didn't recover from the whole thing.

Please respond>>5028527

I found a kitten at my country house a week ago, about 2 weeks old. Brought her to the vet and treated for worms, then started nursing her myself. Todays morning she got lethargic and started mouth breathing, when I brought her to the vet they couldn't save her. Where did I fuck up? I fed her cat milk replacement every 3-5 hours.

>>5024322
After a while, my husband and I decided to get another cat. We named her Vivi. Day one, and our resident cat just watches her with keen interest, never hissing at her, just trying to sniff her ass. She’s already spayed.

>>5028978
cat needs its nose booped

for the 2nd month in a row my cat has jerked away when I've went to apply topical flea meds and I don't think he got much of the dose. Not sure what else to do for the little retard if he won't let me help him.

>>5028644
so can i like just give my cat the same cbd i use
or do they need some special shit

>>5029078
mine hides preemptively the moment he thinks there might be a chance of getting medicine, also fights to a point 2-3 people are necessary to give him any kind of pills. very hard to deal with

is feliway junk?

>>5029184
Never felt like it made a difference when I used it desu

>>5029184
If its helpful it is only a tiny bit helpful. Not worth the cost, imho

Does anyone have a cat wheel here? Did your cats use it?

>>5029125
I suppose that depends on the CBD you use, but probably not. You want something with absolutely no THC, and most CBD oils still have a small bit of THC. Getting something made for and dosed for pets is your best bet.
You really should consult with a vet familiar with using CBD.

>>5029184
It didn't work for my cat, but it's worked for a friend. It seems dependant on the cat and the problem.

>pick up my cat
>she makes a weird baby sound
wtf

>>5029509
Imagine a giant wrapping his hands around your waist and suddenly hoisting you up. I bet you'd make a weird sound too, especially if you were mid-breath and weren't expecting it

My cat has been farting a lot lately. Never known a cat to do this. Everything else is normal (eating, drinking, playing etc). Cause for concern?

Would you consider your a cat person or just an owner of cat? What would you say the difference is between the two?

>>5029535
Give em some yogurt maybe

>>5029538
>give them yoghurt
Doesn't dairy upset cats stomachs? Seems like that'd just make him more gassy

Anyone had a cat with seasonal allergies before? I adopted my cat a year ago. It was summer and he had fleas and sores on his body at the time which we presumed were an irritation from the flea bites, but this year he's also got various itchy sores and scabs on his body, but no fleas. The vet gave him a steroid injection which seems to have helped, and I've been acting as though he has fleas, applying flea drops and spraying the house with a vinegar solution, which seems to help, too. Hopefully the problem is over now, as the scabs are healing and theres no new sores. Is it possible he had a few fleas try to take hold, that he managed to shake off after a few bites? If not, what sort of allergies or insects might cause itchy sores? I had a random bite on my leg recently that was hot and itchy, just a small raised red mark. Could that have been a flea or something else?

>>5029538
A cat person is a schizotypal pseud that has secret king syndrome and defines what little personality they have with "dogs and dog people are shit, cats are gods and cat people are saints. cats are wild animals. they choose us. they are free spirits and warrior souls. not letting them outside is animal cruelty and outdoor cats are the only reason we aren’t drowning in rats. kill any dog that harms a cat."

a cat owner is a normal person with a cat

Mf'er sitting in my couch like she pays rent

Why is my asshole cat alternating between pooping on my bed and his litterbox? The litterbox is super clean and 3ft away from my bed. He pooped in litterbox and hour ago I quickly cleaned it out then he pooped on my bed 30 min later

>>5029538
Well, this is a cat person >>5029753
A cat owner puts that shit in the basement

>>5029699
Lotta assumptions. sounds like you mean one person in particular.

>>5029699
Well i'm definitely a cat person

>>5028729
Me again. I need some advice. Her sister, Ariel is starting to feel Smooch's absence. They had a very bitter relationship the last few years, but they have never been separated very long. Ariel is getting very needy - squeaking when she sees me about to enter or leave the room, pacing back and forth downstairs, being very sucky for attention.. It's heartbreaking to see.

>>5029833
Just spend time with Ariel. Nothing you can really do except soothe her.

>>5029753
Honestly, probably spite. Did you recently piss him off?

my MC kitten really enjoys the outdoors

>>5030070
handsome

>>5030034
Makes sense... I've been shoving FIP pills down his mouth daly, when I noticed the shit he quickly ran away and was avoiding me the whole day like he knew he did something wrong

>sit on couch
>cat sits next to me and starts rolling on her back
>stretches and shuffles when I talk to the cat
>exposes her vulnerable belly
>I pet the belly
>cat gets annoyed and starts swiping
>jump off from couch
>repeat 3x per day
Mental illness

Mochi liked to bring hair ties to the top of the stairs and would meow a lot for my mom to come play with her, but she was always really scared of me.

Willl this niggy grow up to be long haired?

>>5028992
She has been booped thoroughly

>>5030199
>Mental illness
Yeah, yours. Why do you keep taking it as an invite when it's clearly not?

>>5020242

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the drool drop of good ass cuddles

Anti catfag having a melty again

>>5030199
Imagine your friend is comfortably stretching near you as you 2 watch tv. Does that mean they invite you to tickle their ribs? Same thing for cats.

I really enjoy seeing my cat stand like this.

>>5020291
H01

>>5021247
>>5021190
Very nice photos anons!

Are we pedos, cat bros???

Ban cats
Ban cat posters
Exterminate cats

>>5031140
only the ones that dont like dogs

>>5031152
So all cat niggers?

>>5031140
>>5031146
>>5031152
>>5031156
Thank you Reddit, very cool. I see you've been losing the argument in all the troll threads you made so you've decided to spread the piss around.

>>5031157
Just because this is /kot/ doesnt mean everyone in it is a redditor

>>5031157
Cats shouldn't exist

>>5031161
you shouldn't exist, your mother should have swallowed you

>>5031163
Everyone on /an/ hates you catfaggots

>>5031166
There are individuals that plague this entire website with dog hatred and cat/dog consolewars faggotry. That is the cancer that everyone hates.

>>5030890
Huh that's a good comparison

>>5031166
it's just a handful of samefags, this is a cat website. Always was always will be

>>5030034
Why are cats like this?
>flatmate has a bitchy cat
>i pack my lunch for work the night before to save time in the morning
>get up
>lunch box broken into and lunch eaten and/or strewn on kitchen floor
>scold the cat for its insolence
>quickly leave for work
>get home
>piss and shit on my bed

>>5031205
Absolute truth. It's so easy to spot newfags these days when they say that they hate cats.

>>5031256
>>5031205
Least obvious samefag in 4chan history.

>>5031166
>>5031175
This

Cats should be bannable on /an/
Cat ownership should be illegal
Exterminate felines
Kill pedos and non whites (all cat owners)
>>5031256
Your kind posted cp

>>5031205
4chan is a dog website that mocks cats, actually

Cats are reddit worthless beings

>>5031353
Newfag revisionism

>>5031356
>Dogs are reddit worthless beings
This

>>5031362
>nooo 4chan is about liking cats because uhhh dead memes only reddit still likes
yeah sure and the US is still a pagan country. go say your prayers to the great coyote spirit homo.

Kys cat redditor

This makes the newfag dogredditor seethe uncontrollably

>>5031394
>cats inside where they belong
no this is a good webm

>>5029833
Feliway stress diffuser & feliway chicken happy snacks asap!

what if cats were stupid and evil?

>>5022503
"YOU'RE LONG!"

Thoughts on tabbies?

Cats = 4chan culture newfaggots

>>5031713
moot has spoken

>>5031363
I like how you made the same retarded argument in like 3 different threads under 24 hours. how about this: have you considered to stop fucking dogs?

I seriously love my boy so much. he deserves more than I can give him

>>5031752
>The anti cat schizo is mentally ill and also terminally online
It's sad, really

>>5031754
Same bro
Both of my boys are such handsome felines and carry themselves with grace and dignity at all times

A few weeks ago I posted here because of my cat having scratching fits and tearing his cheeks up. Among the suggestions were single protein food, chlorhexidine wipes and also a cone for a time. I took him to the vet after who said yeah I could do that (could never really make headway into this issue with the vet either).
The food and wipes are good ideas that we can also keep for the future, but after 2 weeks of these and conemaxxing, while his cheeks are looking much better, he clearly still has the compulsion to scratch himself.
What the fuck do I do? Is it over? Him shredding up his cheeks is awful but forcing a cone on him his whole life doesn't seem reasonable either.

Reminder he has cp and larps as a catfag

>>5031895
The dog hating cat schizo does have cp, correct, but he’s not larping as a catfag. Hopefully europolice end him soon.

I see a lot of toxos here wish they were oldfags, but only know about the memes they read about on reddit. For you, I have a solution
https://archive.org/details/instaoldfagkit.7z
Now you can really pretend to be oldfags instead of just parroting vaguely understood things from r/transcatowners and r/wewishwewerecoollike4chan

Why does the anti cat schizo know so much about reddit? Oh right...

>>5031970
There is no "anti cat schizo"

>>5031971
Oh anti cat schizo, you're so easy to spot

>>5031971
Anti cat schizo lives rent free in their head. They yearn for a boogeyman that they can use to victimize themselves with.

>>5031981
It must be how they shift their fear of being arrested for CP into a more manageable form of anxiety

bros I got a kitten this week and I love him

>>5031996
Many such cases

>janny prefers to let cp be posted to further the console war agenda
Sad

>>5031981
>>5031985
The anti cat schizo is talking to itself again

>>5031825
If he's scratching his face constantly it might be allergies, food or otherwise (which single protein food could help). Get the vet to sell you corticosteroids to try. If that settles it it's pretty much guaranteed.

In the case it is allergies there's not much you can do. You can either do expensive allergy tests, or do elimination testing which is a pain in the ass. I just give mine half a pill every 3 days to keep it in check. He has asthma too so that helps both. It's not ideal though because long term corticosteroids can have side effects but it's the smallest dose that still helps and he's old at this point anyway.

>>5025762
Update he's really chilled out now, hasn't bitten me in a while and loves me. I was a faggot for complaining too early just needed some adapting.

>>5032136
He's a cute boy

How common are UTI infections in cats and will this fix it or do i need to go to vet?

>>5032351
>How common are UTI infections in cats
Can be common. Are you sure its a UTI, fixed male cats can develop an issue where their urethra gets clogged up by tiny crystals and they can't pee. That is a condition that needs to be treated by the vet immediately since their kidneys will back up and fail pretty quickly. Usually includes a catheter and an overnight stay at the vets.
Get a cat fountain (they're cheap, and you can make one yourself even cheaper), and make sure you're regularly giving them wet food. If they're hydrated and peeing regularly it will keep them flushed out.

>>5032406
It seems to be UTI hes uncontrollably peeing all over the place, do you think that store bought medication can work?

My cat just took a shit with a bit of yellow-y mucus in it. Quick google search says this is normal from time to time, but haven't experienced it before today. Anybody got any advice? 6 month old kitten, otherwise he seems extremely healthy and the stool itself was otherwise quite normal looking.

So my mom is kicking me out of the house, I have an outdoor cat that I've been taking care of, I plan on bringing him with me when I move out.
If I take him to the vet how do I make sure it doesnt have any worms / fleas / parasites before i bring it to my place? It eats rats sometimes so does that mean it has the toxoplasmosis?

Also i dont know if he's fixed or not, he has very small shrunken balls which makes me think hes fixed but I've also seen him "spraying" on bushes before, and i heard that male cats can sometimes piss outside the litter box on random stuff so how do I make sure he doesnt do this?
Also will it freak the cat out if I suddenly remove him from his outdoor territory and basically kidnap him? the cat is not feral, it used to be my neighbors that abandoned him, I think he used to be an indoor cat but im not sure, im just worried if he might try to rush out and escape from my new place, I heard that cats will try to go to their old home, so will I need to make sure he stays inside for a few months to get adjusted to his new home?
Its tried entering my mom's house in the past but she doesnt want to allow pets inside.
Any advice is appreciated. Pic related is him

>>5032698
For worms/fleas/parasites/fixing that's what the vet is for isn't it? Toxo doesn't matter.

Of course changing environments is gonna freak him out, there's no helping that no matter what you do. If you keep it outdoors there's never a guarantee he'll stay around. Best you can do is provide food and shelter so he's more likely to stick around. Not that I would recommend you keep it out though. He'll adjust over a couple weeks.

>>5031968
stop fucking dogs

>>5032779
Well im assuming the parasites take a while to die so should I leave him at my mom's for a few days after the vet?
Why does toxoplasmosis not matter?

Well he's pretty chill and follows me around everywhere, im just wondering if its common for cats to bolt out of the door and not come back, if theyre not used to the area

My sweet silver tabby cat is 16 years old. He's very healthy and has all his teeth, despite me, unfortunately neglecting his dental health when he was younger. My biggest regret pertaining to his health is that I failed to brush his teeth when he was younger - and he doesn't tolerate it at his age.

I've always enjoyed the smell of his breath and drool. When he's relaxed, he drools a little bit and it smells vile but I love it so much

I saw a dead cat going home. my baby's procedure is in two days. is this an omen :(

>close window
>cat meows at me constantly until i open it again
>open window
>she goes into the window for 30 seconds, jumps back down, jumps back up 5 minutes later and repeats until she gets sleepy
>close window when she goes to sleep
>she hears me close the window, wake up and repeat from beginning
>if i leave the window open while she sleeps she just sleeps, wakes up many hours later then repeats
wat do? i don't want to keep the window open because id rather run the air conditioning

I just put my evil bastard cat down, he had throat cancer and no teeth

>>5033094
Get some PVC pipes and a clear shower curtain and some weather stripping. Make a little frame or box that you can wedge in the window with a flap so the cat can get in, and get up to the window while its open.
You keep most of the cool air from escaping, and the cat has a little spot.