Poll of the Day > Cat / Chat 3: It's almost kitten season! Cat discussion and appreciation topic

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GanonsSpirit posted...

Is it ok for cats to eat rubber bands? My cat keeps trying to eat them and I take them away from her. I assume it'd harmlessly pass through her digestive track, but I don't know.

It wouldn't be great but it would likely pass. Hard to say for sure. It would be best that you don't let kitty test it
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I thought this topic purged but not yet
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Meow ^.^

Just fed the kitty ... somehow it feels like it's always time to feed the kitty.... ^.~
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Any recommendations on foods to fatten a cat up?
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*cries* ;.;
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The local shelter is having a "Cinco de meow-o" special, all adoptions are $5

Nice! Hope the kitties find good homes ^.^
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It was nice to see these fluffers all cuddled up


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lorekai posted...

Any recommendations on foods to fatten a cat up?

Oh Hai @lorekai

Is kitty malnourished?

Most cats are overweight

If the cat needs to get more food energy there are a few options. There's high calorie foods made specifically for ill cats that need to keep up their energy or gain weight. Sometimes they're labeled as high energy or critical care.

You can feed kitten food as it's nutritionally more dense

Or you can add extra foods to the diet (like cooked unseasoned chicken or fish) to increase the calories taken in daily
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Here's a cute kitten



he yells for attention
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Doctor Foxx posted...

lorekai posted...

Any recommendations on foods to fatten a cat up?

Oh Hai @lorekai

Is kitty malnourished?

Most cats are overweight

If the cat needs to get more food energy there are a few options. There's high calorie foods made specifically for ill cats that need to keep up their energy or gain weight. Sometimes they're labeled as high energy or critical care.

You can feed kitten food as it's nutritionally more dense

Or you can add extra foods to the diet (like cooked unseasoned chicken or fish) to increase the calories taken in daily

Thanks, but he ended up going to the vet not long after I made that post, poor kitty has diabetes, but he's doing better now he's getting insulin.
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lorekai posted...

Thanks, but he ended up going to the vet not long after I made that post, poor kitty has diabetes, but he's doing better now he's getting insulin.

Ahh I'm glad he got to the vet. Diabetes is no joke!
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I feel the same way -- poor kitty ;.;
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He had another vet appointment today, he's gained weight which is good, but his blood sugars have gotten higher, vet suspects there might be something else going on as well. :(
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Catcade

Cat must be happy on all the warm cabinets
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She only sleeps on top of that one. Sometimes she'll get up on centipede and swat at the screen

Action53 posted...

She only sleeps on top of that one. Sometimes she'll get up on centipede and swat at the screen

Cats are natural centipede killers
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Better her than me

Centipedes are yucky af

My kitten


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One of my parents' cats, named Silky, isn't doing too well right now. He has some kind of growth in his nasal cavity - his breathing is punctuated with snorting and snuffling every so often. According to my folks, they've had him on antibiotics and there was some drainage, but otherwise not much else.

I have a feeling they're gonna be having him put down somewhere in the near future - Silky's getting up there in the years, and treatments are gonna cost an arm and a leg at least.

Apart from his odd breathing noises, he was still the same fluffy purrbox with extra claws that I know and love when I saw him this past weekend.
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Alex1976 posted...

One of my parents' cats, named Silky, isn't doing too well right now. He has some kind of growth in his nasal cavity - his breathing is punctuated with snorting and snuffling every so often. According to my folks, they've had him on antibiotics and there was some drainage, but otherwise not much else.

I have a feeling they're gonna be having him put down somewhere in the near future - Silky's getting up there in the years, and treatments are gonna cost an arm and a leg at least.

Apart from his odd breathing noises, he was still the same fluffy purrbox with extra claws that I know and love when I saw him this past weekend.

Aww sorry to hear that about silky
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Poor kitty ;.;
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Another lazy caturday in the catcade

:3

So the foster cat She-Ra I've had since April, she's something else.



When she first came home she was wheezy in a big way. Constant loud labored breathing. She was also so skinny you could feel her spine, her ribs, her hipbones, and it felt like she weighed nothing. She was totally silent meow-wise and rarely purred.

Now she breathes mostly quiet (unless she gets really worked up playing or running around). She's a healthy weight. She learned to YELL for food and attention from the other cat--though her meowing is still really squeaky. And she purrs up a storm cuddling up for bed every night.



There was some fighting and annoyance from my cat, Tiny, when she came home. Now they're inseparable. He is so fixated on her. Anywhere she goes he wants to follow. He tries licking her and she hits him in the face. He tries to get her to groom him all the time.

Last night Tiny had flopped on the floor and totally stretched, and She-Ra flopped down next to him, touching her paws on his legs. Tiny looked so pleased.

She is a horrible garbage thief, gets into any and all food possible, wants to eat everything I am eating, and turns into a crazy running monster at dusk. Love her.
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Nice kitties ^.^
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Only 26 more posts to go!
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I miss my cats any time I'm away
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-06-20/cats-spread-across-world-revealed-by-dna-study/8631150

Cool little article about cats and their history
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/domesticated-cats-dna-genetics-pets-science/

Overall, cats became a domesticated companion of humans without changing much, says evolutionary geneticist and article coauthor Eva-Maria Geigl. Domestic cats look similar to wildcats, but they aren’t solitary, tolerating both humans and other cats. (See "Our Most Stunning Pictures of Big Cats.")

This is in contrast to dogs, the first animals to be domesticated, Geigl adds. Dogs were selected to perform specific tasks—which never was the case for cats—and this selection for particular traits is what led to dogs’ diversification to the many breeds we see today.

“I think that there was no need to subject cats to such a selection process since it was not necessary to change them,” Geigl says. “They were perfect as they were.”
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Somehow my naughty kitties opened the fridge and ate 6 pounds of raw chicken breast

Action53 posted...

Somehow my naughty kitties opened the fridge and ate 6 pounds of raw chicken breast

Hahaha

Oh my you have some bratty cats that learned to open the magical food box

Hope they poo ok
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They have plenty of food

Action53 posted...

They have plenty of food

but is that food meat

cats love meat

mine knock over my trash can to get at packaging for chicken.
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My cats are being very nice today. What good friends
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I went to Lake City for Father's Day weekend - Silky's doing a LOT better. He's back to his old shenanigans and I didn't hear any snuffling or anything abnormal with his breathing.
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Alex1976 posted...

I went to Lake City for Father's Day weekend - Silky's doing a LOT better. He's back to his old shenanigans and I didn't hear any snuffling or anything abnormal with his breathing.

Happy to hear this about silky!
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Cats are so easy to love. :3 <3
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Cats are so easy to love. :3 <3

Which is lucky for them, because they can be such brats. I had to buy a special latch for the sliding doors on my closet because my cat kept getting in and chewing on my shoes like she's a fucking dog. She's lucky that she's really cute.
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We had to put down our cat of 17 years on friday. D:

she had kidney failure, and was going blind. she was too stubborn to go out on her own, though...

:<

That's awful, but it was the right thing to do. One of my absolute biggest sources of anger are pet owners who won't fulfill their last responsibility as a pet owner. I had to put one of my cats down a year ago and it hurt like hell, but I took solace in knowing that he was no longer in pain and was getting the rest he deserved.

And damn it, that last sentence was hard to type. Damn cats.
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pigfish99 posted...

We had to put down our cat of 17 years on friday. D:

she had kidney failure, and was going blind. she was too stubborn to go out on her own, though...

:<

oh i am so sorry. That is never easy. :(

Rasmoh posted...

That's awful, but it was the right thing to do. One of my absolute biggest sources of anger are pet owners who won't fulfill their last responsibility as a pet owner. I had to put one of my cats down a year ago and it hurt like hell, but I took solace in knowing that he was no longer in pain and was getting the rest he deserved.

And damn it, that last sentence was hard to type. Damn cats.

When i put my cat down a few months ago it was completely heartbreaking. It still hurts to think about him feeling so bad and needing to go. no more suffering.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

It still hurts to think about him feeling so bad and needing to go.

That's what really does it. The cat I had put down went so suddenly, it just made it that much worse. But I could see visibly see how much pain he was in and that helped me know that I did the right thing. I still miss him though.
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Since this topic started I have met at least 500 more cats

Gosh I love all the cats
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Earlier today Tiny and She-Ra were on the bed together. Tiny got one of his paws on her back. He was happy.



She yawned and they slept touching for a while. Good kitties.
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http://imgur.com/a/KDDhe

there are 3-4 cats in the first pic. it's from when i was volunteering at a shelter. they could have slept on separate levels but they chose to be one big pile.

fat white and calico is sugar. grey one is mystery
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Meow ^.^

We're going to need a new kitty topic soon please ^.^;
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~nyo
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I'm blown away by how old this topic is