The Cat Thread

Risking death for your entertainment

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My two cats are moving down to my parents while I go off travelling for a year, any suggestions on how to make the transition as smoothly as possible, they are 4 so have only ever know our house and the surrounding gardens.

Standard stuff, just keep them in for 2-6 weeks, as long as they know where to come for food before you let them out they should be fine.

..haha, that expression!
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^^needs WASSSUPPP

Maybe someone here can help me.

My lovely lady wakes me up at night. I'm sleeping and she's meowing so loudly that I wake up from it. She's doing that at the bedroom door. Doesn't matter if I leave it open or not, she's just meowing extremely loud in a horrible sounding way. When I get out of bed and pet her she stops and starts purring again and goes back to the living room where she lays on my chair and lays down there. When I go to bed it takes about 10 minutes and she starts again. When I meow back she goes from extremely loud to normal meowing for a few minutes (i'm 100% sure she's not deaf). She has a clean litter box, clean and full bowl of water, canned food before I went to bed and a full bowl of normal food waiting for her, it's not cold and she's healthy. Doesn't matter if I haven't been home all day or that she slept on my lap the entire evening.

allow me to translate for you - "let me go outside so I can hunt you stupid human"

She never goes outside. She has been an indoor cat her entire life.

My stupid cat ate a custard donut yesterday. How he managed to get hold of it I dont know. Made me panic as it surely can't be good for him as he is diabetic. The cheeky chap looked so proud of himself & was bounding about the flat, so, fortunately he must be OK. Cats are idiots.

(Photo of Catface drooling wasn't after the donut incident)

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Bleurgh. Our poor cat is having a really tough time of it at the moment.

Fabric is 7 and has been in what appears to be good health all his life apart from the fact he has a fairly severe (4/6) heart murmur that he has had since birth. We found him dragging his rear legs on the 27th of December and the immediate panic was that he had a saddle thrombus which I have always resolved would be an end of life scenario. No cat should have to face that kind of pain with such poor prognosis after treatment. We were fully expecting him to be put down.

Anyway, by the time we got him to the vet (20 mins max) his legs had recovered and he was fine. Tests have shown that his heart is enlarged but he has no symptoms of heart failure or a blood clot. His kidneys are fine too and he isn't diabetic.

The only symptoms he has are blood in his urine and a lot of pain when the vet palpates his bladder. The vet reckons he is in too much pain for it to be typical cystitis. He is also urinating normally and showing no day to day distress at all.

Just waiting to hear what an ultrasound finds. Starting to sound like the poor fella might have some form of bladder cancer.

Sorry to hear this! Sounds horrible. When they're unwell, you really wish they could speak and actually let you know where it hurts/how bad they feel etc... get well Fabric.

Ha, not sure what's going on with that smugface, he's the most timid of all three and never sits there grinning inanely...

I get that in my face a couple of times a week.
Mostly around 4-6am as Moet reckons thats whiskers time and i should not be sleeping but filling his bowl up instead. It's allright when i have a 6am work start......

Cat is showing you who is in charge.

Has anything changed in the sitting room or outside the window such as christmas lights?

Cat is looking so smug with himself.

Fingers crossed it's nothing serious.

Give fabric an ear rub from me.

Cat has brought in 2 mice todayso far... 10 mins apart from each other. 1 she poppped the poor guy's eye ball out and the other 1 was bleeding like a tap... sometimes I really really hate my cat.

Thanks for the nice wishes.

The ultrasound showed no stones, crystals or tumours in his bladder. Given that he is using his tray normally (apart from the blood) and his kidneys and other general blood readings are fine the vet is pretty stumped.

Ten days of antibiotics and lets hope that does the trick. His symptoms just don't add up to a diagnosis. Kudos to our vet, he's very conscientious.

Fabric is currently asleep in his radiator chair with a huge shaved patch on his belly. First time I've seen his nipples. Arf.

Success! Young mother cat and her 12 week old kitten being picked up from Celia Hammond tomorrow.

Pics to follow obvs...

Good news! Hope you weren't too surprised by his nipples? My gf's favourite story is when I was left alone with our boy kitten for the first time (I may not have been 100% sober) I thought I had found a lump on his chest. I booked a cab to take him to the vets. Imagine my horror when I then found another one! Luckily, before the cab arrived, I realised that it seemed unlikely any dangerous growth would be appearing in two neat lines along his belly.

I appreciate this doesn't reflect well upon me.

Massive lolz.

I knew they were there somewhere and indeed have looked for them but this is the first time they've been exposed! Kinky little thing.

He had his second dose of antibiotics today. He used the tray four times over night and only managed to pass a little bit of urine and was clearly in a lot of pain after doing so. Really hoping he doesn't develop an obstruction.

no not really. everything still looks the same. I don't do anything with christmas and not many people put up lights here. Can't even remember if I've seen them

It can take a while for everything to get moving again. Our little bastard took 24 hours to pee after his leg had been pinned, then at least 48 hours to poo.

sharing the bike love! kept her busy for well over an hour

https://youtu.be/tOu417f3vG0