The Cat Thread

Ahhhw cute.

My two furry flatmates where really not in a good mood while my partner was away for a week.

Most of the vet nurses from our local vet have a side gig doing pet sitting and are happy to, and are trained to, do injections. We also have a diabetic cat and have used the local vet nurses for years. Maybe try asking vet nurses next time you are in there.

Pretty good scratching post, this.

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Novice cat operator here - just watched some youtube about the evils of dry food. We've been giving both since we got her as thats what they said at the rescue centre. She often licks the jelly off the wet and doesn't eat all the bits. Grazes on the dry. Should I reduce the dry to none and then just give wet ?

Also claws - do they need clipping on the regs ?

I don't know what the conspiracy about dry food says but our two are very healthy on a mix of the two and growing up we had a dry food only cat who lived past 21, I wouldn't overthink it. Just buy quality food, not cheap crap with grain fillers.

Yes you gotta clip em every now and then. Just when they start getting long and sharp. We do ours every couple of months but they spend a lot of time climbing outdoors, indoor cats may need more regular clipping

@krj Thanks, my partner found someone on a very similar site.
@Aroogah our vet was trying so sort this for us but wasn't getting very far for unknown reasons.

All sorted now, thanks all

Cheers boss - the argument is that cats are carnivores and dry food is solely for user convenience. The process may start with meat but you end with much higher carbs than they need all sprayed with meat flavor. Apparently they only naturally get carbs from the digestive bits of the herbivores they eat. Anyway noted and will probs just carry on with both.

Cat won't really be touched at this point let alone picked up so fuck knows how we'll clip her nails. But like yours she is free range and always up a shed/fence/tree so...that's a problem for next month.

The process may start with meat but you end with much higher carbs than they need all sprayed with meat flavor.

Just read the ingredients, there's dry food with a very low meat content and others with over 90%, there's shit quality dry and wet food the fact that they're wet or dry will kit be the reason they're bad.

Cats also crunch through skin, muscle and bone in the wild, a diet of solely wet food doesn't recreate that and a lot of cats on solely wet food develop bad teeth problems.

There's no magic formula, be very wary of Internet conspiracy bullshit, by the best quality food you can afford and it will eat and don't worry about it.

As for nails, the more comfortable your cat gets with you the better it'll get but they'll still fucking hate it and it might always be a two person job.

My six month old idiot has just disappeared up the chimney. Ten days ago she fell from a 3rd floor window. Kittens are exhausting.

Is the kitten back?

Ah I shouldn't?

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Better?

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Yes, thank goodness. Presumably there isn't an easy route out of the chimney to the roof, otherwise she'd probably have gone out there and required rescuing by the fire brigade.

That grip

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Saturday vibes

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That's a brave tablecloth for a cat household!

Forum approved auto feeders? Something that works and doesn’t look too ugly?

Damn ugly, but functional , haven't had issues with it getting blocked or anything but it's all very simple. Setup was a PITA with changing the wifi over to 2.4G and back to connect to the app.

..as seen in the meme thread 🙂

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Jaffa always knows the comfiest spot in the house at any given moment.

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My best boy is getting big fast!

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Oh he is a cutie

Aww! Cute!

He should unbutton the tux when sitting down! 😍