The Cat Thread

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He knows he’s not supposed to be doing this 😂

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Classic guilty cat look 😀

Has he ever fallen out of a window? He looks too clever to do that. My inbred idiot fell from the 3rd floor.

Guilty expression 100%

Not yet….

Babysitting this crazy girl for the weekend

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When they lean so hard on your scritching you can hardly scritch

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When you get bitch slapped as you are not scratching hard enough.

Oh and anyone else pat their cats bongo style, as I've found that both my two love this. To the point I worry that I'm hurting them but they seem happy. Am terrified of hurting them.

Also soooo cute would kiss that nose excessivly.

Lots of cats want you to whack the crap out of them, at least once they realise it's a thing. My mum had a cat who would move his head in figure eights like Stevie Wonder when I gave him the bongo treatment.

Floopy here isn't so into it, he only digs it in particular circumstances. And yeah, his cuteness is off. the. scale. Little dude is pretty ornery though - most times I give him pats, I can see he's conflicted about it. Half his brain has him purring to beat the band, and the other half puts his ears back and swishes his tail; he's a right nutter. After a bit he'll just turn and attack, halfway vicious. He's very gradually mellowing out slightly, I think? Also, even though he's seven, he still acts like a kitten. Absolute Flooperstar.

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Like scritchin them just in front of the tail. You can receive wildly different responses to that & some involve shouting & blood.

Patting/tapping in front of the tail can produce some interesting reactions.
Also, a test of your reactions to avoid blood on occasion/occasions!

It’s just a hunch but I reckon Hendricks loves the new rug.

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His now.

Pro snoozer

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Any thoughts on this:

We have two moggies. Our feeding regime is
AM - small tin of wet food split between two bowls. They are very fussy about wet food. Currently we give them High Life chicken selection. Recently one of them is occasionally being sick after the wet food. Often they don't finish meaning there is bits of wet food hanging around in the bowls until I get round to cleaning it out.
Evening - cup of dry food each in two different bowls. They tend to finish the dry food. Feed a variety including Scrumbles / Lilly's / Applaws.

They are both a bit overweight, one more than the other. Considering binning off the wet food as they don't seem to particularly like it other than licking the gravy off.

But then lots of online stuff saying that kibble diets are bad for cats.

lots of online stuff

That's your problem. Lots of online stuff saying wet food is bad too. When I was a wee kid, we had a cat that ate only supermarket kibbles and she was perfectly healthy her whole life, passed away age 21. My girlfriend's family cat likewise and made it to 19.
Depends on the cat. I'd stop the wet food if they're only licking it and especially if one is regularly sick. People tend to think that cats are sick often and it's fine but they really shouldn't be throwing up at all

Thanks. Yeah I wondered about the sick thing too.

Assumed it was just fur ingestion and subsequent ejection. It's sporadic, sometimes a couple of times in a week and then all fine for a while.

There are a lot of weight management wet foods if you'd like to continue the morning wet food. Senior cat food is also lower in fat/protein to manage weight.

How's their poop? 🙂
Ours are fussy and have sensitive tummies. We've found foods that they seem happy with so stick to them although it means different foods for each cat. Ones on Royal Canin sterilised and the other Hills sterilised cat. Half a pouch in the morning, half a pouch for brunch and then Hills kibble for the rest of the day. We just put it out and top up as necessary. Ours don't over eat thankfully.

Poop seems fine, holds its shape ok and doesn't smell worse than expected!

Best to ask your vet. But here are my unprofessional tips.

The overweight issue: do they eat other unknown things, maybe from a neighbour or bins? (Neighbours always lie about this).

If they're not eating unknown things, maybe you're giving them too much? You can do portion control on the dry food by weighing it and weighing the cats. There are numbers online. Or you can switch to diet food: https://www.royalcanin.com/uk/cats/products/retail-products?specific_needs=weight_management You could get a target weight from the vet and work your way down to it.

A dry diet is not necessarily bad if it's good quality stuff and the cat is an enthusiastic drinker and has not had UTI problems in the past. If you switch to a dry diet and the cat doesn't drink enough and consequently gets a UTI infection, that could be unfortunate because it might keep recurring. Best to ask the vet.

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That's your problem. Lots of online stuff saying wet food is bad too. When I was a wee kid, we had a cat that ate only supermarket kibbles and she was perfectly healthy her whole life, passed away age 21. My girlfriend's family cat likewise and made it to 19.
Depends on the cat. I'd stop the wet food if they're only licking it and especially if one is regularly sick. People tend to think that cats are sick often and it's fine but they really shouldn't be throwing up at all

I second all of this, really depends on the cat, and we've also had some that were healthy as can be for 20 years just eating Brekkies 💁

Who was after kittens?

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