The Cat Thread

It won't charge.

No but I'd love to know if it works! Clive has mega fish breath, not improved by his constant yelling in my face.

Check clives diet...shouldn't have fish breathe.

Cone of shame.

Never? So it just walks around at a sedate pace? Fascinating insight these things give.

Remarkably even tempered, even in the face of extreme provocation.

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C'mon man, get it sorted. We must learn of cat land.

Well it's worse after eating fishy food (somewhat obviously) but he's eating the same as Cleo and her breath is just standard cat...

did anyone lose their kitten?

just saw a kitten at bedford square about 45 minutes ago
looking very frighten and lost, kept meowing and when i tried approaching it ran off, it looked clean despite it having rained today.
it looks a little like this
slightly older, but not full size i dont think.
hope its okay as it was running into the road etc.
:(

My two were pretending to be a Feline Centipede tonight.

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So I need to go away again in a couple of weeks time and since I have broken up with Mr A-Hole, the house sitting situation is a bit of a mess. I think I have got it covered with a friend staying with the ocassional nights being away for work. On nights when there is nobody to feed the cat, should I get my friend to leave plenty of dry food and as much wet food as it's sensibe (without them going stale), or shall I get a neighbour whom I don't really trust to go feed her? Friend told me it'd only be 1 night away max each time.

Think cat is still recovering from the last time I had to be away for an extended period of time...

Those cat / pet feeding machines are a good thing.

When I was cat-sitting friends' rascals as well as her neighbours at the beginning of the year, we used these -
did work very well, it's nice and simple, and it's hardly possible they force-open or break it
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Does anyone have experience of introducing a puppy into a cats life? We have Buzz, a 12 year old formally abandoned slightly obstinate moggy but long for a dog too. Internetz advice seems to be partition them off until their scent is familiar then let 'em at it. I grew up in a house of both and on the whole they ignored each other.

Our 8 month old still hasn't figured out how to open doors that are ajar- any ideas on encouraging him or is he terminally lazy/stupid?

None of my cats have ever really cared much about/for dogs, regardless of the age of either, they just ignored each other too. It's a bit of a crapshoot, really. If you've got a very territorial cat and a very stupid dog that keeps getting in its face all the time then there'll be fireworks.

For the most part if a cat really hates a dog then the dog will get a face full of claws a couple of times and then make a strategic decision to keep well away. They're not really territorial in the way cats are so even if a particular location is off-limits due to face full of claws then a dog isn't really going to care too much.

If the puppy is aggressive or playful towards the cat then you need to teach the puppy not to play-fight with him, as dogs aren't always good at reigning in their prey instincts in the heat of the moment. They're much more powerful than cats are unless they're a toy breed, and they can do them serious injury. Don't leave them alone together until the puppy has learned that the cat isn't for playing with, and never let the dog chase the cat.

Buzz is getting pretty old and if you don't know what his life was like prior to having been abandoned then he might surprise you and be totally cool with the idea of living with a dog. But he might instead really hate the idea and piss in your shoes forever.

This bad little fella comes to live with us from Sunday

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Good thoughts, thanks.

Buzz has been with my partner for 8 years now after his owners moved house and left him behind. It was a violent atmosphere so he's still a bit edgy and dirty protests only really occur when we're away for a night and the auto-feed bowl comes out - and that's usually in the form of vom cause he wolfs his food without supervision. Little bugger. I guess we'll have to raise his bowl to stop the dog nom'ing it.

Puppy will be getting trained, well training at any rate, I don't think it comes with a guarantee. We were told to bring a cloth with the cat scent to the litter and the reverse to Buzz.

Don't let it win...

Trying again . New kitten . Ok still wont let me . Will do from home later .

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video/B-FMyQCIQAEu3qX.mp4

So you think that bringing another animal would be a good idea? Suspect that it will be a bad one, as the cat has got used to being the only furball, might not be a great idea .having had a few and discovered that you need to either have a big enough space to have dog and cat zones.

Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. The in-laws just got a couple of rescue dogs and now have an upstairs only cat, although it's only been couple of weeks. My dad has 2 cats that arrived at different times, might have had a dog with one of them that died (RIP Carly, we got her on my 13th birthday) but got another puppy more recently, all 3 animals run around and play together and curl up and sleep together.

When we got Opie our first cat Gomez hated him, he'd been the only animal in the house for a year and a half and liked it I think. I think it was a territorial thing though because as soon as we moved house they started to get along really well, before that we couldn't leave them in the same room unsupervised without there being a big fight.