Share My Cat Thread #7

[shazbev]

Just popped into the bathroom, shower was cleaned this am and what do I find?

Any one else have a cat that likes to tiptoe around the shower?

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

My Mum’s cat is wonderfully and gloriously spoiled with all the toys imaginable. Her favourite toy of all time? These garden ties :

 

[Ambrosie]

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Happy Valentine’s Day from our little love bug! Does anyone else either know they don’t want kids/could take it or leave it but feel SO maternal when they snuggle up on you like this? I’m really in two minds about having kids because I know I’m quite selfish and would need to do a lot of personal work first but she makes it so easy to love such a tiny little thing. I just love when she cuddles me 🥹🥹

Yes! I never wanted kids and don’t have any. Babies do not make me think “awwww.” But my cats hurt my heart they are so damn cute and lovable

 

[MaineCoonMama]

I love how quirky cats are, Susan has a thing for my husband's right eyebrow. It needs at least one smell and lick per day followed by a boop and sometimes she'll lean her little head on his shoulder if it's been a particularly satisfying experience.

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

My poor old cat also is adapting to her new diet and I think she hates her new tiny cat litter as much as me, so we keep having minor litter tray accidents where she shoots out of there too early with a small dingle berry. That keeps being smushed into our bedsheets, so we have been changing the bedsheets A LOT. There’s been a couple of on carpet incidents too. Coupled with the amount she has been sick over the last few weeks whilst we got to diagnosis and started her treatment, I honestly think we might actually have fully hand scrubbed the entire flooring in our house. Except our soon to be nursery which we’ve been keeping mostly but not entirely off limits. Her stamping poop about when I’m 4ish weeks off giving birth concerns me (from the baby point of view when he’s here), hopefully she will dislike him being loud and unpredictable and will naturally give him a bit of a wide berth. How we manage our IBD diagnosed, old, apparently child-hating cat with a newborn could be a challenge….

 

[SarcasmSpecialist]

This dickhead jumps up onto the flat roof and then can’t get down, so he shouts until we let him in via a window.

 

[DoubleEntendre]

Summer mode fully activated.

 

[shazbev]

Meanwhile I'm the not so chilly today UK Meredith has decided to help put this shopping away.... Not .

 

[emm]

I'm focusing on the wrong thing, but why is chicken spelled "chiken"?! Is it a one-off mistake? Curious cat

Is it some kind of vegan alternative

 

[Wooh]

I spent a lovely 20 mins today lying on the ground flicking feathers and string for Dill. He played like a kitten.

I was kind of bored by the time he finished in that gorgeous cat way: rolled over, wagged his little bobtail, walked away.

I was like, "it's my pleasure, darling, let's do it again soon." He didn't even turn around

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

I Didn’t think cats should eat Chocolate,same as doggies.That’s what I‘ve read.

Yeah, we’re super lucky because you’re right, it isn’t good for cats just like dogs, but it’s the one food we can safely let her sniff (when she hears the rustle of packaging, she’s over to see what it is!) without her licking it or taking a bite. Phew!

Everything else is pretty much a risk. She loves bread products, loves ham, loves cheese, loves cream, loves milk, has been known to get a bit too close to biscuits and cakes even though sugary stuff is something cats can’t taste, apparently. I’m assuming she thinks it’s sort of bread-like. Oh, she loves crisps as well. Obviously loves real meat, if we have a roast dinner she goes ballistic. She will swipe at chips, rice and pasta on a plate. We don’t -actually- feed her any of this stuff, she’s just a wild one who will have a go at most things! I’m beginning to see why she has IBD

 

[MediumLoad]

That’s what he wants you to believe, whilst he plots your downfall for such a heinous crime as giving him dog stuff

I’m kidding of course!

To be fair, he is rather dog-like.

Follows me around the house with a "What are we doing now?" air about him and is always interested in greeting visitors to the house and getting a cuddle.

He's the least stand-offish cat I've ever known.

 

[MaineCoonMama]

It's really windy here, somehow it's given my cats 'wind up their tails.'
They were going crazy this morning chasing each other and making happy burbling noises.
They've settled down now but it was funny while it lasted!

 

[Aceofspades]

You ok there kid?

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

Mine will eat basically anything. Thankfully the one thing she is not bothered about is chocolate but she is super inquisitive so needs to have a sniff of it, but will then give up her pursuit of eating it. You can’t trust her with anything else though. Which is awkward now she has an IBD diagnosis! We got her back to the vet and she is on steroid tablets for 40 days (30 at a higher strength, 10 days of trying to wean her off) to settle her stomach enough to switch her diet. So far, so good, except of course that she is STARVING but so far she hasn’t been sick since we got her on the meds, which is brilliant! It was a bit less brilliant when she decided to wake us up at 3am (in fairness, I was awake at 3am and she heard me and came to join the party) and I don’t think she left my husband alone until he got up to feed her. But she’s kind of always been like that anyway!

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

Yesterday morning.

Got up, no sign of Jimmy as he is usually treating the bed and its contents (me) like a trampoline in his eagerness to get his breakfast.

Went downstairs and he is in his chair looking rather miserable.

I gave him breakfast which he did eat some of but abandoned his usual routine of following me about the house and wanting attention.

He spent the morning lying on the bedroom floor and hadn't done a wee or a poo since the previous evening.

Come lunchtime and no change so I made an appointment with the vet for 4 pm.

Five minutes, five fecking minutes after I made that appointment, Jimmy comes skipping downstairs, polishes off his breakfast with gusto and does a wee. I barely had the wee scooped up when he went back in and did a poo.

I rang the vets to cancel the appointment and watched Jimmy chase a ball around the livingroom floor while I did so.

I tried explaining "The Cat Who Cried Wolf" to him but to no avail.

This entire story has ultimate cat energy about it. I bet my cat is furiously reading Tattle and taking notes.

I’m sure I’ve told the story in here about us spending £800 on investigations at the vets for her to be diagnosed with ‘needing to eat more biscuits’. I wish I was kidding. We were so mortified we couldn’t bring ourselves to claim on the pet insurance. We chalked it up as Idiot Human Tax and cried into our empty savings account a bit! To be fair, a year or so later she now has a proper IBD diagnosis so maybe we’re just super duper in tune with her and her needs, but I suspect she was just mucking us about for fun.

About a week after this ‘diagnosis’ last year she developed a limp entirely at random that forced about £100 in a combination of vet bills and taxis to the vet as I had to take the car to work so MrDragName had to take her to the vet in a taxi.

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

I got my cats some new lick-e-lix to try, one strawberry and one vanilla flavour one cat ate it, the other one sniffed it and you should've seen how he looked at me he was not happy. Had to give him a better flavour to make amends.

That’s you off the Christmas card list

 

[MediumLoad]

I was trying to get a picture of Jimmy all snuggled up asleep but he was having none of it.

 

[MediumLoad]

How vocal are everyone's cats? Cleo is an absolute screamer. I reckon she was a town crier in her last life. Hungry? Cries. Litter tray needs done? Cries. It's never ending

Jimmy is fairly quiet. Lots of purring but rarely 'talks' to me. Although, he talks plenty in his sleep, lots of muttering and little cries like "I said no! Put it back now!" type of outbursts.

A previous cat never shut up. We used to have conversations she was so vocal. Like a feline Hilda Ogden she was. Constantly nagging at me and telling me what's what.

 

[MaineCoonMama]

And old one, when we had three cats. We still miss our beautiful striped Pooh Bear.