Farecoal posted:

Help, I can't stop telling my kitty how cute she is!

kaworu posted:

Speaking of talking to cats, I've been trying to come up with a good word to describe it when a cat is being a jerk by displaying displeasure/annoyance via tail-flicking in unreasonable or unwarranted situations. Like when you do something you HAVE to do like answer the phone or stretch when the cat's on your lap or something like that, and they respond by flicking/lashing their tail a bit and obviously indicating that they take umbrage at your TOTALLY REASONABLE actions. I usually say something like, "I cannot BELIEVE you're giving me tail-attitude for that, you're such a jerk " but "tail-attitude" is so clunky - maybe "tailitude"? Or some other combination of words entirely that essentially means the same thing? It's a pretty important method of communication for a cat (especially ones that rarely meow like my Jackie-cat) so maybe something that refers to that? I dunno.

kaworu posted:

Trin Tragula posted:

Alt text: "Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hello, kitty!"

What I can't work out is that things like this are meant to imply that we're supposed to say something else to our cats, but I'm buggered if I know what it is.

Josh Lyman posted:

My kittens were playing with me in bed this morning, and I found this "residue" on my sheets. I've seen it before. I would think they're flea eggs, but the sheer quantity of them 's me out. Plus, Google seems to say flea eggs are transparent.

hailthefish posted:

The statements issued from greater proximity are things like "Oh hey, look, is that a cat over there?" "Look at that adorable kitty" and so on gradually increasing in inanity until proximity 0 at which point the only sounds that can be uttered are wordless cooing.

McKracken posted:

When my recently adopted kittens had fleas, they initially had a lot of "flea dirt" aka poo poo, where they would lay. It looks like think black specks. I don't remember seeing many, if any eggs when I combed them.

Bash Ironfist posted:

Fun fact: Flea poo poo is mostly blood that they don't digest!

Mocha Frost posted:

How bad is it to drink after a kitten? They love to climb my nightstand and recently I've caught one of them drinking out of the glass I like to keep by my side at night. They both just had their first round of shots, we're declared healthy by the vet and are purely indoor cats.

Mocha Frost posted:

Thankfully, they don't seem to paw the water, a pint glass is just big enough for them to stick their heads in. But yeah, it's kinda gross and I won't drink after them usually, but I know the little assholes do it while I'm sleeping.

Mocha Frost posted:

Thankfully, they don't seem to paw the water, a pint glass is just big enough for them to stick their heads in. But yeah, it's kinda gross and I won't drink after them usually, but I know the little assholes do it while I'm sleeping.

Josh Lyman posted:

You almost certainly already have toxoplasmosis, so as long as it doesn't get out of hand and you don't have a compromised immune system, it may not be especially sanitary but it won't kill you either.

Serella posted:

Uh, she only drank from the same glass as them, she didn't eat their poo poo.

Pick posted:

My cat is a serious crier, and his previous owner says he was like that before, too. Is there anything I can do about this? If I so much as enter another room and he doesn't see me go, he'll whine like he's dying. My downstairs neighbor says he cries the whole day when I'm at work, too. This makes me feel terrible, but I don't know what to do about it. I don't want to punish him for crying but he's being kind of a pain in the rear end . I can't bring anyone home for fun times, for example, because he'll pound at the door and meow as loud as he can. (Mood killer.) I can't get another cat, either, since my landlord's hard limit is one.

Josh Lyman posted:

You almost certainly already have toxoplasmosis, so as long as it doesn't get out of hand and you don't have a compromised immune system, it may not be especially sanitary but it won't kill you either.

Mocha Frost posted:

How bad is it to drink after a kitten? They love to climb my nightstand and recently I've caught one of them drinking out of the glass I like to keep by my side at night. They both just had their first round of shots, were declared healthy by the vet and are purely indoor cats.

Also, are broken whiskers a problem. The vet said its common for kittens to break them while wrestling, but it really looks odd now that I've noticed it.

You can kinda see the broken whiskers here.

Mocha Frost posted:

Also, are broken whiskers a problem. The vet said its common for kittens to break them while wrestling, but it really looks odd now that I've noticed it.

You can kinda see the broken whiskers here.

Huge Liability posted:

My boyfriend's cat has developed a habit of eating too quickly in the mornings. We've had the cat for about eight months and this is a recent thing. He just turned a year old. He scarfs down the food and then feels ill, meows a lot and eventually needs to vomit. The more troubling part is that he sometimes has difficulty throwing up.

He heaves dramatically like cats do, but then he goes stiff and falls on the ground choking, tail all fluffed up and claws out, trembling. When this happens we rub his neck until he's able to throw up. Afterwards, he lays down and stays very still for an hour. It's scary and it sucks. I don't want to think about it happening when we're not around.

We're going to get a ceramic ball to put in his dish to force him to eat slower, and until then we're just feeding him really carefully. But about the choking episodes, is this a "cat just eats too much" thing or is it something that should be looked into?

Huge Liability posted:

My boyfriend's cat has developed a habit of eating too quickly in the mornings. We've had the cat for about eight months and this is a recent thing. He just turned a year old. He scarfs down the food and then feels ill, meows a lot and eventually needs to vomit. The more troubling part is that he sometimes has difficulty throwing up.

He heaves dramatically like cats do, but then he goes stiff and falls on the ground choking, tail all fluffed up and claws out, trembling. When this happens we rub his neck until he's able to throw up. Afterwards, he lays down and stays very still for an hour. It's scary and it sucks. I don't want to think about it happening when we're not around.

We're going to get a ceramic ball to put in his dish to force him to eat slower, and until then we're just feeding him really carefully. But about the choking episodes, is this a "cat just eats too much" thing or is it something that should be looked into?

Huge Liability posted:

He heaves dramatically like cats do, but then he goes stiff and falls on the ground choking, tail all fluffed up and claws out, trembling. When this happens we rub his neck until he's able to throw up. Afterwards, he lays down and stays very still for an hour. It's scary and it sucks. I don't want to think about it happening when we're not around.

fknlo posted:

They're about 7 months old and share 1/3 of a can of natures variety instinct wet in the morning and free feed on natures variety instinct dry. I have rabbit and chicken varieties of dry out for them and they choose which one they want to eat. It has persisted through only having one variety so I'm not sure if "switching" between the different varieties would have anything to do with it or not.

Any ideas on what it might be?

fknlo posted:

I took one of my cats to the vet about 2 weeks ago due to soft stool/minor diarrhea. There were no parasites and the vet said she was running a low fever so he prescribed clavamox for both cats since they've both always had somewhat soft stools. The cat I didn't take to the vet has pretty normal poops now but the other one still has really soft stools that border on diarrhea. Haven't had a chance to deal with the vet again, just trying to get some ideas on what it might be.

They're about 7 months old and share 1/3 of a can of natures variety instinct wet in the morning and free feed on natures variety instinct dry. I have rabbit and chicken varieties of dry out for them and they choose which one they want to eat. It has persisted through only having one variety so I'm not sure if "switching" between the different varieties would have anything to do with it or not.

Any ideas on what it might be?

vonnegutt posted:

Do you have any houseplants? My 11 mo. old occasionally had soft stools and I was perplexed because of the randomness of them - it turns out he was chowin' down on the plants while I wasn't home (I made sure they were all nontoxic to cats when I got him, but I didn't think he'd be making salad out of them). Luckily (?) he has killed them all now so no more cat salads or soft stools.

Esmerelda posted:

No idea but one of mine had a similar issue eating the same wet food starting around Christmas time. I eventually stopped feeding the wet food to him, he whined at me, but his tummy stopped being upset. Now he eats a different wet food brand entirely and he has not had any issues at all.