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Fashionable Jorts posted:Hi, I was looking for a little bit of help and suggestions with a new cat. Based on personal experience, it might at least partially be that they are all female. I had two female cats and then my parents and I inherited my sister's two cats (also both female) and her dog when she got married because her husband has pet allergies. It was weeks of slowly integrating them. They eventually sorted out who was where in the pecking order and what rooms were who's territory. There were still occasional hissing and chasing and swatting, but that was it. My vet said that when you get up into three or four cats, you start needing gender balance for better harmony, so that might be part of the issue. Go slowly, keep at it, and yes, it will take awhile.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:Oh, I'd never heard of all-females being a problem. She's gotten a bit better with one of the cats, but still aches to do violence against the other two. Thanks for the encouragement, the other cats have been such a breeze that I think we got spoiled by them. Imagine having two pairs of nice, generally well-behaved cats. Then, introduce them to each other. Now, imagine four drama queens (cat)fighting it out on Jerry Springer. Yeah, it was ....rough for a while.
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spinst posted:I'm worried about my cat! How old is she? Had something similar with one my cats (19 at the time) that turned out to be an arthritic infection--she went from walking normally in the morning and by the evening she was severely limping and the next day she would barely move. As a heads up, if this is what it is, it's going to require surgery (and likely an x-ray to diagnose) and you need to get her looked at ASAP.
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May 29, 2021 04:18
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spinst posted:She just turned 7. I'll keep that in mind - if she's not looking a better by when the vet reopens on Tuesday I will be taking her in for sure. Might be a little young for an arthritic infection, but if she stops eating/drinking entirely before Tuesday, see where your nearest animal ER is.
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May 29, 2021 05:29
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Crush it up and dissolve it in water, put it in an eyedropper, squirt in mouth. That's the only fail proof method I've found. Or just see if you can get liquid instead of pills in the first place.
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Jul 23, 2021 07:40
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SoggyBobcat posted:We already spent $2000 on his first stay. I've gotten an appetite stimulant as a topical that gets applied to the ears. Ask if that's an option, since it would avoid the pill issue.
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Jul 26, 2021 16:00
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Raenir Salazar posted:Buys my cat a scratching post, still doesn't use it. Congratulations, cat.exe is working as intended.
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Oct 27, 2021 04:07
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Wile E. Toyota posted:Hi cat thread, I posted this in the vet thread, but I thought I might as well ask here too. My 6 year old kitty Noodle and I had a very stressful Christmas. He was vomiting and refusing to eat for days, but they didn't find anything at the regular vet. It got to where he couldn't even hold down water at all, so I had to take him to the ER the day before Christmas Eve. They couldn't see any foreign objects on the x-rays or sonogram, but his stomach was inflamed and the barium they gave him got stuck in his colon, so they decided to do exploratory surgery at 2 AM on Christmas morning. They didn't find any objects, just a lot of very hard poop and a lot of hair which they removed. He is now home and doing fine, and finally eating a little bit again. I have to give him a bunch of medication multiple times a day which he absolutely hates, but he's also happy and relieved to finally be home after three days in the scary hospital.
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Dec 26, 2021 23:19
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Hey, thread. I've got a cat that needs pills once a day for the next month and if I grind them up in her food, she won't eat the food. There was some discussion a while back about pill injectors, but I can't find it now. Any one want to share some recs for good, less expensive ones?
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Feb 1, 2022 18:05
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Searching for "cat pill injector" on Amazon gives a ton of results, all very inexpensive. Not sure why you're having trouble finding one...? The thread discussion was what I could not find. I wanted to know if there were any brands that were better than others that goons would recommend.  :
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Feb 1, 2022 19:17
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Ah, gotcha. It's on this page: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3169030&pagenumber=926&perpage=40 Thanks, exactly what I wanted!
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Feb 1, 2022 23:46
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xzzy posted:I seriously question the necessity of tracking a cat's water intake, especially if most of their diet comes from wet food (and a high wet food diet will really diminish the value of any data that's collected). But I'm no doctor so so maybe they find that information valuable. It depends? Like, I've got two 19yo cats; one of them has bad depth perception, which means she can't always see the water in her bowl. Despite getting extra water w/ her twice a day wet food, she needed three ER trips recently for things that my vet ultimately traced to dehydration. (Dehydration > depression > not eating > other health issues) So now she gets fluid therapy once a day and is back to her normal self. Yeah, don't sleep on it if you're cat's water bowl volume never really changes.
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Shroomie posted:I went through a bunch of off the shelf ones until someone here told me to try Cherestin and it absolutely destroyed the fleas in like a week… and it lasted about two years but now I’ve got Cherestin resistant fleas so I’ve switched to Revolution Plus that I need a vet RX for. *raises hand* Yes, this sounds familiar. Back at the end of last year, one of my nineteen year old cats started having issues with her depth perception, which meant she couldn't always see the water in her bowl. She gets extra water in with her wet food twice a day so I wasn't worried about dehydration at the time and my vet gave me some suggestions to help her see/smell her water and things were fine for a while. Then in February, was a series of three ER trips over the course of the month; not eating all three times and the second was severely constipated. All three times she got fluids and bounced back. My vet eventually came to the conclusion that this was all from dehydration. Cat gets dehydrated, cat gets depressed, cat stops eating, and cat develops other problems. So the solution she gave to me was fluid therapy; basically, you get a bag of fluids and learn to give them to your cat yourself once a day. Yes, this involves needles and no, your cat will very likely not be happy about it. But there is no question that it has helped her get back to acting like herself and eating like a pig, and best of all, no more expensive ER visits. So you also might want to start paying attention to your cat's water intake to see if it's a dehydration related issue.
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Apr 18, 2022 00:35
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kaom posted:I posted a few weeks ago about how one of our two 9mo. kittens will only lick her food. We’ve been to a vet since then - two have seen her, actually, both at a specialized cat clinic. Her health and dental health seem A-OK. And she’s fine chewing dry food, there’s no sign of pain. One of our old cats, Mimi (RIP, sweetheart), did the 'lick the gravy and leave the chunks' thing. Switching her to a pate helped solve the problem.
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Apr 1, 2023 03:18
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She’s very gentle, noticeably so compared to her sister.
“What do you have for scratching posts?”
The carpet on the stairs.
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kaom posted:Well wishes to everyone’s cats. I've said this a little while ago in this thread, but have you tried a pate or stew? I had good results with the former for getting a cat to eat all of her wet food. Like, if you're giving her chicken chunks, try a chicken pate. But as long as they are eating the dry, there's always "cat gonna cat".
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Apr 25, 2023 04:40
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Seeing all this is just making me appreciate the fact that my two remaining girls (who are both gonna be 21 this summer), despite all their (varying) health issues, are still hanging in there. 
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Apr 27, 2023 04:09
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kaom posted:Our cats are indoors and chipped. I’ve been debating trying to get them used to collars, is it likely that would increase the odds of matting for long haired cats? Not a problem! :
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May 12, 2023 02:57
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So recently, between mid-September and mid-October, I had to say goodbye to both of my 21+ kitties. However! One week ago today, I got a new cat! She is the first cat I have had still has all her claws and I want to know if anyone here can share any tips/tricks to getting her to scratch on approved posts/material and not on the furniture? Thanks!
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Nov 14, 2023 04:55
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Lord Zedd-Repulsa posted:My old lady cat is roughly 20 and dealing with some separation anxiety. This isn't something I've ever had to manage before so if y'all have tips that would be cool. Simple Solution was what my vet recommended to me when I brought up the issue with Nature's Miracle. I know you can get it at PetCo, at least. And as aside, I would like to thank everyone here for there suggestions of treats/double sided tape to help curb scratching on furniture. Ryne is very good about using her cardboard scrathers now, but I do now have the question of at what point to I swap out one of these scrathers for a new one? Is there a time frame, condition of the scrather, etc.?
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Dec 30, 2023 23:57
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Rotten Red Rod posted:There's no real great solution to transporting cats, but I worry too much about the unknowns to ever attempt to fly them. Just make sure you get an oversized carrier - I got a soft car seat kennel, and that was a much better option than shoving them in a tiny carrier. As long as the cat isn't too big, you can get a carry-on size carrier that can fit under the seat in front of you. I had to take one of my now deceased cats down to Florida with me last July and that's what I did. She was pretty chill about the whole thing. Edit: you do have to pay a fee for the cat, and some airlines need medical info ahead of time.
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Deteriorata posted:I've had multiple cats live past 20 yo on cheap grocery store food. The filler is non-digestible cellulose, so they eat more and poop more, but they get the same nutrition in the end. Gonna second-ish this; before my two previous kitties went on prescription food due to kidney disease, they ate Hills tuna+carrot for 11+ year olds for wet and iams 1+ indoor weight and hairball control for dry. They both passed at 21 plus. So probably depends on your cats (because cats gonna cat).
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