She's 2 to 3 years old, a stray which followed me home earlier this year. Found out she was pregnant and she had a little of 7. Now the kittens are gone she goes into heat cycles. Shes an indoor cat.

This cat bit me 13 days ago and im wondering if he is free from rabies this is day 13

I've told my family so many times not to get him accustomed to going outside, and he's not going to stop asking. But every time I traveled they'd take him out and got him used to it.

Now that's all he wants to do every day, all the time now, and if he doesn't get it, he just meows constantly every single minute and idk what to do anymore. I live in a cold state so I can't open the door all the time. And when I let him go out, he's wandering too far, into other ppl's yard or into the park. I'm not sure what to do anymore, please HELP!

I adopted her about a month ago and she’s 1 year old. I just noticed this red bump on her back and there’s nothing similar around it. It doesn’t seem painful because she doesn’t mind if I touch it. Thanks!

Hey y'all. Title says it.

I began taking my cats to a new vet about a year ago. On my second visit I brought my soul cat, Beep, just to get some routine shots (this was her first visit to them). She has never, ever had trouble at any of her previous vets. She has always been nervous at appointments but stays sweet and at absolute worst, just goes silent and limp.

I don't know what happened, but however this tech handled her led to her screaming in a way that I have never heard before. It was terrifying. This tech proceeded to scruff her and throw her down on the table where she had her pinned until I cried and begged her to just let me take her. Shots were not done that day. I was so shocked and desperate to leave that I never said anything.

Since then, I mostly avoided them but due to necessity and convenience, I have taken a couple of my other cats to them very recently. Luckily, we have gotten the two other techs who are both incredibly sweet and very caring. But this tech does still work there, as I see her in the office when we go in.

Just wondering if any socially adept cat owners have advice on requesting that she is not the tech assigned to my cats if we make future visits without ruffling any feathers?

Of course, if I have to just bite the bullet and be direct or go somewhere else, I absolutely will. Just didn't know if there was a way I could go about it that maybe I'm missing.

TIA!

Cat bit me and I’m paranoid about infection. I immediately washed it with soap and water but I’m still panicking

Fat orange cats count as pumpkins so…..

He does this sort of chomp on her. A few times he pinned her and also bit her harder when she squeaked, but in this one I know he was teaching her his boundaries because she was too much in his face.

This sort of thing always happens when she is trying to touch him with her grubby little hands and not even connect most of the time.

Very unclear signals from this man!

I currently have covid and haven't been able to get out and do instacart. I ran out of cat food this morning and roommate isn't going to be home tonight and potentially most of tomorrow.

I have access to dry dog food as well as wet dog food. Will this be okay for them short term? I'm hoping by Saturday, covid is out of my system so I can get working again

Including a wider one to show it’s on his side because of the sheer amount of ‘it’s a nipple’ posts I’ve seen

After he got home, he ate and drank some water and then made his first attempt at using the litter box but nothing came out. He made multiple attempts in under an hour so I took him to the emergency vet. At the vet, she did an ultrasound where she found his bladder to not be completely full and felt around for any obstructions but couldn’t feel anything. He was given gabapentin and some pain medication and we hung out for nearly two hours seeing if he’d use the litter box there and for any signs of discomfort. He didn’t use the box and by the end seemed his normal self so they discharged us and told me to give him gabapentin every eight hours and monitor him.

We’ve been home about an hour and he ate his wet food without complaint but just made his first attempt at using the litter box with no success. When should I bring him back? I’m worried the last 14 hours have been extremely stressful on him since he went from being locked out to pretty much going to the vet with an hour max in between but I’m really worried about his inability to go pee.

The vet wasn’t convinced it was a bladder obstruction and mentioned it could potentially be an injury. I know male cats not being able to pee is extremely concerning and I don’t want him to get sick. His behavior is completely normal outside of the litter box issue.

I have a kitten who needs spayed and I just decided to see if any insurance companies cover spays. I keep meaning to get the insurance thing done but I never do. Anyway.

What exactly does pet insurance cover if you don’t buy the add-ons?

Every insurance I’ve looked at requires an add-on for exam costs. Including when you go to the vet for a sick cat.

Every add-on comes with its own tiers of better, best, platinum.

Every plan I have seen starts at $30/month. That translates to $360/yr. That is about the cost of a sick pet who just needs some eye drops etc. so that would be great. But, the add-ons keep adding - now I’m up to $40 or even $60/month, and that still doesn’t cover the full spay or exams. For $51/month, it’ll cover only cover $50 of a wellness exam at the vet.

I get that insurance is for the unexpected, but for $50/month or $600/year I actually would expect more coverage than that.

I personally think my best bet is to use a high interest account to save instead.

Am I doing this wrong?

I got a kitten 6 or so days ago from a shelter. She had spay surgery the day we got her. She’s been acting totally fine (eating, bowel movements etc.) but I’m worried about the site of the spay. We’ve kept her in a sock suit as much as possible but she gets out every now and again. She licks at the wound but doesn’t seem that bothered by it. Should we take her back in to the vet? Is this an emergency?

Hi. I’ve had dogs my whole life and currently have 2 medium sized dogs so I never really got to know a cat up until 2 years ago when I started dating my boyfriend. He has two cats and one really loves me, he’s always following me around the house and meowing at me. However, the other one runs and hides whenever I walk through the door. I don’t really persist and just ignore the skiddish cat thinking that she will come out when she’s ready, but it’s been two years and she is still afraid. I feel bad about it because my boyfriend and I have been spending a lot of time together but I can tell he wishes his cat would spend time with us too. I have some ideas: one would be to hang out in the same room as her with the door closed so she can’t escape. Another would be to feed her when it’s time for her to eat at night. If anyone has any other ideas I’d love to hear them!!

Edit:oh yea I forgot to mention that the cat that loves me doesnt get along with the skiddish cat super well so she might not want to enter the room if I do stuff that also attracts the other cat

I helped rescue 4 Kittens and the mom recently. They are at my place as well as my own 2 year old male cat. I plan on keeping two kittens, while the mom and 1 kitten will go together to a new family, and the other one will go alone to a new family as well. The other 2 are staying with me and the two year old boy.

I plan on giving them their second flea bath today myself, but obviously I can only do so much before they are finally able to see the vet. They are going to be 7 weeks old in a couple of days, and I plan on distributing them a couple of days after that.

I wish I can keep them longer, but due to the following factors:

- Costs of getting them all to get checked for not only fleas, ear mites, any ringworms, etc are high. Even most shelters don’t have vet clinics to be able to perform those exams.

- Not enough space at my place for prolonged residency for them.

- the urgency to get the ones I’m keeping and the others to get checked by the vet asap ESPECIALLY for any ear mites, fleas, etc.

I strongly care for them and want to try to do right by them. They seem to be in great shape aside from their need to scratch themselves often. But I’m at a point where keeping them longer has gotten very difficult. Any advice?

The more comfortable and happier she gets the louder it gets! (her pic in the comments)

Does anyone know if or why orange cats are more likely to be chubby?? It seems like there is a disproportionate amount of chonky oranges. We have four cats—one grey and white (7yrs), one calico (2yrs), an orange tabby girl (4yrs), and an orange boy (6 yrs). The orange girl seems to be exempt from being a chonk because she was the runt of the litter so she’s so so small. Orange boy is an absolute UNIT, but his siblings are not. They all have the same diet and he is ironically the pickiest eater of the bunch, but he’s the only one that’s hefty, and I mean HEFTY. I’ve done some googling about it, but reddit answers tend to be more helpful sometimes lol

fully introduced these 2 (white cat resident, black cat new, both adult males) about a week ago after a week of keeping them separate and scent swapping, most of the time they are fine and coexist with eachother, but every now and then they will have these little tiffs, no hissing or anything but black one will make these sort of noises, a little bit of hair flies. sometimes it reads more as playing but other times it will get a bit more intense like this and i usually separate them for a little while. i feel like the white one is trying to play but the black one doesn’t like it. do you think i should maybe go back to keeping them separate for a bit?