Sorry for your loss. It’s been over a year since one of my two cats, Chili, walked over the bridge, and I still get moments where I miss her. Her sister OTOH is healthier than I am, tbh. 😅

Same as I, yeah.

Ah, the negative image of a void! :o

Oooh, you got a SIC with the white undercarriage mod. Looks amazing!

So sorry for your loss. :'(

I’m living here with a very old lady whose sister has left us a bit over a year ago, and I cherish every day I got left with her, but she’s also very old. Letting a pet go is always super tough, but I’m so grateful for the time I get wtih them.

I have a lot of pictures of my Chili on her last evening and last morning. Don’t look very nice though (she had her tongue stick out due to cancer) so I really don’t want to dig them up and post them. She was the purriest tiny little old cat baby though. <3

I mean… yeah.

This should not need specific mention. But it’s good that these warning exists, anyways. But it’s also kinda obvious, you’re ordering from Aliexpress/Temu. It’s like those shitty china cat fountains that run the 220V line into the water basin and convert the power there. Because hey, why only fry your pet a little…

Friend has a gecko, and he’s being fed with crickets and the like. Which are also absolutely beloved by her tomcat, he always gets one (hunts it, swats it, eats it) whenever the gecko is being fed. 😂

Also if you get an oil drip tray from an auto shop you can put kitty litter in it and the cat doesn’t have to step over anything to use it.

This is what my parents always did. Works perfectly fine, just need to clean it daily or twice daily.

Yeah was about to say, this seems like a supplier-side issue.

Just like how we humans insist on putting needless things into boxes, although it can be helpful to protect the all-important box during transport of course so it won’t collapse!

“What is there in this world that makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. CATS, he said finally. CATS ARE NICE.”-- Death, Terry Pratchett

I miss that game 😅

Yep, in fact my remaining cat has to eat dental care food that is intentionally super-large dry hollow chunks so it’s too big to swallow and they have to crack them open, so she cleans her teeth a bit.

But they can also just grind dry food between their gums without injuring themselves. Cats are hardcore! 🤘

That’s a cat wheel. It’s not something that comes natural to cats but if they’re used to it from kitten age they learn to use it to expend energy when they have their zoomies. Handy in households without long distances to run in those situations.

Hard to be sure, but I suspect specifically it’s a One Fast Cat

Just listen to a vet instead. Cats can eat a lot of things, but they can process only very little. They’re carnivores through and through, and evolved to deal with a diet consisting entirely of small animals they’ve hunted down, but also all of them (not just the selectively removed meat parts we as humans consume).

I will say that over the lifetime of my two cats so far (one died last August, the other is now 13y old), the insurance paid less than if I had just saved up the money and paid it myself, and by quite a margin.

It depends on whether you can do that, however. On average you’ll save money by paying it yourself, but you need to be in a situation where you can have the cushion of money around to finance cat surgeries and dental work and so on.

I was in the same situation last august, also the first time I had to deal with it. All my hugs and condolensces, it totally tore me apart. I have the sister - Pepper - left now (she’s 13), so at least I’m not quite alone, but wow is there a hole in this flat as Chili was always the active one doing all kinds of shenanigans. Missed dearly :'(

Months later, it’s… okay. I am happy about the time I had with Chili, not sad about the loss. It’s a difficult perspective to take at first, but it’s how I want to remembered, so it’s how I shall remember others, too.

Well in my case my two cats did this a lot when they were young. But it just naturally dropped off with age.

As time passes they get used to always getting their food (fixed times help, tbh, but then in turn they’ll start to wake you when its food time 😂), and just less active in general, and then like now my remaining cat of 13 years looks up when food goes into the bowl, checks that food actually did go into her bowl, then continues snoozing. 😅

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One thing you can try is have 2-3 treats on hand and throw them far into the room for him to run after and dig out while you prepare the food, of course. That’s not exactly changing behavior, just distracting him. But hey, physical exercise, too!

Uh, that’s just completely normal behavior?

And it’s not like it lasts longer than a few seconds.

Yeah this is sadly based mostly off of the fact that the world is not good right now. There’s a lot of larger-than-life issues, and none where a single person can, without impacting their personal quality of life significantly, make a dent in. And probably not even then.

This makes a lot of desperate, confused and fearful people very easy targets for a party such as the AfD telling them it’s all just lies, there is no climate change, there is no pandemic, no nothing, and grab easy voters that way so they can push their actual agend, being nazis and getting themselves rich.
(Because as always they keep lying about how they’re fighting for the common folk, but if you look at what their politicians actually vote, it’s always empowered rich, removing restrictions, easing tax theft, and putting more financial strain on the common workers)