Something you could try is calming treats before bedtime. My friends cat is starting to suffer early signs of dementia and the “composure” treats have been helping him make it through the night. Also, there are more stimulating cat feeders, like this one. You basically start by feeding them in the normal place, and then progressively move the little feeders further and further away from each other until you can hide them, stimulating their hunting instincts, satisfying them with mental challenges, and ultimately making them more content. The company itself claims it’s meant to help your cat sleep through the night.

Nor Avelon.

Looks like a good “Squirrel.”

ERASE ALL PICTURES OF CAT!!

ERASE ALL PICTURES OF CAT!!

Hah thank you. Your boy is a beaut himself.

My favorite of LL is where she’s eating it from the bottom like the Jaws poster, and you can see the string is fully down her gullet.

lol my cat Liz Lemon does the same thing and yes I have similar pictures

H-…how. Just…how? When you pick up a box with a cat inside, that shit is way heavier than you’re prepared for. And it moves. Even if you had the quietest cat in the world, you can hear their claws on the cardboard.

…no way this could’ve been a mistake. I simply don’t believe it.

Yeah, the article mentioned they had a sample size of 500 but not everyone that volunteered completed the experiment, as it was during Covid so they had to send the materials out and rely on “citizen scientists.” A pretty precarious way of conducting a scientific study.

Those are possibly the pinkest beans I’ve ever seens

Jesus. I’m sorry. Check out the mutual aid community. You might find some help there

It’s worth finding a 24hr emergency vet. A sudden wound on both sides of the face? Going actually through both sides, not just a surface wound? It’s definitely recommended. It’ll be expensive, but he’s probably in quite a lot of pain. Cats tend not to show pain the way we imagine. They hide it.

Hey, just to throw it out there: kibble isn’t great for your cat. Cats should get most of their moisture from their food, so moist meats are best. They’re obligate carnivores. Those teeth are not made for chewing hard biscuit things. They love it because it’s basically junk food. But it contributes to kidney disease due to dehydration, tooth decay by age three because of the starches activating with the enzymes in their saliva, heart disease because of the weight issue and nutritional deficiencies (not to mention, cats will eat until they have sated their appetite for nutrients, hence why cats who eat kibble always seem to be hungry), along with a slew of other issues because everything good about the ingredients is extruded out in the process and they spray artificial vitamins back onto the food.

Like…don’t feed your cats kibble. Put it on top as a little crunchy garnish, nowhere close to the same amount of harm in that. But give your cats wet food with actual meat (not byproduct) as the first ingredient. Or better yet, buy your cat some raw food like primal, small batch, vital essentials. They are enforcing high pressure pasteurization in the industry, which is a shame because it has some of the same effects on the good bacteria in the food which helps maintain gut health, but it’s still way better than kibble. Cats are small, they really don’t eat a whole lot. Splurge on their food and you’ll save on vets bills.

It’s not like shaving a husky. For some cats, cutting their hair is fine. It’s not recommended for all cats, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Most cat breeds don’t have an undercoat like huskies that gets messed up when you shave them. I actually don’t know of one that does.

If it were just for aesthetic purposes, yeah it’d not be good. But if a vet said it’s fine, chances are they made sure the cat’s situation and health and behavior were appropriate for a haircut.

There are other ways to control hairballs, but it doesn’t seem like they’re doing anything too drastic for the wrong reasons.

It looks like a stuffed animal that is also somehow 70 years old and tired of the world around them.

Flat Stanley

Real Calvin on picture day vibes

I dunno. When I catch my cat staring, she’s usually either just watching or she’s feeling like she might start creeping up on me when I turn away—like she loves playing red light/green light. When my cat wants pets, she’ll jam her face into me and walk back and forth in front of me meowing.

Well this article was talking about all the subtle variations in a dogs tail wag and how they all mean different things…but they didn’t specify what “above the midline/below the midline” or “favoring the left/right” meant, but they did say some of them are pre-aggression signs. This article sucked.

It’s very, very annoying to me that this was discussing and even listing some of the subtle differences in behavior…and then not fucking explaining them.

“You’re misunderstanding your pet’s signals! Read more inside!”

Inside: “You’re an idiot, you don’t understand your pet. Idiot. Oh, you thought you knew what _____ meant? We know. But you don’t.”

Wtf

Yeah, they’re a cat but not an idiot.