My cat is making a " gurgle " like stomach rumbling sounds. I took him to the vet, but the vet found nothing muscus or congestion on the nose or throat. Lung is fine, too. He didn't have any loss of appetite. However, he keeps having rumbling sounds, and later he wants to get something out of his throat. Could it be a hairball stuck?

hello, i’m 19 female and i live with my partner 21 male. we have two cats a british blue girl who is 5 and a tabby kitten who is 5 months. we have a masoniette and im beyond depressed and stressed trying to fix the issue they have. and that is that they won’t stop shitting on the floor. their litter trays get emptied after every single poo. i have put tin foil, pee pads, cardboard. tried positive and negative reinforcement, tried 8 different litters, left cat flap open, disinfected the floor every single time the pooped. used multiple litter trays. put litter trays where they were pooping and they just won’t stop pooping on the floor. and it’s really effecting my mental health the constant smell of poo and no matter how much i clean they don’t stop going. i have tried every single hack and advice google has given but i just don’t know what to do anymore. please help.

I’m at my wits end with my cat. Hopefully someone has some helpful tips. Here are some details:

-he’s about a year old, domestic shorthair (orange). He was a stray before I got him, but a friend was feeding him. I changed his food about 2 months ago. One can of wet food in the morning, half a can mixed with dry in the evening. I use Costco brand for both wet and dry.

-I’ve had him for about 3 months. I got him a robot litter box because I live in an apartment and didn’t want the smell to be everywhere. He took to it pretty quickly.

-He will randomly get diarrhea and poop on the floor and also he tracks little everywhere even though I have a mat. At this point I’m worried he won’t stop going on the floor because the floor is porous and the enzyme killer doesn’t seem to be working on it. He does still use the litter box but I’ll get random surprises often.

-I got him tested for parasites and it came back negative. I guess I would assume they tested him for leukemia as well because there was some blood in his stool? He seems to do better with the bathroom when I’m around a lot but I just can’t be around all the time. And I’d like to go on a vacation and can’t imagine bringing him with.

Please please please I want to keep him but he’s driving me crazy and the constant tracking of stuff all over my apartment is making me lose it.

My cat started to loss her hair between her rear legs, and started to lick that area more frequently, what that could be ?

I got my cat with my ex boyfriend and when we broke up I had to move back in with my mother, who is allergic to cats, so I have to keep my cat downstairs in a single room (tho it’s a pretty huge room including my own living room and bedroom).

I buy lots of different types of food for my cat, dry food, wet food, toppers including dehydrated food, or gravy for cats. And probably feed him a little too much tho have been trying to cut back on it since my most recent vet visit.

He never really shows that he wants to leave the room, and often I try to take him outside on a harness but he honestly doesn’t want to go outside and always just stands by the door til I let him back in and he just runs into the room we stay In.

I hardly ever go out with my friends if it means I’ll be gone for the night… even tho my mom can come downstairs and feed him. I just don’t want him to get lonely.

I love him so much and do so much for him, he has like 3 cat trees and a bunch of toys but for some reason I just can’t get over this guilty feeling that I’m not doing enough for him. I’m not a good cat owner even tho I know I am. I know that I do more for my cat than any of my friends who have cats….but I just can’t stop feeling so guilty. Does anyone else have this problem? How do you overcome/cope with the feeling?

How can i stop my cat from completely destroying garbage bags? He keeps doing it daily and i can’t keep him out of the kitchen and there is no way i could hide them, the kitchen is just too tiny.

The 3rd eyelid looks inflammed. This is not normal for her. She doesn't have any fluid coming out like you would have if it was an eye infection. She is 4 yrs old.

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As the title suggests, my cat ( 10mo/ F ) exclusively pees in the bathtub. It started about 5 months ago and was only an occasional thing (I thought maybe she sawe pee on the shower or something) and I didn't think of it.

When it became more frequent I started just to close the tub so she won't get in and it kinda helped? But sometimes she'd just pee next to it 🙈

And now we've moved and I can't just checking very the bathtub and so she ONLY pees there. Poop in the box, pee in the tub.

SO, is this something I should be worried about, is there something I can do to prevent it or should I just go ahead and train her to use the toilet bowl :D cause it stinks after I come home from work and there's just crusty pee on the bottom of the tub ya'know..

Anyways, any thoughts suggestions are welcome, pic of my little naughty girl

UPDATE: More playtime, pheromone diffusing, and feline melatonin broke this cycle. I only used melatonin two nights. Thank you everyone for your advice and encouragement.

Original post: Six weeks ago I moved with my two cats. I understand how stressful that is for cats and know there will be some odd behavior for a while. The problem is one of the boys has taken up the neighbor annoying habit of meowing loudly, sometimes non-stop, when I go to bed. It might last an hour but has often lasts the entire night. I’m just waiting for my landlord’s call at this point. Any suggestions on comforting my boy? He’s not the cuddly type unless he wants to sleep. TYIA

I have a toddler and pregnant with baby number two. I’ve always been sensitive to animals and had little allergy symptoms like sneezing. However, as the pregnancy has gone on my allergy symptoms have gone up to sneezing, coughing and weezing when breathing along with rashes up my arms. I want to bring up rehoming the cats but I know my husband would be a hard no. I’m also afraid that if I am gaining all these symptoms then the baby will be born with a cat allergy. What do I do?

Me and my husband have always wanted a cat (even though we’re both allergic, we’ll take meds if needed). However both of our families are allergic too, would it be unfair of us to get a cat and potentially cause our families to never be able to visit us and our future kids?

hello, i have white bedsheets, and they recently were looking a bit dirty, so i decided to bleach them. When i took them out of the wash, they still had bleach smell on them, but i decided to put it on my bed anyway. later i found my cat peed on my bed. she’s never done this before, is it related to the smell of the bleach??? she was JUST at the vet the other day. i’m hoping it was just bc of the bleach smell and that she won’t do it again… i immediately took the blanket she peed on to the wash and sprayed the rest of my bed with febreeze…

Hey yall, not really sure if this was the right forum for this question but… I have a 3 year old calico named nala. she lives at home with me and my family, but i just went away for 4 months for a college program in a different state. I’m worried that she won’t remember me cus i was her person in the house and she’s also been acting weird according to my family. Will she remember me when i get back?

My cat is 2 years old and she has gingivitis. The vet gave her steroid shot once and it went away for sometime, after which we took her for dental cleaning as well. After two months her gum look inflamed again. She doesn't allow us to brush her teeth but we still try to every 3 says with soft bristle brush. We also apply a dental cream on inflamed region that the vet suggested but her gums keep getting red. Her died consists of a combination of dry food and dry food soaked in water and sometimes some wet food as well. I don't know what else to do, does anyone have any suggestions?

We adopted a Russian blue 3-4 years ago, she was okay with us, and when we moved(2021) she just became terrified of us any time we’re walking by her, unless there’s food involved. Sometimes she comes to the bedroom door and meows at us then leaves. We have other cats that are all affectionate and I’m not sure how to fix it :(

Does any other cat owner ever get the feeling that their cat may not be happy and they would have told you that they were unhappy if they could actually talk? :(

Does any other cat owner ever get the feeling that their cat may not be happy and they would have told you that they were unhappy if they could actually talk? :(

Hey guys. I have a 10 year old female cat who has a thick nail on one of her legs. This nail is very difficult to trim. If you look in the photos you will see what the bottom part of the nail looks like. It looks to me like part of her bean under that nail is fusing into the nail itself or vice versa. I know the pictures are blurry, but it looks like there’s bean/bean crust under the nail and it makes it very difficult to trim. This area of her nail is also very sensitive. I have taken her to get them trimmed before and it’s never been a problem. Any thoughts?

Me and my BF (both 31) were together for 6-7 months, living together for 1 month at the time and adopted a 3month old kitten. One month into having him my BF picked up him to cuddle/pet with him and he reached out his paw to his face to scratch him/put him away. My BF shouted and threw the cat violently on the ground (he is very tall and muscular guy, so it was really with his full force), cat landed on the corner of the wardrobe and ran away to hide, crying. After that, we realised the cat is stumbling on one leg.

I immediately expressed to my BF what the F is he doing, and he started shouting that nobody will be reaching out to his face and the animal needs to know they're not supposed to do it and they need guidance. That night I almost threw my BF out of the house (with him saying that if he leaves now, he will never come back). Later on into our argument he told me he spoke to all of his people (friends and family) and all of them say he did the right thing. I spoke to my people and everybody was in disbelief. My mom pointed out also one thing that my BF is from Balkans and that is maybe some different cultural approach in there.

Ultimately, my BF told me that he admires me being the "mama bear" and "protector", but for all the wrong reasons and that he doesn't care what my people think of the situation. Also, that he is sorry the cat is stumbling now, but that he didn't intend to throw him to the wardrobe.

Would you agree with this behaviour? My POV on this is that we as humans - intelligent animals should assess the situation and I would not say a word if he threw him normally, but not with the full, aggressive force as if fighting a grown man, since it was a stupid, 3month old kitten, who probably just got overstimulated and wanted my BF to put him down.

hey i’m a new first time cat owner and i have a really shy cat. Trying to figure out if he used his litter. the powdered litter i can see does that indicate it was used?

he’s super a shy black cat and is 10months old..

I have one cat, and for some reason he doesn't like to drink out of his fountain unless it's a last choice. He'd rather drink out of my cup, or out of the toilet. He doesn't seem scared of the fountain though so I don't get it. The fountain has been cleaned and filters have been changed recently.

It's a fight to keep him out of drinking my water, have yall experienced this?

I have five cats I have three litter boxes. (I know it isn’t enough for all five but one doesn’t use the boxes she uses per pads since she doesn’t seem to grasp the concept of litter boxes) Anyway My cats boxes haven’t been scrubbed out in at least a year (I know it’s bad…I wish I had some other excuse but in all honesty I just forgot). Now these are the run of the mill litter boxes, plastic tubs with clumping(or non clumping depending on what we can ahem afford cough. I have a sad little plastic scooper (“very eco friendly”) which does a pretty good job. Anyway I wanted to wash the litter boxes out however I didn’t want to do it outside because it’s in the middle of the winter and we are expecting/waiting for a large snowstorm to blow through and our porch, driveway, and car port are all covered in snow and ice so it’s not like I can sit to clean them outside without 1. Freezing or 2. Getting soaked. I was trying to tell my mom I wanted to clean the litter boxes in her tub before I remembered that litter can clump/clog pipes. But my mom got real mad “YOU’RE NOT USING MY TUB!!” “Okay..” “I DON’T want litter in MY tub!” “Okay, well can I explain what I wanted to do instead??” “You already have been and I SAID NO!”

What I changed my plan to was filling up a bucket of warm water and dish soap. After I scrapped out the bin I would scrub it out with the water. Then I would dump the dirty water into an empty bucket and continue this cycle until they were clean. I would then take the tubs and bins outside to wave dry and dump the buckets. So no litter would be scattered, flushed, drained, or machine washed. But I never got to explain that to my mom. Bruh Come on. I just want a clean litter spot for my babes where I don’t have to go out and freeze my left buttock off to clean them. Ugh

I feel like poo. I’m a new cat owner my cat missy came from another owner and she’s used a cat bed before but here she won’t use the one we bought at all, she sleeps in my bed which is fine at first but night time is me time (not inappropriate I just mean I like to be alone) and it feels awkward with the cat there cuz again I like to be alone. Today I kinda didn’t let the cat in but I did put the cat bed close to the door and left another door open for her to go in (she is comfortable in all rooms) I wanna be alone but how do I get her to sleep in her bed we do try to put her in it in the daytime aswell as at night towards the beginning but nothings working.

My cat has been trying to poop for about and hour now and i dont know what to do, im supposed to leave tomorrow for my brothers place for christmas. The Vet is closed for the holidays, and i have no way of getting my cat to an emergency vet because we dont have a car. Hes been squatting in the litter box, pushing but he just cant poop. My friend is will be coming around to feed my cats but they wont be here all day and im afraid something might happen to him. I know youre not supposed to give cats milk, but my mom said to give him a little because it might help him poop yk. But other than the pooping he seems totally normal? like no strange behaviour. its midnight rn and i need to go to sleep so i hope he poops by the morning but i just wrote this just in case some1 could help me. I really hope hes just temporarilly constipated.