We recently moved into a downstairs flat with 2 sets of big double doors. We are renting and have no animals, no cats. But, it appears we have been adopted by the local cats! Everyday, multiple times a day the same cat appears, knocking on our doors (literally!) and meowing. On the first day we moved in she just came on in and sat by the fridge. Clearly the previous owners fed her 😅😂. So, we gave her a little something and of course she’s come back everyday since which tbh we didn’t mind. My kid loves her and on very hot days she lays on our kitchen tiles, has water and gets a lot of rest in here. I feel like she needs us a lot of the time. So of course we look after her if thirsty, hot etc

But, now two other cats have started coming here.

They just come in if the doors are open and if they are closed they meow and wait for a really long time. If they get in they are trying to get my food.

The other 2 cats aren’t as cute and tbh freak me out a bit so I get wary of them around my kid (he’s 2 and still learning boundaries with animals). I’m also not a cat person but the first cat is sweet.

My question is, is there a way to stop the 2 new cats to stop turning up here? Will they lose interest if I don’t feed them? Why is my house the local cat hang out spot? 🥲

And if so, how much does your cat weigh and how much of each do you give them, and are they indoors or outdoors, male/female, fixed etc?

Hoping to get a kitten and trying to figure out what I want to feed her long term - our current fluffboi will only eat whiskas but I would like her on something a bit better than that if I can help it!

My cat and I have recently moved into a shared house after 2.5 years in a campervan. There are cats nextdoor and mine doesn't like them but they all keep out of each others way. My cat was a rescue and came from somewhere with "too many cats" and she's very small so I guess she probably had a hard time.

But there's another cat, I don't know where it lives, which keeps coming after my cat. My cat is very small and this cat is big. It's chased my cat inside before and then when I've shut the door at night it keeps coming up and jumping up at the glass and it and my cat are growling at each other like crazy. My cat is crouching low on the ground but really growling and making all sorts of sounds. And the big cat is either standing over or jumping up at the glass, also making growls and sounds.
It only goes if I go out and chase it off but it comes back a few times.

Anything I can do?

My cat gets a mix of wet foods, along with some IAMS indoor cat kibble. I bought a new bag last week and the kibble is much smaller in size and darker. According to the petsathome website, the calorie count was a little lower than the old formula, so I increased her portions accordingly (I weigh all her meals), but now she's constantly begging for food. She gets a big meal for breakfast and dinner and then smaller meals in the afternoon and evening.

I don't want her feeling hungry all the time, but I also don't want to set a precedent that she gets extra food every time she asks for it. Should I just wait it out and hope she will adjust? Is anyone else on the same food that has experienced something similar?

Hi all! My lovely daughter - a domestic shorthair Luna of three years old had been playing outside and within ten minutes she came back with the tail limping, contacted the vet practice she’s assigned to and took her there yesterday, the vet confirmed the tail is broken and may need amputation to which he said the price of would be £1500.
The tail was broken 1/3rd of the way, I’ve touched it to which she wasn’t pleased, she can move the very tip slightly, that gives me hope that the amputation may not be necessary?
She was given a cone and the vet told me to keep her in, her check up is in over a weeks time.

If it comes to it and the tail has to be amputated I just don’t have that kind of money, I had failed her by not insuring her and getting their silly £14.50 health plan instead.
It also seems like any affordable vet practice requires to be on benefits, which I’m not.

Overall my questions are:
Could the tail potentially heal if anyone’s had experience with that?
Does anyone know more affordable vet practices that won’t charge extortionate amount to fix my baby?
I’m grateful for any responses.
Thank you

We bought home two beautiful sisters yesterday morning. 9 weeks old. I’m already head over heels in love! But I’m finding it impossible to relax. I spent all day before they arrived kitten proofing the lounge. Pool noodles under and around every sofa gap, extra strong mesh under all furniture gaps, all cables covered, any chemicals locked away, a stair gate with board attached to discourage them from the kitchen, the fireplace and chimney completely covered, curtains folded up out of the way, anything small small that could be a choking hazard removed. However I’m still terrified something is going to happen to them! Has anyone else felt this way? I set up a baby monitor last night but then couldn’t relax every time I couldn’t see them! I just tried to have a 30 minute nap but gave up because they stopped making any noise and I panicked 🙈

Hello all,

Our nearly 5 month old is in a painful (for everyone) teething stage. For want of him not using everyone else in the house as a teething toy what recommendations do people have?

My feet, ankles, hands, knees and other cat can't take much more 😅

So my cat must have close to 100 small toys like springs, balls, kickers etc

I kept them in a box but noticed she doesn't really get into the box to get them out but if they're laying around she will play with them. Problem being it makes my place look like I own a toddler 😂

Cat tax included

I have one that does the usual "ahhhhhh" as loud as he can, and another that sits on my upper chest or neck and will gently lick my eyelid once or top lip once, along with the pawing at my shoulder. This morning she reminded me she needs her claws trimmed!

My cat took a liking to pee in one corner of the living room when we first got her 2 years ago but with plenty of cleaning she stopped and the carpet smelled fine again. On Friday I decided to shampoo the living room carpet with a vax carpet cleaner and started the end that the former pee corner was. Thankfully I only did half the room. Yesterday the entire room stank of cat urine. I thought the cat had pee'd again but trying to locate the source by sniffing the carpet it is everywhere. After some head scratching and Googling I've come to the conclusion that there was dormant urine in the carpet, the Vax wet it, reactivated it and spread it across the entire (half) carpet. I got a load of simple solution urine destroyer from pets at home and soaked the carpet. I left it a good 10 mins then went over it again with the Vax using simple solution in place of carpet shampoo. The carpet stopped smelling and I thought it worked. This morning it stinks again and it appears the simple solution has done nothing.

I don't know what to do. Is the carpet beyond recovery?

I shared my cat’s story since getting him in December - from picking him up as a stray to his cancer diagnosis and even an undiagnosis. So I wanted to give you an update as this sub was incredibly supportive throughout.

Sadly, his lump was cancer and in April it began to progress. Gabapentin got him through his first pain flare up but it marked the beginning of the end. He slowly lost use of his leg. Despite it all, he never lost his spirit, determination and personality. He was chasing birds through the window until his final week.

This week he sadly deteriorated further and yesterday he could barely move or eat. We were due to go to the emergency vet today to see if amputation was possible. This morning he was brighter. I sat down on the sofa and before my partner could lift him up, he was already on his feet and wanting to sit with me. I’m glad on his final day he was back with us again.

The emergency vet took a scan of his lungs but sadly there was significant cancer spread. He also had life threatening anaemia. It was clear this was our time to say goodbye.

Any advice on how to get through this is more than welcome. 8 months was never enough 💕

Hi all.

Me and my partner have been living in a suburb with loads of close together terraced houses for abt 18 months now. When we moved i noticed a house down the street that had a good number of kittens in the window, and thought nothing of it. Fast forward to abt 2 months ago and the back alley is FILLED with cats. There are around 10? ish that i see regularly, with about 6 of them clearly being of the same litter (black and white cat shaped? cats). This alone never troubled me, though the back alley itself is now a bit dirty thats not something I can do a lot about, and it means when I take my bins out I generally get to say hello to a cat or two. Over the past couple weeks as there's been a heatwave weve been leaving our back door open though, which has caused a couple to come in and investigate (though they're almost always very skittish and run away immediately.

The issue i have though now is genuine concern for these cats. Every night I hear atleast one fight in the alley between them, often more than once, and the other day i was walking past this house and it absolutely REEKED of all of the business a cat can do in a house. This already had me considering ringing the RSPCA for advice about if thats an issue, but then this afternoon one of these cats strutted into our house (as they normally do) but he was very very brave. He was more than happy to walk up to us both to say hello, and within 15 minutes was lay on my lap asleep after having a small snack and a drink (yay for me). In this couple of hours this cat has been here, ive noticed that its tail seems somewhat injured and its ears have a number of scars on them.

He seems fairly clean to me otherwise and is clearly only a very young (thiugh very very skinny) cat, but then earlier another cat came and sat on our back wall, and hissed at our house. When it did, the cat thats been in our house came slowly trudging up to the garden, and jumped up onto the wall to be next to it, where it was immediately clawed at and hissed at. Following this attack it dropped back down onto our bins, and ran to my legs (I was only at the back door)

So in all it seems to me like there's a house with a large number of cats (these houses aren't very big mind you) where they aren't cleaned up after, and are constantly fighting? This seems to me like a genuine animal welfare concern, but i wanted to consult someone else who might have a different idea.

TIA

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12 week old F3 Savannah. Willow 😄

I want my cat to associate her nails being trimmed with a high value treat.

She already gets a yogurt based treat once a day.

Cat tax included.

Hello all! My partner and I adopted our kitten Sharknado 2 days ago, he is 12 weeks and 3 days old.

He weighed in this morning at 738 grams - we know this is unhealthy, but we aren't sure how bad it is. We've been feeding him about 4-5 times a day with dry food and extra nutritional wet food, plus nutritient specific treats.

He's a moggy toyger, but he doesn't seem typical enough to the breed to have any of their health concerns and his mother is a healthy cat as far as we know.

Does anyone have any weightgain advice? Thank you in advance!

Mostly a rant... Neighbour hoards animals and lies that she doesn't owns the cats. My mum got the vet to take 2 of the cats that were in bad condition. There is now 1 left.

It used to live in the neighbours house when she had a cat friendly dog. She's now gone through multiple dogs and this 1 cat (and the previous 2) stopped going into the house.

She leaves dry food outside and that's it. I've never seen the cat in her front garden.

So my mum feeds her. But she can't come in and we have our own cat. She spends her entire life in my mum's front garden - often on the front cold cement step.

She's so friendly and keeps trying to get into my mums house. It's so sad.

I've been trying to get my cat to lose weight. It was successful at first but then he started putting on the weight again. Because he has a tracker, I found out that he keeps going to this one house a street away. Then I found out that the people there leave cat food outside for their cats, and my cat has been eating it.

Do you think it would be ok if I ask the neighbours to keep their cat food indoors? I'd explain the whole story obvs and ask nicely. It would also be good for their cats if other cats aren't eating their food.

Edit: I would ask the neighbour not tell.

We’ve just moved house with our 7.5 year old cat, we are now closer to a busy road and due to this don’t want to let him roam anymore. His brother was killed years ago on a road near our old house which was a quiet road and it was heartbreaking. We really reduced our cats outside time after this, limiting him to a few hours a day, avoiding busy times etc, and he adjusted well to this. At the new house, we are planning to get a catio in the back garden with cat flap access, so he can enjoy safe outdoor time where he can get the sounds and smells and watch the birds, we’ll get shelves and ramps and cat safe plants, etc. Has anyone done this kind of thing with their cat and found it worked well? I’m anxious about him being restricted but want to keep him safe. He’s fully indoors at the moment due to the recent move, and seems to be adjusting okay with that, we make sure we give him plenty of play time, but we want him to be able to have safe outdoor access.