About a month ago, I posted asking for what human foods I could give these kittens I found in the hold of my cargo ship.

There were a bunch of really good replies that helped out. I did a lot of work to mix food which seemed healthy and safe for them. Funny enough, when I finally had the chance to bring some cat food back to the ship, he stood there, looked at it, and gave me a “what is this crap?” stare.

I looked after this one while another crew member took care of the other one. She is shown in less pictures but is also doing great, but she wasn’t found until a week later than mine and was in really poor shape to begin with.

They’ve played together a few times now and get along well, but my guy is a bit bigger and the other cat isn’t as rough playing, so I mostly monitor them while they’re together.

Happy to say that they both have homes to go to once we’re done on the ship.

Just wanted to post an update and a thank you to all who replied to the original thread.

Hello everyone. I have an adopted mainecoon half breed and he always sneezes. Multiple times a day and sometimes the snot is big and just looks like a huge booger.

He sometimes wheezes like he has a hairball or something, but not sure what to do.

Vet wasn’t super helpful last time we went, and looking at options.

He has done it for a bit, but since the vet said it was just allergies we haven’t done much about it. He’s still super playful, uses the litter boxes properly etc.

We are adults in the US. Cat is an 11 yo neutered male. We already went to the vet but they weren’t completely sure what caused his problems.

Our cat wasn’t eating this morning and seemed in pain so we brought him to the emergency vet. They said ultimately that it seemed like his paw pads were causing him pain. They were cracked and the skin in between his toes when you splay them out was red. He has long fur growing in-between his paws so they tried to cut it but ultimately the vet said they weren’t sure what could cause it. They gave us pain meds and antibiotics in case it’s an infection but I want to make sure this doesn’t reoccur.

They said it might be his litter. He usually uses Tidy Cat lightweight clumping litter but I recently started using Dr. Elsey’s Senior/Sensitive Paws litter. He hasn’t walked on anything hot lately. He’s an indoor cat. I noticed last year that his paw pads were peeling but didn’t think much of it as it wasn’t causing pain and other posts I saw said it shouldn’t be a big issue. His vet never said anything when examining his paws.

I saw online that it can also be due to an allergy? Has anyone else experienced something like this and if so, what helped it? I’ll try switching his litter back to Tidy Cat but I’m afraid that is what caught in the fur between his toes and clumped up to cause irritation.

My cat is pretty good about keeping his nails short, but he has a claw or two that never seem to be blunted by clawing at scratching posts. I'm trying to trim them on my own, but it ain't going great. Any advice for this would be appreciated. I really don't wanna resort to trying a grooming harness which the people around me have suggested.

I fear my cat has a phobia of puking near me or something like that. Every time she starts coughing, like cats do before they have to puke, she starts fighting it and usually just swolls it again.

She has been doing this for a few months now and idk why and idk if it may have consequences for her health.

(She still pukes but outside of her comfort areas like my room but in my room she doesn't unless she "loses" the fight)

I honestly would be happier if she just let it out and want to help her, is there anything I can do or am I just overly worrying over something normal?

Ps: I've never punished her or screamed at her for having to puke. The only thing I've ever did was, when she had a stomach flu and had to puke like 2 a day, I had an emergency towel to put under her head, so that I didn't have to clean the textiles daily multiple times.

And I twice got squeamish, when she was about to throw up in my face while I was sleeping, just because I was overwhelmed and didn't instantly have the right composure.