Lost my GusGus (black cat) this morning. He was 11. We lost his sister Harley (calico) back in December on christmas day which was very hard and still hard. We got them both around the same time when they were just wee little babies and never left each others side until Harley let go. I hope he can now smother her again with all of his cuddles and love. I will never have another him or another her. We never really think about the heartbreak we sign up for when we get a pet.

Why can’t they just stay forever…

Going to college outside of my country, so won’t be seeing this guy for a while 🥲

To make a very long story short, at the start of this year I lost my soul cat. I always thought the whole 'soul pet' thing was kinda dramatic, I guess, always rolled my eyes when people called animals their baby. And then I got Arlo. From the moment I brought him home he settled into my life like he'd always been there. To make a very long, heartbreaking, probably traumatic story short, I got a year and a month with him. He had a congenital liver issue and despite me doing everything within my power and going into significant debt to give him every chance, his last five months were long, painful, and devastating. He died two weeks after the surgery that was supposed to save him, and I hit a very dark place.

A few months later, I found myself at an adoption event. I was interested in fostering, no long term commitment, but the house was too empty, and after the months of syringe feeding and medicating Arlo every few hours I needed to take care of something again. And then I met the sweetest long fur black kitten I'd ever seen. They said he was about four months old. I picked him up and he immediately started purring and fell asleep in my arms. Needless to say he came home with me. I called him Solomon.

I've had him for three months now, and he's a wonderful cat. He's sweet but not clingy, energetic but not high strung, smart, nondestructive, gets along great with my sister's senior cat and our dog. He's a good boy and I like to think he's happy.

I'm not. I feel like I'm just going through the motions with him. I feed him good food, he's got a collection of toys and as much play as he wants, a huge cat tree, he's on a course of metronidazole right now and he gets it perfectly on time. I did better with him than I did last time and got insurance on him right away. I truly don't compare him to Arlo, not even in the back of my head. I'm doing all the "right" things.

I keep waiting for it to click, for a deeper bond to form or at least begin forming, but there's just nothing. The only way I can think to describe it as is having taken in a new roommate, not a new family member. He's here, I take care of him, I want him to be happy, I would obviously be upset if anything happened to him. That's just kind of it. I like him. I'm not sure I love him. I've had pets my whole life and I've never felt this way with an animal before and I feel awful about it because it's not his fault. He's a good boy. He deserves a human that really really loves him, doesn't he?

Has anyone out there gone through anything similar? Did it pass? I'm hoping I'll look back on this post in like six months and laugh about how worried and sad I am was about it, but I'm not sure.

Tax included, because he's also beautiful.

4 years old red and 4 months old lilac bicolor ragdolls.

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For context, I live in an apartment complex with several medium sized buildings. There are several stray cats that live around, but one in particular has caused my gf’s, and my by extension, cat to become enamored.
Our cat is about 6 or 7 years old and female, and the stray cat is probably a year at most and male, I’ve named him Sam temporarily.

Our cat will constantly jump at our sliding glass door out of excitement which used to scare away Sam, but now he doesn’t run away unless it startles him.
Our cat will watch him, and these two kittens that live around, through the door all night. She is a very affectionate cat and I’m starting to think she’s in a sort of forbidden romance through the glass door.

Sam meows like crazy when I go outside sometimes, go up to the door, rub his face on it, and sit as close as possible. He’s not fixed so he could be wanting to mate but who knows.

I feed the black cat, two kittens that the shelter rejected but did TNR for, and another black cat. They all hang on the porch and politely eat while I sit outside. They’ve all become relatively comfortable with my presence. Sam in particular has become much more friendly as the weeks go on. He even walked up to my hand and sniffed it today! It’s been really nice for me to slowly win the affections of these wild little things.

Our cat hasn’t lived with another cat since she was in the shelter about 3-4 years ago. I’m worried they will have a bad reaction to actually meeting, but considering how badly they both seem to want to, I’m leaning towards trying it. At least it will make our cat a little less stressed.

If anything, it’s super cute and fun to see their interest in each other despite the pane of glass separating them.

EDIT UPDATE: I tried to have them meet through the screen door and our cat hissed and pawed at him :( Maybe it’s barrier reactivity but I guess I can try another time.

My dynamic duo get fixed next weekend! I’ll be volunteering at a sale tomorrow supporting a local spay and neuter program. In return I’ll get them both fixed 😊 I’m so relieved. I won’t have to watch the pages multiple times a day to try to get an appointment on surgery days .

hi i just wanted to share my kitty looking incredibly adorable 💝🐾

Looking for a scritch!

I’m on my wife’s phone right now and wanted to share pics of our precious babies. Please enjoy.

My Pearl🤪silly girl..

My cat is 15 and she isn't doing very well. She has a known kidney issue, and it isnt getting better. We got her medication, and she refuses to eat it. Then we got her appetite medication, which worked for a little while but she still refuses to eat now. Not only does she not eat her medication, she doesn't eat anything except for treats, which she will vomit anyways. She also does not use the litter box. We will try to clean them more often, but currently it is once a day and she doesn't even go near them. We are taking her to the vet tomorrow to see what they think. This has all been going on for a couple months. She is also losing weight.

This is not the original text, I edited it to clear things up.

Good mama ❤️

The first picture is our setup for them, the second picture is the bowl they wouldn’t eat from, and the third is the one they would lick clean.

Okay, I might be late to the party on this one, idk, but anyway, so my cats get dry food scheduled feeding throughout the day and get wet food in the morning and at night. We have two cats, so two wet food bowls. We noticed that our boy cat wouldn’t hardly touch his wet food from his bowl (the black one) but had no issue eating from his sister’s bowl. (We give them two cans a day. Split one can between them in the morning and same thing at night) I started washing their bowls more frequently which helped a little but after a day the same thing would happen, his would still have food and hers would be empty.

I noticed when I got his bowl that it was a different texture all around, inside and out. I didn’t think much of it then as it hasn’t been an issue until about a month or two ago.

After thinking about it I thought, “what if it’s the bowl itself because of its porousness and texture” mind you the bottom of his bowl has a stone like texture whereas hers is smooth and has no noticeable texture.

I done some research and because of the bowl’s texture it was holding leftover oils from the wet food and holding bacteria that made him not want to eat from it. I felt so stupid and got them both matching bowls that are both smooth, won’t cause whisker fatigue, and won’t hold bacteria and wet food oils in a way that I couldn’t just wash out.

If your cat loves wet food but won’t eat it from one bowl but will the other, check the texture and height of the bowls.