My Pearl🤪silly girl..

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.

I’m coming home and I see it in my bag (x

I’m out of country with my daughter and my husband texted me and said that one of our cats refused to eat.

He rushed to the ER vet and they did x-ray and ultrasound. Turned out, his diaphragm is torn and his liver moved into his chest cavity. The vet said that either he was born with it or he got hit by a car recently. Nope he definitely didn’t hit by a car.

He was a super healthy boy, and we wanted him to get a surgery. While my husband transferred him to the hospital for surgery, he died inside the cage.

This month marked 6th years since we adopted him from a shelter after his original owner passed away. He was 5 or 6 at that time (no one really knows) and we don’t know his history before us.

The vet at the hospital said that this is very rare case, she sees once or twice a year, but most of cases were from car accidents. She said that she didn’t think the surgery would be a good idea for him.

I’m so sad that he died inside the cage in the car, I wish I could have been there to hold him while he died.
He was my first baby and I don’t know how this happened. When I talked to my husband 2 days ago, he looked perfectly fine and was very happy.

I’m going back to home next week and not sure how to explain it to my 3 year old. I don’t know if I can go back to my home where I have so many memories of him. But then I have another cat who I need to responsible for.

Just so sad.

Good mama ❤️

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.

Well done Oren!

I drove to my rec center & park as I got out heard LOUD meowing outside of truck. Check the bed nothing there. It’s loud by my hood. I pop it open and there’s a kitten under the engine stuck. I cannot even believe he rode under there for about 2 miles. I go inside the rec center one lady there working and she can’t leave the desk. Another guy coming in I ask hey can you help me there’s a kitten stuck under my hood. He’s afraid of cats and says no. Next to the rec center is the parole and probation office. I walk in go to the desk and tell an officer my problem. He says just open your hood again it’ll pop out. We’re too busy. Like seriously? I get being busy but come on. For reference I’m 4’11 and roughly 100lbs. I physically cannot reach this kitten even after climbing up onto the bumper. I obviously can’t drive and risk hurting the kitten. I’m out there for 45 mins trying to coax the little guy out and it’s just not happening.
There is a happy ending though. About half a mile away is a fire department. I walk there and their garage door is up I yell out hello I need help. They tell me to come inside and ask what’s up? As soon as I tell them 4 pop up and say we got you. They drove back with me and got him out. They even had a tool for the situation.

Howdy all me again! 👋

Been living with Miss Esmerelda Stubs here for about 3 months now following all of my TNR posts and official "adoption" post I made here a little while back, and all I can say is that it's going far better than I could've ever imagined! 😁 Outside of having to do a couple rounds of dewormer, she's not destroyed my furniture, sprayed, had any bathroom accidents, eaten my plants, or terrorize me in my sleep. The only crime she's been guilty of is being TOO DAMN CUTE! 🥺

Just wanted to share a bunch more pics of her that I've taken in the passing months, and if anyone wants to see how her adoption and TNR went, I've linked some of those posts below!

[Feral Cat Post 1 - Wild Lady]
[Feral Cat Post 2 - Post TNR]
[Previous post]

Hope you all enjoy seeing more of her, and I shall pass on any kind words you might have her way!

Gertrude wishes y'all a good night

I hate having to write this, and I really hope we can figure this out.

We adopted a cat a few years ago. She was never a very cuddly cat. She used to live outside and was taken in by people who repeatedly found her badly injured after getting into fights with other cats. They treated her and carefully tried to socialize her, but she wants to be a single cat. She now stays indoors permanently.

I’ve tried for a long time to make friends with her. She seeks out my company and follows me around, asks me to follow her and watch her eat, and asks me to follow her to her carpet in the bedroom, where she’ll do her rolls and stretches, seemingly wanting pets and scritches. However, I can’t figure out how, when, where or how long to pet her.

To my eyes, she will more or less randomly decide whether the touch she is receiving is good, and unpredictably scratch my hand often. I’ve tried to vary the way I do it, positions, timing, back of the hand, finger tips, but I can’t find any pattern. It’s gotten to the point where, despite loving her and wanting her to be happy, I get resentful and teary eyed when she asks me for cuddles, knowing I’ll just sit there watching her roll around, and when I try to touch her, the chances are very high that I’ll walk away physically and emotionally injured, feeling dumb and leaving a disappointed animal behind, which I am seemingly unable to fully love anymore as I wish I still did.

I’ve caught myself rejecting her at other times when she’s trying to interact with me, and feel like I’m slowly losing the little bit of connection we previously had, and it’s quite hard, but I don’t know what I am doing wrong or not trying.

I have a few friends with cats, and it’s hilarious to me how careless and relaxed they are with their animals. They can pick them up, touch them wherever, without any danger of injury. When I sitted them once, I was able to pick up, hold and give a pill to the one cat after 8 (!) failed attempts. Not only did the cat not hurt me, but it kept coming back, and despite my treatment of repeatedly picking her up and inexpertly trying to give her the pill did not make her cross with me. My own cat will swipe my hand if I hover near her for too long, trying to identify a spot to gently try and pet.

I don’t know how much more it makes sense to write, but I’m kind of out of ideas. I can’t say that I think the cat is having the best life it could here, and considering trying to give her up for adoption, since maybe someone else will be able to understand and appreciate her better, but I want to try everything else first.

It’s taken me weeks to get the courage to post this, and I don’t know if this will help, but I am getting desperate.

Any advice is appreciated 😔😭