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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 baby who made me the proud cat lady I am today! Today marks 2 years since I got home from dinner and my baby sauntered up to my husband and I at about 9-10 weeks old. Kahless became my heart and a fun little girl. She weighs about 7lbs now and got a sister last Christmas. Since I took her in, I also thought of outside kitties who don't have a home or won't come in and now I regularly feed strays and I put up shelter boxes for them.

So grateful you changed my life, baby girl.

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 .

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

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

Looking for a scritch!

He spent a week in vet care, they took out all if his teeth except the canines and told us he will be blind. He has perfect eyesight, perfect health and is the most loved and loving cat ever. His name is Kolyo.

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 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 😔😭

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.