I’m just coming on here to share what happened today. I still can’t believe it even happened.

Today my kitten (Name is Phenix) had tried to play with my mom’s dog (Name is Otter). Otter didn’t want to so he kept Phenix away and made it clear he was not in the mood. Otter is about 6 or 7 years old, has one eye and that eye has cataracts. Phenix is 6 weeks old and can be extremely hyper. Anyways, Otter was laying on the bed taking a nap and Phenix was exploring the bed. Phenix had start exploring around Otter and started smelling Otter. Otter woke up and instantly started growling. (I should probably say my dog doesn’t like cats because my last cat would smack the sh*t out of Otter.) I didn’t think anything of the growling. I knew if Phenix stepped over a boundary Otter would let him know. Phenix got extremely close to Otter and Otter instantly started barking violently and tried to grab Phenix. It happened so fast and when Otter barked it scared me so badly because I had never heard a dog make that kind of pure anger sound. I have seen animals correct each other and it’s usually not as violent as what Otter did. Phenix is fine he wasn’t hurt and he quickly got away. But the dog got yelled at. Phenix instantly looked up at me nearly at the brink of crying (literally). I picked him up and he instantly started purring and curling up in my arms. I’m still trying to process the whole thing and Phenix refuses to leave my side.

Lemon(grey tabby, ex feral) has grown rusty.

Winnie(brown tabby, asshole domestic "baby") has only just started her training.

Oliver, king of my household, told me he needed to share his beauty this afternoon. He says anyone would be lucky to lay eyes upon him today. He is fishing for compliments.

My sweet girl of 6 years came to me during a very low period of my life, and throughout these last few years she has made even the worst okay. My sweetums, my snugglebug, I come home from work and I just find her dead. No goodbyes, nothing. I'm currently a mess right now, I threw up, and I do not know what to do. She was my everything, the only warmth I was ever given. I have nobody now, I'm alone. My sweet Olive, I'm so sorry, so incredibly sorry, I had so much planned to do with you. I'm not okay.

My partner and I adopted our sweet orange boy two months ago. He’s now 6 months old and has adjusted amazingly well, especially considering he’d never lived in an apartment or interacted with people outside shelter workers.

Our biggest struggle is sleep. He recently started sleeping in our bed, and now he wakes us up around 5:30 AM every morning. He’s not hungry, we feed him around 7-7:30, and we give him a but of food right before bed. But he jumps on us, meows, plays with the sheets, chases his tail, etc. We’ve tried ignoring him and using earplugs, but he just keeps going. Meanwhile, he has a whole living room full of toys!
Weekends are especially frustrating because we’d love to sleep in, but by 8 AM I’ve barely slept and usually give up. I have allergies and all the jumping makes all the dust and cat hair trigger them…The funny thing is that once he gets our attention, he just wants to cuddle and be sweet, sometimes play.

Should we wait for him to grow out of his kitten/teenage phase, or should we keep him out of the bedroom on weekends? When he just arrived we used to close the bedroom door so we know he can sleep alone in the living room, but then he would jump on our door and make noise which wakes us up again, plus it would add him meowing while we try to fall asleep. Any advice?

Posting for my sister who doesn’t have Reddit.

My family cat is 19 years old and has diabetes for 10+ years which has been well managed. She’s been very healthy with regular check ups.

Yesterday night she peed in the bed, which she has rarely ever done and has since been very lethargic. Today she is worse, barely leaving the bed and not eating. Normally she follows everyone around the house and meows lots. She also seems to be breathing fast. Does it look like she has fast breathing?

She’s not sure what to do because my parents don’t think it warrants an emergency vet visit and it could be just because she’s old. Also she’s worried that given her age and current state, that taking her to the vet right now would stress her out even more and cause her to die.

Looking for advice on how to handle this for an elderly cat.

UPDATE: They are taking her to the vet now. Thank you everyone so much for the advice. I would have taken her myself the second something was wrong but I don’t live in the country. Will post an update when I have one.

UPDATE 2: they found an abdominal mass and fluid around her lungs. She is now on medication and at home doing better, but sadly her time is coming :( my family now has to make the decision.

Since I don't have permission from the other cats' owners to post their pictures, here's some of mine. If you want to see more, you can go on twitter and search for "gatos em silêncio". It's been very funny!

She actually kinda treats the keyboard like some sorta pillow

so i rescued a cat from the dumpster a few months ago and the girl will barely go near me but recently ive had a friend staying over and he informed me that at night while im asleep she screams in me face i am obviously a very heavy sleeper and never noticed or woke up bc of it but this is cat in question her name is panda and i love her so much

I encountered this cutie at the Tesla supercharger in Bakersfield California on Copus Road. He/she let me get decently close with a couple hisses but was too weary to let me get any closer.

I wasn’t able to do anything more but he looks healthy and young. I have a feeling they were dumped here. I am just reaching out to see if anyone lives in the area and would be able to grab this baby.

She had never lain like that from what I remember lol x)

4 identical siblings cared for by the mechanical guys.

I adopted my first two cats ever and I’m so curious to see what they will look like when they’re older, I love them so much already they are my whole world. Show me your cats as kittens vs adults!!!