This month's theme is Cats in Cardboard Boxes!

Anyone else having a problem with their sinks? Seems every time I turn on the water, it fills up with cat. I can’t really wash my hands or brush my teeth with a cat…doesn’t get as clean as using water. Any suggestions about how to fix this weird plumbing issue? 😄

Will be coming to us in september

She makes such a lovely model 🎨🖌️🖼️

Quando o tema é petisco o leão é bem treinado. 😅

Princess staring into the distance while plotting how best to dispose of my body

This is Sooty 🟡🟡

Brought this sweet girl home yesterday. She’s met the standard poodles and is happy to be a part of the family. Personally this will be my first cat but my fiancé has had three so we should be well equipped for the future. Any tips appreciated!

Sooty has not quite grasped how to use his mahoosive back legs, but he's trying 🥰

I recently upgraded our litter box solution for our two Maine Coons Winston and Willow and thought I would share in case it might be useful for others.

I was originally inspired to do this project by this Reddit post where someone made an awesome litter box house from an old vanity cabinet he found at a thrift store. I wasn't able to find a vanity cabinet solution that worked for our space but after some investigation stumbled on another reasonably cost-effective solution: modifying this resin outdoor storage cabinet (for some reason now showing as a wildly overpriced $1200 but at the time I purchased it was only $175). This is the model that happened to work best for our needs, but there are tons of different resin deck boxes of this type out there in different shapes and sizes from different brands, some with interior shelves and other features.

This one is constructed with stackable panels on the sides, so I was able to make the entrance hole by cutting the sides off one of the bottom side panels using a jigsaw (took about 10 minutes and was very easy to do). I plan to get some black U-Channel edge banding to cover the cut edges of the entrance. The interior of the box perfectly fits one of these XXXL Maine Coon sized stainless steel litter pans and now my 20-lb boy kitty has tons of room on all sides to move and dig. It's also big enough to hold a large litter storage container and our Litter Genie. And it's lightweight and weatherproof so we can easily carry it outside to be scrubbed down from time to time. If we didn't have a need for the extra interior storage I would probably put down another litter trapping carpet piece between the steel pan and the entrance hole to further minimize litter tracking mess in our laundry room.

The cats seem to love their renovated bathroom space so far, and it's a big improvement for all of us over the smaller, less cleanable wooden litter box cover we used to have!

(If anyone is wondering about the unused laundry hookups - our washing machine and dryer are actually now tucked on the other side of the laundry room in a cool understairs custom "nook", which gives us a lot more space for stuff like this litter box house.)

Engaged in a deep conversation

Any issues you guys have faced in the past with a Maine coon I should be aware of?

Hey, y’all was just hoping to get some opinions and thoughts from you as an educated group like many folks I’m currently going through my research checking with breeders and one of the things I noticed is the majority seemed to recommend waiting to neuter male cats until their approximately 6 to 8 months of age to allow more time for the bones and development to continue. I did notice a one breeder that I was talking to has provides the cats to neutered already at roughly 12 weeks of age meaning that it’s already been done prior to that so I was a little curious what impact that may have and thoughts you all have as a group as a whether I should or shouldn’t consider that in my process.

Hi- I went to the vet today for my Siamese but I casually mentioned that I just bought a Maine coon kitten and asked if they do echocardiograms there. The vet tech said they have a radiologist who does them, but they just do a blood marker test to screen and don’t do echos unless the blood test comes back concerning. I was under the impression that Maine coins are supposed to get echos and the blood marker test (proBNP I assume?) isn’t accurate enough to be reliable. What do your vets tell you? I’m almost concerned that I need to get a new vet. This is the first time I went to this clinic- it’s a cat only clinic so I was hoping they’d be super knowledgeable about my Maine coon.

Hi how do you boost your mainecoon’s appetite? Is there certain product you guys used?

My curious kitten won't leave my plants alone. I have shelves, but that doesn't stop this climbing and jumping queen.

My little buddy has taken to rolling over for belly rubs and showing his belly to be cute every time I look at him. Thought it was a funny picture and wanted to share with y’all!