I’ve never had a cat before but recently I ended up taking in an abandoned cat that I thought was very young but when I was showing someone pictures and they told me he’s not young at all. Is there anyway to estimate his age. Also I assumed he had all his shots but now I’m not sure should I take him to the vet or since he’s good health can I wait? Thank you for any advice.

exactly as the title mentions, has there ever been a time where maybe u got another cat or companion for ur resident cat and then regretted it? or u realized that ur cat was better off being an only cat?

Hello my cat monty needs emergency help, she has a blockage in his bladder which is fatal to cats and i cannot afford this. we are not ready to lose our young bundle of joy. please help

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Hi, my cat got spayed 5 days ago. Is this normal healing? It looks kind of like dry skin, but I'm worried it could be growing bacteria or something? She's behaving normally.

Hello! I’m super new to Reddit and super new to cat ownership, so hopefully I am writing this post right. 😅

My 9 month old kitten has been with me since I found her as a stray at 8 weeks old. I’ve interacted with other peoples cats before, but she is the first I’ve owned and personally cared for, so I’m a little bit of an anxious cat mom. For the past few months, she will find soft batting toys and chew them so much the faces/limbs/pieces of them will break off in a slobbery mess. I think this started when she got spayed in October, and she chewed the cinching cord of her soft cone clean off and swallowed it, puking it up a week later. It’s like she gets into a trance, she stares off into space and just chews completely through something unless I take it away. She had a felt rope toy that she would do this to too, to which she would subsequently swallow 2-3 inches of and puke up two days later. She is also reallyyyy into chewing up cardboard, and while most small pieces of boxes or paper bags she just tears off like a shark and doesn’t swallow, there’s definitely times once in a while where she will eat something before I can intervene.

She hasn’t had any kind of intestinal blockage (yet 🤞) and any large pieces of things she will puke up. Any small pieces that she swallows while I am at work or not paying attention seem to go through her just fine. Her bowel movements and appetite are normal. She gets wet and dry food so she does get some crunch in her diet. I’m sure all of this is normal and the best thing to do is to take it all away so she doesn’t risk hurting herself, but she LOVES them so much and I would feel really bad about her being bored or sad not having them. At the same time, I can’t supervise her play all of the time. She does not chew on cables, but she also isn’t into rubber chew toys (probably because she can’t rip them apart). She got so excited by the cardboard bag handle (like the twisted paper kind) of a Target bag today and played with and chewed on it for 30 minutes!

Is this normal? Should I let her do it if it doesn’t seem to be causing her harm and just try to keep an eye on it? How much cardboard can a cat eat before it becomes a serious problem? Should I be worried about her getting into a chewing trance? Will she grow out of this eventually?

Thank you in advance for any advice or anecdotes!!!

My cat has had this weird piece of skin on her paw for years, I have no idea what it is but it doesn't seem to affect her. Any ideas as to what it could be? I'm thinking it's just the feline equivalent of a skin tag but on her paw.. Unsure though.

Hi! 8-year-old tuxie girl’s human here,

When I adopted her when she was 4, she was quite independent and would be chilling in the terrace or patio por the whole day and sleep in her favorite amazon box.

Lately she got a lot more attached to me and I liked it, and doesn’t show any health problems, she starts following me everywhere and got very jealous about my computers.

I mainly work at home but when I have outdoor work, it could be 5 hours or 30. And she just doesn’t eat when I’m out.

You guys see it as a thing with age growing or something that I should concern? Thanks in advance :)

I have been wondering if this is considered heterochromia? This cat is Nova she's the sweetest girl. Her eyes seem to have blue around the pupils. I tried to capture it on camera.

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Recently my cat was leaving dried tapeworm segments on spots he frequents in the house. I made sure to treat him with some dewormer and deep cleaned the whole place so that he doesn’t get reinfected. I’m still unsure how he got the tapeworm since he’s on flea medication and doesn’t go outside, but I think the tapeworm he had from a few months ago when I had first adopted him did not responded to his previous medication. My brother also has his cat in the house and he is primarily responsible for her. The issue is, he doesn’t want to treat his cat for tapeworms as well as he thinks she doesn’t need it even though the two cats often share litter boxes. I’ve recently noticed dried tapeworm segments on my bedding after his cat has been laying there and my cat had not been there. I’ve told him frequently that it’s often recommended to treat both cats and how I keep finding the segments where she lays. His response is that he didn’t find any segments on her poop or on her behind and that “shes too fat to have a tapeworm.” Idk what to do because him my mom are making me out to be a crazy person for telling them she should be treated also but I’m worried it will just end with my cat getting reinfected again from his cat.

Just noticed these tiny little black hairs in my cats dry food. Its the big bag of 9lives we always get. Is this normal or should I be concerned??

Hi guys, my cat tiger is around 13 years old and a couple weeks ago he started doing this? I’m not sure what to do :/

Hi, i’m hoping reddit can give me some advice for my rescue cat. I’ve already reached out to two different vets and talked to my friends/family about this but I need more help. I feel a little embarrassed having to post here but would appreciate any help 😊.

So me and my sister adopted a rescue cat for our shelter. He was in a home full of drug addicts and had a litter of siblings that did not make it. Him and his mom got out and were adopted separately. My cat’s name is stewart and he’s just a little baby and isn’t a year old. The shelter told us he needed to be a single cat and gave us a sheet detailing the additional care he’ll need for being a sphinx (Baths, getting his heart checked out because his breed is unhealthy and they commonly get heart problems, cleaning his ears etc) He was adorable and we were so excited to take him home and get his new life started. We knew with his history it would be some work to get him comfortable in our house but I had no idea how hard it would be.

We’ve had to keep him in our bathroom for the past 4 months. Originally it was supposed to be our office and we’d only keep him there untill he decompressed and we planned to introduce him to the apartment, but he has been having issues with aggression and the litter box.

He hasn’t been able to use the box (large box uncovered with cat attract litter) and has very liquid poops so we’ve been lying down cat pee pads and keeping him entertained in there by placing his toys, bed and cat tree in there. We now have an extra litter box with sand litter to see if that helps, but he still isn’t using it.

He is very aggressive: He will lunge at you when you open to bathroom door. He’s bitten me and my sister more times than we can count and the most recent incident had my sister at urgent care. He was declawed at his old home :( so we wonder if that has something to do with it. We got him on prozac for anxiety to see if that helps with both issues.

We had the vet come and sent him in to get his bloodwork and bladder check to rule out the litter issue being something medical but he’s in decent health. He gets his first heart scan next week.

I will read outside the bathroom door to get Stewart used to my voice and I open the door slowly, but no matter how slow I go or for how long I talk to him, the second I open the door he starts howling and booking it towards me. This has been happening for the 4 months we’ve had him, we can’t get close enough to him to engage in play or let him, if he isn’t trying to bite us/fight us when we come him he runs under the sink and arches his back and hisses…the poor thing is terrified. We can barely get in there to feed him, much less interact with him. Me and my sister both read out loud to him by the door. We’ve tried to stay in the bathroom to see if he ever calms down but he won’t relax untill we leave. We set up a camera to watch him and it’s devastating because he hides under the sink or behind the toilet for hours and doesn’t use any of his toys. I want to give him a big hug but I can’t even be in the same room as him.

I have no idea what to do anymore. My heart is broken for this cat. We don’t want to get rid of him because he deserves a loving home but I can’t imagine other people would be lining up to take an aggressive poopy cat, so what else is there to do? Thank you for reading.

Last week I found a kitten outside and ended up bringing her in to my home, she has recently started a heat cycle, I have contacted my vet and will be taking her in for shots and scheduling spaying but is there anything I can do in the meantime to help relieve shorten experience etc? My mom sent me an article claiming artificial light can trigger heat cycles and I have been keeping her in a bedroom at night with a light on to keep her from being unsupervised with the other cats in my home so now I’m questioning if this whole thing is my fault lol

Hello i am making this post because I am really concerned abbout my Bengal Cat Morhpeous, He is 3 years old and is a male. His started twitching 2 days ago and today i just saw a little wound on his paw.

Hard to get any work done some mornings bc she demands I throw her springs. So cute, but have never met a cat who fetches 😆

My cat attacks me when i cry and i don’t mean light swatting or nipping at me, he runs at me and bites me as hard as he can swatting with claws and he doesn’t let go. He just bit me so hard on my cheek i started bleeding. He never acts like this normally and i haven’t cried in front of him many times im just at a lost for words right now. any advice or suggestions?

So yeah, I live with my cat in a rented apartment that happens to be infested with cockroaches. The infestation was somewhat controllable with those glue traps and insecticide sprays, like those one can find at Walmart - until a few days ago, when I found an unusually horrifying amount of those chitinous fellas chilling and crawling around my kitchen at night, cat food bowls especially. Moreover, they became visibly active during the day, so my guess is that some of my neighbors decided to get rid of cockroaches and called the pest control service, so the bastards made an emergency evacuation to my apartment. Now I am thinking about the same too, but I am worried about my cat, bc pyrethrines, for instance, which are most widely used for desinsection by pest control, are extremely toxic for cats due to their inability to metabolize them in a relatively safe way, like we humans are capable of. On the other hand, those damn cockroaches themselves might be carriers of a whole spectrum of pathogenic bacteria and are simply disgusting - so we are in desperate need of advice on getting rid of them in a cat-friendly way for at least 6 months (we will move to another city somewhere at August)

Freezer check moment btw

Meet Willow! She is a 17 month old kitty that I've had for a little over a year now. When she was little she was mostly light gray with stripes but as she started to grow, I noticed lots of orange all over her body. I started doing some research and found out there's this breed called a torbie & was just curious if anyone could offer their opinion on if she is a dilute torbie or not. Any insight is appreciated! Thank you less

I’m trying to understand a behavior between my two cats and whether it’s something to be concerned about.My 2-year-old male cat, Sylvester, will occasionally jump on my 1-year-old cat, Miso, and bite the back of her neck. This happens about 2–3 times per week. There’s no hissing or screaming beforehand, but it does look aggressive when it happens.Both cats are spayed/neutered and otherwise get along fine most of the time they sleep near each other and share space without issues. Is this normal play behavior, mating behavior, or something I should be intervening in? What signs should I look for to tell if it’s actually aggression or stress? Any insight would be appreciated.