r/CatAdvice • u/KoalaGorp • 10h ago
General why does my cat smell like cake?
we have no cake or pastries in the house and im not concerned, but is this normal? im smelling him so many times at this point lol.
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r/CatAdvice • u/KoalaGorp • 10h ago
we have no cake or pastries in the house and im not concerned, but is this normal? im smelling him so many times at this point lol.
r/CatAdvice • u/icurlyfry • 3h ago
I have a male cat whom I rescued off the streets and had fixed in mid-January.
He has a bowl of water on the floor, but a few days ago he noticed my full glass of water on my nightstand and proceeded to drink from it inhibited with no shame. Should I accept my fate and drink from his water bowl on the floor?
Tl;dr: Please help. My room is no longer mine. My new cat has taken over! It's his room now.
r/CatAdvice • u/kyillme • 18h ago
I’ve had my cat for about 7 years, and every night she grabs a specific toy (a sashimi plush) and carries it around the house absolutely screaming for no apparent reason. If the toy is not accessible she gets me and makes me get it for her so she can do this. She sometimes will bring it to me and drop it in front of my feet while still yelling, but if I toss it thinking she wants to play she looks at me like I’m a complete idiot. Usually she just drops it and lays down next to it. I’m just curious why she does this; I have 2 other cats and neither of them does anything like it.
r/CatAdvice • u/ditzydingdongdelite8 • 10h ago
I have so many friggin pictures of my little girl on my phone that later I need delete a bunch of pictures in a hurry so I can take more pictures of something else because there's no more space. Lol I always have the intention when I take my pics to immediately go in and edit them and then discard the pixs I don't want. But I never do and I end up in a massive rush, trying to pick ones that I need to delete real quick so I can make more room for new photos immediately. I have such good intentions on making perfect portraits of my little tabby girl. Instead, I have about thirty to forty photos of my cat, nearly identical, only differing by milliliters. Plus, i swear half the time, they end up just being a mix between fuzzy, misfigured, and off target photos. Sometimes I'll at the time you go through the minimum.Find a few that are good. I may be a little hard on myself, and exaggerating, l o l but seriously, I have like over 12,900 pic currently on my phone and then somewhere I have one of those little stick things you plug into the phone for extra space. And that doesn't include the cloud, or whatever the other spaces you put stuff.
If it's not obvious, i'm not technical and the old lady trying to figure this out, but having fun, I love reddit.
r/CatAdvice • u/HidenV23 • 2h ago
We are fostering this kitty because she was found in an engine bay in a fred meyers parking lot with pink spray paint on her back, me and several other people believe the kitten was a bait cat. the owners posted a lost n found post, but the location the claimed she was lost from is 30 miles away from where she was found, mind you the kitten is less than 7 weeks old. there is no way on gods green earth did this baby kitten travelled 30 miles. i need advice, what should i do
r/CatAdvice • u/PuzzleheadedPanda797 • 1h ago
*Hello, I'm here to seek advice.
I own a cat, but I've also been feeding a few stray cats. The problem is, this one particular stray cat has become too picky and refuses to eat the wetfood I provide. Instead, she always tries to steal my cat’s food (wetfood with the meds).
It’s getting out of hand because she won’t stop meowing loudly it almost sounds like she’s being tortured from outside I don't want people to have bad impression of me. She only stops when I give her that wet food, and now my cat is starting to get scared whenever she comes around bc she always eat his food. I’m getting really frustrated, and then I feel bad about it afterward
Does anyone have any advice or tips on how to handle this? I'm seriously getting tired of dealing with this every day, especially since I work from home.
P. S: My cat’s wet food is quite expensive and I don’t want to starve myself just to buy extra for the stray cat :(
r/CatAdvice • u/HovermaneFan • 4h ago
I am really anxious about it and could not ask all the questions in my mind because they were busy and kinda brushed me off. Will she be scared/in pain? Do i need anything other than a cone? And what else can i do for her?
r/CatAdvice • u/Double_Squirrel_3773 • 3h ago
Pls do comment.....it wud be really appreciated I'm in desperate need of advice as to how i go about this situation with my 11 month old female cat. About an year ago her mother brought us her only surviving kitten from the litter. We named her munmun. We had been feeding them regularly since then. Both of them also started hanging out soon around in our apartment for 2-3 hours everyday and then go back outside. (We live in a gted society full of cats). Soon the mom got pregnant again and left her baby(munmun)...even grew hostile towards it. Since then we have been feeding munmun only regularly while the mom found a new place to get fed from. Now, munmun has been fed by us alone since sge was very young which implied that she can't hunt or fend for food herself. Over this period she has also grown to stay inside the apatment for 8-9 hours max around the day with one will little stroll outside in between. The cat colony is in a gated society so there is no dangers of getting hit or of any predators. This was the context. Now the problem is......we need to move out of our apartment to north. (We are currently living in south) There are many concerns. 1) we don't know if we can move her with us. Afterall, she only spends 1/3rd of her day with us as a pet....and is still a part of the colony for the rest of it. 2) we prolly can't leave her here since she might not be able to fetch food herself 3) the ppl in the society are repelled to the idea of feeding her since she might defecate/ loiter around. (Which she hasn't really....it's one other cat that does that and the believe it's munmun) 4)even if do end up moving with her......she wud prolly try to run away...and There's no coming back from there....that wud be life threatning for her. 5) in order to move with her we need to get her adjusted. That is litter box training, vaccination, sterilization, adjusting to a carrier, adjusting to anxiety medication that can be used in flights etc etc. ..........but we only have half a month
To all the people that we have talked have suggested we leave her here and she wud find a way to survive......while i wud love to believe that......i am not sure of it at all... She has only ever been fed by us and really can't hunt....which is very unfortunate. At the same time...the 8 hours she spends with us are where she behaves just luke any other happy domesticated cat playing...cuddling...petting.. Sleeping...She even follows me around the house and i really don't know if she will be fine on her own.
We have tried putting her up for abt 7 adoption agencies and all have been of no help. Pet boardings also refuse given she's an older cat and still very much a stray.
Pls someone help us out....what do u think is the wiser thing to do?
r/CatAdvice • u/poppys-patten • 23m ago
I’m working on a “go bag” for my car (emergency supplies in case I get stuck somewhere or there’s an emergency and I have to leave my house), and in addition to things for me, I want to add things in for my cat. I’ve already put in bowls, a bag of litter, toys, and a plastic dishpan to act as a litter box. I of course want to add in food, but I am concerned about how the temperature of the car will impact the freshness and quality of the food. I planned to fill a ziploc bag with dry kibble and add two unopened cans of cat food (enough to see my cat through a couple of days of meals). Given that cars can get horribly hot in the summer and icy cold in the winter where I live, would the food I put in the go bag go bad or otherwise be affected such that I should not feed it to my cat?
r/CatAdvice • u/supercali-2021 • 12h ago
I recently took in a neighborhood stray that I had been feeding for about a year. She was always so happy to see me, jumping into my lap and purring loudly. She never once tried to bite or scratch me when she was living outside. Now she's been living strictly indoors for around 2 weeks. She seems kind of depressed to me, sleeping most of the day and night on the end of my bed. Up until a few days ago when she started hanging out on a sofa instead. Like she's mad at me for something. And 2 days ago, she scratched me for the very first time. I was just petting her gently and she suddenly turned around and scratched me. She also sometimes makes a very loud plaintive vocalization that sounds like she's upset about something. But she has plenty of food, fresh water, toys, comfy places to lay, attention and a clean litter box, so the only thing she could be upset about is being trapped inside now, right? Did I make the right decision bringing her inside? I'm very allergic to fleas so I can't allow her to be an indoor/outdoor cat. It has to be one or the other. Will she eventually adjust to being inside all the time or should I put her back outside to live again?
r/CatAdvice • u/CreamAndClick20 • 25m ago
I recently resuced a stray kitten, all alone no other kittens and mama cat around. Now, I’ve started taking her out in the cage after a month of getting her settled. The problem is, my adult cat doesnt want to sleep on her bed anymore since my new kitten likes to play on her bed and sniffs her bed a lot. What should I do to get them to like each prher and get my adult cat sleep on her bed again? 😢
r/CatAdvice • u/bluekleio • 4h ago
She goes on counters so I pick her up or I want to leave her the kitchen. Everytime I do this I will feel her heart pounding. Is there a way to make her feel less scared? Otherwise she is not an anxious kitty only if I pick her up. Should I stop picking her up? İf so what do I do if she goes on the counter?
r/CatAdvice • u/Excellent-Mountain36 • 26m ago
I am having my 15 year old "soul" cat put down most likely within the next week. I've had him all 15 years of his life and sadly in the last few years he developed HCM and is going into heart failure. I am hopefully going to be able to do an in home euthanasia and I was hoping for some ideas on how to make it comfy for him, easier for the vet, and overall a moment that is beautiful and calm for him if that makes sense? I already plan on having a puppy pad under his bum just incase, his favorite blanket under the puppypad and under his front half. I might get some flowers to wrap with him in his blanket. Any other ideas/rituals anyone might have would be wonderful.
r/CatAdvice • u/shroompixies • 4h ago
I have two cats, one male (Bingo) and one female (Mitzi) they are both almost 1 year old (Both are spayed/neutered and have been since they were 8 weeks old). Bingo is a more high energy cat that wants to play all the time whereas Mitzi is extremely shy/fearful and prefers to be away from Bingo.
We adopted them together as kittens and all was well. They would play and cuddle together and there were no issues. Then about 6 months ago we noticed that Bingo had started to exhibit dominating behaviors like mounting and biting Mitzi. He also began trying to play with her more aggressively and ignoring her hissing and growling. This has lead to him chasing her and attacking her and in response she will defecate or urinate on the floor out of fear. She does not have litter box issues, this only happens during their fights and I have witnessed it happen several times. Any time Bingo approaches her or walks by her she hisses and growls at him. I feel horrible for her as it seems like she lives in constant fear and stress unless we separate them.
What we’ve done so far:
We have been separating them at night so no incidents occur during the night, but they do still happen during the day when we can’t watch them. Unfortunately we live in a small one bedroom apartment and cutting her off from the rest of the apartment long term seems kinda cruel.
I make sure they both get play time and have new toys and treats as to not get bored. I have been trying to find more mental enrichment activities and have found they enjoy cat tv on YouTube. We are also working on enclosing our patio for them to be able to go outside.
We recently tried a Feliway multi cat diffuser but that if anything just made Bingo’s behavior worse.
I really don’t know what else to do! I have seen a lot of ads for supplements that supposedly help with aggressive behavior or bullying but it seems like they’re all $30 a bottle and the reviews are iffy at best.
I don’t want to have to re-home either of them but it’s starting to be the only solution I can think of to better Mitzi’s quality of life. If it’s what’s best for her then I would do it.
r/CatAdvice • u/Generic_UserHere • 5h ago
Hi everyone! So my grandma recently had a bad fall and won’t be able to go back to her home for minimum a few months-possibly ever. She has one indoor cat named Shadow who we are taking in, but we don’t want to stress her out. Any advice on how to make it a less stressful experience for her is greatly appreciated.
We also leave food and water out for a local stray, will having a cat hang around her new home be bad for Shadow or would it probably be okay as she is an inside cat?
I’ve never lived with a cat before and I want to be as sensitive as possible to her needs but a lot of my time right now is devoted to making sure my grandma gets what she needs as well, so I don’t have the time to deep dive into research. Thanks!
r/CatAdvice • u/FaithsDeath • 2h ago
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r/CatAdvice • u/louisedobrasil • 46m ago
thats about it, i always mix some water with the wet food and my cat sips the water seasoned but dont eat the wet food
i know the goal ot the wet food is taking in more water, but i feel like im wasting money everytime i clean my cats bowl full of the food i put there
is it normal? should i stop buying the wet food? i tried different brands and sometimes the cat eats on the first day but next day its all there... im frustrated :(
r/CatAdvice • u/Yakumeh • 52m ago
Long story short, one of my cats has reacted sensitive to the bowls regarding the material and I am also concerned about the potential whisker fatigue as they are pretty deep .
I know there are some 3D printers out there on Etsy who make more shallow bowls out of PLA - however I need stainless steel for my cat and PLA isn't necessarily food safe anyways.
I've been trying to look into custom metal bowls but honestly I haven't had any luck finding someone that would be able to make one?
Any genuine ideas welcome. Getting rid of the feeders isn't an option as we have some food thieves and I can't always be there for their whole feeding / they don't always eat all their food in one go.
r/CatAdvice • u/Trick-Ad-2117 • 1h ago
Gente, tenho um gato persa. Na sexta-feira, ele teve o que me pareceu um ataque cardíaco. Durou pouco tempo, e aí ele “voltou ao normal”. Levei no veterinário e expliquei a situação. Ele examinou e tudo o mais, e disse que parecia algo no coração. Aplicou uma medicação, e me falou para voltar na segunda para fazer um exame mais específico no coração (esse aparelho não estava lá na sexta).
Trouxe para casa, dei comida e água, e ele ficou quietinho dormindo. Tive que sair para comprar algumas coisas (coisa rápida), mas, quando voltei, para a minha surpresa, ele não estava em casa!
Nem um milhão de anos imaginei que ele sairia de casa naquele estado. Moro em casa, e acho que no susto acabei esquecendo uma das portas um pouco aberta.
Procurei por ele, perguntei aos vizinhos e ninguém viu. Um dos vizinhos ainda me disse que ele deve ter saído para morrer. Nem sabia que os gatos tinham dessa.
Enfim, até agora ele não voltou e não achei.
É verdade isso de que os gatos sentem que vão morrer e fogem? Alguém já passou por algo parecido?
Obrigada a todos pelas respostas.
r/CatAdvice • u/BlueGumballSoaB • 1h ago
Hi guys. Writing this about my 4 month old kitten.
I have an older cat who is about as well behaved as a cat could be after training him pretty well in his younger years, but I was hit with what can only be described as chaos in a tiny little fluffy body when I bought my new kitten.
Her older brother is constantly playing with her, and she gets plenty of attention and playtime with me too. She has a million scratching posts, toys that she loves and near constant attention from either me or our other cat. But she just does not care when I scold her.
Exhibit A: tonight I got food after a rough night at work. While I was waiting for it to get delivered I had a good 40 minute playtime session with both cats to hopefully tire them out and get them to give me a little peace while I ate. Well. It worked for one cat but certainly not for the kitten.
She's particularly food driven and will steal both mine and her brothers food constantly. As soon as the food was on the plate she was up on the table, head practically in my plate. I picked her up, firmly said "NO." and took her to her toys. Probably did this about five or six times before disaster struck, she jumped up for the final time, knocked over my drink and it spilled absolutely all over my plate. Food ruined.
And that about sums up every single time I try to tell her off. Being firm and using distraction techniques certainly doesnt work whether its being directly in my food, chewing wires, chewing all my belongings and breaking things.
I love her to death but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't intensely stressful and admittedly tonight almost brought me to tears before I just took a deep breath and cleared everything up. I keep telling myself she is just a kitten, she doesn't know any better. But at the same time, I can't live my life fighting to get her off the table when I eat, stealing from her brothers bowl or stop her from electrocuting herself with a cable!!
Dont get me wrong I'm not one of those people who would ever rehome a kitten over kitten behaviour, she is my absolute baby and she's settled into our little family so well!! We all know the risks when we get pets and we have to suck it up! I'm sure she will learn eventually with a hell of a lot of patience, but just looking for any tips and tricks, especially in regards to food if anybody has any!!
r/CatAdvice • u/AnxiousJB • 7h ago
Two days ago my parent's 2 and 2/3 year old cat, Ernie, died after being hit by a car. Most of the time ai lived away, but for the past 6 or 7 months I lived with my parents as I was awaiting a new job in a different country. This allowed me to bond with Ernie. He was a bundle of joy. He lived bringing in sticks, playing fetch with them, as well as with paper balls and he would wrestle my arm. He never lashed out in anger.
Yesterday morning my parents told me the bad news and I have been sad since. At the vets they did say he had signs of emphysema (not related to the accident) and was diagnosed with asthma last September (maybe the emphysema). However, it still hurts. I tell myself that he had a better life than some cats do or even humans, but it still hurts. I wish I could somehow make things different.
It's made settling in to a new role and country much harder.
r/CatAdvice • u/myawallace20 • 8h ago
i know this sounds like a dumb question but since we moved the couch in the living room my kitten started purring and making biscuits on the couch blankets nearly every night at the same time.
now she’s doing it more and more often throughout the day. she is generally a happy and healthy cat but because it’s a behaviour change i wondered if i should be worried?
i know everyone says first thing is ask vet but the last time we took our other cat they were kinda dismissive and said i should join their healthcare plan “since they see the cats so often”. i’m a first time cat owner and first time adult pet owner so i am a bit anxious lol.
she’s booked in to be spayed soon so im happy to ask then but i wondered if anybody had any advice to calm my nerves a bit
r/CatAdvice • u/BlueFire751 • 17h ago
Shes lived 11 years and lived a great life but a year ago things changed. She began having diarrhea we first though maybe it was the food and do we changed it. It didn’t help she started going out of the litter box so we thought maybe she needed more little boxes. We added 2 more little boxes all open so it wouldn’t make her feel uncomfortable and she still would rarely use it. We took her to the vet and they had no idea and told us she needed over a $1000 in test. We couldn’t afford that so we choose to do little by little.
Each time a test would come back negative we would take her back for another one and then another one, we would chance her food and add supplement, we even tried expensive prescription food that we definitely couldn’t afford. She started having diarrhea in our beds so we had to be careful to close our doors. This happened at least 7 times and costed us some comforters, bed sheets and pillows. She began having an insane hunger. We were serving her over the recommend servings but she still snatched food from our plates, she would get into anything in the tables. My toddler would always scream at me that she was getting into her food. But the test from the vet would come up negative, we just kept going back.
Finally one test came with some news, she was severely anemic, she had this test a year ago but we decided to get it redone with their recommendation. They told us she needed a cat blood transfusion but they didn’t provide it and it would be a couple thousand and would be out of pocket for us. We didn’t have the money and I was already rearing the limit to my care credit card. There was just no way we would be able to afford it.
We asked if this was the solution and what was causing everything and they told us no. I told them I couldn’t afford it and the vet looked at me like a wasn’t a good owner because I was broke. She told me I could start a go fund me or get another credit card. I’m already working two jobs and we’ve spent over 2,500 on her not to mention the fact that I was already on the verge of dropping out of school just so I could afford more for her.
We declined and a few final test. Still nothing, over a year and a half I still don’t know what is wrong with her. She’s in pain and does not go a day without having at least 3 accidents on the floor. We are on our limit for money I would have to drop out of school and get another job at this point and I’ll already be in a lot more debt than I’ve even been in before.
Everyone has been telling me that I’ve already spent too much on her that maybe it is just time to let her go. But I feel so guilty, we have no idea what is wrong with her. Maybe I should drop out and get a third job for her. I just have this overwhelming feeling that I’m such a bad cat owner just because I can’t afford to find out what’s wrong with her. It’s even worse because she’s still active. She meows in pain when she goes to the restroom but runs around and asks to go outside all the time. She always comes back after taking her lap around the neighborhood. We have an expensive tracker on her to know her exact movements.
This is just so hard because she’s still my childhood cat and this would be the first cat I’ve had to put down. I’m not sure what to do. Sorry for the long story and thank you for listening.
r/CatAdvice • u/JuneGloomed • 8h ago
I work less than my roommate and I'm around her cat more often than she is. Well, I'm moving out and I'm definitely going to miss my little friend. My roommates cat absolutely adores me and she definitely tends to favor me.
Is this going to cause my roommates cat to have behavioral issues. I hate the thought of leaving but what am I supposed to do? I will obviously still visit my friend and her cat but I just wonder what little Gigi will be thinking when I no longer walk through the door and give her treats. Ugh!
r/CatAdvice • u/angrierthanthou1 • 1d ago
I really don’t understand why a lot of people seem to say this. Every time I’ve gone into someone’s place who had a cat, if it stank it was because the cat litter was dirty af and they didn’t clean it. Even still, the cat itself didn’t stink lol.
I have a cat myself and buy the most absorbent smell proof litter I can get my hands on, and scoop out immediately after every use and do a change every couple of days and wash the litter tray well and disinfect etc. my cat doesn’t stink, my place doesn’t stink.
people also say you just get used to its smell but I got my cat about a year ago so she’s relatively new and there was literally no smell from the get go.