Kitty Query

Hi all,

I'm getting a cat tree from someone who already has a cat. She says the cat is almost never on it, but I'm a little worried about it smelling like another cat and my cats peeing all over it in response.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

My 1 year old kitten (ok, I know she's technically an adult but it's hard to think of her as not a kitten) has been acting really aggressive with me lately. It doesn't seem playful. She sometimes will swat at me and not put her claws out and will nibble and it's obviously playful. But most of the time, it hurts, and I think she knows it. She will bite my hand very hard and I can feel her teeth literally grinding on the bone.

Has anyone had this with a 1 year old cat before? Is she just in a weird phase? Maybe I'm doing something to make her mad? (Like, locking her in my room while I'm gone and at night because otherwise she pees on all my roommate's stuff in the living room...) It will happen a lot when I'm just petting her, and it's not like I'm petting her in places she doesn't like, because I've petted her there before and she never bit me...

I'm confused. :(

Also, should I start doing the spray bottle thing? I didn't when I first got her (she was 5 months when I got her), so I feel like if I spray her now, she's too old and won't get it.

Any advice would be awesome.

Thanks!

So, my cat was peeing on my roommate's bed when he would leave the door to his room open, but she wasn't peeing on anything else. My roommate now leaves his door closed all the time, but she has started peeing on other things, too, like my comforter and now my roommate's leather couch. I took her to the vet, and she doesn't have any infections or anything, so I really don't know what's going on.

Any ideas about what I can do to stop her (I got some spray stuff that is supposed to deter cats from peeing on things, but it isn't working with her), and how to get a cat pee stain out of a leather couch safely?

Thank you in advance.

EDIT: Since she's peeing mostly on my roommate's things and has only peed on my things a couple times, could it be that she just doesn't like the way my roommate smells? How do I get her to stop peeing on everything? Today I caught her in the act peeing on my roommate's blanket on the couch, and I yelled at her and she ran away. I think she knew I was mad.

And I wonder if she's protesting against something? Maybe she is sick of being cooped up in the apartment? She was undersocialized when I got her, so I'm afraid of letting her outside. I'm afraid she won't come back.

Any insight at all would be wonderful...

My poor 2 year old Fiona has recently developed pica, trying to eat essentially everything including oatmeal, paper, plants, her litter, etc. We took a stool sample to the vet and found out that she has roundworms, which are probably eating her nutrients and causing her to be extra hungry/craving random things. We're getting her treated on Monday, but I have two questions:

1. I have a second cat, Eileen, who shares food dishes and litter boxes with Fiona. She probably has worms now, too, right, even though she has no symptoms? Should I deworm her as well just in case?
2. How likely is it that I could have or will get roundworms as well? I always wash my hands after scooping litter, but I don't always wash my hands after nuzzling or petting the kitties, and they sleep in the bed with me sometimes. They, as kitties do, also climb around all over. The litter also tracks around the house a little bit-- I vacuum, but I'm sure some small specks of the litter (not waste itself, just litter) might end up on my shoes, pants, etc, and maybe onto my hands without my realization. Do I need to go a human doctor, too, and check for worms? How would a doctor do that in a person with no symptoms?

Anyone have experiences with roundworm in their cats?

Hi all - my kitten has been peeing on everything, even though she's litter box trained! At first it was just two things (a blanket and a cat bed) I had gotten from a friend who has a cat, so I thought maybe she smelled the other cat. But she peed on my bed last night while I was sleeping in it. I've had that blanket on my bed for a while, so I don't know why she would choose to pee on it now if it had to do with it smelling like another cat or something.

Any ideas? I really don't know what to do...

I want to share a control-of-biting story. My cat, Bean, has been a big biter since the day he found me in the cat shelter. Always living and exploring with his mouth! Ouch.

He gets so absorbed when about to bite it was hard to find a way to defuse him. I discovered that he really dislikes it when I blow air in his face. Doing this when he is is getting "set to bite" and he ceases and desists. Just being consistent with this for a few days and he's now self-censoring! I saw him thinking about it this morning, mouth open, and he shut his mouth and instead head butted my arm!

VICTORY!

I have a one year old cat called Ninja, she's an indoor cat, really sweet and affectionate from time to time but she has started a behaviour I can't tolerate...

When I got her as a kitten last autumn she was house-trained, she went to the litter box at all times. Around Christmas she suddenly began peeing EVERYWHERE but in the litter box - in my bed (I've lost count on how many times I've washed my sheets and duvets), in the sofa, on my mats, the mail I got when I was at work who lay on the floor...
Spring came and  I moved from my old apartment into another one, with a friend. Ninja behaved really good for the first two or three weeks, then she began peeing everywhere AGAIN. She has been like that until three weeks ago when I said to myself that there must come an end to this, so I called the vet to have her sterilized - just in case it was the hormones who made her do all this.
They went ahead and took away the womb and everything, meaning there's nothing that produces hormones anymore if I've understood correctly. She behaved like a real angel, until last weekend. My roomie came hom home from work, began to clean her room and while she was doing that Ninja jumped up and peed on her bed... After that she began this whole thing again, we had to wash our shoes because she peed on them, and this morning she peed on the clothes I wore last night that lay beside my bed.

I have tried a spray that's supposed to have that smell cats don't like - it didn't work, she peed on the things anyway. I clean the litterbox more thoroughly and change the sand often. I try to play with her and giver her affection as much as I can, plus right now I'm unemployed so I'm home all day and able to be with her. I let her sleep in my bed every night too...

Do you have ANY idea what I could do to make her stop?
If she doesn't stop I feel like I should give her away to someone who can have her outdoors (I live in the city, it's not possible for me), because I'm getting sick of having to watch her every move and to clean up after her...
 

Both of my cats were rescue cats from the humane society and we have always wondered about their past. one of them, blacky, we got when he was about 9-11 months old. he has an eye infection and was dehydrated and put on an IV. we have noticed from the start (we have had him about 3.5 years now) that he enjoys home improvement. we had to get some major work done in our kitchen about a month after we go him and we were worried about the cats home all day with the noise and people being in and out so i came home from work on my lunch to check in. it was so funny because blacky would be in the hallway with the guys eating their lunches and ty (my other older cat) was hiding under the bed.

i have been doing work in my bathroom which seems to be an on going job and yesterday i got out a screw driver to start some work and blacky jumped up and was all meowing and stuff. he sat on the toilet while i did painting, he sat on the tub when i was using the electric sander for 3 days and this morning i got out a spackle and he friggen ran into the washroom before me! he is sitting in there waiting for me right now. does this not seem odd to anyone? my other cat is so scared of anything (he hides when i get out the swifer, cries when i have a bath, and jumps when the phone rings - but i still love him). its like blacky was a handyman in his old life.

My cat Rocky(named for the raccoonish pattern on his tail) is in many ways a great, outgoing cat.But he's kind of volatile and when he's had enough petting or gets upset in some other way...frankly, he's a biter. (He also does not give many cues, such as tail-lashing, to tell us when he is tired of it the way other cats have.) Going outside more often has lessened the frequency of the incidents, and we kind of expected a few problems since he didn't get a lot of handling in his kittenhood, but that was six weeks out of four years, and my mother is allergic to the cat bites and is about ready to give up on him...could our cat really be mentally ill?

Hey everyone! I'm new to this group, and am moving into my own apartment and getting my own two kitties. (I currently live with my roommate's cats, but she's moving away to another state for work)

I have two little ones on hold for me (I'll go pick them up when they're old enough) and I'm wondering....

Are my kittens long haired or short haired? Can you tell by 1 week?

Their pictures are behind the cut: ( Read more...Collapse )

Thanks!! <3



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