Doesn't matter what language is used, Cats is Cats. Come share your stories, questions etc. about your Cats.

Ask questions about their health and care (we're not vets, we just love cats) we'll share our experience with each other.

I'll be first.

I've always loved cats. As a curly topped, golden haired blue eyed innocent child when asked what I wanted to do upon growing up the angelic and seriously somber reply would be "I want to own a cathouse!" You can imagine the looks my poor parents received.

Well, I don't own a cat hous ( that kind or any other), however cats have been part of my live for more years than many here have walked this earth.

Our current cat population consists of Maeve, our neurotic cat and Lillian, our huntress.

Please sit down and share your stories, questions, wisdom on cats.

Moon

PS: [b]Vin, You are the perfect Mod for a Pet board

Whee a cat thread!!

I am owned by two cats--Vilandra and Jesse

Vilandra is all black and is a little over a year old. Here's an old picture of her--I don't have any new ones uploaded right now.



And this is Jesse--he's not even 6 months old yet--this is also an old picture of him.



I have a question for you guys. Jesse does this weird licking & sucking thing. He will do it to the inside of his back legs and tummy. But when he gets really happy he'll start doing it and knead whatever is right next to him. It's even lightened the fur where he does it. Has anyone ever had an animal do this before?

I'm mod and you guys beat me over here

I'm a kitty person too House kitties, Meesa, Spice, and psycho Sarah
Pics to be posted as soon as i figure out how

Barn Brigade~ Spook and Gracie

Vin

First off posting pix is the same as before. [img]INSERT PIX URL[/img] Bingo a pix appears.

Now a question, which of your cats sleeps curled up on Vinity's back? Those pix are always so cute.

Moon

Hey Moon That's Gracie. I saw her following Dulcy along the fence line this morning. She was really wanting on her. Vin won't let her ride unless she has a blanket on. I saw the first winter they did this, the first warm day that Vin didn't have her blanket on and Gracie jumped on anyway...OOPS can you say catapult kitty



This is Spicey with my kid

Might have known I'd be banished to the barn

I never noticed this board before!

I'm not a cat person myself... they don't mix well with my pet of choice so I'd better get off this thread quick before I'm thrown out!

Hi! I'm Lena and I have 3 katter. That's the Swedish word for cats. Sylvester is the oldest, he's about 9. Simon is 8 and Garbo is about 5, we don't really know for sure because she was a feral that we picked up. Sad story really... She started coming around for food and she was really friendly, but never stepped inside the house. My mom was visiting at the time and she pointed out that she was growing and suspected she was pregnant. Sure enough, a few weeks later she had kittens. We moved them all into our garage which is carpeted (no cars in there) because it was cold and rainy outside. I'd never been around in the first few days before, only seen kittens that were several days and I had no experience with them. I just made sure the mom had food, water and a litterbox, and tried to get all the kittens to nurse. I noticed they were sort of clumped together and there was a "ball" of something, I didn't know if that was the placenta or what, so I took them all to the vet. Turned out most of the kittens had their intestines on the outside and had to be put down. They almost saved one, and I was so hopeful for a while... only to come back and say he didn't make it. I was so heartbroken...

Garbo stayed in our garage and we had her fixed. She had to be inside for 5 weeks while healing. Then it got really hot and there's no AC in the garage, so we brought her in the house. The other cats, especially Sly, weren't happy so she stayed in the guest room by herself. She was pretty bad, she'd bite us and scratch us and her claws were sharp! Hubby decided he didn't want her to be outside and fight for her life and food so we kept her. Now she sleeps with us and comes to us for affection. She ran outside once when the door was open. She ran around the cars and then right back inside, and that's when we knew she was meant to stay with us.

Enough blabbering... I'll find pics and post them later.

Vinity, Moon, Spook, and Lena!

Vinity, that's so cute that Gracie will sit on Vinity and that Vinity lets her! Spicey is such a beautiful cat.

Lena, that so sad about Garbo's kittens It's sweet that you decided to keep her--she must feel at home there too.

All of my cats have been feral or strays. When I moved out of my parents house, I had told my mom that since she wouldn't let me take my cats from her house, that I had to get one. One of her preschool mom's told her that a stray cat had kittens in their yard. So that's how I ended up w/Vilandra. She was the sweetest but most violent kitten I had ever had. I had scratch marks all over, she torn down the wallpaper in my bathroom, tried to beat herself up in my mirrors, threw herself at windows, etc.

Then, a couple of months ago, my mom told me she had been found by a kitten--she was at the preschool and the kids were outside playing, and Jesse wandered into the playground. When they went inside for recess he lined up w/the kids and went inside My mom went around the neighborhood and nobody claimed him. So she brought him up to me.

I have the feeling he had been starved because he's very protective of his food. For awhile I had to separate him and Vilandra when I gave them canned food because he would eat his so fast and then he'd run over and steal hers. If I was eating something, he would jump on the table and steal food off my plate--it didn't matter what kind of food it was--he wanted it all. I even got a couple of scratch marks on my lips from him trying to steal from my fork. He also won't eat w/his back to anything but the wall. He pushes all the food bowls out so he can stand behind them. He's getting better about the stealing food but lately he's been really into jumping on the counter when I'm not looking and stealing whole loaves of bread. Doesn't seem like it's possible that he could do that but he always does

I'm allergic to CATs I'm allergic to CATs!

I never was before until like 5 years ago. One day I was at my friends house my eyes and nose started to go crazy and I had no idea why it was doing that... it turned out it was because of her cat

But I do have a cat story... same cat as above... around 4 years ago as I was sitting in my friend's living room waiting for her, since I was driving her some where. I was sitting there on the couch watching TV as Buster was laying in the middle of the living room grooming herself pretty. all of the sudden on the tv there was this commercial about coach roach stray and it had a hug coach roach sitting on the toliet.. i freak out and screams... my friend runs out to see what going on.. and she looks down and saw that buster had ran to me and had put a paw on my thigh, comforting me... it was the cutest thing... my friend think that Buster likes me since she comes to me...

I have three kitties, one who must think his name is "no!" by now...

He's constantly into... everything... Right now he's sleeping on a clean pair of my jeans, making sure they're covered in his black hair. He likes to chase the other cats, knock things off shelves, get into the garbage... Basically, if he wasn't so adorable he'd be gone by now (just kidding!) We found him in a friend's back yard, but she has 6 poodles, so we decided that my place would be better for kitty raising. We put up signs, and no one claimed him, so now he's our problem We love him to bits though

I have two cats who live with me and one I had to leave behind at my mom's when I moved out. The two who live with me are Yoda and Stuart and they still hate each other after two years of living together. Farli is the cat at my mom's house. She's 14 now and still plays and has a lot of energy.

My kitten does that every morning. Every morning to my blanket but only when I'm using it. She basically kneads and does this suckle thing. Kinda weird but makes me feel like she considers me her mommy.

My problem is well we were wondering what was wrong with Aurora (our kitten) all day. She was licking herself "there" a LOT, her back legs kept shaking, she'd squat and lift her but in the air a lot and makes these weird purring noises when we pet her. Then we realized...ahh...she's in heat! it's the weirdest thing. So weird.

Here she is:

There's a reason people who are out slutting around are "out catting around" Cats aren't subtle

On the kitty sucklingand kneeding. I think that's pretty common. It's a comfort thing.

Now we had a kitty who had been abandoned by the mother and almost starved. He would start kneeding, then suckle then biting OUCH! His name was Chompers

Aw cute pics

I used to have 2 kittys, but just over a week ago I lost one of them I came home from work to find out that she had been hit by a car
She was only about 3 years old and a real sweetheart.

All the kitty pics are so cute! I'm going to have to find some of mine and post too!

Haylz: I'so sorry to hear about your loss. I know how devastating it is to lose a member of your family.

Thanks

Maybe I'll post a photo of her soon, if I scan some

I am SO sorry about your loss. I lost one cat I had for 8 years to a car accident and about 2 or so years ago I lost my baby Keyser (kitten) to a car accident. I had moved home from an apartment and my rents lived on main street. He started sneaking out and would run off to play and I'd have to search for him. Then one day I couldn't find him anywhere and I started freaking out. So eventually I called the police and after they kept me on hold for 10 minutes they came on and were like "all we have is a dead cat on main street" and they hung up. I started freaking out again and ran outside. i was running up and down the street and my dad and brother were helping. Then i saw him across the street. It was one of the worst days of my life cause he was like my child. I raised him from a baby and he was one of the best things going on for me at that time. I was devestated. I've finally now gotten my new kitten with my boyfriend but I still keep pictures of keyser around.

Here is Keyser with his brother (whom is still alive and with my old roommate):

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His Muse That is so sad What a gorgeous kitty!
Mine was 'Booty'. I wasn't supposed to have her, I already had a cat (Booty's mother) and I wasn't allowed anymore. But I watched her being born and I just had to, it was love at first sight.

Seeing them being born must be so much more difficult. I haven't really had many deaths in my life and if they are more painful than that I'll never make it. Although I'm a very emotional girl anyway.

Here's another picture of my girl Aurora who's meowing really funny all night

Cats have the best personalities! My cat Curly was soo stuck up, but she loved me so much. My dad used to have to go t o work at 5am so whenever he left, Curyl (who was an outside cat) would sneak in and run to my room. I would wake up to my dad trying to get her out so she wouldn't wake me up, but I would always tell him she could stay. She wanted to be with her mommy! I had her for almost my entire life, 17 years. Here is my baby:


She died a few years ago

My newest baby is Duma. I have had her for 12 years. She is a very spazzy cat. She runs under the bed when the doorbell rings. She isn't that lovable..only when she wants to be. Both she and Curly are Tortoise Shells.


Here is Duma:








My sister got a kitten 8 months ago that is a Bobcat/Siamese. She is a terror! I love her though. She sits up like a little ferret and has the biggest feet! She loves to wake me up and bother my cat. Her name is Nala. I got her in mid yawn in the pic below.

It is so very sad when we loose one of our treasured furry friends. My heart goes out to you both.

The sucking thing - Story (Vin sort of a Moon Tale, but short)

Years ago "B" and I were adopted by a scrawney little white kitten and his beautiful, elegant sister, also white with striking blue eyes (neither were deaf which is not uncommon in white cats with blue eyes). We name his sister "Ming", looking at her she reminded us of a lovely china cat belonging to my Mom.

Hoping to give the scrawny little guy a name to live up to we dubbed him "Galahad". However, as much as we tried to call him Galahad, he some how became "Scrawny" and remained that. Well, Scrawny grew up to be a huge 10 lbs of pure muscle cat who could like his weight in...anything. He developed a definate "don't mess with me" strut (Can cat's strut? Perhaps gait is a better word) and swagger. Not that he was a mean bully, just a very self-confident cat; hey, maybe the name thing worked afterall.

We were fairly certain he was a virile cat, the apartment complex we lived in was full of white kittens until we had him nutured. Oh yeah, he liked his ladies. His kitten were so loving and beautiful that they were sought after. Ppl were upset when we finally had him altered.

While he liked the ladies, he pal'd around with another male cat, Sullivan. Sullivan was a feral cat that Scrawny would bring into the house and share his food. We just figured there were fightin' buddies or maybe "boozing" buddies. Whatever, they were pals. Sullivan and Scrawny would swagger in thought the cat door, survey the area, the mosey over to the food dishes. Scrawny would let Sullivan eat his fill - always the perfect host - then chow down himself. Then they'd wander the house looking for the perfect sunny quite place for a nap. Sullivan perfered our guest bedroom, while Scrawny usually opted for "B"drafting table, especially it there was work spread out on it.

Sullivan was leary of us, but Scrawny loved to sleep with us. In fact, his favorite place was to sleep on my pillow right up against the head board, and if he could, in my hair. (I had waist length hair at that time, so there was plenty of Moon hair on the pillow).

Early on in his life, Scrawny developed a habit of sucking on my ear lobe while I slept. I'm a very sound sleeper (once I nod off), so it never bothered me. It was the loud purring right into my ear that would finally pull me from my dreams.

There would be this huge white cat, sucking on my ear lobe and kneading my hair into a tangled ball. The warm breath from his nose would go right into my ear drum, as would these major purrs.

I've never had a cat do that before or since.

Moon

Stephanie those are very cute cats. I'll have to find a way to scan pictures of my cat Baby from when I was much younger. She was a beautiful long hair calico that everyone would comment on how beautiful she was. She also got hit by a car. From now on my cats are not going outside!

Moondragon thanks for the story. Any stories about cats seem to be very enjoyable.


Aurora has been liking sleeping with us more and wakes us up less batting our heads. Now she just curls up between my bf and i.

My previous cat Keyser used to actually suckle my arm...the inside of my arm now that I remember. everyone used to say it looked like he was making out with my arm

Everyone's cats are so beautiful. And for those of you who have lost your friends, Im truly sorry. They really become a part of your family.

Very sorry to all who have lost their friends. I'm working on a tribute thread. I'll have it up in a day or two. A place where we can say how much they showed us in our lives, as friends and heros. Isn't it amazing how many life lessons our animals teach us?

[size=18] Moon Tale Bounce the B balls?

Thanks Vinity and Robin for the input on the suckling. I've never had a cat do it to himself before and do it so much that his fur changed colors there so I thought maybe something was wrong w/him.

Haylz, I'm sorry for your loss It's so hard losing an animal especially since they become part of your family.

Quaisior, which one of your cats is in your avatar?

Robin, Aurora is adorable! I love that name too. I'm sorry about Keyser. I keep my pictures of the cats I lost too.

Stefanie, Curyl was a beautiful cat--all those different colors. I love that 3rd picture of Duma! Nala does look like she has huge feet!

Moon, thanks for the story! It's cute that he used to sleep on your hair.

Vinity, a tribute thread sounds wonderful.

Wanna hear something cute?

For some reason Aurora is always knocking over a picture of Keyser from a table that has several other pictures on it. She never knocks over the other pictures

hey cat lovers...

the suckling thing, kittens grow out of it, at one stage i had 3 kittens, and they would suck on each others fur, it is a comfort thing from when they were with their mothers

without further ado, this is my baby Maximus the 2nd, sadly maximus the 1st was hit by a car

Cute kitty!

Yeah my kittens have always outgrown the suckling thing.

A new thing Aurora likes to do is knock over her water dish...on purpose. My bf refills it every morning so we don't know why she does it. We watched her and she did it right in front of us with her paw. She also knocked over my bf's cup of water last night. It's weird!

I had to get in on the cat thread
I have one kitty-Hektate- who just turned three. She, of course is 'queen of her castle' and all the other animals know it!

Fawkes ~ where in NC. I'm in Rocky Mount

What with cats and the water thing? We keep a clean water dish beside the food but all the house kitties insist on drinking out of the glass dish that has floating candles. After a while we took the candles out, but it pissed the cats off. They'd sit there looking from the dish to you and cry till we put the candles back and not just any candles, gold sprinkled snowflake candles. I tried to change to floating flowers in the spring and you would have tought the world came to an end?

my old cat sooty, would knock over his waterbowl as well, he would never drink out of it, he would go to the kitchen tap, and sit there untill someone would turn it on for him to drink from. He was also fond of drinking from the fish tank

I took the avatar down for now because I'm trying to figure out how to do an animated av so I can have all three of my cats in it. The one I had was of Yoda though.

I'm sorry to everyone who's lost a kitty.

As for cats playing in their water, my cat Stuart does that all the time. We've had fits trying to get a water bowl for him that he can't dump all over. He also likes to stick his paw in the water, then shake it off and splash water everywhere.

My kitty, Diamar...

(she's also the pic in my av )

About the water thing, Dimes won't drink water out of a bowl for some unknown reason. She will drink out of a glass though, so she has a water glass instead of a water bowl.

wow great kitty pics! thanks for sharing them.

I love cats too. My cat Ampon used to sit on my lap at night when I'm watching TV. On Sunday mornings, when everyone wakes up late in the morning, she will wake everyone up. She also loves posing for pics.

BTW, we call cats - pusa and kitten - kuting here.

Jen, Maximus the 2 is a beautiful cat! I'm sorry about the loss of Maximus the 1st

My cats love to knock down anything liquid. Jesse has this cup facination. It doesn't matter what is in it, he wants to knock it over--good thing my carpet is not white. I also have to refill the water bowl every night. Jesse loves to play w/the water and dump it. He also does this with his hard food.

Welcome FawkesRises!

Phee, Diamar is beautiful! I love that grey color

tafi, thanks for sharing what they are called there.

I'm in Lumberton!


That sounds like Hektate-I get out my camera and suddenly she's Mona Lisa

I've had my cat for a year and she was litter trained when I got her. Aroound July, she started pooping on my floor. At first I thought it was cuz the litter box smelled or something but does it right after I cleaned it, anytime. I've changed litter and everything. What can I do?

Oh. Her names Libby by the way and she's 2. I have pics, but they aren't hosted anywhere right now so when I get them hosted you can see them.

And at my dad's I have 1 named Shadow, cuz she floows people around like a Shadow, and the stray down the street that comes to visit we named Piper cuz we found her in the pipes under the house. But she only comes for food and a little love before wandering again.

Ever since we got Raven, my black kitty who we found outside, him and our cat Bonnie have never gotten along. Maybe it was because of the age difference when we got them (baby versus 11 year old) and they are now 5 and 16 respectively, they just never really got along at all.

Today, we had chicken for dinner, and I'm sure many cat people are familliar what a challenge it is to finish a chicken dinner without haveing a cat on your lap or on your table! After we were done, I took some bits of chicken to feed to the elder cat, Bonnie who was on the floor in our common area. She took from me, and to my surprise, Raven came up beside her! I was ready to catch him for when Bonnie noticed, and he went to chase her, but nothing happened.

They were maybe five inches apart, there was no hissing, no spitting, no big fat kitty tails, no nothing! Bonnie realized that Raven was there beside her, but she didn't do anything but eat the chicken I was feeding them! It was so nice to see them near eachother! Is there hope, maybe, or am I just holding my breath?

My cat doesn't do that with chicken. Or any other food. She comes and lays on the floor on her back in the middle of the kitchen while we eat. That's it/

Oh geez! That's too funny!

Aurora went under the knife yesterday...waiting to find out she's home and ok:(

So we got Aurora fixed...it cost $300!!!! What should it normally cost? Is that normal?

Robin, it probably cost extra because Aurora was in heat but $300 still seems really high--did the vet give you a breakdown of the cost?

LassieRebel, do you have more than one cat? Some cats don't like to share their boxes w/others. She might not like the litter either. My cat Vilandra poops outside the box whenever she's already gone it--which leads to my cleaning it all the time.

Amigone, there is still hope It took over a month for my cats to get used to each other.

My bf said something about an extra shot or something but I haven't seen the bill yet. I'll look it over when I get home.

LisaKay - It's been over five years, lol My hopes are slim.

Only cat. And sometimes it's right after I clean it. Lilke literally I walked outside after scopping the litter came back and she's pooping. And I clean it before I go to school, and then at night. So it's cleaned often.

His Muse, my cat Farli cost extra to be fixed because she was in heat at the time too. I knew she was, but no one in my family would believe me!

Amigone, it's been over two years of my cats not getting along, so I've about given up hope too. I think Yoda would like to be friends, but Stuart plays too aggresively and scares her off. It's weird that he keeps going back for more considering that Yoda wins every fight, but I guess Stuart just doesn't learn from his mistakes.

LassieRebel, Stuart did the same thing, even if the box was clean. It turns out that he only likes clay litter. We tried other types like crystals and pine, but he wouldn't poop in the box. He also poops on the floor if we forget to clean his box and it gets too full for his liking. I know that doesn't help explain your cat's situation, but I'm hoping my moral support helps.

Yeah, if she was in heat they really kill you on price I think it has to do with blood flow, they use different anisethic my vet told me and need extra test I had both Gracie and Spook done at the same time tho and not in heat or preggers and it cost $540 but they did some shots too.

Vet's can be very bad. We had a kitty , Daddycat, who got hit badly, should have been put down really, he wanted to die, but my husband LOVED that cat and the Vets knew it, so we did everything, first bill was $1300, then we had to give the kitty fluids 2 daily, plus pills. Took him back a month later to check and the response was..... OMG I can't believe that cat is still alive?

To his credit that cat lived 3 more years. Looked like death, had to be monitored and have daily pills and sometimes fluids but he knew my husband couldn't do without him. He didn't die till my husband told him it was OK.

that is so sad!

I was actually crying when I wrote it remembering He died between when hurricane Dennis#1&2. Then we had to have the Vets keep him in the fridge till the water receded enough to bury him. DV wanted him on this farm with us, we were building at the time. Then a week later Floyd hit and flooded everything more. I was so scared teh fload washed out his grave but it stayed safe.

i have 2 cats and i love them. calvin was the biggest, fattest, spoilest, jerkiest cat around until he pooped in dad's shoes one too many times. so my dad said he was an outside cat. now he lost a lot of weight and is humble. he still hates my dad though. gracie, our calico, is so funny. her face has almost like the batman face mask where it's black around her eyes and up to her ears and her bottom jaw is black with spots of orange in the black but the space between her eyes and her cheeks are white and right on her nose is a triangle off centered orange spot. then her back is orange and black striped with a white chest, belly, and legs. she's a really cute cat, but when my mom first saw her (see the animal name page to see how we got her... really weird story) and started to really look at her she said "she has that Stupid Orange Spot" and her nickname was Stupid Orange Spot. someone at my old job showed me the morse code for S.O.S. and i did it jokingly to gracie. like tap it on the table or something. now she comes to that (she comes by grace, gracie, s.o.s. or the morse code of that.).

what's really cute is since gracie is an inside cat, but has a tendency to want to go out and calvin made a hole in my window screen, two nights ago calvin came into my bedroom window with a mouse in his mouth and put it down for gracie to play. it was 3am when he did this, but it was cute in a sick way.

aawwww daddycat, poor thing. it sucks on every level when you lose a pet and i heard that the average cat life span is shorter now than it was years ago because of car accidents and them running off.