Crazy Cat Person needs advice from other Crazy Cat Persons.

[Food Lady]

no advice really but just have to say your kitty sounds wonderful. I love the picture of him on the car. I swear I can hear him say, "where were you I am hungry" Give him hugs and a belly scratch for me

All this, and orange cats are my absolute favorite.

[Whiskey]

I don't know if its so much jealousy anymore as Sully not knowing his size. He doesn't hiss at her anymore. But they'll get rambunctious and start playing really rough to where i separate them. But I woke up this morning and they were snuggled up together sleeping in my room. She was partially laying on him.

[Bella_Vixen]

Ruby and "Chuck" Morris were owned by the same person, but when she died, they were fostered out to different people.

I've had them, and only them, for 2 months and 3 days, and there are still jealousy issues going on. Nothing serious, just a bit of hissing and swiping, but still

[fireheart]

It took Mitchell (oldest boycat) about 3 days total to get acclimatised to Oscar (baby boycat).
They're both neutered and while they haven't been humping each other, there have been a few times when either mum, dad, sister fireheart or myself have caught Oscar having to put Mitchell in a headlock (so to speak-he just puts his front paws around Mitchell's head) so Oscar can clean Mitchell's head. It's the funniest thing ever.

Oh and in terms of toys, when Mitchell was still a kitten, Mum bought home this stuffed tiger cub. She placed it on the bed with the larger tiger we have (and Oscar the sook now uses it to get to sleep). Go out, come back and Mitchell walks up to the door to say hello....

with the entire tiger cub IN HIS MOUTH. He was basically holding it by the "neck" and presented it to us. What made it hilarious was that it was this tiny little head holding this gigantic cat toy! Unfortunately he doesn't play with it anymore since the two of them will chase one another around the house.

[Whiskey]

I dont know if anyone cares, buuuuuut.. I went to work (9 hours) tonight. I locked up Sully in my bedroom and let Nermal have the run of the house. I came home and she followed me around a bit and let me pet her. I let Sully out of the room so they could meet again and he sniffed her, groomed her slightly, and walked off. Obviously, its love.

From earlier..

[Whiskey]

Well.. I was on my way to staples to buy a fancy 23" LCD monitor.

But I accidentally drove the wrong way.
And accidentally pulled into the animal shelter.
And accidentally gave them my credit card information.
And completely didn't realize there was a cat in that box.



Say hello to the spastic "Tawny" (shelter name, pending name change). She's already playing AND has tried to kill herself. Shes picking up my other cats toys and throwing them around. So far shes tried to eat a pencil, spare change, and a name tag. I'm kind of afraid to go to work.

PICSPAM TIME.






Someone is going to have some tail-envy....

Speaking of, I locked sully in the bathroom for a bit so she can have run of the house to investigate for an hour or two and you'd swear he's in there being tortured. "OH GOD I CAN'T DO WHATEVER I WANT SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE ABUUUUUUSEEEEEEEEE" So being the big weeny I am, I put a plate of gushy food in there. "Tawny" wouldn't touch the dry so I gave her a little bit and shes tentatively snacking on it.


edit: As a result of Sully and the new cat meeting I think I found a name for her. Heres how it went.

Sully: WTF DID YOU BRING HOME, HUMAN?
New Cat: *flips over, shows belly*
Sully: *glares*
New Cat: Mewwwwww.
Sully: HISSSSS *runs away*
New Cat: *plays with a string*



Nermal?

[Whiskey]

I also work with a rescue. I currently have 11 cats in the house. 2 are fosters. As far as getting a friend for your Piggy, it will mostly be based on how you introduce them. The shelter may know how the cats do with other cats, but probably not unless they've been fostered. If you can isolate new kitty in your bathroom for a few days & let the work things out under the door that would be ideal. Let Pig go in and sniff around & new kitty out to do the same. Gradual introductions can help things go smoother.

Yeah I gave this advice to someone else too. I'm just worried about shelter kitty (well, its obvious I'm going to adopt her at this point, right?) being traumatized. I'm sure she'll be fine though. I'll lock her up in my room since Pig (or sully, depending on how you feel about him) has decided he's too good for me and sleeps in the hallway.

Pig.

[The Gatekeeper]

I also work with a rescue. I currently have 11 cats in the house. 2 are fosters. As far as getting a friend for your Piggy, it will mostly be based on how you introduce them. The shelter may know how the cats do with other cats, but probably not unless they've been fostered. If you can isolate new kitty in your bathroom for a few days & let the work things out under the door that would be ideal. Let Pig go in and sniff around & new kitty out to do the same. Gradual introductions can help things go smoother.

[Whiskey]

We'd been feeding a stray intact tom and decided to try and make him a house cat, BEFORE neutering...so ideally he'd be ok with the need to stay inside and keep his incisions clean and safe. Didn't work out in the end, but...

My pig was a stray for a bit (he was a housecat for a while at some point. He was potty trained, knows begging, is sarcastic, and a big baby) so now I can't keep him indoors to save my life. I got him some tags (which I should have done a while ago) and now I have to find somewhere to get flea medicine that isn't crazy priced (screw you, petsmart!) just in case.

I'm having second thoughts about Angry Kitty from The Shelter. I'm worried that she'll be aggressive with Sully. She seemed friendly when I picked her up. I know no one else will take her, with how she acts in her cage, and I guess I'm having the same thoughts. She was super sweet when I picked her up..

and the shelter won't do a meet n' greet either

[poofy_puff]

At least males don't get pregnant. Spaying ONE female is worth neutering about a hundred males... It's still better to neuter the males though because they fight less. You can just do it - take him to the vet, leave him in the bathroom overnight so that the anaesthesia wears off completely, and let him back outside the next day. They tell you to keep them inside for a few days to be on the cautious side - and it IS necessary to keep females restricted until their incision heals - but we let boys back out right away all the time, as long as it's in the same location where they've been living all along.

[Fire_on_High]

We'd been feeding a stray intact tom and decided to try and make him a house cat, BEFORE neutering...so ideally he'd be ok with the need to stay inside and keep his incisions clean and safe. Didn't work out in the end, but...

We had 4 indoors cats already going into this...2 unrelated females, and 2 brothers, all long fixed. The boys ADORED their "country cousin" playmate. I have pics of the 3 of them curled up together, they wrestled and chased and roughhoused and in general seemed to really get along fantastically.

The girls....were more skeptical. Paws dislikes everyone in a fairly general sense...she won't go out of her way to go after anyone, but she makes it clear she really wishes they'd all f-o and quit trying to social groom her or play with her, or steal HER rightful attention. Kelli was frantic bc this small, bedraggled "kitten" REFUSED her grooming!

So, the night before the neutering appointment, we're trying to pen Moo up in the bathroom to keep him away from food and water, and he got a bit upset...which freaked the other 4 cats out so bad there was nearly a massive fight. We gave the issue up for now and do what we can to simply keep him fed, flea treated, vaccinated, and as well cared for as possible with a half wild stray.

He's actually super friendly and sweet, rather a cuddle whore. He loves to lapsit, purrs like an engine at idle. Just...not keen on the whole indoors thing.

EDIT: To give you an idea of the relative sizes involved...3 of the 4 are comfortably ~15 lbs, big framed with sturdy builds, and the antisocial little girl is around 10-11 but a cobby build and lots of fur. When Moo first showed up, I thought he was so young his balls had JUST dropped. The vet said he was a year or two old at the time, and while I thought the vet was on crack then, I'm forced to conclude he might just have been right, as a full year later and with very generous feeding, Moo's still only the size Inky and Murloc made at a couple months old.

[Boggles]

I have a stuffed moose teddy. He stands about 18 inches high and is a moose sat on it's backside teddy bear style.

I have a 2 year old kitten named Bertie who is about 7 inches high. He was exposed to dope as a foetus and as a new born and his first solid food was a bag of dope. I got him at 4 weeks old and he is somewhat brain damaged but incredibly affectionate.

Bertie loves the moose and enjoys kneading it. This make the moose fall face down. Bertie then starts humping it! The moose hasn't looked the same since!

[MaggieTheCat]

Our oldest boy gets horny pretty frequently, but only for stuffed animals.

Funny and maybe somewhat awkward/gross story ahead!

Before I moved in with my husband, I lived in Wisconsin and he lived in Texas. We dated for about a year and a half before I moved in with him, and we took turns flying to see each other during that year and a half. One time when he was visiting me, we were at the airport on his last day of his visit, killing a little time before he had to go through security. I was pretty upset since I didn't want him to leave, so he said, "I think you need a kitty." We went into the airport gift store and he bought me a life-size stuffed beanie baby type cat. It was my favorite! His name (according to the nametag that came with him) is Jumbles and he came with me when I had my gall bladder removed and my boyfriend/now-husband couldn't be there himself.

Anyway, when I moved down with my husband, I of course brought Jumbles with me. The first time our oldest cat, Ash, saw him, he fell in love. That was a bit over a year ago...Jumbles is now a very squashed, very less fuzzy stuffed cat since Ash has stomped on him, dragged him around the house, humped him, and generally just molested him almost every day since they met, usually multiple times a day. Ash used to sleep with him every night (he changes where he sleeps every few weeks but I'm sure he'll go back to sleeping with Jumbles eventually.) Funny thing is, is that we have two other cats, one boy and one girl, and Ash is totally uninterested in either of them romantically.

[poofy_puff]

3 is not much more work than 2. I had 4 cats in a studio apartment once (kitchen downstairs, bedroom/livingroom upstairs... probably about 400 sq feet) that shared one litterbox. If your landlord knows you have a cat already, they probably won't notice whether you have 2 or 3 (I mean, they can know you have 2 but probably won't notice the third).

Right now, I have 26 that live in the house. Some of them go outside, others stay inside. Then there are about 10 or so that live outside full-time for various reasons (there is shelter available for them). I have 9 litterboxes that get cleaned once a day in winter and once every other day in summer. They basically all get along as a group, but there are a few isolated personality conflicts. about two-thirds of them are feral or semi-feral and the friendly ones are older, from before I got into hard-core rescuing, many of whom were inherited from my mother who also did rescue before she died in 2001. There are also a bunch of strays living outside who come to eat and have yet to be trapped and sent to the vet.

Oh, and yes, my house does smell like cat I have these two heavy-duty Austin-Air PetMachine air purifiers, one for each level of the house, and they work really well, but I can still notice the smell of cat when I come back from vacation or whatever, before my nose re-adjusts.

[Whiskey]

No, I live in a 1 bedroom apartment. They'd have no space if I had more than 2. Plus the extra litter boxes, food dishes, etc.