considering a cat

^a total lie btw

my cat never tries to sleep on my face but she does like to spoon

who is so jaded as to reject neurosis-free kitty love

one of my cats sits on my face as I sleep and just purrs all night and it happens to be the fat one jesus

If she knows you don't like it, Laurel, she will only want to sleep on you more.

been kitty-less since january. but i dreamed about him last night

gonna have to explain to my new roommate why there's a milk-jug ring under the welcome mat

Maybe your cat was dreaming about you the same night.

You know, mookie, if the universe sends you a cat that you don't have/get to choose and think about too much, I bet you will love it--in a different way than Lyle, natch, but love all the same. I'm hoping for a kitty to come to you. Also if you see an open cardboard carrier behind a tree outside your front door, just ignore it. I'm sure it's nothing.

I would like a cat to find mookie, too.

my new roommates have a cat, he has really sleek fur and is a little plump, his name is 'catpig'

Do you like living with a catpig?

i would like to see what catpig looks like

oh man, my ex posted a buncha pictures of our cats on fbook today. So much love,so much longing.

I would just like to say TO NO ONE IN PARTICULAR that if you go to the Union Square PetCo and talk to Kitty Kind, you can foster cats of any age that you choose, and Kitty Kind will PAY FOR the cat's food and vet bills, and you'll be giving a cat a home without committing to owning it.

If that arrangement is attractive to anyone.

I think the minimum is 2 weeks but you could volunteer for longer?

my cat won't stop peeing next to the bathtub. i sprayed that stuff on it and wiped it up but it doesn't work. she did it once after i think there was too much litter in her box, then it became her special spot :(

Try putting another litter box there in the special spot for awhile.

I will try to get a picture of catpig soon!

carl agatha otm. redirect.

u better xp. i imagine him with not only sleek fur & chub, but a snout.

but it's right next to the bathtub! there is another spot she used to like in the corner but i just pushed the litter box back to cover it. this hasn't been a problem for a while now. she must be sad about something.

Is 'im taking my cat to the vet' a good excuse for taking off work? I can't decide if I should just say that or if I should make something up.

it's fine my coworker is constantly taking afternoons off to go to the vet, it seems

and people always take kids to the doctor during work hours

is there a thread to talk about cat care? is this the thread?

i have to administer this medicine orally and i've only done it twice and it's horrible. like, my cat and i both feel that i am torturing him, as i am forced to sit on him and pry his mouth open to try to get him to take this medicine. gah. not a fun way to start and end the day! i don't even know if this med is 100% necessary, since the issue i initially took him to the vet for seems to have subsided, but they gave it to me for a reason, right?

Is it liquid or a pill?

Here is my technique for administering medication to my eldest, who is a total sweetiehead lovercat UNTIL she suspects someone is about to make her do something she doesn't want to do at which point she turns into a hellbeast and tries to murder anyone within swiping rage:

I load up the syringe or pill gun (pill gun - http://www.amazon.com/Mikki-Pill-Gun/dp/B00076HUB4. No way I'm putting my fingers in her mouth under these circumstances) and wait until she's asleep somewhere. Then I causally walk up to her as though I'm just going to pet her. No "Hi kitty!" or anything because she'll sense any attempts at deception. Then I give her a good scratch just the way she likes it and GRAB HER AND STICK THE SYRINGE IN HER MOUTH AND SQUIRT THE MEDICINE DOWN HER THROAT before she knows what hit her.

I almost always request liquid meds because she can hork up a pill like no biological creature I've ever seen.

If I have to use pills, I have had some success crushing them up in wet food. She normally gets dry so the wet food is a treat and she'll eat most of it before she figures out what I've done.

As for whether you still have to give it to her, call the vet and ask.

it's liquid--how do you get her mouth open? i squeeze the sides of his mouth which does the trick of OPENING the mouth, but he shakes his head around like crazy at this point that it's so hard to aim correctly. this stupid cheap syringe doesn't seem to be well aligned and i can't get it all in at once. i have to push the plunger multiple times. well, only 6 more days. he doesn't try to murder me and instead acts traumatized during and after.

That's how I get her mouth open. I stand along her side and grab her under my right arm, like a football, then reach up with my right hand, squeeze her mouth open, and assault her with the syringe in my left hand. Grabbing her with my arm pins her down and keeps her from moving too much until I'm finished.

My cat is an elderly cat and so far she's been really healthy. She ate a rubber band once in 2003 and she had a bladder stone three years ago, but aside from that, no problems. I'm dreading the increase in veterinary interventions (she also redefines "vet aggressive," like she sounds and looks like that video of the screaming cat in a cage when she goes to the vet). If she ever needs thyroid medication or subcutaneous fluids, I'm fairly confident neither one of us will survive.

If you have access to another human, you can also wrap the cat up in a towel and then have the other person give her the medication. This has never worked for me (she always manages to get that deadly back claw out of the towel and do some serious damage) but I think that's what vets suggest.

haha i was in the waiting room at the vet and they had these "how to" videos showing. One was how to put an IV drip on your cat, and I thought the video was going to show you how to properly restrain and subdue your cat, but no, they just demonstrated it on the calmest cat in the world! Most unrealistic video ever. God forbid I ever have to administer an IV drip to my kitty.

One of my cats has asthma, so I've had to give him medicine twice a day for about 6 years now. They do get used to it, although he isn't best pleased about it he doesn't struggle. At least now he just gets an inhaler which he doesn't mind as much as sticking a pill down his throat. The fact he gets treats straight after helps. He even comes in for his inhaler sometimes now, presumably cos he knows there's something in it for him afterwards.

My technique is to sit him on my lap, put my left arm around him so he can't back up or jump off, then with my left hand I do the squeeze the sides of his mouth trick and pop the pill in with my right hand. To make this easier we put the pill in a chicken flavour pill capsule that you can buy in bulk online for not much. Then hold his mouth shut and tickle his throat until he swallows it.

With the inhaler it's a lot easier, just have to hold him still for a few seconds.

I'm part of the problem with my cat. I get so nervous about how she's going to react that I start to get stressed out which clues her in that something unwelcome is about to happen to her, and we quickly end up in a widening gyre of anxiety that almost always ends in blood and tears (both mine).

ok maybe he'll get used to it. i can't remember it being this much of a pain last time around, several years ago, but maybe i just blocked it out.

Was he feeling worse the last time? My cat is a lot easier to medicate when she doesn't feel well. When I took her in for the bladder stone, I didn't even have to sneak tranquilizers into her food to get her in the carrier. She was just a poor sick limp kitty.

well he had blood in his stool for two days last week so i took him in, but he hasn't had any problems since those two days. they are sending a sample to the lab to analyze for parasites, but dr gave me this other medication to give him in the meantime. kitty's acting like this is a completely unwarranted intrusion, not sick at all

it's liquid--how do you get her mouth open? i squeeze the sides of his mouth which does the trick of OPENING the mouth, but he shakes his head around like crazy at this point that it's so hard to aim correctly.

― rayuela, Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:48 AM (7 hours ago)

trick that seems to work best for me, acquired in delivering medicine to a very tough customer, is to do what carlag suggted: move fast. as soon as her mouth is open, squirt the medicine down her throat. not on her tongue, but as far to the back of her mouth as i can get the dropper. seem to do the trick.

My old lady cat's new awesome habit is to snuggle up on me while I'm in bed, take a bath (including going to town on her claws), and then leave. She did this three times the other night. Seriously? Is on my prone body really the best place for a hardcore grooming session?

Yes. Yes, it is.

I know. I'm a total pushover with her because a little part of me always thinks, "She might not live much longer and then you'll be sorry that you didn't let her clean her butthole on you while you were trying to sleep." sigh.

it's fall so it's time for my cat to sit with her arms and legs underneath her and pretend she is very small and warm

my cats are the worst I love them

i love my cat too. i love when she waits for me to come home from work and jumps off my bed when i come in the door. how can an animal be so interested in a human. i think she's gained weight though, needs to go on a diet.

she is a bad cat though, yeah

my cat was sleeping like this today:

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60717_405194979548186_155672249_n.jpg

I want a kitty so bad

it's fall so it's time for my cat to sit with her arms and legs underneath her and pretend she is very small and warm

catloaf

we had to leave our cat in australia when we moved back to england, it was/is v traumatic.

have any of you cat people read ON CATS by doris lessing? it's really good (and short).

I went to the Cat's Protection for my friend's birthday to pet some cats. They were all too adorable, but I met the cat that should be mine. Except we can't have one yet. She was lovely. We cuddled. Now I am sad.