u/snophire

We've decided to try and keep T-rex! I kept telling my partner not to get attached, but we both did. So she's staying if our resident cat (Velbean, 5 y/o f) can work through her anxiety. We're hoping she can since we think a companion may help with her anxiety and she's been lonely since we lost our dog (who hated her, but Velbean absolutely adored her).

We've started rubbing T-rex's head and cheeks in a small hand towel daily since a bigger one that laid in her crate with her was too much for Velbean. Valid though, she's fairly clean and the towel got covered in litter. Velbean will eat her treats off the towel while the smell is fresh with no difficulty.

We started feeding them the Applaws tubes in sight of each other last night. They ate with very little looking at each other then Velbean scurried off once she was done to get dinner proper. While her dinner was being prepared, she came back to the bathroom to hiss at T-rex, her posture wasn't aggressive though so I think she's still just trying to figure out why this thing is here.

Meanwhile, T-rex doesn't really have a big reaction to Velbean anymore. We placed a towel Velbean sleeps on in T-rex's crate for like a week or so. She's fine now. Just stared at Velbean for a couple seconds before she tried to suck the tube like it was a slurpee.

She's started to recognize "T-rex" as her name as she will occasionally look at us when we use it, so we can't really change it at this point. Her favorite thing is practicing her ambush anyway so I guess it suits her well enough. We've decided the whole thing stands for "Tiarasaurus Rex". I guess we're just gonna try to get her to respond to "Tiara" and "Rexy" as well.

She's become an ankle biter. Quite literally. I can't go into the bathroom anymore without her planning how to best bite my ankle. Yes, "ankle". She only goes after my right one. "Ow" and redirection or just disengaging hasn't worked. T-rex is incredibly aggressive about it, but at least she uses soft paws.

While she's completely bonkers with my ankle, she has begun to understand biting is wrong. Kind of. Sort of. She'll gently bite other times. Like she'll force our fingers into her mouth and just gently gnaw with her front teeth. We don't want her biting at all, but at least it doesn't hurt anymore. Well, unless she's already amped up and we have to put her in her crate then she'll still bite pretty hard.

We're going to try to cover up the hole in the bathroom this weekend as T-rex is beginning to outgrow her crate. We're also tired of her going into her litter and playing with her waste. Seriously. She smells like pee 99.9% of the time. She has the SpongeBob toy in her crate with her and she gets a minimum of 6 30 minute playtimes outside of her crate per day where she can play with a ball or sometimes a teaser (she gets very aggressive about it though), but she often chooses the nothing on the floor to pounce on. She also has a couple toys coming tomorrow from Chewy to give her more selection during her currently supervised playtimes. I know it's likely not enough at this stage, but I can't really do more.

Getting her accustomed to having her paws touched is very slow going. She'll let us touch her back ones, but her front ones are off limits. As a result, we still haven't been able to try and cut them. Since she gets so into the tubes, maybe it'll work as a distraction to try and get at least one paw done? Her claws are super gnarly and our legs look like a crime scene. Worst case scenario, she'll get them done at the vet when she gets her next vaccines.

Just to start, she's locked in a crate solely because it's the safest option for her. The only room we can place her in has a hole we didn't know about, and we aren't sure if it opens into the wall. We didn't want to risk her getting stuck somewhere.

Anyway, we found this kitten a couple of nights ago. My partner heard something crying, but couldn't find a source. About an hour later, she came running out from under a car. Since she wasn't visible, we're guessing she was in the engine, and she had to have been there for over 2 hours.

Since our neighbor said she's not their's, we got her settled inside. We looked to see if we could find her mom or any siblings, but nothing. We posted to see if she's someone's pet, but no one has replied. We took her in to get scanned for a chip just in case, but there's none. Got her a same day appointment, and she's healthy aside from some congestion. The vet thinks she's 8 weeks. She got dewormer and her first vaccine.

We have a sickly cat already, so we've been taking precautions to keep them separate to ensure our cat doesn't potentially catch something. I messed up and they briefly met. Our cat is very unsure, but she showed no sign of hostility. This kitten, though? She hissed and I think even growled. Fair, our cat isn't her mom, and she's had so many changes in such a short time.

I got my cat as soon as I heard the hissing (which was within seconds) and placed her in her crate for a couple minutes to destress since it's her safe space. I checked on the kitten and she was back to her usual yappiness. The picture here was taken after the disaster. As you can see, she isn't thinking much of it.

We're not certain if we're keeping her yet, but we've been calling her T-rex since she's extremely bitey. Though "Velociraptor" might be more appropriate as she claws and climbs the crate constantly, too. She also hangs onto the door to try and break out when she knows we're gonna open it. Truly a clever girl in the dumbest of ways.

New evolution is a tie between Alolan Raichu, Hisuian Typhlosion, and Togekiss honestly. I just wasn't sure if regional variants technically counted so I defaulted to Togekiss.

My dislike for Incineroar has nothing to do with competitive btw.