Our beloved baby boy keeps trying to bring in mice he’s captured in the catio. He is not killing them, just playing and maiming with them until we can get out to remove the mice. We’ve had one in the house and two that we’ve managed to prevent by locking the cat flap when spotted.
Does anyone have any advice on how we can prevent mice from entering such a deadly zone?! We’d have thought the stink of a big boy cat would keep them away.
I’ve never seen her lie like this before, is this normal? 😂
I need help and don’t know where to turn. I’m only here for another couple of days and I’ve just found at least five kittens, who are about 6 weeks old, living in a communal bin. I don’t know the area or who to ask for help to safely catch these babies before I leave and look after them. They are understandably skittish and I haven’t seen a mother. I’d imagine the bin is cleared out weekly, so I don’t know if they’ve been there long. I saw them twice. I fed them ham this time because I didn’t have anything else available that they could eat.
Please help me save these babies before I have to return home 🥺
I adopted a senior cat from family 8 weeks ago and we have a holiday booked for a week. My brother in law is coming to live in our house whilst we’re away.
I will leave a list of cohesive instructions for him but I am absolutely petrified to be away from her for that long. Does anyone have any tips or tricks for me ? Dealing with the anxiety / guilt or tips for my brother in law looking after her.
Picture of my sweet girl just because she’s perfect
I’ve lived with cats my whole life and don’t remember the cats we had growing up doing this!
UPDATE: He's home!!!
He came back while we were putting out more hoover contents to help with scent.
I had the longest ugly cry while he ignored me and ate lots of biscuits! He then wanted to go out again! He soon found out how grounded he is!
We have trackers on the way and the subscription setup for both our cats, just deciding whether to go the catio route, but either way, hopefully we won't need to worry about them going missing!
All of the pets are currently on the bed and I've never felt so relieved and content in my life.
I literally skipped along taking the missing posters down!
Also, I would like to thank everybody for all your stories and well wishes. Honestly, you don't understand how much the responses have meant to me. That you took the time out of your day to help an internet stranger feel less scared.
I am wanting to reply to everyone, because I feel it's only fair when you took the time to respond, but it's currently almost 1am and I am not in the most awake state to reply! But I wanted to let everyone know he's back safe!
Thank you so much everyone 🫶
Tl;Dr: has anyone got positive stories of a cat who is usually in every night going walkabouts for 3-4 days and coming back?
This is a bit embarrassing, but I'm a man in my 30s and I've been crying over my missing cat for the past couple of days.
He's been missing since Monday at 2pm. He's only ever been away overnight once when he was being looked after by a relative when we were away.
The only thing I can think is that we went away on Saturday, so he was with a relative, but he was in on Sunday, and Monday morning, so I'm not sure it's that.
There is a field in front of our house and he loves to play on it, there is a main road beyond the woods on the field but I've never seen him cross it.
On the Monday night when I was looking at about 9pm there was a cat fight near our house. Found the other cat but not ours. He's been in fights before and always comes home.
He's really skittish around other people, so I can't believe that he would have just gone into a car/van.
It's been about 3 days now and I'm at my wits end. Constant panic attacks, I get upset when I put the food out for my other cat or see pictures of our cat. I've literally taken time off work because I genuinely can't focus and I'm panicking all the time.
We've done everything I can think of:
Told the local vets (he is microchipped and neutered)
Added a Facebook post for residents of the area
Knocked on doors asking for them to look in sheds/garages
Walked around a small area nearby with treats at 4am each morning.
Walked around a larger search radius at different times. There are lots of woods near us so have been through all of them the best I can.
Put posters up and leaflets through doors.
Left a blanket out over 2 nights, emptied the hoover contents onto the front garden, left tuna out.
We bought a ring doorbell just to see if he's coming back and being sneaky, but there's just no sightings of him at all.
That's what's worrying me. In positive stories there are usually sightings. He's basically just disappeared entirely. I see stories where people say that their cat was in a shed or garage and they heard them, but I've been around the estate at least 10 times at different times and I haven't heard anything. I'm really worried he's out there sick and scared, or trapped somewhere. We had an airtag on him but he always ripped it off and I hate myself for not getting a proper tracker. He always usually comes back every couple of hours and he's usually indoors most of the time nowadays.
I just can't be positive, and it's getting to the point that I'm just not eating. I can't think of anything else to do, but just waiting feels horrible. I know it's unlikely he would come back during the day, so I feel like I'm just sitting waiting for night to come in-between my looking around.
Has anyone got any positive stories of cats going walkabouts for 3-4 days and being fine? I'm not sure if I'm just overreacting. I'm going to be building a catio because my heart can't take stress like this.
Our lovely cat Mr Spud is on antibiotics at the moment and I dread it when he gets prescribed pills because getting him to take them is just impossible. I've had many cats in my life that need to take pills but this guy, despite being incredibly food motivated, is absolutely not having it and we all know how upsetting it can be for all parties involved. But yesterday as I watched him lick his empty plate, it occurred to me that maybe I could use his greedy nature to my advantage. I put his pills down and just sprinkled some of this freeze dried chicken stuff on top, and he just immediately licked it right up, pills and all. Same deal today. I feel like I've won the lottery, and wanted to share in case anyone else was at their wits end! Not an ad, obviously, though I wish it was - KatKin food ain't cheap!
Hello, I recently adopted a gorgeous little black kitten from an animal shelter and I also have a Calico who's nearly 2. My kitten is very messy and gets litter everywhere! Does anyone have any recommendations for fairly cheap handheld vacuums I can use to just quickly suck up all her litter mess? Driving me mad having to get the big hoover out multiple times a day!
I just wanted to say thank you for all your kind messages on my original post and I'm sorry I haven't been able to reply to all of your comments, I read every single one and it provided me with so much comfort.
I wasn't really sure why I was posting, I guess I wanted people to appreciate Priss as much as I did and everyone really came through ❤️
There was a request for more pictures so I've picked a couple of my favourite ones, a very tiny baby Priscilla, one of her cuddling up to her best friend Maisie and her giving my mum some much needed love after one of her chemo treatments.
Thank you again, the last week has been rough but your messages helped me more than you know.
Ozzy at 10am
Upgraded to iPhone 18 pro max from 17 pro max, it’s not worth upgrading unless you want sharper and newer camera.
Thats why. But he is always stunning to photograph.
I’m still getting used to the new setting on the phone.
Hi everyone, hope this is okay, I’m not a cat owner but figured cat owners were the best people to ask about this!
I live on a street with A LOT of cats, I’m pretty sure I’m the only house that doesn’t have one. I love them, they’re great fun, but they seem to think my garden is their toilet. My front and back gardens are constantly covered in cat mess, i have to pressure wash everything every couple of weeks because it stinks, today when cutting the grass I managed to fill a carrier bag with cat poo from the front garden alone. Im not a scruff, I’m cleaning it up every couple of days and this is the regular amount - both my next door neighbours have 3 cats each and the people directly over the road have 8 so there are a hell of a lot of cats utilising the facilities 😅.I finished cutting the grass 5 hours ago and I’ve already had to pick up 4 more lots of cat poo since then. I’m getting really frustrated with it, but how can I deter them?
I’m a migraine sufferer and the high pitched alarms instantly trigger them so that’s not an option, the water deterrents are inconvenient as I’d need a fair few of them (plus I have a dog who hates water so I’d have to turn them off every time he goes outside). Is there another option? Or are there sprayers that are motion sensor but can also be turned off by a remote/phone? I really don’t want to upset/scare the cats in any way and won’t do anything that risks harming them obviously, but I need a solution so badly 😅
Thank you!
Due to some family changes I'm going to be travelling around 3 hours every other weekend and of course I'll be taking my kitty with me (I've convinced my family to get her a catio for her visits!)
I've seen dog beds for cars and I was wondering if there is anything similar for a cat?
I don't really want to keep her in a cat carrier for 3 hours but at the same time she can't be climbing around the car.
P.s. the cat tax has been paid. Ivy is "too good" for boxes but loves a good drawer.
Hi
We’re looking at getting a cat flap for our fluff now it’s getting colder and we don’t want to keep the door open all the time. There’s lots of cats in our area, and we want to get a microchip one. Any good or bad experiences? We’re hoping to get one that can track if she’s in our out (doesn’t have to be smart on our phones etc) as she’s a ninja with lots of hiding places!
Hey hive mind,
Our cat recently got diagnosed with hip dysplasia. The specialist isn't based in London so the recommendations he was able to give weren't viable for us.
I'm looking for recommendations that ideally are in and around east London but will to travel to other areas of London if there are lots of rave reviews for a place.
Also if people have experience with claiming through PetPlan that would be a bonus but I may be asking for a unicorn with all these criteria.
Thank you in advance and please find tax tax attached below of the cat in question 🤭
