Sendhelp Posted March 2017
Caregiver's cats behaving badly.
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Does your Cat (or any pet) misbehave since caregiving your loved one?
Have you been required to take care of your loved one's pet after they have passed? Does your pet have cute antics that entertain your loved one?
And finally, has the cat or dog transferred their loyalty to your Mother?
Kittens are so much fun to watch. Extremely playful!
I agree with you on the cuddling. All they want is to be loved.
They deserve our love and attention. They warm our hearts so much!
Our ginger does better with a female cat. The last one we had, he use to call for her and the two of them would head out some place in the house. I could hear my sig-other saying around midnight to her "And where are you going at this hour, young lady?"
Absolutely!
Otherwise said, ‘We live with a cat. They don’t live with us.’ 😊
I love a cat’s independent spirit!
They can be free spirits. I will always remember a beautiful gray Siamese cat that would visit me daily.
He arrived around the same time everyday, and left about the same time each evening.
He would rub in and out on my legs. (Why do cats do that?)
He meowed as if to say, ‘Hello! I am here.’
Then he would jump up on my tall chest of drawers and just stare at me for a bit, then he took a nap.
He was a sweet cat. I knew that he was someone’s pet so I didn’t want to start feeding him but I did love his visits in the evening.
It was cute how he showed up at my backdoor. I would let him in. When he wanted to go back home, he walked over to the door and I let him out.
Isn’t it interesting that even domestic animals still sometimes follow their instincts and roam around as if they were wild cats roaming in the jungle?
LOL!! That is so true! I always say, "Dogs have families. Cats has servants."
When you call a cat, the cat will take a message and get back to you later.
The kittens I rescued (years ago) climbed up the pet fencing at 8 wks. If allowed, they would have climbed over and dropped to the floor 4 ft. But their mama-cat and I were there to pull them off the fencing.
This cat was staring into my sliding glass door this morning. Nah, this cannot be happening!
NOT my cat!
Add a small section of wire fencing material to the gate bars.
Secure with a Zip tie.
Wait a few weeks and the kittens will be jumping over the gate.
You could also get a small cat tree (might want one sooner than later), place it near the gate.
Or, raise the gate a bit higher so they can go under, but too low for dog?
It won't be too long before Hocus and Pocus learn to use the clicker themselves.
all you kitty people may have some ideas for me.....we use our laundry room as the feeding space along with the litter box. We have a childproof gate to keep the dogs out, especially my little poodle who loves cat food and (gross) she will get into the litter box too. The kittens are barely squeezing through the bars on the gate. Tiger kitty would jump over the gate. How can I get the kittens to learn to jump over the gate? I have ordered a cat clicker to try to teach them with rewards. My fear is one of them will get stuck in the bars and we will have to use a saw to cut them out, lol!
in the meantime, these two kittens are so much fun, one loves to nibble on fingers and toes much to our golden retrievers mismay, he gentle brushes him away with his paw. The other kitten loves to rub against legs and toes, especially the toes of my slippers and he will literally just collapse onthe floor in front of your feet. Must watch where you step.
I hope everyone is getting along well with Covid and loving your crazy kitties.
Maybe he was thirsty.
She did look funny with that big lump of fluid before it distributed throughout her body.
Once I tried very high sides on the litter box but that was a failure, as Jesse wasn't able to get his tail in the right position. I wasn't using a litter box, instead was using those clear plastic storage boxes [that come with a plastic snap cover] that come in all sizes.
The other sizes clear plastic storage boxes were great. Had one that was meant to store rolled wrapping paper. It was like have two regular size litter boxes... lot of room to move around. But lately not easy to empty because at my age it's a lot of weight of litter to dump. If the cat doesn't like the storage box, wash it out and use it for storage :)
I am trying to remember how long he was on the fluids, either 6 months to a year. it did help him. I remembered he wouldn't eat any of the specialty kidney diet wet or dry food.
If I'm ever preoccupied or busy I always stop, even if it's just for a minute or two and hug my kitties and tell them that I love them. That's better than nothing until you can spend more time with them.
My dad has some cats, too. He has a favorite who gets all sorts of attention. The others get food & water but no affection at all. I keep trying to take those cats but my dad refuses. I don't think he cares about them but uses them as an excuse as to why he can't go into assisted living. Whenever I see those cats, I apologize to them that their lives aren't better & tell them that someday I'll bring them with me & they'll be loved.
Fortunately, cats are not really complainers and I hope that none of mine or my dad's feel as bad as I do with all the changes that have taken place over the past 4 years. I do know that I feel guilty that I am no longer as attentive as a pet parent as I used to be & look forward to the day when I can go back to being so.
When he arrived, he had lines across the top of his head, closer to his beak, indicating he was younger, but not a baby.
Today, his head has more white, further back on his head.
And he is a healthy bird!
Such a sweet and sad story. So sorry for your loss.
Thank you for sharing with us.
It was the best thing I ever did. That dog needed him and he needed that dog. They were inseperable.
Of course the dog never liked me much . His first day in our home he went and hid behind the toilet and it was my job to fetch him out ( Dan's no pets in the bathroom rule)He came out after a bit and I got bit in the process so the stage was set that the dog did not care much for me.
When Dan started going to the hospital all the time I often worried as the dog moped the whole time. This last time when Dan went to hospital for 2 months then rehab for 2 months before I finally brought him home on home hospice I was sure the dog was going to expire he was a wreck. When Dan finally did come home it broke my heart as he did not concern himself with the creature much hell he did not know who I was by that time. But the dog kept close to him anyways regardless and when he passed away at the end of October the dog kept waiting for him to return home again. Only recently did he finally seem resigned to being stuck with me.
all my animals grew to love my husband he was a very kind gentle soul and animals always recognize that. I had fractous cats that would lay all over him and one of them used to call him and get him out of bed in the morning to takr her to the box and get her early meal when in her last years arthritis made it painful to jump down. He always knew what they wanted when they talked to him even when i did not it was really amazing his ability to understand them and talk to them. They always loved me i was mom but their love of him was different and so sweet to see.
Nothing had gone right since my husband passed away I lost both of my sole surviving kitties and my depression is such I did not adopt another yet. The only thing left to me is the dog and we hang out together depressed and resigned to our new empty lives.
I worry lately as the dog is incredibly old and I have no idea how much longer he will be with me.
Just seems god or what ever has decided that I am going to be completely alone everything in my care is dying all around me. Up to an including 2 or 3 of our close friends. I mean jeez we are not that old I really wonder if i am jinxed. I am almost afraid to get anothe pet.
Martz - hope all goes well with your 20 yr old cat. That's quite an age for a cat. Kidney issues are serious.
The sweet potato and a little extra water with the wet cat food went down very well. I will set up their new litter boxes, but leave the old ones beside them, and we will see what happens. I think they will like them.
Good to know that pumpkin trick for fur babies. I don’t currently have a fur baby. I miss mine terribly.
As you know, we are in Louisiana. She currently lives in Colorado.
Well the vet is on a street named, Louisiana and is next door to a Cane’s chicken!
Cane’s is a Louisiana fast food restaurant that was founded by an LSU dropout. He did a school assignment on starting a restaurant, dropped out and now has a successful franchise! By the way, Cane is the name of his dog.
My daughter graduated from LSU.
Crazy coincidence, huh?
She said her dog is doing well. The flea and tick program is treated differently in Colorado because it isn’t humid there. Apparently, they don’t have the same issues as in the humid Louisiana weather. He got his heart worm meds.
I have to brag on my daughter. She is a great mom to her fur babies.
When her dog that she rescued while attending college died, she cried for weeks! He was about six years old when she rescued him. He died with Cushing’s disease.
Her new dog was 11 months when she got him.
She said due to COVID, she couldn’t go inside the vet’s office. They take the dog from your car and speak to you over the phone while examining them.
She went from a poodle to a Siberian Husky!