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?
And yes Dorianne,my Bootsie eats potato chips,Cheeze it's,and Oreo's and ofcourse all the cats Love their butter.
Now that summer is here, I've discovered my "kitten," Bruce, has a passion for watermelon!
("Kitten" in quotations because he is a GIANT now, and still shy of 11 months old!)
Lu will give you a crash course
She has not done anything at all bad yet, because she has not come home from the shelter yet.
She is about a year old, is lively, a great personality, loves to be petted. And, calls out to me, meow!
Making the house pet safe now, and already shopped for everything on the list except a cat tree with a scratching post.
Wondering how long she will take to recover from being spayed.
Funny, all this time I am looking up how to care for cats for friends online, and now, I have so many unanswered questions. Fun!
I just learned that one of the kittens I had to give away to go live on a farm with his sister too,is now a ......FATHER!.....Apparently ,he misbehaved very badly and got an all white cat that lived there pregnant because all the kittens are black and white Tuxedo's just like him. I just can't believe it.The lady and I discussed getting them spayed and neutered as soon as possible and she said she was going to and she didn't.I have the other 3 kittens..They are only a year and 4 months old and if they had any now,it'd be like a baby having babies.My SIL told me the lady was going to send pictures....I just can't believe one of my kittens had kittens,Already.
T h u n d e r s h I r t s??
The Vet asked how is the new cat Rosie [13] adjusting. Sig other and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes, and Vet said ok what's going on. I said "let's just say that everyday is a full Moon with her !!"
We are Inscrutable. Is what we think you must mean, Pam.
We may choose to be magnanimous and indulgent towards the amusing dog infant, or we may wither our enemies with a glance. It is not for The Staff to question.
They’re odd little animals and that’s why I love them.
I pulled out the scratching bench from the box, put it in the living room, added a tad of catnip and sure enough Rosie just walked by it :P Our old cat Charlie decided he wanted this thing and claimed it.
So where does Rosie like to scratch now? In the box this thing came in.... [sigh]. Why am I not surprised.
Just as a thought - you know those (I'm not being funny, this is a serious suggestion) onion-peeling glasses you can get from kitchen shops? Not suggesting you go around the house in them full-time or anything ridiculous, but as a way of finding out if it is cat dander that's setting off the itches wearing those for an evening or two could be a useful experiment.
You may find that the cats are keener on the new beds a) once their "funny" (i.e. not me or my human, thinks cat) smell wears off and b) when it's colder.
No more over drinking the water, no more feces or urine outside the box, no more puking. In other words - they seem just fine as long as I don't try to make them eat things they don't like, or use a new cat box they don't like.
Round 1 definitely went to the cats, but I'm happy to lose this one because now I know that -- they are particular, but it's not that bad. I do change up the variety of wet food from Friskies, and they'll eat different varieties. That's very good because sometimes the local store only has one kind, and so therefore that is the kind they are getting. I did order case of their food but it has been delayed so in meantime I'm learning they will eat other varieties.
They're fine. I'm fine. They're ok with some boundaries, i.e. no more kitties in bed because I don't sleep, so I shut door to bedroom sometimes. They don't seem to care. The older one is finding new perches all the time where he likes to sit. Right now he's on the chair in the bedroom but he also likes the desk.
I bought some pet beds but they were a waste of money because... cats will lay right next to them on the floor. 😆
I thought I was getting eye allergies, and was concerned it was due to the cats! After some testing, I think it's due to sweating and sweat making my eyes itchy, but I read online to wash my hands after petting cats or at least don't rub my eyes directly after!
We're getting sorted out over here. Everything seems fine. 😁
SKG I am so sorry about Moses, It is never easy.
Chloe has discovered how to "howl" today.. laying in her bed, she just looked at the ceiling and left loose! It was hysterical!
One of my cats, the newest member who is 12 years old is so very friendly to the tradesmen, she even allows them to pet her. And when the doorbell rings, she is reaching up trying to turn the doorknob to let them in. But if I try to pet her, oh no, not in her life time. Only thing I can think is that her previous owner was also female but wasn't user-friendly to the cat.
CM and Pam, if you want to watch your cat go bonkers, get them a Hexbug Nano Robotic Cat Toy (search for exactly that on Amazon). It's a wee little bug-like toy with a furry tail that skitters around the floor like a live bug. My cat was HISSING at it when he first saw it. LOL
Big 15-lb cat, backed into a corner by a 2" robotic bug. LOL
But strangely, I wasn't doubting myself. I knew I'd made the right choice. Now to get through the extremely unsettling sensation of relief that I no longer have to contend with constant cleaning, injections, and expense, but whenever I feel that relief, I also feel sad. It's like my feelings are laminated; pain, pleasure, sorrow, relief, guilt, nostalgia, and missing him big time. Repeat.
Anyway, that sweet boy was my first pet. His brother joined us a few months later. Then his brother had to be euthanized with a huge tumor, and Momo had to leave us because of bowel disease and lymphoma.
With my husband needing so much care and my children long grown and off living their own lives, I will now be pet free for the rest of my life. All told, those 13 years of living with animals were pretty wonderful, and I learned a lot. And I'm okay with going on without them now. (Except for a little weep now and then.)