#catblogging

[unpretty]

attempting to game around tiny beans

[redsixwing]

Hey Tumblr

Look at my cat

[solitarelee]

My cat was very upset that I was working at my mother's desk downstairs, because he couldn't get up near it. So I did the sensible thing and rolled a chair over next to mine so he could supervise

[finnglas]

In order to explain my cats' latest obsession, I have to give you some history. Behind a cut, warnings for Cat Illness.

In 2015, both K and I were working a lot and I felt bad that my>our cat, Luna, was being left alone for hours on end. So we decided to get a second cat - thus, Evie joined the family. Now, being that Evie was about 2 years old and Luna was about 5 years old, they didn't really enjoy the Sudden Roommate Situation [SRS]. It took a lot longer than normal for the introductory methods to work. (They still tolerate each other more than anything but they seem to have made their peace, eight years on.)

Anyway, we got Evie in November of 2015 and in January of 2016 I lost my job and Luna also developed an ongoing UTI due to the stress of the SRS. (Between this and the Politics Situation at the time, I was so stressed I skipped my period for almost seven months. I don't think any of us have recovered.) Anyway, so Luna had to go on antibiotics, and the antibiotics gave her diarrhea, so we also put her on probiotics, but the probiotics (I learned later) gave her worse diarrhea, and the stress of constant upset stomach meant that she kept having ongoing UTIs which meant ongoing antibiotics/probiotics, etc., in a vicious cycle. I'm still mad at that vet because they refused to slow down to consider me asking "what if the fact that it's making her sick is contributing to the infection" and kept just assigning more rounds of antibiotics that I couldn't afford. Yeah that credit card JUST got paid off two months ago.

A N Y W A Y. The result of all this is that it tore poor Luna's stomach up to the point that she couldn't eat any kind of dry treat or kibble. Literally, one Greenie treat would instantly give her the shits. This means that both cats have been on wet-food-only for like, seven years. It's expensive, and not great for their teeth, but also Luna wasn't shitting herself constantly so you take what you can get. I occasionally tried samples of kibble that advertised themselves as Sensitive Stomach Formulae over the years but none of them were successful.

Fast forward to two weeks ago, when I was at my parents' for my dad's surgery and Kellie stayed home with the cats. She had to go get some more wet food for them during this time and while at the pet store, she eyed a bag of kibble that said it was for Sensitive Stomachs and had a strong impulse to Try It. So she got a small bag. Texted me about it. I said "You're awfully brave trying that while I'm not home to give her a bath when her back end winds up covered in poop at 2am."

But miracle of all miracles: Luna can tolerate this kibble. We started very very small - less than 1/8 of a cup once a day - and have been working our way up. We are at 1/6 of a cup once a day now, and there has been no stomach upset!

This is great news for multiple reasons, but one of them is that we can now have an automatic feeder which means that we can take short overnight trips without needing a cat-sitter. For long trips, of course, we'd still want someone checking in on them and giving them their supplement of wet food.

We have one such short overnight trip coming up in two weeks, so I took advantage of Black Friday sales on one of my favorite pet brands (their water fountain also came from PetLibro) and ordered them a two-bowl pet feeder. It came in yesterday (love Black Friday being a week long now) and I set it up last night. I tested it at the time by having it dispense 1/12 of a cup of kibble. Worked great! tipped most of it back into the granary and let the kitties have a couple of pieces as a treat.

WELL. They now cannot enter the room without paying tribute to the Fickle God of Kibble, aka Sammy the Automatic Feeder, just in case he has decided to dispense more kibble.

They just had their first scheduled 9am feeding, and both of them ran around like they were losing their minds before diving in mouth-first, so I am deeply amused and will be watching these developments with interest.

[aeide-thea]

i know i don't have to convince any of you guys that ~cats are capable of love~ or whatever, like obviously What Love Means to an Animal is a little different than What It Means to a Person (Whatever That Is) but also they for sure want to be buddies, but like

if you were on the fence about that, i'd offer you the image of nefret cat following me very pointedly around the house after i got back from the grocery store, very clearly impatient for it to be Poäng Time

[leguin]

Attempting to cover the Magnetic Fields' "I Shatter" with the 'help' of an obstructionist Rue

[sword-and-stars]

I’m not sorry for having the cutest fucking cat in the world.

[rambunctiousrubix]

This is a sideblog for pictures of my cat, Rubix (and occasionally my beautiful partner's cat Daisy!)

Follow for mayhem and screaming!

FAQ:

What breed is he?

He's a Ragdoll/Maine Coon cross; His dad was a 50/50, his mum was pure ragdoll. Our Rubix gor the maine coon body and the ragdoll braincell :D

What breed is Daisy?

She's a tortie moggie!

[nashira]

wake up babes, new hurri-kitten update dropped!

hi besties!!! I wanted to share an update on how the kittens are doing :D for reference here are two previous updates I shared!

they're now drinking water and eating solid food, learning to use the litter box, and they respond really well to water (we had to bathe them because they got wet food in their fur!) and getting SO MUCH BIGGER!!!

we're doing our best to expose them to lots of new experiences every day and they are really confident and curious. They also, so far, enjoy car rides and settle well in their carrier!

I also wanted to share this wishlist I made for them !!

if you're not familiar with the platform, Throne is a privacy-safe wishlist platform popular with streamers n lots of folks on the internet, similar to Amazon wishlists, but neither of us see anyone's sensitive information. Throne is also really cool because I set every gift on the list to "crowdfund" which means you can pitch like, $1 towards a gift until it's fully paid for. (and if anyone would like a Throne invite DM me because I have one to give away!)

It has kitten food, toys, and a LOT of cat furniture, scratching posts, which is something we're going to be needing as they're living in our empty sunroom.

I also wanted to share my C/sh/pp ($titashira), P/yP/l (blackhotrage@gmail.com), V/nmo (TitaShira) again in case anyone wanted to help with the expenses 🥰🙏🏽

Things are going really smoothly now, we have a pretty good schedule and I'm so grateful for everyone's support and kind words! Thank you!!! I'll share the next update after their first vet appointment next month :D

[doctorcrusher]

discovered that miles o'brien has been chewing on the houseplants because he vomited up a bunch of leaves this morning. also miles has decided he really loves one specific blanket we have (to make biscuits on) and if someone is sitting on it or it's behind the couch or w/e he will scream until someone gives it to him. also the vet says he's fat.

[unpretty]

i tried to capture tiny beans making her squeaky boot noises at me but as soon as the camera was on she tried to sound normal instead >:C

(her eyes look Like That because she has problems including but almost certainly not limited to atopic dermatitis, she got a steroid shot recently so she's in relatively good shape right now)

[mycenaae]

it's tilly's tenth birthday today and as you can imagine, she is Thrilled

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Your opinion on cats?

So much is unknown about cats. They are a strange, secretive species. What are they thinking? How do they feel about the world? How do they really feel about their relationship to humans? We have tried to understand cats through science, and we have a great deal of useful knowledge about them. But it is not enough.

What cats are doing and thinking is mysterious, and we are only just beginning to understand.

[souji-upseta]

heterochromia kitty thinks she's velcroed to me (Astoria, 2, she/her)

[aeide-thea]

angel… 👼🌅🛌

[leguin]

actually you said 'hunger, for you, is larger than the usual physical hunger. it's like a religion. it's terrifying. no one will ever want to feed you.'