Cat Husbandry

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necro for irl stuff I've noticed
there's common wisdom that cats will not handle changes in food, but I've never encountered that
like recently I changed from Costco Salmon And Sweet Potato crunchies to Wal Mart The Cheapest Shit and back and my two never gave any fucks about swapping back and forth
 
XYZpdq said:
necro for irl stuff I've noticed
there's common wisdom that cats will not handle changes in food, but I've never encountered that
like recently I changed from Costco Salmon And Sweet Potato crunchies to Wal Mart The Cheapest Shit and back and my two never gave any fucks about swapping back and forth
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You are lucky.

Actually it's moreso cats like certain things but don't mind switching as long as those things are in their list of things they will eat. In fact they like variety but they can be picky eaters.

One of my cats won't eat salmon while the other won't eat beef. Actually, the latter is the only cat I've ever had that will touch salmon, every other one I've had in my life snorted at the smell of salmon for some reason.
 
GentlemanFaggot said:
You are lucky.

Actually it's moreso cats like certain things but don't mind switching as long as those things are in their list of things they will eat. In fact they like variety but they can be picky eaters.

One of my cats won't eat salmon while the other won't eat beef. Actually, the latter is the only cat I've ever had that will touch salmon, every other one I've had in my life snorted at the smell of salmon for some reason.
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I have two adult cats and the male is a bitch and won't touch human food, wet food, most cat food, wet or dry. He is so picky. And the girl will eat anything (she won't touch human food unless you given, never given.

They never had an issue thankfully changing food except the male. As as a kitten this was a stresser.
 
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Now that the bad man has been banished, let's enjoy a cute picture of Minnie in her cosy cave.
 
catfeed protip:
I feed mine whenever they throw a spaz, but I only give them a couple of dozen individual crunchies each.
Cats eat like dumb fucking boomers at a buffet but instead of getting diabetes they throw up on your shit and then later get diabetes. So basically one is all MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW so I get the other one's attention, it perks up and either wakes up and gets off a thing to eat or it goes back to sleep and I dish up food accordingly.
It's a bit of a bitch when they wake you up halfway through the night but it's better then cleaning up puke.
 
necro because whatever
cat has a bug cornered
I'm all FUCK YEAH KICK ITS ASS CMON FUCK YEAH KILL IT WHAT THE FUCK GET YOUR SHIT IN GEAR KILL IT KICK SOME BUG SHITS IN CMON WHAT THE FUCK STOP BEING A PUSS- well, like, uhh, KILL SHIT
 
Cats don't pee on things arbitrarily. If your cats pee on something, they're sending you a message. Maybe you didn't clean the litter box recently enough (BTW, it's not enough to scoop the poop/pee-litter out, you actually have to throw it all out and disinfect it AT LEAST once a month). Maybe the cat is stressed about something. Maybe it's a medical issue. Whatever it is, cats are clean creatures and peeing (if it's neutered) outside the box means something is wrong that demands your attention.

Low-quality dry food can give cats urinary infections. Buy a higher grade of food to avoid that problem. Cats like wet food but are extremely picky. You may have to buy single tins and experiment to find the brands of wet food that your cat will accept.

Cats are as playful as you make them. People think cats are unplayful/aloof because they expect them to be. Unlike dogs, cats bond with specific individuals and then restrict their playfulness to those people. If you play with kittens, they will remain playful as adults.

Cats climb up underneath cars, lay on the frame. If you have a cat that you allow into your yard, you have to check underneath the car before driving anywhere to make sure the cat isn't unintentionally hitching a ride. If you live in an apartment/close by other people's cars, just don't. Cats can and will get lost from taking a ride (or even worse, getting injured by getting up into the engine) on a car they were sleeping inside of.

Cats will steal anything from your hands they can and are attracted to eating papers. Unless you want your cat to get a bowel obstruction from paper/foil/other wrappings, throw away your wrappings as soon as you're done with it. They will eat anything but that doesn't mean they can digest everything.

Cats prefer playing late at night, because that's when they hunt in nature. Be prepared to play with your cat at night and watch him sleep during the day, even if it's the opposite of what you want to do.

Cats are impervious to corporal punishment and it will just make them scared of you. They are incapable of understanding the cause-and-effect to realize WHY they are being swatted.
 
How transmittable are cat bugs? There's a family of stray/feral-ish at my job but the young ones are open to pets.
I'm paranoid about bringing cataids home even if I wash my hands.
 
My dad visited and the older adopted cat was mostly disinterested, she met him once or twice when she was really young.
Younger fella was extremely freaked out by older-looking different-smelling me, but after we were in the same room for an hour or so he started to chill but never really warmed to my dad. And he's usually super friendly

Family of strays at work are doing well. I've been told they've started to leave dead mice for us.
 
those boxes of those miller lite pint 24 packs from costco are basically perfect Cat Investigation size if you open up just one side
 
If you let your cat outside, bring them in well before evening. Come evening the cat will know that it's almost dark and will be more willing to hide so it can play at night. Once it's night they won't come in for anything.
 
does brushing negatively impact semi-feral cats?

the small herd of cats next to my job includes an older gal who's _very_ friendly to humans
I'm trying to feel out if she'd be interested in coming home with me, and I thought getting a brush and seeing how she reacts to grooming might be a good way to start testing how much she would like home life, but I'm not sure if strays need the excess fur to shed for some weird cat reason
 
in further attempts to woo the older gal, I brought a clump of shed fur from my guy from his grooming brush
figure if she reacts badly then I know there's no reason to try pushing any further
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she wasn't only comfortable with it in front of her to smell, she was okay with me putting it on her head like a silly wig and petting her and taking pictures
 
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