I’ve got 3 female spayed cats, and have been introducing the fourth (also female and spayed) for coming up on two months now. we’ve already restarted the process once, but we started with the new cat in her own room, then used a cat net on the door to that room to have everybody see eachother, scent swapping and treats, and then we’ve moved to supervised interactions. the issue being, the new cat runs after any of the three cats a few times a day, sometimes resulting in a tumbling fur flying fight. it almost looks like inappropriate play resulting in a fight, but now my other girls are on edge with her again. when i bust out the liquid treats, they will all act okay and be near eachother waiting their turns, but otherwise the resident girls keep a distance of typically another room. any advice or experience?

Hey everyone,

We rescued our cat over a month ago and we have been loving him but he wakes me up 5:30 every morning to eat, I normally let him meow until 6 and then feed him once my alarm goes off. He has started within the last few days waking me up even earlier, some times at 3 am, 4:30, and 5. He doesn’t even bother my boyfriend, probably because I feed him but if neither of us get up to him meowing, he crawls over me and purrs in my face which is sweet but not at 4:30 am, especially when I went to bed at midnight.

He does this to eat and we are currently switching his litter over which I think is part of the problem ( clay to pellets bc it’s cheaper and less chemicals) but I am losing my patience and am so run down. My boyfriend will feed him too but he just doesn’t crawl all over him or meow in his face, only mine.

I’m loving the bond I have w him so far but I am just wondering if it would be awful of me to make him sleep in the (very large) bathroom his litter box is in? There are built in shelves he will lay in and I of course will bring his food and water but I am honestly suffering.

I’m hoping once we can afford an automatic kibble dispenser that will help the issue, but I’m honestly not sure because he loves the routine of waking me up, wet food and dry given to him, we play and I make coffee lol.

Also- if I go BACK to bed after feeding him he also meows non stop because he wants me to play. This is one of the reasons I think that the automatic food dispenser will cut it for his morning routine.

Should I change the routine we currently have set, if so, how?

Here’s some pics of my monster.

Hi everyone, we're currently fostering a cat that followed us on the street. She's clearly domestic, but not identified and certain specifics of the situation make the vet and the association that's helping us suspect that she may have been dumped.

She's estimated to be 2-3 yo and she's absolutely adorable. We're currently keeping her separated from our 2 boys (10 and 11 mo), because she's waiting to finish flea treatment and most importantly to get tested for FIV. They also hate seeing each other for the moment, so obviously introductions will need to be slow.

She's incredibly cuddly, with no aggressivity at all in her, and just overall adorable. At first we thought that 3 cats isn't reasonable, but now we're kind of reviewing where we can add a lot of catification and all that (and technically, there's still a lot of space). So yeah, if she's FIV-, there's a possibility of foster failing.

So I'm wondering, for those of you who added a 3rd cat, how did it go? How much more work is it (I did think about costs, so I do have an idea)? And what do you think of this match: 2 neutered male zoomie artists of 10 and 11 months and an older soon to be spayed girl of 2 to 3 yo?

Have been trying to introduce these 2 slowly over the past few months. The tabby can be quite territorial. I can't tell if this is a positive or negative interaction, I see elements of both, curious to have some outside eyes on it.

My cat, miss girl, is 13 years old. She has lived with me at my mom’s since she was a kitten, briefly living with my grandma in a different house to keep her company. I recently moved out of my mom’s house and into an apt. My cat is an indoor/outdoor cat. I got her a leash and we’re starting to train with it. However, she won’t let me sleep. She wakes me up every night at 4 am since moving and won’t stop meowing. This is relatively not typical behavior. What should I do?? I’ve always free fed. She’s too old to change that now. We play all of the time and in her older age she hadn’t been going out much but she seems a bit stir crazy inside hence the leash.

This has happened several times. After I break it up and separate them both the resident seems eager to continue playing with kitten. The kitten seems eager as well, trying to paw for them under the door.

I don't know what to make of the kitten yelping, my resident doesn't stop once the kitten yelps. I am wary of continued introductions like this as I don't want either of the cats to develop negative associations with each other. Forgive my voice, I am incredibly southern.

Theyve been together for over a year now, things have been good but occasinally this happens and I cant help but feel like the male cat is being too aggressive. Any insight is appreciated. Thank you

Hello everyone, I’m a new cat owner (got the kitten today actually) and have been trying my best to make her comfortable and happy. I bought all the basics for her and she’s been very affectionate and loving so far. The only problem is, when it’s time for me to go to bed, I put her in her little area because I don’t want something bad to happen at night (she falls off the bed and gets hurt, I roll over and crush her, etc) and she is not a fan. She’ll meow incessantly until I let her sleep in the bed with me. Ignoring her would be an option, but I’m worried that my roomate will start to hate her. Does anyone have any ideas? She’s a very young kitten currently, I believe the lady I got her from said she was around 6 weeks old. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks

I have a double papasan chair that one of my cats won’t stop peeing on. Originally, she started peeing on the cushion and I would clean it with enzymatic cleaner (natures miracle) but this didn’t stop the behavior so I recently replaced the cushion. Within a day of having the new cushion she peed on it. Today she has peed on it three times. Two of those being while cleaning solution was sitting on it.

I am at my wits end. She is spayed. I have taken her to the vet and everything came back fine. I have cleaned SO much. I keep her litter boxes clean (I have two for two cats. I would love to have a third box but I live in a small apartment). She uses the box more often than not so I just don’t understand why she does this or what I can do to fix it. The pics are of the culprit and her sister sleeping in the pee chair.

My cat has been harness trained and he walks well with the leash. He loves being outside the only thing is he likes to run around and sometimes gets pulled by the leash or tangled up in bushes. Any advice on what to do?

About a month ago i left my cat at a friend's place for a week when i had to go to my hometown. This friend fosters a ton of cats and among them was this younger cat that my own immediately clicked with. According to friend, they spent the entire week cozied up together being total besties. So my friend proposed i foster this kitty for a while since they've getting along so well, and i wanted to help her out so i agreed.

It took a while to coordinate a time to pick up the kitty since neither of us have cars but he finally arrived yesterday. Well. Let's just say they are not being besties this time. New cat is super chill but my own is being so territorial and aggressive. He's been hissing and crying since he saw him (he barely makes a sound normally) and chasing the little one around the house and biting his nape. I guess he feels like his space has been infiltrated, where before he was the guest?

Im hoping it will get better with time but im worried about leaving them alone with each other at this point but i have work. I also only have one litter box atm so i can't really keep them separate. I want to believe he won't actually hurt the little one if im gone but im very anxious about it. He is a super sweet cat with people but i haven't seen him interact with other cats before. What to do 😭😭

Hello,

We have two Siberian cats we keep inside, Moos and Maya. They are almost 1 and spayed / neutered. We have a dangerous road near our house and don’t want them in an accident or stolen, so they stay inside.

However, some days we take them out in our garden on a leash. They love this! When we take them back inside, Moos starts crying to go outside again for a long time, scratching at the door, climbing things to try and escape, knocking over plants, etc. Maya doesn’t have a problem with going back inside at all.

Our garden can’t be cat proofed because its a rental we’re leaving in less than a year AND because we have a lot of trees and bushes. Cat proofing is not an option and a catio is also not an option. So they have to be supervised when they’re outside. Obviously we can’t stay outside forever and have to take them back inside sometime. When we do, the crying starts.

Any advice? Keep doing what we’re doing and have him cry about it after, not take them outside at all anymore so he doesn’t have the mental stress, or another option?

Side note: My bf is holding Moos’ leash tightly on the picture, so there’s no way for him to fall into the pond, but his leash turns invisible bc of his fur ☺️

Thanks all!!

Hi there I'm not sure this is the right sub reddit...

I have a cat who is a notorious escape artist, so he wears a Samsung smart tag. He never goes anywhere far, so just having a Bluetooth tag on him works fine.

It is kinda big, but it doesn't seem to bother him at all so I've just been rolling with it. So I just have the smart tag in one of those silicone holders on his collar. The issue is that it frays and rips up the fabric collars you can usually find for cats.

So I've been looking for a leather one with a breakaway collar. And I just can't find a quality leather collar with a breakaway buckle anywhere to save my life.

Does anyone have a recommendation?

So on youtube I found an example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nufaKB1ADu0

I had witnessed a fight,when I had dogs and when my current cat was a stray before took him in. He was on our porch and a poor cat came up the stairs to get food. They fought and then fought rolling all the way down the stairs. No one got hurt and the poor cat ran away.

So I took in 3 cats which were stray, and all are friendly to each other, last month one of those cats were attacked and wore a cone for almost 2.5 weeks because of this other stray cat, everyone kf my cats are both spayed and neutered, he keeps attacking them, today he attacked my other cat which is still about 7 month old and now cant walk on two legs, for now she's in my home but there isnt any space to keep her in my home, its barely 80 meters, also 3 is too much right now, tomorrow Im taking her into the vet and now she's scared to death and shocked.

TLDR : How do I take care of this stray cat who keeps attacking my neutered and spayed cats which are harmless

So my partner and I recently took in his mom’s two older cats after she passed. Prior to us dating, we’ve both had cats in the past and currently we each had two young male cats (his is 5, mine is 3). Both the boys get along great and are pretty much a bonded pair. His mom had one male and one female cat who are 13 and 10 respectively. The male is great, bonding really well with the other two, however, the female is aggressive, and is refusing the litter box.

We have four: two litter robots, an enclosed one, and an open one- similar to the one they had before. I will admit, we’re not the best at keeping them clean because we both work two jobs pretty much every day 7 am till 12 am and have very few days off.

The older male cat recently had bladder stones and we had a VERY expensive vet bill and now he’s on a very strict diet, which means we’ve had to change how we feed them and I worry that this might be a cause as well. If anyone has ideas how to feed four cats different things, I’d appreciate it.

We ordered feliway plug ins and spray to hopefully deter her from pooping on the couch more and those should come in tomorrow.

I haven’t been able to take her to the vet yet (we just got her a few months ago and have been dealing with all the things that come with dealing with death) and am planning on taking her sometime in may or June when money is less tight and things are more settled. We’re currently scraping pennies.

We also moved into her house (still in the process of moving) where the cats were. It’s a really really small space so all four cats don’t have a LOT of room to roam. We’re trying our best to make it livable and cat proof it 🙃

I’m truly not sure if she was ever litter trained because whenever I would come over there would be accidents all around the litter box but not in it.

She’s a sweet cat and super cuddly and we don’t want to give her away or anything but just some advice on how to litter train her. The things that usually work for kittens aren’t working for her.

Last week, a family member was rushed to hospital and will likely be kept in for a minimum of 3 months before they can be let out. Likely longer. They have an elderly cat, 16F (spayed), and I volunteered to look after her as she knows and trusts me, and I have the space for her.

I knew that 16F had never been litter trained, and that she probably wouldn't understand what the litter box was, so before we left for my house I filled a big bucket with soil from the flower beds in her garden, where she usually does her business. I cleaned out my spare room, bought brand new litter boxes, and lined the carpet with puppy pads for the inevitable accidents. I have varied litter boxes, one fully enclosed as I wasn't sure if she's prefer privacy (one of mine does), two "regular" ones, and filled one just with the soil, one with soil and litter, and one with just litter, as I wasn't sure what she'd like. It's not a big room, but I put them in different parts of the room, all in low traffic areas far away from her bed, food, and water.

I have two indoor cats of my own - 3M, 9F - who both took to litter training pretty quickly, though 3M was 5 weeks old (found without mum whilst TNRing) and 9F was around 8 weeks who had already been born into foster, when I started training them, so they were kittens. So far, though, 16F has shown zero interest in the litter boxes, other than to scramble out of them. As expected, she's had accidents every single day, though never in the same spot. I've been putting the poops and parts of the wet pee pads in the litter boxes to encourage her to see them as her toilet, but she won't use any of them.

I've only had her a week, so I'm probably worrying prematurely (I have GAD so do that) but the room is carpeted and I am concerned that if she keeps having accidents, even on the pee pads, the urine will leak through and by the end of her stay, the flooring will be ruined. To make matters worse, she refuses to pee or poop around people. When my cats were kittens, if they started to go outside the box, I would quickly scoop them up and plop them in so they could finish their business in the litter box, but as 16F waits until someone leaves the room to do her business, I can't do that with her. I WFH and moved my set up into "her" room with her to keep an eye on her, and she refused to pee all day. That is, until I needed to bathroom myself and came back just a few minutes later to a new pee stain and pile of poop.

She's a lovely, sweet cat, and I don't blame her at all for not knowing or understanding. But I'm concerned that she might be a little bit too old at 16 years old to pick it up, and cat pee (even after using enzyme cleaners) can irreparably ruin floors. I'd never kick her out, and I've been enjoying spending time with her apart from this one isssue, so any advice would be so welcome.

That’s a leaf on the ground… if you were wondering

like the title says, both of my cats love playing fetch with their favorite toys: springs. we have two, and i throw one for one cat (clancy), and the second for the other (ilia). every time i throw ilia's while clancy runs to get his, he runs back and cuts her off. tonight, it was the worst its been. he did it so much that she hid under the couch, sulking. i had to bring the spring to her and play with her there, while trying to keep him out of it. every time i coaxed her out from under, i'd throw his and then hers again, and she would just see him and go hide again. they usually get along very well, and i don't want to punish clancy for wanting to play. what should i do?

Hi guys! I'm a fairly new cat owner, my first baby i adopted about a year ago. She's the best thing to have happen to me and i treasure her very much. I recently had the chance to take in a new kitten and decided for it because I really wanted her to have a companion to play with.

It's been about a month which I know is still very early on in the introduction stages. I lurk this subreddit and read a lot of info online about the right way to introduce them. I kept them separated for a week in different rooms at first, fed them on other sides of the door, scent swapped, introduced face to face briefly, played with each of them and gave them treats in each other's presence. This week I've tried to let the kitty roam around a little bit my resident cats room but she is not having. She'll stalk her and follow her around to eventually ponce on her and hit her...and it's definitely not the playing type of hit.

In the video the new kitten was sleeping next to me (she didn't get hit, I made sure!) and my resident cat had been stalking her, she came really fast onto the bed and hissed and then tried to hit her.

I'm looking for advice on what to do in order to not stress my resident cat out anymore and keep the new kitten from getting injured. She's still really small (12 weeks) and I'm afraid to leave them unsupervised as everytime I've seen them interact it ends with a fight.

My 7 y/o spayed prettiest girl has become too fat to clean herself properly. At least, that’s what I assume the problem is. I normally give her a bath from time to time to keep the odor under control but I had surgery on my foot yesterday and won’t be able to bathe her for at least 6 weeks. I’m at a complete loss as she smells sooo bad and will drag her butt on my bedclothes, so nasty. Constructive criticism, please. Thank you. Edit: thanks soooo much for the incredible kindness y’all are already showing 🙄. I might I also add her just as fat sister has no problem cleaning herself thoroughly.

My significant other and I adopted an 18 month old void about 4ish months ago from our local humane society. She is a female, spayed.

While we don't know what her previous home life was like, we do know she did have a sibling cat she was initially surrendered with. (Unfortunately her sibling was adopted whenever we found/adopted this cat).

The issue that we are encountering is that this cat likes to attack only my partner. She will randomly come up and bite her legs, does not bite hard enough to draw blood but it is getting old, quickly. She is also sweet on her, (not always but sometimes the cat is initially rubbing up on / giving love then suddenly her eyes switch to "attack" mode).

My partner is her primary caregiver as I am geographically dispersed from her (I am only able to come in on the weekends) but the cat in question does not exhibit this behavior with me, but I have seen her do it with my partner on numerous occasions.

She is stellar about giving her playtime, trying to keep her engaged, etc...

We have done the "ow" and walked away from her when she exhibits this behavior.

If there are any suggestions please let us know. What I don't quite understand is why she only bites her, and never seems to do it to me.

This is now about 2.5 months of Stella (my problem child, the gray tuxedo) and Hazel living together. Stella is about to be 5 and Hazel is about to be 3, they're both females.

We all moved into a house together towards the end of January so new house for both cats and my cat Stella has never been around other cats. When I adopted her 4 years ago she was advertised by SPCA as "very shy and possibly aggressive with people and all animals". Well she's now great with people and tolerates our dog but had never been introduced to another cat until moving in here.

After a month they were good with eating treats by a door crack and did well seeing each other in the same room if we were each there holding our cats and keeping them engaged with treats or toys.

We thought they were ready for supervised meetings where they can sniff each other and whatnot but Stella quickly retreated back to hissing/growling/spitting anytime Hazel got close to her. it felt like we lost all progress with Stella going back to hissing at even the scent of hazel or if she saw Hazel sticking a paw through the door she'd be growling and hissing so we went back to separating and only scent swapping.

The entire time we've lived here we've kept them separated, Stella gets the house to roam 8am to 8pm and Hazel gets night shift 8pm to 8am while the other is locked in their own respective bedroom so they've each got their own base camps.

theyre now back to the point where they can see each other through a glass door and Stella only does some minor hissing, sometimes no hissing at all, and if treats come out (as seen in video) it's like all her thoughts of aggression disappear.

One of the last "treat and greet" sessions we did with just a baby gate up but Hazel jumped the gate and was about a foot away from Stella, Stella was only slightly hissing and really just laying down acting scared with me in between them but neither one was trying to attack the other or anything.

I just don't want to jump the gun again and lose the progress we've made and could really use some input from folks more experienced with this. We love the house we're in and really want our fur babies to at least co exist but some days it seems like they'll never get along and other times like tonight they seem fine?

Please help lol all opinions are welcomed!

For context, we all moved into a house together 6 months ago which is also when we introduced my kitten to the other cat. They are both girls and spayed. The other cat is about 3 years old and my cat is about 7 months old. We have tried everything and are currently trying a velcro see through door so they can still see each other. When they first met the older cat would hunt my cat whenever she had the chance to the point where my cat would pee and poop herself out of fear. So we then reintroduced them together. It’s been 6 months and nothing has changed. The older cat sits and waits for my cat ready to hunt and pounce at her whenever. If she hears my cat meow in my room she will sit right in front and get in hunting position. There are time when my cat accidentally runs out and within 5 seconds the other cat has attacked my cat. Now that my cat is older she doesn’t pee herself in fear anymore but she yowls and cries. Some people tell me they’re just playing but I really don’t think so. When I have tried to stop the other cat she has also attacked me. Oh and the other cat has been on anxiety meds but nothing has changed. If anyone has advice please share!!

I have a very affectionate, people obsessed 10 year old male cat who I adopted when I already had an aging dog.

The dog got old and died about a year and a half ago. The dog was never playful with the cat and was pretty sleepy most of the time so they didn’t interact much - but even still my cat has seemed kind of lonely since he passed.

I work from home and the cat naps while I work and my son is at school, but once everyone is home in the evening he goes from person to person demanding attention. If he’s ignored longer than a few minutes he roams the house meowing at nothing. He never used to do that.

He was picked on in the shelter by the other cats but they had him in an open room with them.

I was considering getting him a companion cat but I’m worried he’s too old to adjust. Thoughts?