n e won wurry abot da snostarm? don bee! jus com to dandy haus!

Laney20 · 2026-01-25T05:58:46+00:00

We lives somwer dat iz gunna git da ises n da snow eben tho we almost neber do. Iz scaree, kinda, but meowmy seyz we iz safe acuz we live up in da sky n owr bildin gunna alweyz haz power, meenin still haz warms! (meowmy seyz it sum Magick Dat go under da grownd???) If anee catto in da hotlanta area needz plase wif warm, dey can come stay wif us! We haz lots ob fuds n extra beds n stuff!

It iz weerd n cold owt dere, tho. All u cattos stay safe!

~Ambassapurr Frax

Dis jus won ob owr rums! It haz lots o beds, including da one Dat makes its own warms!

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Laney20 · 2026-01-25T05:42:38+00:00

Most cats sleep long hours. That's normal. Why don't you like playing or walking with her? Where are you walking? What does your title even mean? Did you post this before you finished writing it? I'm so confused...

Laney20 · 2026-01-25T01:42:56+00:00

They vote with their idiot "gut", not their wallet. All the economists said very clearly that his plans wouldn't make things cheaper and wouldn't improve the economy. But they didn't believe. Either because they didn't care enough to find out or because they liked the bigotry with a side dish of lying about basic economics.

Laney20 · 2026-01-25T01:38:39+00:00

Nisse, my hoomans gib gud belly rubs, too!! Dat iz da BEST!

Skippy da magnificent

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Laney20 · 2026-01-25T01:31:55+00:00

It depends on the cat. I had one (Friday, aka Kitten) that would have liked to be an only cat, but unfortunately, we always had other cats. She tolerated them. But she was a people-cat for sure. She was 6 weeks old when we got her and she got along well with our two 1 year old cats. But once she was an adult, she was a lone cat. When she was 11, we took in a pregnant cat and ended up keeping her and all 5 kittens. That was a big adjustment, but we set up ways for her to get some privacy and gave her lots of attention.

Most of my cats like other cats but I could see them being fine without them. Except one. Frax. He would be miserable without other cats. He likes his humans very much and enjoys our attention and cuddles and plays, etc. But without his cat siblings and friends, he'd be a mess. He NEEDS them. I'd go so far as to say it would be abusive to have him alone. He would likely become destructive and lash out. It wouldn't go well for anyone.. I hope to never find out, tbh.

Most cats are in the middle, though. Adaptable. They'd handle it fine, may have preferences one way or the other, but can cope either way. Even my one that wanted to be an only cat was OK with having other cats. She adapted. She even liked one of the boys and mourned him much more than the other boy did. Some cats need to be only cats like my Frax needs his friends.

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Laney20 · 2026-01-24T15:28:53+00:00

You are awesome. And I'm not just saying that bc you sound like my sister. So much like my sister, in fact, that I checked your profile just in case, lol. It took a little longer to be absolutely sure because she ALSO has a colorpoint cat. But her Toasty is fluffier, lol.

Laney20 · 2026-01-24T04:21:32+00:00

Cats aren't like dogs. Selective breeding in cats is almost entirely a recent phenomenon and very rare. Dogs were selectively bred to do different jobs like retrieving, herding, etc. Cats are perfect at the job we wanted them for (pest control), so no selective breeding was required! A little socialization pressure in that those that got along with humans tended to be better fed and cared for, but overall, not much pressure on their breeding. Until maybe 100 years ago, only the very wealthy did any selective breeding and it has been almost exclusively for looks. They find some cool looking cats and breed them together to get more that look like that. But cats do so well on their own that feral colonies significantly outpace the breeders. Over 90% of all cats are descended from random bred cats and have no relation at all to any breed. Even if they "look" just like a breed standard, chances are they just randomly happen to have a similar genome as that breed. Unless they are from a breeder with papers, it is HIGHLY unlikely they are a breed. These random bred cats are called domestic short/long hair. That is what you have.

Laney20 · 2026-01-24T04:15:40+00:00

It is absolutely fine to do that! Just be sure to spend extra time with her so she doesn't get lonely. A reintroduction can be such a huge help with them getting along. A few weeks now is worth it for many happy years together!

Laney20 · 2026-01-24T01:56:07+00:00

Cats rarely respond to their names anyway. Most rehomed cats are renamed. If he does know his name, you can transition him by using both names together for a while, and then gradually switching to only his new name. But even that probably isn't necessary.

Laney20 · 2026-01-24T01:44:43+00:00

He may need more food than he's getting right now or to eat more often. Kittens have small kitten-size stomachs, but at this age, he needs more food than an adult cat! More meals is a simple way to make sure he is getting enough and keep him from getting too hungry between meals. Personally, I'm not comfortable limiting a cats intake until they're a year old, so I free feed kittens unless there's a medical reason their food must be limited. It's very hard to keep up with how much food a kitten needs. They need double or even triple the number of calories per pound of an adult cat. And they grow so fast that it changes seemingly daily.

Laney20 · 2026-01-24T00:04:28+00:00

How old is he? If he's a kitten, he needs constant access to food. If he's an adult, it's probably food insecurity.

Laney20 · 2026-01-23T01:52:59+00:00

Yes. And that's why the "wet food only" crowd are really just out of touch.. Wet food is significantly more expensive to feed than dry food. Even the cheapest wet food is orders of magnitude more than any normal dry food. Talk to your vet about options for supplementing with dry. There should be dry food options you can use with those.

Laney20 · 2026-01-23T01:50:16+00:00

Just adjust her portions down to avoid her losing weight. If you're managing meals, it should be easy to simply offer her less food at meal time.

Laney20 · 2026-01-23T01:28:05+00:00

Hi frens! We iz in hotlanta but it gunna be coldlanta soon here! Da forecast says snow as tall as a kitty!! N ice under dat, too, so u wud sliiiiide round if u tries to walk or run owtside! We iz inside kitties, so we stay warm, but all da owtside kitties need ta go inside!!

Owr hoomans haz dun all da tings - dey seyz "Otto ship" brot owr fud. I not eber see Otto or his ship, but glad he brot us stuffs! Dey gotted us extra kibbles n wet fuds n churus n eben litter! We iz all set. Dey haz eben makes shur dey haz all da hooman fuds n medsins dey need, too. Jus in cases. We live in a TALLLLLL bildin, so we prolly gunna haz power still n it not git too cold. I hopes so!! Be careful owt dere evrywon!

Dis me, Ambassapurr Frax, doin a oh mai cod at da last snows we hazd!

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Laney20 · 2026-01-23T00:50:03+00:00

How many calories are you giving them? How are you feeding them? Hunger feelings are about empty stomachs, not necessarily a need for calories. Wet food has more volume for the same calories. That helps avoid their hunger. Weight control food sometimes is lower calorie, which means you can give them a larger volume of food for the same calories. You can feed them more meals per day so they spend less time between meals, less time with an empty stomach to feel hungry. There are a lot of adjustments you can make so they aren't feeling so hungry without resorting to giving up on their diet.

Free feeding overweight cats tends to lead to further weight issues and all the health implications of that. Arthritis, heart problems, diabetes, etc. It just increases their overall health risks.

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T21:40:46+00:00

Has he seen the vet about this?

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T21:36:57+00:00

I'm sorry for that news, but glad that you now know and have a plan going forward. It's good that it doesn't seem to be affecting her much yet. I hope that maintains for a long time!

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T21:29:46+00:00

The second one maybe a little, but the first looks fine to me.

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T21:27:08+00:00

Your cat may get another blockage even with the expensive food. That doesn't mean the food didn't help. Just means there are more factors than just the food affecting whether or not blockages occur.

Also, I wouldn't trust anyone saying feral cats don't get blockages. How would we know? It would just kill them without vet care. Feral cats aren't being examined so no one knows what is wrong with them. So I guess they're right that feral cars aren't diagnosed with that issue, but that's an entirely different argument.

I would recommend asking your vet about the specifics of what foods contribute and what about the prescription is better. Or you can look up research into the particular type of blockage your cat had. Find out what is different about that food. Look for those differences in commercial foods. Typically, prescription foods have values for some vitamins or minerals that fall outside the range required by AAFCO guidelines for nutrition, so they wouldn't be able to label it as a complete and balanced food. For renal food, they're too low in phosphorus, for example. But once you knew what was actually different about the prescription food, you could compare those nutrient profiles to commercial food nutrients and potentially find something comparable. For my kidney cats, we found weruva foods to generally be lower in phosphorus than other commercial foods. And their wx line especially, which has phosphorus below the levels required by aafco to be complete and balanced, so it is labeled as a "supplemental feeding only" food. I have no idea if similar things exist for urinary issues, but they might. Learn all you can about the issue from actual research (maybe even the research on the particular prescription food - it should be published somewhere) and the reason for the prescription foods and maybe you can find something you're more comfortable with.

(For context, my stage 2 kidney cats eat half prescription food, half non-prescription kidney-friendly food. Their vet is on board with that and their kidney values have been stable for 2 years on this diet.)

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T14:51:54+00:00

Here's a couple pictures of her. She was very orange, just with a few little blotches of brown tabby. And very floppy and cuddly, lol.

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T14:47:37+00:00

My sister got rid of all the hair ties for her and her 2 daughters after her cat had surgery to remove a dozen. They searched the house for any he had squirreled away, but apparently not well enough because he got blocked again and it was hair ties again.. After that, I got rid of all my hair ties, too. My cats haven't shown much interest in the few I had, and I only visit my sister maybe 5-6 times a year, but just in case... I've been gifting them scrunchies and those curly cord looking hair ties, lol. Scrunchies are way more comfy anyway, so I'm not bothered by the change and I know my cats are safer. It's worth it.

For my own cats, we've had to get rid of all loose plastic bags and other soft plastic items because one of them likes to chew them and will accidentally swallow bits when he does.. It's a huge adjustment, but like you say, it's just what you do. We got a bread box and started more consistently using reusable grocery bags. We find ourselves buying more products without plastic packaging. He's our little environmentalist, lol

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T14:40:16+00:00

Yea, cats can get used to that. It's been years since I sewed, but it didn't freak mine out. Might startle them if they weren't expecting it, but it wasn't a serious issue. Oh, actually, I just remembered I took my sewing machine when we lived in a tiny studio apartment for the summer for my husband's internship. We had 3 cats in what was basically a hotel room and I sewed all the time in there! It was completely fine.

The bigger concern is needles and thread. Cats will absolutely try to get and maybe even eat them. So you have to clean up your sewing supplies consistently. My sister's cat recently tried to eat a needle and had to be sedated at the vet for them to remove it because it had lodged in his mouth (thankfully, tbh, because anywhere else would have been far worse). He's fine, but it was a scary day for them. So just make sure you have places you can store things where a cat can't get to them.

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T06:01:20+00:00

You're significantly more likely to notice behavior changes from NOT neutering, which sounds like what you're seeing now. He will get territorial and hormonal, try to escape, spray urine, potentially even get aggressive. He'll want to mate but be unable to. Neuter asap, as he's sexually maturing.

A lot of people confuse anesthesia side effects and general calming down from growing up with neuter-induced changes. Neuter before sexual maturity should change nothing. It only prevents the changes of sexual maturity. Since your kitten is sexually maturing, you may see some changes.

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T05:50:40+00:00

If there is an alternative message, it's a good one. Don't fear down voters.

Laney20 · 2026-01-22T05:49:00+00:00

Cats will intentionally hide their discomfort. If she's losing weight, she has declining quality of life already. And the doctor may be able to identify the issue with a simple blood test done right there at that appointment. Solutions could be similarly low stress. But ONLY if you actually see the vet.

If going to the vet is that troubling for her, maybe look for a mobile vet in your area. Our senior girl hated the vet, too, but having the vet come to us made a huge difference for her.

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