The Cat Megathread

[Valmy]

Your house looks very nice Mart. Or your condo or whatever.

[Martinus]

Harley has had a watery eye since I adopted her. I keep it meticulously clean for a couple of days and either it gets better or I have to get eye drops. It got so bad last month that the eye closed up and one side of her face swelled up. Turns out she had an ulcerated eye that looked like it had been caused by a scrape, such as mad dashing into furniture, rather than her scratching it. She's got more drops and anti-inflammatories but the vet's now prescribed her some steroid eye drops which can either cure or make it worse, so I'm under strict instructions to bring her back after a couple of days. If that doesn't work she'll be referred to a specialist or she might lose her eye  It's probably not going to be covered under insurance as she's had conjunctivitis since I adopted her.

That sucks.

Why don't you start a crowdfunding thing for her if the insurance doesn't cover it? I am sure some Languishites would pitch in. 

[KRonn]

My brother and his wife have been trying to keep their cats indoors because of ticks and especially coyotes. They have woods around them and do see some coyotes but also every time now that the cats go out, when they come back in they have to be brushed down as they almost always have ticks. They already lost one cat to coyotes about two years ago. Now my brother and sister-in-law have gone to Florida for the winter which they do every year now. Getting the cats there on the long drive is a challenge.

[Eddie Teach]

Getting the cats there on the long drive is a challenge.

Not really that hard. Just stuff them in their cages all day and stop at a Motel 6.

[Tonitrus]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhw87k_eYkw

[Admiral Yi]

The dimwit lady next door is killing her second cat in 6 years.  She leaves them out all night in the cold, in Iowa winters.  I feel like I need to tell her that she's not capable of caring for a cat.

[Eddie Teach]

Are there no wild/feral cats in Iowa? They seem to handle Georgia winters just fine. 

Heck, my sister had them hanging around her place in Oregon.

[Martinus]

The dimwit lady next door is killing her second cat in 6 years.  She leaves them out all night in the cold, in Iowa winters.  I feel like I need to tell her that she's not capable of caring for a cat.

Call animal protection services on her stupid ass.

[Jaron]

The dimwit lady next door is killing her second cat in 6 years.  She leaves them out all night in the cold, in Iowa winters.  I feel like I need to tell her that she's not capable of caring for a cat.

Call animal protection services on her stupid ass.

People who harm cats should be dropped into wild life sanctuaries for lions and tigers.

[Admiral Yi]

Are there no wild/feral cats in Iowa? They seem to handle Georgia winters just fine. 

Heck, my sister had them hanging around her place in Oregon.

Georgia is tropical compared to Iowa.

I've seen semi-feral cats here, but usually they're bunkering down in a barn or some other structure.  They're not sleeping rough.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I'm shortly to be one cat lighter.   Molly has either cancer or Feline Infectious Peritonitis.  I'm not sure what I want to do with her right now.  Other than looking like a pot-bellied pig and suffering from periodic incontinence she seems like her old self.  No lethargy or loss of appetite.

[Archy]

I'm shortly to be one cat lighter.   Molly has either cancer or Feline Infectious Peritonitis.  I'm not sure what I want to do with her right now.  Other than looking like a pot-bellied pig and suffering from periodic incontinence she seems like her old self.  No lethargy or loss of appetite.

Poor thing 

[MadBurgerMaker]

Here you go Seedy: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1046165765/licki-brush-lick-your-cat/description

http://nerdist.com/lick-your-cat-happy-with-licki-brush-no-really/

[Capetan Mihali]

Nah, cats and dogs are hugely surprising in their tolerance of little babies and kids.  It's as if they know they are tiny kittens or puppies, and treat them accordingly...

Hmm... not always. 

My one noticeable facial scar comes from my toddler days, when I toddled into my mother's abused NYC street cat one toddle too many, and she took a claws-out swing at me, drawing blood from my babyface.  Which eventually resulted in that scar, but more immediately resulted in my enraged father grabbing poor Sasha up off the ground and punting her ass clear across the apartment.

[Brazen]

Taffy's been going crazy, always hungry but not eating, running around and night yowling again. I thought his thyroid meds were out of whack. But £215 and multiple tests later his thyroid's OK but his blood pressure is high and his liver enzymes are raised - more expense.

When I was a kid, you had cats, they got old and died, end of story.