As the title indicates, my cat was attacked by a fox last night. He now has a small puncture wound on his back foot and a bit of a limp and seems pretty shaken up. Unfortunately I’ve seen him get chased in by a fox before too. This seems to happen late at night and we believe someone else is keeping him in their house so he can’t get back to us earlier. I’m going to order a collar tag saying ‘please don’t keep me indoors after dark (6pm) I get attacked by foxes’ or something similar.

My main questions are, has anyone had a similar experience? Also, is there anything I can do to deter the foxes from my garden? I’ve heard motion sensing spotlights can work?

Any advice greatly appreciated as I really don’t want him to get attacked again ☹️

[UPDATE] he’s booked in to go to vets imminently - thanks for all the advice everyone 🙏🏻

We had a cat flap and kitty could barely fit through it. It wasn't a small one I don't think? This one - https://amzn.eu/d/9LTae0J

Now we're in a new house, thinking about another one. What sort of flap would people recommend?

We can get a small dog one for the internal door but need one for the outside door.

Is there a reason a lot of cat flaps seem to be on the small side? Maybe it's just me?

Hi I’ve just recently got a pure white rescue cat. He’s about 3 year old, and a big feisty boy to boot. The vet says I need to put sunscreen on him! Has anyone ever done this, and with what, and how on earth did you manage it?

Hi all,

I'm New to the cat reddit & to cat life in general.

Just wanted to share my 11-12 week old.

Does anyone have any idea if she will end up long or short haired, and possibly any idea on breed.

Thanks,

Hello all,

After months of research and accidentally going to the RSPCA and finding a gorgeous cat, I’m about to be a first time cat owner!

What would be a piece of advice you’d have wanted to know as a new cat owner?

Any advice is appreciated!

Hi guys, my parents have 4 cats who come and go as they please through a cat flap and they are being regularly attacked and terrorised by another cat living on the street somewhere. We aren't sure if it's a stray, feral or owned, but it seems to appear from the same area every time I notice it. One of their cats has been aggressively bitten and needed vet treatment, and this was about 3 months ago. Last night it had another go at the same cat and he is absolutely petrified, traumatised and is limping. On a daily basis, there is a fight involving this cat, usually chasing one of the 4 cats, sometimes several of them at the same time. I've tried scaring the cat with water, spraying it and stuff like that but it always comes back. I've spoke to my parents about it but they don't seem to think that there is anything they can do about it, but I'm pretty sure there must be something that can be done if it's causing the cats to not go out, wet themselves in fear and have to have vet treatment.

What do you guys think, what would you do?

Hey everyone!

We’ve been in our new flat a few months now, and our two cats are getting pretty antsy to go outside. Unfortunately, we are on the first floor - this is the best route outside - out through the window, onto downstairs’ bay window roof, and onto the roof next door.

Do we think this is feasible? I’ve seen them manage far more acrobatic feats, I’m just nervous about them having a hard time getting back in!

Thanks in advance!

Hello!

I’m looking for recommendations for cat litter in the UK. For the last 20 years I’ve been using Catsan (the hygiene one in the blue packaging) for no other reason than “I’ve always used it”.

It’s good at eliminating odours, I like that, but it gets EVERYWHERE. It was okay when I had 1 cat, but I have 3 now and they all track it out of the litter box and all over the house. I’m sick of having to hoover multiple times a day!

Can anyone recommend a cat litter that has the same degree of odour coverage as the Catsan Hygiene, but which isn’t so easily distributed by little cat paws! I think it’s just the shape of the little clay pieces that make it so easy to get everywhere!

Yes he’s a bit of a chonk but he’s my chonk. For context I have to 2 cats & my eldest tortie girl is as chiselled & sleek as a racehorse. He’s on a diet bless him

Meet Charlie

Hey, new to this sub. I have an about 8 month old rescue kitty that has been with us since about 5 months old. He loved the snacks that pets at home did before Xmas that were marked for kittens and cats. We've been weaning him gradually from kitten to adult food, around 50/50 at the minute. Do we have to still source kitten specific snacks, or will general adult ones do him fine? Thanks! Happy to add pics for cat tax if that's a thing here!

EDIT: MOUSSE not mouse

Our cats' poop stinks so much and it is probably worse because their food stinks. Whiskas is 4% chicken. I wouldn't eat chicken that is 4% chicken. I got them a fancy mousse as a treat and that's 46% meat of which only 26% is chicken.

I just want something that I feel good feeding my cats and isn't EXTREMELY expensive. I would even make my own cat food at home if there was an all in one supplement powder I could add into the gravy to make sure they got all they needed.

We have a light-coloured longhaired cat with very fine, curly fur which sticks fast to certain fabrics. I am getting bored of lint-rollering things but feel obliged to on work clothes because the fluff really is obvious on dark clothes. Has anyone come across anything that actually works to collect/trap the fur and stop so much of it ending up on clothes?

We have already cleaned the lint trap and run a cleaning cycle, so I think the washing machine is alright and the remaining fluff is just being re-introduced on worn clothes.

My two six month kittens have had poo problems since they were about 3 months old. Ruled out everything except clostridium last month and prescribed 6 week course of antibiotics each.

Since picking up the antibiotics, a lot of the issues pretty much resolved and their poos have been virtually normal for a few weeks, so I never started the antibiotics.

Yesterday evening one of them was sick. It was clear and foamy and I didn’t think anything of it cos cats are sick sometimes. Then she was sick again an hour later. Then she went really quite lethargic and I started to grow a little concerned. Then her sister was sick and I thought something isn’t right here.

Took them to the emergency vets who said the lethargic one had a mild temp and both had slightly “tender” stomachs (I think that’s the word she used) but other than that there wasn’t any glaring concerns so she gave them an anti sickness and sent us home. She said she couldn’t rule out a blockage with the tender stomachs but to keep an eye on them. This morning they both perked up completely. No more sick, eating and drinking great and playing like usual. I’ve been home all day and this evening it dawned on me that they haven’t pooped since yesterday. The first one to be sick did do a poop yesterday evening but the other one I don’t remember, it might be yesterday morning. They’ve both always been two a day poopers.

I’m going away tomorrow morning and have a cat sitter coming to stay over from around 4pm (then checking in over Saturday and Sunday) but i feel so anxious in case it’s something bad that I’m just not picking up on. I think my main concern is a blockage.

Vomiting is not a common symptom with clostridium and it’s really strange that neither have ever been sick until yesterday.

Any advice for me? At what point should I worry? If it’s a blockage, would their symptoms be getting progressively worse as I’m not eating, drinking, lethargy etc?

Hi guys! Just wondering if anyone has successfully found a way to reduce fluff and fur on laundry. I am STRUGGLING with my two fluff-gubbins and shedding season!

I love their little fluffy glitter they leave me… but I feel I’m single-handedly keeping the lint roller suppliers in business 😂

Saw this poster whilst visiting Chesham a few days ago :( Thought I could help somehow. If any of you live nearby keep a lookout.

We’ve re homed an indoor cat a couple weeks ago and he’s settling in really well, but every time I go to bed and he does his own thing, then at 2am he will come in and meow at me and inevitably sit on my pillow and head and lick my face. He just sits there almost on top of me, doesn’t settle down or anything. Eventually he’ll disappear and come back multiple times just to meow at me, if I get up and feed him he doesn’t want it.

His old family said he did this with them and grew out of it so I was hoping to just ignore him but the lack of sleep is getting too much. I’ve started closing my door to look closed but actually he could push it open, and he stays outside and doesn’t try to open it at all. There’s some meowing but not that bad.

We imagined he would sleep with us at night, like my childhood cat did, so we don’t actually want to lock him out if we don’t have to.

So my questions - is it cruel to keep him out of the bedroom when we’re in a one bed flat? I don’t want him to get bored and because it’s open plan kitchen and living room he’s basically just in one room. Or can he really grow out of sitting on my head at 2am every morning, and is it worth just waiting it out?

Hi guys, posting here to hopefully avoid the death threats and paragraphs about “abusing my cats” by allowing them outside during the day :’).

I’ve got two 6 month old neutered/spayed kitties in Scotland and I’m wondering if anyone has any insight on if I should get an airtag collar? It is a bit costly as opposed to just an engraved break-away collar but if anyone has experience with them I’d love some insight. (The tabby is male and his name is Rigatoni, and the Tuxedo cat is female and her name is Macaroni btw)

UPDATE: FOUND!!! Well, when I say found.. He just turned up like most of you said lol
Incase anybody else comes across this and needs advice these are the things we did (With advice from you guys)and things i've learnt.

1: Put out his cat litter into the front garden. 2: Hung out unclean washing from myself and wife. 3: Posted on facebook groups, local community groups etc. Do not be suprised if they delete your posts or you get people messing about. 4: We started to put up posters BUT as we were we spotted him. He ran off etc but at least we saw him. As we live in a ring estate we knew he was in the area so we stopped putting up posters. We were lucky enough to have multiple ppl looking out for him so kept getting location updates. We'd head off to that area with food and sit there for a bit. As a user said below DONT try and grab him. We decided to just let him know we were still about. 5: We found he normally stayed by the park/lake (it's a few min walk from the house) One night at 2am I decided to (with gloves) take a bag of his old cat litter around the estate throwing handfull of the grit making a path from the park to our house. A day or two later we started to spot him around this corner of the road. It could have been a coincidence but.. ya never know. 6: Another amazing bit of advice from below was try not to feed him and ask people not to feed him. In the end this is how we got him! He randomly showed up at the door meowing to come in. He ran straight in and to his food.

Once again I can't thank all of you enough <3 Thank you from the bottom of my heart and my wifes heart <3

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question.

We have a 12yo cat and he is really attached to us especially my wife. We used to let him out and he'd wonder around and explore the old neighborhood but he'd never spend the night out. We ended up moving (300 miles away)from Birmingham to Somerset a year and a half ago into a house with a bigger garden. We ended up netting the garden off and we'd let him out and he loves it. Sadly two months ago the fence came down in a storm and since then he's been a 'house cat'. He hates every second of it lol it was just until we could afford to refit the fence (this month).

Sadly a friend came into the house and stupidly left the door open and now he's gone. We stupidly chased him and he ran. We managed to catch a glimpse of him last night but he wouldn't come near us. I've read online that if they do this chances are they've had enough of you/the house/family etc and just want to find a new place to live and won't return. Is this true? I am literally crying and have been fohr the past 12 hours. It's cold outside 3-5c

Maybe it's just my anxious brain and this is 'normal' and I can't think straight.

Even though he's never been out around here will he be able to find his way back?

He's chipped etc we left the windows up all night and his old cat flap but sadly he didn't come in.

Update: My wife went out looking today. She spent two hours near the house and an hour driving around. She gave up and on her way home drove down the road next to us (2-3min walk) and he was chilling on a fence lol. Sadly, she got out of the car and he looked at her and jumped down into the garden. She asked the person if she could just come in and see if she could get him to which the neighbour said "No. It's just a cat".-_- It's worried us a little because ever since he was a kitten he was attacked to my wifes side. He'll literally walk around aimlessly if she leaves the house for longer than a few hours. It's VERY odd for him to run away from her.

While we don't have him back we're SO relived; 1: He hasn't walked two miles down the road and onto the motorway (M5). 2: He's stayed in the same area. 3: He seemed really relaxed and happy.

When I get home i'm going to go have a hunt for him.

Hello, I'm trying to make the best decision for my cat (and male cats in the area) and get my cat spayed she's an indoor cat around 15lb.

The male cats are fighting and constantly surrounding my home , two in particular are standing guard outside our home and refuse to stop fighting despite my efforts to seperate and chase them off. I've contacted the vet we are registered with and they've quoted me £170. I've phoned three other local vets who charge £155- £165. This is just the cost of the operation and GA but doesn't include any follow up medication she may need.

I'm here not to ask medical advice but to ask if these prices sound about right and if anyone has any advice on where to contact perhaps for reduced rates? I've also contacted our local(ish) student vet hospital which is University of Glasgow but they've stated it would be a more reasonable price of £112 but to note there would be additional charges of vet consultation etc so would amount to around £160 + meds.

Further context is I'm a single mum. I've not long graduated from uni. I am now in full-time employment and earn above the 25k threshold SSPCA and Cat protection offer for their voucher/schemes and I am not in receipt of any benefits (with the exception of child benefit and reduced council tax) However, as I've racked up approx 14k in credit card and loan debt in living costs from my 5 years of studying I don't have the £150-170 (plus medication) to pay but I'm trying to make the right decision here.

Again, not looking for medical advice on Pros and cons of spaying but advice on the how and where?

Just started my cat on this food, thanks to reading a post from someone here and its made such a difference to my cats energy and him in general. It was a bit of an adjustment for him to like it to start with but now he cleans his bowl every time because before I was throwing away so much food. If anyone wants to try it here’s my link to get 50% off your first two week trial https://katkin.mention-me.com/m/ol/ln2ui-efd039b538

Not sponsored or anything just genuinely really impressed how well he’s doing on it so far!

Picture for cat tax!

I'm confused about the serving sizes for the above. The carton it comes in contains 4 tubs, but the carton itself says you're supposed to feed 5 a day. Why would say to feed 5 but only provide 4? 5 seems excessive to me, anyone feed their cat the same thing?

Hi all, just getting my catio outfitted now spring is hopefully finally on the way!

Looking for entertainment and lounging options please

Got my eye on a couple tunnels because both of mine love them, but eager to learn from anyone’s experiences for additional options

Really hoping for an outside cat tree but they don’t seem to be much of a thing. I’ve found a wooden one that I think could work if I protect the wood but if there are any in existence happy to go for it

The catio is made of heras fence panels, I really want to install stuff like ropes, shelves etc up and down it if possible-has anyone done similar please?

Finally they do both like being outside so planning on a couple little wooden outside houses (they have full access to inside! They’re never locked out!) but I want to make them warm and cosy, I know straw is about the best lining but I’ve a bunch of the insulation from HelloFresh, wondering if I could do anything with that?

Thanks in advance for any assistance