Hi, I'm looking to buy my cat some new stuff, she needs a new litter box,a new cat tree and I want to get her some new toys as she seems a bit bored with her old ones, but honestly it's a bit of a bill to do so does anyone know any sites where I can buy her stuff for cheap??? I've looked on Amazon but honestly the cheapest thing that I think she would like is still a bit much, any obscure bidding sites or other suggestions are appreciated.

Ok so I just had to put my 14 year old Labrador that I got to witness being born pulling him out of the birthing sack being put to sleep 3 days ago. And now I can’t help but spiral over the choice I made to put him down. He would have strokes that the doctors the Vet veterinarians had said were mainly due to the old age. He’s strokes were not related to the epilepsy that he has. And I can just tell that it wasn’t fair to allow him to go on with all the other symptoms that he was exhibiting. So I made the appointment to have him put down the next day after having his king meal of a medium rare top sirloin steak for dinner . but taking him into the office, he was highly agitated at being in the vets office, which was not his favorite place.

They gave him a sedative to calm him down because he was extremely agitated and wouldn’t lay down and would not rest while waiting for whatever was to happen to happen. I don’t think the vet allowed the sedative to 100% fully kick in because shortly then after she started to administer the medication to complete him being gone. I was with him the whole time I did not want him to be feeling abandoned or left alone, so I stayed up by his face, and as they were injecting the final injection into him, he started crying out like howling. I guess you can say, and that totally broke my heart even more Than the reason why we were already there. I have witnessed five of my dogs been put down and they were all very easy, put downs. They didn’t struggle they didn’t cry. They just went peacefully to sleep, and this was not the case with my latest dog. It makes me wonder if something went wrong or maybe I had the timing wrong and he had more time with me than I thought for why he began to cry and-howl. It actually really broke my heart more to see it done this way because I had had him moments after he was born. Maybe it is the grief talking about how unfair everything is and how much it really sucked trying to have to do such a thing in a humane way, but it really felt like he was in pain trying to be put down peacefully . Anyone with this experience was I wrong? Do these things just happen? Google says sounds can be a reaction to the medication….. but I’m thinking it was not his time to go and I did it anyway? Any advice????

My cat is an opera singer (I am desperate)

My cat is 3 and a half. Since the beginning she has been extremely vocal, even after being neutered, but I always hoped she would chill with time. Her meowing is still so loud and persistent that I can hear it from the street even though I live in a 4th floor. She will meow like this for hours everyday, sometimes even at night. Last night I played with her for 30 minutes before going to bed, but she still woke me up meowing at 2 am, and has spent a few hour crying this morning. I am so tired of this and I don't know what to do. I try my best to play with her a few times everyday and i have an automatic feeder. Adopting a second cat is not an option right now. What worries me is that in one month I begin my medical residency, which involves 24 hour shifts 1-2 times per week. I live with my mom who is also very tired of the cat and they don't get on well at all. Recently, she bit my mother's hand, the wound got infected and required antibiotics. As much as I have tried to educate my mom on the right way to play with her, she doesn't get it. And to be fair, adopting the cat was my decision and my mother agreed to make me happy, so I should be able to take full responsibility. I feel like a slave to my cat. And even then, we have an awful quality of sleep. I know many people who have cats but nobody is struggling so damn much, some even say that they only play with their cat every once in a while. I really envy them. She is neutered, but is it possible that the procedure wasn't done correctly? This behavior happenes pretty much every month, except for a few calm weeks here and there.

I am very sad because I love her very much and want her to be happy but this is taking a toll on our mental and physical-health. I am considering rehoming her, tring to find a new owner that could deal with her, but I am terrified of the process. What if someone takes her but also isn't able to take good care of her? I would miss her so much but st the same time I feel so relieved thinking about the peace, quiet and the sleep... This situation is making me so depressed.

Hey everyone!

I took my SENIOR cat to the vet today because his drool I noticed had some blood in it. He wasnt eating as much but was still really active and invested in food.I wasn't worried at first, I thought maybe he just bit his tongue or something but I took him to the vet to be sure. They saw a huge tongue ulcer on him! They didn't give me any pain medication sadly because he's so old that they worried about it. After I took him to the vet I left for work for a few hours, came home and he's bleeding bright red from his mouth all over the darn place. He still seems totally unbothered?? He was even grooming himself with...blood coming out... gonna need a bath later on but will deal with that another day. He also was walking around and purring. Overall being a active good boy. I gave him cold milk, put ice in his water and the antibiotics the vet gave in wet food but I'm just worried about the consistent blood coming out. It's been about two hours... like at what point do we go to the hospital? I've sequestered him to the bathroom with a bed, towels, all the cool drinks/wet food he could want to he's comfy as he drools. Should I get a second opinion? Is this normal? How long does this last usually??

I’m a 22-year-old male. I got my kitten from a shelter around 15th November 2024. He was approximately 2 months and 5 days old at the time.

On 26th December 2024, I developed tonsillitis for the first time in my life. I visited a doctor, was prescribed a 5-day course of medication, and I felt significantly better — no fever or major symptoms — and completed the course. By around 10th January 2025, I felt almost fully recovered.

However, on 15th February 2025, I developed tonsillitis again. The doctor mentioned that it likely recurred because I wasn’t completely healed the first time and didn’t follow up properly.

Then on 26th March 2025, I started with fever and cold, which soon progressed to mucus in the lungs, and now I'm experiencing cough with snot. After doing some research, I found out this might be the early stage of bronchitis. I visited the doctor two days ago and was prescribed a 5-day course, which I’m currently taking.

These episodes have been recurring over the last few months.

For context: I generally have a weak immune system and tend to catch infections and fevers every 2–3 months. But the frequency and recurrence of my symptoms have increased noticeably.

Could all of this be due to cat dander?

Hi! I have a corgi mix who is awkwardly shaped. Has a very wide ribcage and narrow shoulders. Harnesses and collars just slip right off.Does anyone have any recommendations?

My cat is a black, short-hair male, 11 years old. It may or may not be relevant, but he got out and was side-swiped by a car about 6 years ago and the vet said his hips were knocked out of alignment a bit but that they would heal on their own.

He started having diarrhea about 3 months ago, but his stools were probably loose for a while before that and I just didn’t notice as much until he started going outside the box.

He’s had a full work-up at the veterinarian. He did have pancreatitis and was treated with cerenia and an antibiotic. Nothing else showed wrong. No thyroid or liver issues, no parasites, nothing. Follow up bloodwork showed the pancreatitis resolved. Doctor put him on Hills ID food. I’ve given him a combo of the wet and dry versions.

I’ve spent probably $1000 on vet care going back and forth. The doctor ordered a second round of cerenia but I literally could not get the cat to take it. He’s been incredibly resistant to it. I crushed it and put it in a little liquid and gave it to him with a syringe and he really jacked me up the last time I tried. Scratches everywhere, he knocked his head into my front tooth (really hurt) and none got in his mouth. My 21 yo daughter is stronger than me and she was able to do it at first, but now she can’t either.

It never seemed to help anyway.

Do you think doing something dietary can help with the diarrhea? And I suspect he wants to poo on paper. Will changing to a paper-based litter help?

I noticed after giving my dog native pet for about a month that she has foul smelling liquid coming from her rear. Never happened before giving her native pet daily vitamin and it smells fishy just like the vitamin. Do I need to take her to a vet or should I just let the vitamin work its way out of her system.

I have a tabby who is thankfully very easy to catch since she’s indoor only. Next door neighbor keeps working dogs in the backyard with no training or social interaction. Yesterday, I came home to an already-matted as fuck standard poodle instead of a cattle dog.

And today, I heard the unmistakable screams of a cat being mauled to death from that yard and had to make sure my cat was okay (she was mad about being snuggled too tight but otherwise fine).

Should I call animal control? I don’t want the dogs to suffer, but the cattle dog has mysteriously disappeared, and I have personal contact info for the heroes who run a local rescue

ETA: turns out animal control and the local police are the same number. And reporting animal neglect and abuse is “a waste of time and city resources” as of a year ago when I went straight to the cops over the dogs being left outside when it was over 100 degrees out. Fuck this city and fuck my neighbors.

My rat cage is in my bedroom and my father opened the door and let them run out. I have two rats, one if which i can pick up and call over with ease, but the other is VERY skittish and runs all the way across the room at the slightest sound or movement, im trying to work with her on it but in this moment i have no idea how to get her back in while shes already out in my room. Please help?when i pick her up shes able to squirm and scratch her way out of my hands quickly each time

We have 3 dogs, a 5yo small/medium mutt, at 3yo small shihtzu x schnauzer and a 1yo XL lab x Dane. Our first two dogs get along and play really well and most of the time get along with our big guy aswell, they walk together and when they’re all calm they do really well just hanging out and cuddling. But anytime play is involved (especially in our house where there isn’t heaps of room for them to zoom around) our big guy is a bit overzealous and gets in their face. He really just wants to play with them, and he’s gotten a lot better in some aspects, for example, he lies down to play with them now rather than standing over them, and he is getting much better with recall, when we say he’s being too much.

But he’s not very good at reading their cues, he licks their faces a lot and steals toys and is just generally a bit of a bully when he’s overexcited. At the moment he’s on a lead pretty much all the time so we can pull him away and correct the behaviour, unless we’re in the yard, and then he’s on a long line but doesn’t really need it because there’s heaps of room for them to all run around. but I don’t know if he actually understands what he’s doing wrong or he thinks he’s just getting in trouble for wanting to play. We don’t want to just leave it to the older dogs to correct him, because they’re so much smaller than him and he’s intimidating, it’s just not their job and we think it’s a bit unfair that they should have to deal with it.

Any advice on this would be super helpful.

Edit- budget is 200/250

What litter box and why? I want to upgrade to a self cleaning one but don’t want the super cheap one and not the super expensive one something in the middle.

My dog has had very hard poops and when I took him out this morning he was straining so hard that I needed to massage his backside so he could get the poop out. Are there any foods I can give him that will help with his constipation besides pumpkin?

The animal shelter spayed my female puppy at around 2 months old. My vet was concerned on how this could affect her development. Is there anything, even small, that I can do to help her while she matures

Hi

I currently live in a decently sized two story town house where I had two cats, one male and one female. I’ve had both cats for around 5-7 years.

They’ve never been best buds. My male cat was quite territorial and, while he didn’t attack or be violent with my female cat, he would swat at her or hiss if she got in his personal space. He did this with almost everyone and everything except for me. I found them cuddling together maybe 2-3 times in the entire 5-7 years that i’ve owned them.

My female cat is an independent woman. She has always hung out downstairs and done her own thing: she doesn’t sleep in my bed with me, and she rarely comes upstairs unless i call for her or carry her up there. She’s not afraid it, she comes upstairs on her own accord from time to time but i genuinely think she just enjoys having her space and wants to sleep where she pleases.

All of that said, I recently had to put down the older male cat unexpectedly. From my female cat’s perspective, he just disappeared.

I now have an overwhelming fear that my female cat will become depressed or is confused at where her brother is. She hasn’t been acting any differently, but she’s always been a bit of a loner so it’s hard to tell. She still whines for me to pet her and begs for me to pick her up and put her on my shoulder for cuddles, and doesn’t seem affected. But i can’t shake the feeling that she is lonely during the day when i’m at work, or that she’s feeling an internal turmoil that i can’t see.

So my question is what are the chances that she is or could become depressed? Should i do anything about this? I think most of the fear comes from just losing a cat and not wanting to lose another but I just want to be sure that i’m keeping my current cat in the best condition.

i’m holding back tears as im typing this i genuinely don’t know what to do. recently my grandmother’s picker up a stray that’s very used to being an outdoor cat. i’ve tried explaining that we can’t just let him out of the house and everytime i’m told “it’s what he likes” instead of anyone taking me seriously. yesterday i was panicked because it was storming and he wasn’t here and today’s hes finally come home with what looks like an injury from fighting with another cat(or any other animal?), his ear damaged. when i suggested we take him to the vet everyone said we could do it a different day but i just can’t. i don’t even know what i’m asking but i just want to know what to do.

ano magandang stroller for mid dogs? yung affordable sana (i can’t decide kung ano bibilhin ko since first time ko at ayoko ma scam sa tela na sinasabi nilang durable)

Hi love, my dog and I love my cat so much. They are both the sweetest animals that I’ve ever met. My cat is about 10 years old and my dog is almost 8 we got my cat before my dog and once we got my dog, they were friends, but after we moved and got another dog that chased the cat suddenly my cat hates my dog now. I really want them to like each other so that I can have both of them with me at the same time without the other freaking out and running away.my cat also rarely ever comes out of the room that has her litter box and her food and water because she doesn’t want to be chased by the dogs. I don’t know what to do. Please help.

Sorry, not sure how to flair this since it's cat and two dogs.

My cat (male, fixed, indoor) and my dogs (females, fixed, indoor) have had a long standing ritual of licking each other like they would their own kinds, intensely. Sometimes the receiving party doesn't want it and leaves, so they have the option to do so, even if it pisses the cat off.

My worry is germs, as stupid as that's sounds. I'd it safe for them to clean each other? I've never had cats until a year ago when I got him, so I'm honestly just not sure.

Thanks!

Hi all, I recently came across a 2 year old male black lab on Facebook who is being given away for free. I do have experience with lab mixes. The dog is not neutered and has had 2 litters so far. If we decide to adopt him, my partner and I will get him neutered. We live in a house whose previous owner had a cat that heavily peed in multiple spots. The floors were professionally cleaned, but my partner still gets whiffs of cat urine. We are concerned about the likelihood of the dog being more territorial since he's mated, specifically if he's more likely to mark his territory. Has anyone had experience with this? Thanks in advance <3

So I have a almost 5 month old kitten and she has won't stop biting, I saw ppl say to spank the cat, not hard enough to hurt but enough to give the message. And I tried but she thinks I'm playing with her. So I tried a spray bottle and it worked for a day but she jst carried on with biting. She was taken from her mother early so I think that has some effect on it. Any suggestions??

Edit: Thank you all so much for the advice, I'm using it as much as I can. And I wasn't aware of how spanking/spraying can negatively affect her since all the people in my area say that's how they trained their cats (I live in a old fashioned Afrikaans community so it's common to hit disobedient pets or children here). So far she is better, she won't bite me but she still scratches me A LOT so I'ma just buy claw caps bcs I'm scared to trim her nails since I think I might trim too short and hurt her

Second edit: Also she wouldn't have been socialized as a kitten regardless because she is the only one in the litter who didn't pass away at 6 weeks. I know the owner of the mother and the sibling (she's my best friend so she just gave me my cat) and she said the other kittens were underdeveloped

My cat went into labour about 11 hours ago and only had one kitten. She still looks pregnant but I don’t know if she is. (This also isn’t her first litter.)

Additional information/idk if this is relevant: she constantly follows me now, and won’t leave to eat unless I go with her. I have water in the room for her and I’m going to bring food in, but that’s what it’s like right now.

Update 1: there are now two kittens, i think she still has one in there. She still doesn’t like when i leave, but I have to leave for school soon, and I’m hoping she’ll stay with the kittens.

Update 2: there are two, one unfortunately died. Mama seems calm, but I know that’s how cats are. We buried her outside, and I am still crying a bit.

Update 3: I think she is rejecting one, but it’s not 100% clear yet.

Update 4: i think the one she rejected died, but she’s keeping it with her.

Update 5: the one she rejected is dead, one is going strong, mama is caring for it kinda, but still ignoring it sometimes to sleep next to me.

Ive had my cat now for about three years and all of a sudden she stopped using her litter box, she is a shelter cat and seems like she may have come from a abusive situation before that because she is super scared of everything but sometimes for a week or so at a time she will act less nervous and she will use her litter box when she is this way but ever so often she will start going into hiding and not use her litter box. I looked online and have tried most of what I could find that may help, I made sure I give her a littler she has had most of the time I’ve had her and I’ve always kept her litter box scooped at least every other day but started scooping more often to see if that helps and I have also taken the cover off the box to make sure she isn’t scared of it being enclosed. she is the only inside cat but I have a outside cat that doesn’t like to have other cats around and when she first stopped using the litter box I tried to put her outdoors occasionally to see if they could life outside without getting territorial but they didn’t really get along well enough so I don’t know what to do because I can’t have her go out side as an outdoor indoor cat and I can’t let her pee in my floor but I certainly want to keep her if at all possible please give me advice idk what to do 😔 She has been to the vet for regular check ups and I have asked them, they haven’t found anything that would be causing her to act this way other then her being scared

Hello! Im trying to get in contact with a Vet but the system is extremely slow and it may be a couple days before I hear back. Can someone help me understand this?

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confident interpretation. If the rare adipocytes observed are representative of the lesion, a lipoma may

be considered a potential differential. However, the paucity of cells precludes confident interpretation

as such based on this slide. Repeated aspiration may be beneficial, but this may represent a poorly

exfoliating neoplasm requiring histopathology for further characterization. If you would like to repeat

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to moderately atypical spindle cells. Spindle cells collected from a spindle cell tumor/soft tissue

sarcoma can appear similar to spindle cells collected from an area of reactive fibroplasia secondary to

inflammation/tissue remodeling. In this case, differentiation between a benign or malignant mass cannot

be made based on the slides alone. Given the low sample cellularity, repeated aspiration may be

beneficial clinically. However, this may represent poorly exfoliating neoplasia requiring histopathology

for confirmation/further characterization.

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droplets, and rare mature adipocytes, and scant keratin debris. No significant inflammatory populations,

infectious organisms, or significant populations of cells displaying prominent criteria of malignancy are

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