Trilling; is it always positive? Without getting too in depth my newer cat is following my resident around my apartment like her shadow - always staying just a few feet away - making these trilling sounds constantly. From what it looks like to me it appears my newbie really wants to play with my resident, but since I’ve never really experienced this specific behavior before I just want to be sure that is the case

We just bought a farm in a very rural area. 2 cats were left behind. They are not feral. They were obviously someone’s pets that were abandoned. One will come in the house, eat and relax but leaves for most of the day and the entire night. She comes back in the morning for breakfast. The second cat wants to be with me or my husband all day and night. But she jumps on us at night. We have indoor dogs; And she will fight the dogs while they are trying to sleep. So we’ve been putting her out at night. Can I leave her in the house and have her sleep in her crate?

The Birman is a new female kitten we got 5 days ago, the white one is our 8 months old resident male cat. He’s extremely curious about her and stalks her everywhere, only hissed on the first day, never growled or showed any aggression since. We kept them seperated for a while and fed them on both sides of the door, did the site swapping and everything seemed fine, but as soon as we put them in the same room things became tense. He really hates being locked out of the bedroom which is why we rushed through the steps (he keeps meowing and scratching the door). She’s constantly growling and hissing at him and he’s following her everywhere. Idk what to do. Some people told me to let them interact and they’ll get used to each other, but our resident cat keeps bothering her and she won’t sleep or use the litter box with him around.

I have a 14 month old son and my 10 year old male cat suddenly started peeing on his toys and clothes. He will only pee on my son’s items. If I keep my son’s items hidden and his door shut my cat does not have any issues but the moment the door to my sons room is open or a toy is forgotten on the floor my cat will pee on it. My son is running now and does catch and play with the cats but my cat has never acted scared or clawed or anything. Is this normal behavior? Any advice to stop this?

Hi everyone, I new to this so please be kind but don't sugar coat. I just adopted a cat 1 year and 8 months now last February. She had a quick adjustment period to me and the studio we live in. But still getting used to loud neighbors and random sound. She sleep plenty and does run around. I took her to the vet last month for a checkup because the adoption agency didn't have good medical history for her at the time. She generally healthy but is over weight. I do my best to play with her but with my work schedule and off days I'll admit I'm pretty tired to play so I let her run around and play alone. I give lots of pets and even hold her while lying in bed. She gets feed a least 3 times a day and a few treats. I groom her and brush her teeth everyday. The time we do play it's usually for about an 1hr sometimes 2 truthfully mostly on my off days at night. Mostly she running around due to zoomies. I'm constantly worried about her health making sure she not depressed and feels lonely. Even though I think she is becoming depressed with no one to really entertain her. I wish I could get her a play mate but we don't have room. If she does a random behavior like hiding for no reason and flopping on the floor is getting concerned that something is wrong.

Please any advice would help me be better. I know there is no such thing as a perfect parent but it my first time having a pet

this is a repost from cathelp but i can't tell if my orange cat is being bullied or if he's just not used to playing with other cats

for context, orange is a neutered male, 9 months old and the black one is female, 5-6 years old and unspayed. we recently adopted her about 2 weeks ago and will be sending her in for spay soon. orange has never been socialized with other cats prior to this because he was abandoned as a kitten

we did step by step introductions and everything and by day 3 they sniffed noses and were eating side by side so we thought they were all good. my orange cat used to try to play with her tail a lot but after receiving feedback (hissing) he just lets her be now. she usually sleeps all day and doesn't care about orange until it's her midnight zoomies time, then she'll do stuff like this:

is she trying to play or assert dominance...? i have no idea, and should i redo introductions? any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks

I have an old arthritic cat (15) with diabetes. She’s had bouts of going inside and outside the box but the past week she has exclusively pooped anywhere but the box. She started by doing a small poop in the box then getting out of the box and doing the rest of her poop. The poops are not consistently in one place and I have no other pets or apparent stressors.

I have tried a million things

• all boxes are uncovered
• she’s been to the vet, no UTI, she has pancreatitis but it is controlled well by prebiotics and probiotics (poops are good quality, not constipated)
• she is on a gluten free high protein diet which aligns with all vet recommendations for diabetic cats and her glucose is relatively stable
• I buy Dr. Elseys cat Attract litter (this worked for a few weeks) and know she prefers clay litter which is what I have bought
• I’ve tried the stuff you sprinkle on top of liter - - ⁠I clean the box 2x a day
• she has 3 boxes all spread out among the 2 floor house
• they are all low entry boxes so this should not be her arthritis
• the boxes are in corners/ away from high traffic areas
• 95% of the house is carpet and I clean it with enzyme spray every time
• give her treats every time she goes inside the litter box for positive reinforcement

She used to walk all the way downstairs to poop on the floor downstairs but since I closed it off now only poops on the floor upstairs.

I can’t really put aluminum foil or cover the floor since I share a house with 3 other people

I’m so frustrated of waking up in the middle of the night with the scent of feces because she’s pooped somewhere she shouldn’t. Please help!

My grandpa recently gave me a canary (he has a bunch) and I'm pretty new to owning birds, ive already had him for about a month, and I noticed my cat tried to attack him through his cage (I took the cat out of the room since it was a test) and I was wondering if there are any ways to make my cat stop, I know it's an instinct so it's probably either impossible or very hard, but the bird stays in my room and I would love to be able to also sleep with my cat in the room! Also, if it isn't possible, is the anything I could do that would technically "hide" the bird from him if I feel like having him in my room?

Ps: giving the bird back to my grandpa is NOT an option, I already REALLY love the little guy and I also wouldn't wanna make my grandpa sad! so if it is impossible I'll just either not let my cat in my room (which is sad but yeah) or find another room to put the bird in when the cat is on my room (which I can't right now, but where on the process of finding a house to buy so it's possible someday) I also posted this inac bird Community!

Hey y’all, we have a 9 month old male kitten. We’ve had him for 5 months. He looks like a ragdoll but is a rescue and I’m sure is just a mix of many things. While kitten behavior like being destructive at times, the zoomies, etc is normal, the last two weeks each morning he wakes us all up SCREAMING. He has food (gravity feeder) and water (gravity water) readily available. His box gets cleaned each morning and sometimes in the evening too if needed. He will scream from the moment we get up until we get dressed and haul the kids to school and go to work. He just had a vet visit a week ago and no visible issues. No digestive issues, no hairballs, no injuries. He only does this in the morning.

We did just start baseball/softball/tball practice and games so we’re gone more in the evenings. Is this just him hollering at us to get up bc we’re gone so much then pretty much come home, eat, shower, and go to bed? Should I be looking for some other signs? Is he just lonely?

Thanks in advance!

My cat is 7 years old and for the last 2 months he won't stop pooping on the bed and couch. Me and my husband thought it was a cleaning problem so we clean the litter box every day now. We have 1 litter box by our bed and one in our living room (1 bed apartment). He kept pooping on the bed and couch

He has a sensitive stomach and is getting close to senior age so we thought it was the food and switched to a healthier brand for him that's good for senior cats. Still poops on the bed and couch.

This morning he took a dump on the couch and I assume he tried to bury it and ended up dragging my switch into it. I don't know what else to do. He has no behavior problems and drinks plenty of water. I dont yell or scold him when we see it because it's clearly been sitting there for a bit by the time we notice and he wouldn't understand what he's in trouble for. The times that we do catch it right after it happens we place him in the litter box to try to get him to understand.

We do use pine pellets as litter so maybe it's too rough for his feet? I can use some advice if anyone has been through something similar

Hi everybody!

We have a 10 month old male cat, we had him since he was 3 months old.

After a few mishaps (poop/pee on the bed roughly once per month) we discovered that he will not use the litter box even if it has one clump in it. So that means scooping the box after every use, which is nearly impossible. We tried adding the second litter box, but because of the small space we decided to invest in a litter robot.

He used the litter robot just fine for about a month (automatic cleaning about 5 minutes after every use, a cleaning cycle taking about 3-4 minutes). After a month of successful use, he started pooping again on the bed every time the litter robot is doing the cleaning cycle. We tried delaying the start of the cleaning to up to 60 minutes, scheduling 4 cleans/day instead of automatic cleaning, but that means either: 1. he poops on the bed while the robot is cleaning (I don’t understand why he doesn’t learn to just hold it for 3-4 minutes) 2. there is a pee clump in the robot and he poops on the bed because of the dirry litter

Adding a second, classic litter bix next to the robot makes him prefer the classic one, and the robot remains unused, bringing us back to the start of the problem.

We are first time cat owners, we would gladly appreciate any suggestions!! Thanks!

My cat is 1.5 years old, neutered, indoor only, and the only cat I have. He has never sprayed until recently in the past month or so. I first noticed it after i got home from vacation and i thought maybe he was just mad at me for going away, but now its been a month and he’s still doing it. I live in an apartment in a house that has a lot of cats, but my cat very rarely has contact with them. He only sprays in my bedroom on my clothes (in a laundry basket, an open dresser drawer, in my closet). I’m not sure what has caused this because there have been hardly any changes to his environment in the past few months and the other cats have always been there as long as i’ve had him but i haven’t had this issue before. He uses the litter box regularly as well. Ive been cleaning the areas he sprays with enzymatic cleaners as well, but it doesn’t deter him. I’ve bought a feliway diffuser to see if that will help but any suggestions would be appreciated.

My cat is female and 5 months old she does this trick where she chews/sucks on the inner part of her leg and “makes bread” I have no idea why?? Is it a medical reason? Could anyone tell me?

They‘re living together since they‘re born (6 years ago). The small brown one always is doing that to the bigger one.

I haven’t had this cat long her name is mellow I got her in the end of January/beginning of February from a lady who had told me she was fixed (she obviously is not). Once I saw mellows belly getting bigger I brought her to the vet because I’ve heard where a big belly can mean many other dangerous things. The vet said she seemed very healthy and the main 2 things that can cause her to look like this is constipation or pregnancy but she poops and eats fine so he started to listen to her belly for heartbeats but he didn’t hear any quite yet but he said wait 3 weeks to know which one it is for sure that was march 31st it’s now April 5th and im starting to see signs of pregnancy for sure but I’m not sure how far along she is since i thought she was fixed. She has started to be super clingy and when she lays on me I can feel thumping around her uterus and belly (as if something is kicking me) in 3 different places of her belly.

Could her babies really already be kicking before the vet could hear heartbeats? or am I tripping?

The new kitty just came into The apartments four days ago. She is very playful and curious about the older cat. At first, the older cat hid from her but is now interacting with her. However I don't understand if the older cat is being aggressive or doesn't know how to play. The older cat is about two years old and was taken from his family around six months. When I separate the kitten and the cat , the older cat meows for her. And the kitten wants to play more. So i'm not sure how to read their interactions. Please help. Thank you.

I kissed Claire’s paw…and then she smelled my wrists and delicately touched my lips with her paw. Can anyone decipher cat body language?

Hello, as the title reads, my new little boy (blue Russian) has been peeing on me the last week. I am aware that due to him being so young some of it could be incontinence but most of the time it seems very deliberate as he is only peeing on me and my blankets.

Is this normal? What can I do? Last night I had him in the bathroom with his litter, bed and food. Is this the right way to go about it? About 1 hr after letting him out, he started peeing on me again! I put him back into the bathroom for about 20 minutes.

I am just at a loss here. I'm doing laundry daily and I'm afraid I'll have to get a new bed now.

Any advice is helpful.

I know he was too young to be taken from his mother but I didn't have anything to do with that. He needed a home and I provided that.

This is Zeke he’s about 10 months old now (not neutered) I’ve had him most all of his life when I got him he was not in the best shape LONG STORY but so far all I know is he is part Siamese I’ve been told this breed was called a flame point “Siamese” but I don’t know much about that breed either except that I was told they are super energetic (which he is) So he runs around up and down the camper (which I currently live in) and screams, he’s super active I try to give him lots of things to do and spend time with him as much as possible he has two sisters to play with also he just runs into things and breaks stuff he loves to bite and no matter how many times you spray him with water he doesn’t stop doing what he’s doing. The question is that is this behavior just normal for this breed? Maybe it’s normal for a male not neutered? Or maybe my living situation is too small?

I have this cat for almost 4 months now , we were already informed that she has stomach issues and we give her specific food that was recommended however now we’re facing this issue where she poops outside the box and also sleeping with head on the floor Is this normal?? Please help

hi guys! i have two cats, both less than a year and sisters. we had them fixed a few months ago and they have 3 litter boxes cleaned daily and changed every few weeks. today (i don't kmow which ones) peed on two different beds in the span of a few hours. they've done this before but never twice in the same day, what do i do?

hi everyone,

my cat, ash- 8 year old female (pictured above)- won’t stop peeing on beds if she’s given the opportunity. i live in a house with my friend, his parents, and his grandma. in total there’s 7 cats in the house; three on the first floor, two on the second, and two on the third. there’s a bunch of easy access litter boxes all throughout the house that are clean. my friend and i live on the third floor with our two kittens, and ash lives on the first floor with his mom and grandma (plus the other two cats, that are all related somehow.) if ash is let upstairs and somehow makes her way to the third floor, and if one of our bedroom doors + the door to the third floor stairs is open, she’ll come and pee on our beds (we think she also manages to open the doors somehow.) she does the same thing on the first floor with my friends mom if her door is left open, even though all three of us have litter boxes in our room that are clean. she seems to be acting as normal as ever, she has pretty regular checkups at the vet too and as far as i know there’s no underlying issue with her health. is there any reason why she could be acting like this? it’s not necessarily a new thing, but it’s gotten worse. thank you!