Recent Content by Cyantaiga

My partner and I believe our boy Millie has some Siamese characteristics due to his ears and face shape (and his chattiness), but it’d be cool to know what others think!

This perception may have to do with a law of numbers: orange tabbies are very common, and in reality their personalities are highly variable, but the behavior that’s most likely to be captured and shared with others is when the cat is doing or has done something rather silly, ill-timed, or...

Nnnnooo... See, as I stated in my first post, I have already gone from towel to silicone tray mat to, currently, a plastic bin. I suppose my thread title is a tad misleading, but I would've hoped the body of the message had made it clear that I'm looking to upgrade his current dining spot into...

I wouldn't claim that my cat is the messiest eater in the world, but he's definitely the messiest eater I've ever seen! Since the day we got him, 13 years ago, he's always left a ring of kibble crumbs around his bowl. It only got worse a few years ago when he had to get one of his big bottom...

From what I've seen, I think they usually have two people for it - one to hold and soothe, and the other to do the actual clipping. Granted, I have a super-tolerant kitty who usually lets me trim his nails (as he gets cuddles out of it) without too much trouble, so the techs wouldn't have needed...

Yeah! I know I can sound a little combative/argumentative, but a lot of the suggestions everyone’s made has given me more avenues to explore (and even if some suggestions aren’t helpful for me, personally, they could still be helpful for somebody else with similar problems, so I consider that a...

It sounds to me like you’re trying to force interaction that the kitten just isn’t interested in. Generally speaking, the best way to bond with a cat is to just let the cat come to you. I’ve often found that the more I ignore a cat, the more that cat is actually interested in me. So just chill...

since y’all’ve been really helpful, I present an offering of pics of the gremlin in question:

Oh, since I mentioned elsewhere that he may have started out life with some possible cognitive impairment, I should explain: since we’ve had him, he’s displayed some possible but very mild traits of “wobbly cat syndrome” (he’s fallen out of windows and isn’t exactly the most graceful cat, but...

This cat has legit scaled a 10-foot wall just because he could. Granted, he was like two at the time and had maybe a 3-foot assist from a couch, but even recently, he's jumped cleanly from the ground onto my shoulder - and I'm 5'7". I have faith in his ability to scale even a 6-foot gate...

Lol EVERYONE loves this cat xD every time someone new meets him, they always wanna steal him :P We haven't, but only because we've done our own research into it, and as far as we've found, there's not a whole lot to be done about it other than keeping dangerous things out of his reach, which...

Oh, absolutely! I just don't know why he'd want to continue engaging in behaviors that he knows result in less attention... As far as anyone can tell, the issue was purely physical - ever since he's been on the prescription food, he hasn't had any bathroom issues at all, and the vomiting...

1) He purrs all the time, and has been that way since we adopted him. In his case, I don't think it's a stress response, because I have seen him stressed - he makes a very specific yowl to indicate it. As far as I can tell, the vet's office doesn't stress him out much, if at all - he readily...

I suppose I could get him his own special glass and test out what he might be preferring... (partner has a thing about germs, so I wouldn't want to use one of ours, and it needs to be distinct enough that he knows it's "his" glass and not that all glasses are fair game for him - give him an inch...

I suppose that's a possibility, though not a happy one. I'll look more into it, but since his behaviors are so far just somewhat annoying and still consistent with how he's always been, I probably won't bring it up to the vet unless it escalates or something new crops up. He may be 14, which is...