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Thank you for all the detailed responses! I really appreciate it. We have started feeding him in a separate room and thankfully he's so food motivated he will stay up there without a fuss and finish the whole plate. We do half hour timed feedings because Mo is weird and saunters in and out as he...

Hello, all! My cat Beaker has been in our family since February and he's making himself quite comfortable here, so much so that he's been eating everybody's food. We are a multi cat household (three total) and do timed eating sessions four times a day. We portion their servings, generally...

Thank you so much! I believe you might be right, we've had a few cats in our lifetime who've had the feline herpes virus. It usually presented as eye watering, but I could see it being linked to Beak's respiratory issues. He's a former street cat, so I'm not surprised if he has herpes. I also...

Hello everyone, So my newest fur child, Beak, is settling in nicely. Since adopting him in February he's had this weird congestion problem on and off. We initially thought upper respiratory, which blows through most animal shelters at a given time, so we took him to the vet for two visits...

Thank you, it helps to understand what's normal cat behavior. There were articles I had read online that would have me start back at square one based on Mo's behavior, but I thought that seemed extreme given they mostly coexist during the day. They even slept in one corner of the room on...

It's been almost two weeks since we adopted our youngest cat, Beaker. He's improved in leaps and bounds and getting to know him has been a treat. About a week ago we started integrating him into the rest of the household. He is playful and inquisitive, to a fault. Our oldest cat, Doodle has come...

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He is definitely aware of the other cats, I think he wants to meet them but they don't want to see him yet lol. I'm doing better. I think having someone to focus on helps a great deal. And he is affectionate, even though he occasionally swipes at me or nips me, I try to focus instead on how much...

Thanks for the suggestions! I like the idea of playing soft music to help soothe him. He sat in my lap today which was nice, but he goes between wanting pets and then being put off by them, it's kind of a roller coaster. Likewise when we're playing I'm not always sure if we're having a good time...

Hello! Things have been busy, I meant to follow up. Hubs ended up sleeping in the office with him, it helped quite a bit. As soon as we'd leave the room our poor cat would go into a kind of panic mode and just wail. Even if we weren't leaving the room, but only turning our backs to get...

When my cat Gimli was young something happened to him to make him very afraid of wearing his collar. I'll never know what it was. He had been wearing one since late kitten hood and then one day I come home and it's off. I tried to put it back on and he flipped. Near as I can tell it got hooked...

I adopted another cat yesterday and I think he might be struggling with anxiety as he's been crying all night long. It's currently three am and I'm pretty wrecked. Hubby's up, too. I think I understand why he's this way, so I don't blame him. I can sympathize, after losing my cat Gimli (my best...

I lost two of my babies this year within six months of one another, for entirely different reasons, and they were 8 and 7 years old. Although I've loved and said goodbye to five cats before in my lifetime, I'm never used to it. But I will say that each one has affected me in different ways. I've...

When my cat, Gimli, got sick I told my husband that if I lose him I don't want another cat. I swore up and down it couldn't be possible, but I'm finding my feelings on the topic have changed since losing Gimli to his unknown illness. My original position was that I could never love a cat like I...

I adopted an adult cat several months ago and I have no idea what he's going to be like around my numerous Christmas trees. My hope is that he sticks with his routine of eating and sleeping lol. Hopefully my basement reno will be finished soon so that I can house my cats in the basement, then...

I just want to thank everyone for their kind and supportive words. It's been very comforting. I went away on a vacation with my partner and it allowed us to step back and reframe the loss. I was able to separate myself from all the triggers, like his empty room, the sunshine where he loved to...

I had to say goodbye to my cat on Friday. He had been diagnosed with diabetes and unfortunately, for some reason was very insulin resistant. I was waitlisted for an internist appt that couldn't come soon enough, and he went into ketoacidosis. I had the absolute best veterinarian on my side. We...

Hello, everyone! So he's pretty content to do his own thing. In the initial weeks he was skittish because it was all very new, but he's adjusted quite well to both the house and his housemates. I think my husband is the only one who has had him lie down next to him, but his previous owner was a...

We had a cat who would launch into aggressive attacks at random when he was a kitten. He thought of us as toys. I think cats separated too early from their litter are definitely the worst for this problem, they think of us as clutch mates and think it's fair game to "attack" (in their minds...

We adopted another cat into our multi cat household two months ago. He's a darling thing, pretty, loves to look out the window (spends hours there) and occasionally likes to be stroked, but he is the most introverted cat I've ever met. He doesn't react to his name, which is fair because he's...