The Cat Thread
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I tossed your gofundme page on my Facebook account. And my brother shared it with his Cat Magic Friendship forum. Hopefully you see an increase in donations.
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@Jaded said in The Cat Thread:
I tossed your gofundme page on my Facebook account. And my brother shared it with his Cat Magic Friendship forum. Hopefully you see an increase in donations.
=O
Thank you!
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I donated. I would have given more but I'm tapped out right now with a lot of medical/vehicle bills of my own. Also some identity theft issues.
To those on here who are on the fence about giving? 10-20 dollars goes a long way, and if everyone pitches in a little bit I'm sure we can knock it out.
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@Admiral said in The Cat Thread:
I donated. I would have given more but I'm tapped out right now with a lot of medical/vehicle bills of my own. Also some identity theft issues.
To those on here who are on the fence about giving? 10-20 dollars goes a long way, and if everyone pitches in a little bit I'm sure we can knock it out.
Identity theft is
So are medical bills. Between Jan & March this year, I had 3 surgeries. Only 1 was planned. I've been slowly chipping at a pile myself.I went off on a collector a couple days ago. "Can you even pay $50?" "Not if I want to eat this week." "Well, doesn't your HUSBAND work? CAN'T HE PAY?"
...I went off on her at that point (I am very much single).
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Mine's not so bad. The medical stuff is less than 500 dollars, and the identity theft seems to be purely vehicular? I'm not sure. I keep getting parking ticket and speeding ticket notifications for other states I've never been to.
And the vehicular stuff is less than 250 bucks total.
I'll give a little more if you still need the money next month, but this month my budget is tapped out.
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@Admiral said in The Cat Thread:
Mine's not so bad. The medical stuff is less than 500 dollars, and the identity theft seems to be purely vehicular? I'm not sure. I keep getting parking ticket and speeding ticket notifications for other states I've never been to.
And the vehicular stuff is less than 250 bucks total.
I'll give a little more if you still need the money next month, but this month my budget is tapped out.
Oh, dude, srsly, you've donated. That's amazing. There is no need to donate more. I'm at nearly $200 and that is way over anything I 'expected' out of this. That's half the pet rent deposit, for example.
Truly,
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Okay, opinions time!
We have a nine year old cat. He is fairly sweet, but retiring. He loves to sit on us, and stay with us, ut runs from almost all company. He does not hiss at other cats unless hissed at, and expresses curiosity at kitten sounds. We'd like him to have a companion of sorts, at least another ca around when we are gone.
Ideally, we'd like to get sibling pairs so they know one another and have the same age cat for a friend/someone around.
So, we can get two bonded siblings, or another from the same litter who is big in personality, but not bonded to the others in particular.
Cats will remain indoors, as we have coyotes.
So get the pair, or a single kitten?
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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Hard to say. I think it'd come down to personalities, really. Which ones resonate the most or seem like they'd be most suitable for the older cat?
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I'd vote two, because hopefully they keep each other busy some and let the poor old man sleep some. ^^ IDK, though. It does depend heavily on individual personalities.
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I can't judge it. I have never had more than one cat at a time. He would like a cat that was low key, liked to be around people and cats, and not hostile. That's about all I can figure.
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@Misadventure Check to see, perhaps, if there are any local shelters with slightly older (not ancient, just not necessarily kittens) litter-trained cats they want to adopt out in pairs.
No, really. Even cats 1-2 years old are still very young for cats, but hard to adopt out, especially in pairs.
Not only will the shelter love you, but they are past the 'kitten hyper' stage, and may not harry the older kitty as much. They also have their personalities already, and you'll have a better idea if they'll mesh well with your current kitty.
I've done this twice (two pairs over the years), and never regretted it. The two kitties I have now are actually sisters, adopted like this. Old pic but relevant cuteness:
...they are giant derpybutts and we
them....and generally on-thread, we lost our Ancient Cat last year, in the midst of The Year From Hell.
This was Ancient Cat:
She was our puffy little snarkbomb grumpybutt. We called her my 'Overly Familiar'. That my overly familiar was a little ball of snarkitude with creepily human expressions should surprise exactly no one. We still miss her wee whiny face. (Sadly, all the pics of her being equally adorable are actual film and therefore are not handy, meh.)
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@Misadventure said in The Cat Thread:
We have a nine year old cat. He is fairly sweet, but retiring. He loves to sit on us, and stay with us, ut runs from almost all company. He does not hiss at other cats unless hissed at, and expresses curiosity at kitten sounds. We'd like him to have a companion of sorts, at least another ca around when we are gone.
Query: Why?
I know that cats can have friends around, but when a cat has lived a mostly-solitary life, minus humans, why would he need company?
I have a cat: Gay Edward. My partner wanted to name him after that idiot from the Twilight series, and I didn't have the heart to dump her at the suggestion. He ended up being Gay Edward because, if a cat were gay, that'd be him. Loves guys, simpers, and just loves it when you rub him down low.
He's scared to death of the outdoors. And other things: our children; mice; stationary objects. I can't imagine having another cat for him because he'd be scared shitless. Twice we tried to introduce him to a kitten; twice we found him in a corner cowering in his own filth within an hour or two.
So, think about what the cat would want. Maybe he likes being by himself? Introvert cats aren't uncommon.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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@Ganymede said in The Cat Thread:
He's scared to death of the outdoors. And other things: our children; mice; stationary objects.
The fluffy stupid one is like this, for us. She once sneezed, startled herself at the noise of her own sneeze, zoomed backward in a panic, crashed into the headboard on the bed, and promptly launched herself out of the room for parts distant.
We did not see her for another 12 hours.
It is a minor miracle we were able to stop laughing by then.
Oh fucking well.
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The awesome thing about cats (other than the fact they are so independent, unless they are not, which is just another contradiction to add onto that long list of them) is they are so goddamn graceful 95% of the time. There is something very dignified about the way they move and behave.
And then the other 5% of the time they can be such morons. I believe there's a large degree of self-awareness involved, too, because after they are seen fucking up they're ... self-conscious about it, either by immediately firing off dignity on all cylinders or just going away to hide until observers forget it ever happened.
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@Ganymede That is what I am trying to suss out. There are times, usually a day or two, but sometimes up to three weeks where my wife and I are gone. He gets along with his caretakers pretty well, but we often wonder if he would be happier with a little company. I am certain if he had a best friend that would be great, but even just another living being might be a comfort for him.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
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Some cats are great solitary. Others do well with company.
Ashes is largely a solitary cat, but I've had her with other cats and not... She's actually more calm when other cats are around. She doesn't always interact with them, but I think having the option (such as her more playful days) and just knowing she's not alone helps.
When I was married, my ex had an older male cat. We ended up (both rescues) with two female kittens. He loved his girls. He would help groom them. Was protective of them. He was too old to really play (they'd try to wrestle and he'd just reach out a paw and pin them down), but he adored having them around.
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I played a video of kittens mewling once, and he came in and jumps up and searched around the speakers for the kittens. Seems like a good sign.
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When you come to the problem of 'how many cats', the answer is always 'more cats'.
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Another consideration is my wife can't say no to a cat sitting on her, then bam, she's asleep. When she has homework to do.
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@Misadventure said in The Cat Thread:
He gets along with his caretakers pretty well, but we often wonder if he would be happier with a little company.
I do not understand why you wonder this. Has your cat been acting strangely lately?
Look, I'm all for being kind to cats, but my cat is a cat. He's a hell of a lot smarter than my children because he: (1) consistently shits in his box; (2) eats when he's hungry; and (3) doesn't need a fucking sitter every time my partner and I go out because OMFG WHAT IF HE WAKES UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!?!?.
If he's acting snuggly and cool when I'm home, he's just fine. If he's not, it's not unreasonable for me to expect a change in behavior. If he wants a companion, he'll let me know; I know him like that.
He's a cat, and I like him for a reason.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
