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Dog person finds a kitten - help!
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We had a cat once that had a penchant for licking my toes, preferably during hot weather if they were a bit sweatyIrish Stones wrote: »I love been licked by a cat, that tongue gives me pleasure
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I am now happy to report TUX knows her name!! She comes (usually, well mostly) when shes called! My dog comes everytime she is called :rolleyes:
She also knows she is not allowed on the kitchen table. I shout TUX! lift her off the table, and give her a little tap on her bum. She gets straight back up, and this is repeated hundreds of times every day. This week when I shout her name, she hides behind the fruit bowl on the table then when I come to lift her down, she leaps down straight away - progress!! (of sorts!!)
Questions:
may cats have bread? When Im eating a sandwich or toast, she loves it...
I bought some LIDL cat pouches - ran out/emergency - gave her diarrhea - anyone else find this with Lidl cat pouches?!? We'll stick with our usual brands.
I have some flea collars - when to put on her? - or necessary?
She is MAD to go outside. Getting in/out of the house is becoming a trial with her making dashes for the door. To take her outside, I rigged up a harness made of a felt strip. She does NOT like having that put on, but when outside she makes DASHES and then gets pulled back. Is there any point in letting her outside? I carry her out and she watches the birds and the hens and the sheep. It must be pretty boring being stuck in the house all the time. Keeping an animal always indoors doesnt sit well with me somehow (being new to cats) - but Im terrified that if I let her out (we live in the country) she will wander off exploring and get lost/not come back. (I know its been recommended to only let her out when shes hungry/food time) She seems to follow the dog, but he is too dopey to go find her - now that would be a handy trick/skill!! Do cats have a homing skill like dogs (usually)0 -
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I am now happy to report TUX knows her name!! She comes (usually, well mostly) when shes called! My dog comes everytime she is called :rolleyes:
So it's clear that she's the boss, otherwise you shouldn't need to go through it many times a dayShe also knows she is not allowed on the kitchen table. I shout TUX! lift her off the table, and give her a little tap on her bum. She gets straight back up, and this is repeated hundreds of times every day.
Answers:Questions:
may cats have bread? When Im eating a sandwich or toast, she loves it...
I bought some LIDL cat pouches - ran out/emergency - gave her diarrhea - anyone else find this with Lidl cat pouches?!? We'll stick with our usual brands.
I have some flea collars - when to put on her? - or necessary?
- Cats can have bread though some could have intollerance. My elder cat loves the inside of the bread, the other cat loves the crunchy crumbles when I slice it
Bread and other bakery contain starch and this might lead to tooth decay, but so far my cats haven't had any problem.
-Sudden change in food can give diarrhea. It's always advisable to gradually introduce a new kind of food. More, some cheap brands are more likely to give problems, especially with kittens. Stick with what she knows well, and, above all, the food must be of premium of very high quality.
The most you invest on food, the less you'll pay at the vet.
-Flea collars are necessary if the cat is allowed outside. But I think that spot on products do a much better job. I use Bayer Advocate that I think is top.
I only take my cats out with harness and lead. I bought a harness tailored to cats (please, google Trixie 4188), and a 5 metres extendable flexi lead. A pair for each cat. They love it!!!She is MAD to go outside. Getting in/out of the house is becoming a trial with her making dashes for the door. To take her outside, I rigged up a harness made of a felt strip. She does NOT like having that put on, but when outside she makes DASHES and then gets pulled back. Is there any point in letting her outside? I carry her out and she watches the birds and the hens and the sheep. It must be pretty boring being stuck in the house all the time. Keeping an animal always indoors doesnt sit well with me somehow (being new to cats) - but Im terrified that if I let her out (we live in the country) she will wander off exploring and get lost/not come back. (I know its been recommended to only let her out when shes hungry/food time) She seems to follow the dog, but he is too dopey to go find her - now that would be a handy trick/skill!! Do cats have a homing skill like dogs (usually)
Cats can have homing skill, I personally knew a cat who got lost about 50 km from his home (the owner told me he took him on a trip on the mountains around here where he has a second house) and he got back home in a week time.
Some cats can do much better. Two days ago I have read this news
http://www.thelocal.fr/20141215/cat-reunited-with-owner-after-1200-km-journey-across-france
Do not take for granted that every cat is as clever as this one 0 -
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Many thanks for that. I just weighed her - shes 1430g
So, will remember to get the BROADLINE, when shes a bigger.
Got her to take a quarter worming tablet, covered in butter, just now.
The kitten and I are also covered in butter. 0 -
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1. She floods the room with water 'fishing' in the drinking water bowl :mad: Any ideas why she would do this (I thought cats hated water) and more importantly how to stop it. She swirls her paws in the bowl, flings it about - water everywhere! I leave a little bowl of water where she sleeps and never seems to drink from that - only from the dogs (bigger?) bowl?
2. Sometimes she just sits with her mouth OPEN - looks v.cute - shes not panting or anything - just looks odd
oh and 1 more - I swear dogs are so simple/biddable/easy (can you tell she has me totally flumoxed?!?!?) sometimes she comes and miaows at me - I usually give her a treat/food/bring her to the litter etc - but sometimes she does this when all of the above have been sorted - how do I know what the heck she wants, or is she just 'talking' to me?!?!?!?
shes asleep on my lap while I type this - once she tired of trying to swipe the cursor on the screen :P
Some cats love to play with water, the internet has plenty of photos of cats drinking from taps or even bathing
As Pumpinkseeds says, probably Tux hate to feel her whiskers touching the edge of the bowl. My elder cat used to put her paw into the water bowl just to see if the water was in. My vet told me that it might be a way to check the presence of the water or the level into the bowl. It seems that cats can't see at a very short distance, so, rather than dipping her nose into the water she was just checking the level and then move accordingly
Tux is very young, she's still playing a lot with everything is around her. Be patient...
The open mouth is a thing of her. A cat of mine now in heaven used to stare at me with the tip of her tongue sticking out.
And some cats can be very talkative, they just want to communicate and can't understand why you don't get the message
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Here is TUX, installed in her favourite position - at one of the stoves, jammed against the dog. I have to say, I never thought I would see the day when one of my terriers would tolerate a cat - makes me very happy that it all worked out.
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She got so big!! What a beautiful kitty. Delighted her and the dog are getting on so well 0 -
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The thing is that this morning the vet (new to me) that I saw said that in his opinion Tux is approx 9 months old!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::eek::eek: She is fine and healthy and a good weight. But how could she be 9 months - that means that when I found her in wk 1. October, she was 4-5 MONTHS old!?!?!? Could this be possible?!?!? That she would be such a tiny creature, fitting in my hand and be 16 weeks (minimum)? I asked the vet twice if he was sure she could be this age, and he was very confident....
Anyway, it just seems amazing to me, but on the plus side Tux can be spayed in 2 wks, and he says she is very healthy/good condition etc...
What is Tux's weight now?
If Tux had been starving for a long time or had a poor nourishment then it can be that she didn't grow up to her true age.
Cats change their milk teeth around 4-5 months of age, so this could be a very good method to determine her age. But catching a cat in the act of changing their teeth is very difficult, so if you miss those moments there's no way to tell that it happened.
So, if the vet is true, Tux should have her heats in less than four weeks time. If he's wrong then this won't happen
Be aware that if the vet is right you must have her spayed in a moment that she's not on heat.0 -
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Definitely can happen; we picked up a "kitten" on behalf of our rescue coming in at 1.4kg to the vet (estimated 3 months old) which turned out to be a lovely 2 year old cat who simply had been malnourished growing up and when she moved on to her for ever home she had reached her final weight of 2.5kg. Still small as a 3 month old kitten but fully grown 0 -
Jeez, this cat business
Ok so what you both say makes sense. I shudder to think how tiny and kittenlike she was, to be that age. I dont suppose, like her sibs she would have lasted much longer before I found her, so we both benefited - Im quite content in my cat-slave world now! She weighs less than 2kg still...
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You will think I am totally ignorant - Ive never had bitches or mares, and hens dont have heats/seasons :cool: - but it never struck me that Tux could come in to season!! Is a cat in season going to show the same "symptoms" as a bitch in season?? Will there be 'spotting' or how will I know if shes in season?0 -
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Is a cat in season going to show the same "symptoms" as a bitch in season?? Will there be 'spotting' or how will I know if shes in season?
Some she-cats won't let you sleep at night, other are so noiseless that you don't even know they're on heat, apart from some "posing" like Nody said
My cats are both ladies, one was spayed before she could show her heat, the other was silent and we realized that she was "ready" because she would present her... rear, with her tail set aside and used to roll on the floor a lot.
The heat lasts 5 to 7 days, then there's a rest for about a week or less and then again. The vets prefer to make the surgery between the two "hot moments", because the risk of a hemorrhage is reduced. During the heat the uterus and ovaries are very rich in blood.
Latest theories, that I second, say that it's better to spay a cat BEFORE she has had her first heat.
This way there will be less than 5% chances that she will develop a cancer in her life. They say that just one heat is enough to raise those chances to 10-15%, and every single heat would raise up to 50-60%.
And no, the fact that she is underweight and undersize does not save her form her heats when they're supposed to happen.0 -
Yes, the vet talked about the reduced incidence of cancer in a spayed cat...
Ok, so FINGERS CROSSED that Tux gets to finish her vaccinations BEFORE she has her first season, then she can get spayed and then life will be good - dont fancy all the yowling etc for 2 wks!! (Which is why we've always had dogs and geldings!!)
Now back to playing "Throw the tiny piece of dismembered teddy" for Tux
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Tonights question is whether a cat can actually be 'taught' not to do something?!
Tux, our young cat refuses to stop clawing up and down the backs of two very expensive armchairs, and up and down the curtains of our best room
We dont mind what she does in the other rooms of the house, but when we sit in the 'nice' room at the weekends, if she wants to be with us in this room, she cant wreck havoc on the very old/expensive furnishings (arent we humans odd!)
When she starts scaling with her claws up the backs of the chairs, I shout NO! at her and pick her up and put her out in another room. She knows shes in trouble, because she runs away when she sees me coming to pick her off the chair! Even my poor not very bright dog knows shes doing something wrong
This has been going on for ages. How do I get her to stop this behaviour, or should I give up the fight, she being a cat afterall, and just not allow her into this room (which is a bit sad, as the stove is lighting and she loves to snooze with the dog, when shes not clawing up and down the furniture)0 -
Sounds like she likes vertical scratching. You could try putting a scratching post beside the chairs and encourage her to use that. One thing I'll say about scratching posts is that they need to be sturdy so that the cat can have a good claw at it. We got this wall mounted one on Zooplus and put it on the wall at the side of the living room door. It's narrow enough to slot into a small space and nobody notices it. Felix loves it, stopped him clawing the sofa. We've lots of different types, the cardboard ones are great too, all 4 of them use the horizontal cardboard ones. Furniture is always an attractive scratching surface because it's so sturdy and they can really claw it.
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Only if they feel like it.Tonights question is whether a cat can actually be 'taught' not to do something?!
Do you have a very high scratch pole for Tux to sit on? Something suitably high like this (height is important both from a exercising point of view and to be a good spot to watch what's going on) and place it next to her scratching / climbing points; bonus if he can climb up on them and get to you. Secondly add double sided tape to the spot he's currently scratching (they don't like the feel of double sided tape and the scratching post allows him to redirect his scratching directly avoiding confusion and directing his behavior to scratch on the "right" stuff).Tux, our young cat refuses to stop clawing up and down the backs of two very expensive armchairs, and up and down the curtains of our best room0 -
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You've just described the concept of the cat highwayThe problem is that when we are in the drawing room, and has had a lovely long snooze by the stove, shes full of her beans, then she claws her way up to the top of 1 chair, leaps from it to the the next chair, then leaps on to the sofa, then uses the curtains to get to the next sofa, and does the circuit of the room (with our terrier in flight after her :cool:) so its more fun and games than scratching posts.. This is something every cat looks for in every room; a way to navigate the place with out touching the floor. Honestly the only advice then is to give an alternate route (preferably higher) for Tux to use instead; if you google cat highway you'll find plenty of versions and ideas. 0 -
I've just read through this thread and it's amazing! I love the change in the cat and how you've gone from a non cat person to that post just above! It brought a tear to my eye!
And the pictures! God, I absolutely love it. And you sound like the nicest, most caring of people.0 -
Jeez thats very nice Gubbie
But you know Im the most amazed one - NEVER saw the point of aloof independant standoffish cats - stuck all this time with my dogs/horses/hens only - then this brat of a kitten arrives and my husband and I are cat-slaves now. Even the poor remaining dog is a cat-slave (shes in his bed with his teddy, hes on the floor!!) But its great - shes super-tiny after her bad start in life (weighs less than 2kg) but shes healthy and shes got a lovely life now, so its win/win
(Now I just have to figure out how to minimise the destruction of my drawing room!!!)0 -
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Vets said that she could eat that evening ... she did throw up (which they said might happen) ... left some food overnight for her - all gone this a.m.
Seems to be doing fine - a little bit quieter maybe
She doesnt seem to be interested in licking the wound at all. (shes not very "into" grooming in general - shes a bit of a scruff really) Now that she has her side half shaved, she looks very bedraggled! Oh well, no one in this house is high maintenance, so she fits right in :cool:
Going back for check up on saturday, so will keep a close eye on her until then. Thank you for the input/advise - have the cone here in case she starts showing an inclination to lick, I think the cones stress them out so much, its great not to have it - when its not necessary0 -
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She'll be just fine - our baby slept for about 1 1/2 days after the op curled up in a little domed cat bed (perfect spot, nice, safe & warm, she found one of the best spots in the house for recuperation :P). She also had the incision on her side with a huge area shaved! No bother at all, she just left it alone. She was getting more alert and was up more after two days and back to her usual exuberant self a few days after! It took about 1/2 a year for the fur to fully grow back (long haired cat)!
a few days after the op.0
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