yay caturday!

lajimi: HEY, SHERPA!!!!
Cape may? Sounds like our neck of the woods.

Well, actually WAY south of me...but yes, my greenlight!



And it is very special as Caturday is Dragon's 13th Birthday!

My aunt sent me a few lolcats in a e-mail. This one is my favorite because it looks very much like my Scooter, but it's not:



Also in the e-mail was the 34 cents couch cat.

And in preparation for his Birthday, Dragon has been hoarding his change for a special occasion such as this.

And special thanks to CooperDaCat for naming Dragon the Patron Saint of Couch Change for Caturday:



I will be posting numerous blanks of Dragon in the next few hours, the 3 that make me and Dragon LOL will each get a month of TF. The very best one will get 3 months, courtesy of the the change hoarding kiity!

I don't know why but my freelance and heartfelt "Do you wanna give whatever you can spare to be my barn buddy?" volunteer work has resulted in nothig but human spittle and equine clap.

Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)







By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Happy Birthday Dragon! You don't look a day over 2!

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

Just 3 off the top of my husbands head...

1) BeBo
2) Chong (Going by your name, and the blunt reference)
3) Tommy (see #2)

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Easy. As in:

CooperDaKat: Happy Birthday Dragon! You don't look a day over 2!

Dragon says thanks! (and it is so much fun to watch a white cat blush ...his ears and nose get really red...)

lajimi: HEY, SHERPA!!!!
Cape may? Sounds like our neck of the woods.

BTW, whereabouts are you? I'm up near Morristown...

Thank you for the picture!!!

moar funny pictures

sherpa18: lajimi: HEY, SHERPA!!!!
Cape may? Sounds like our neck of the woods.

BTW, whereabouts are you? I'm up near Morristown...

Down the shore....Between Asbury Park and Seaside.

Caturday! Let us commence with the lols:



caption, or I will haunt your dreams

that's my boy cat, Link, FYI

I worked in an aviation museum and we had two cats that lived there. They caught mice and occasionally slept in an old printer box beside my desk. It was fun sometimes to see them race across the hangar when they saw something.

Evil Canadian: By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

she looks like phantom of the opera guy in reverse.

lajimi: Down the shore....Between Asbury Park and Seaside.

OMG, I was born in Morristown and my grandparents lived Ortley Beach!

I wonder how many degrees from Kevin Bacon we are?

I gotta be honest here - I can't stand cats. But I love Caturday threads. Great stuff.

/cats, like children, are adorable as long as I don't live with them.

brainiac-dumdum: Caturday! Let us commence with the lols:



caption, or I will haunt your dreams

that's my boy cat, Link, FYI

brainiac-dumdum: lajimi: Down the shore....Between Asbury Park and Seaside.

OMG, I was born in Morristown and my grandparents lived Ortley Beach!

I wonder how many degrees from Kevin Bacon we are?

Close I would guess. I used to hang with some friends in Lavallette and West Point Island.

sherpa18: i415.photobucket.com


moar funny pictures

/desu desu desu?
//sorry, first thing I thought of

moar funny pictures

happy birthday dragon!

caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

yay indeed. lols, i need em.

first thing that popped into my head when I saw this...



/hopefully I'm not the only one who remembers Fred & Wilma

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

"...but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years." ..."and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed)." thoughts, advice, anyone?

First...would it be possible to get her to a vet for a urine check for infections or crystals? Also have them check the anal glands, they could be impacted. Any of those 3 could be the cause of "litter box issues".
Second...talk to the vet, there are several medications that could help with "emotional issues" and spraying, such as paroxetine (generic Paxil) or Fluoxetine (prozac). you can get the generics fairly cheap @ wal-mart with a Vet's prescription.
If you want a copy of feline behavioral issues and treatments, you can find our g-mail addy in our profile, send us a quick note, and we'll send ya a copy.

Hai!
I have new kitties and of course have taken a metric mountainload of photos strictly for Caturday purposes.
If any of you Caturday geniuses would like, I offer them up for your captioning!

My Caturday Kitties (new window)

happy birthday Dragon!

Evil Canadian...i was also thinking Cheech would be a good name for your stoned kitty. Or, Mary Jane if it's a girl kitty.

leftteffticle...good luck finding a new home for that poor abandoned cat!

Here are a few:

And a couple more from the link:




k, done, thx!

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

God, that's so sad. First, I would get her checked by a vet. The pee issues could be due to kidney disease - very common in older cats. Plus, if she's alone all the time she's probably confused/depressed. She needs contact or she will become increasingly distrustful & anti-social. And if you're not equipped to give her a home, are there any no-kill shelters/rescues near you that could take her? There might be some that are a ways away from you, but it might be your last option. I wish I could help.

tongue baths are for pussies

u r not fude - leave me

u smell funnay

leftteffticle: happy birthday dragon!

Dragon says thanks! We both got a kick out of the yarn snorting caption...

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

Late answer, but I agree with the others who suggested the vet should be the first choice. She may have urinary problems or possibly diabetes. Also, since cats can't tell us if something is wrong with them, their behavior often changes to bring the problem to the attention of our tiny human brains.

Also, check out Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (new window). They have a lot of useful info on their site, and they accept all animals with problems. They do their best to make sure that every one of them get to go to their "forever home", but if not they can live out their lives with people that will care for them. Best of luck, and thanks for caring so much!

CooperDaKat: first thing that popped into my head when I saw this...

/hopefully I'm not the only one who remembers Fred & Wilma

Nope. Old people unite! (Nice caption, too)

/now get off my damn lawn and caption cats!

Danooli: happy birthday Dragon!

Dragon says thanks for the birthday wishes!

DarkJohnson: ur silly jedi mind trix don't werk on meh

This deserved to be properly captioned!



Where? Where do do I get one of those? That little creature was always one of my favorites (Ahhhhh--HaHaHaHa)

CooperDaKat
I'll feed the cat later jpg

You know how they tell you to rinse out all recyclable cans? Well I don't have to, I simply give them to Dragon and he does it for me! (and it really does NOT matter what was in the can, although he IS partial to peas of all things...)

Thanks for the caption!

/blank from last week, i forget whose
//such a pretty kitteh

/grins at sherpa
//sends skritches to Dragon
///happy Caturday, one and all! :)

sherpa18: CooperDaKat
I'll feed the cat later jpg

You know how they tell you to rinse out all recyclable cans? Well I don't have to, I simply give them to Dragon and he does it for me! (and it really does NOT matter what was in the can, although he IS partial to peas of all things...)

Thanks for the caption!

You're welcome! Faust, our 12 year old boy, will eat anything including chinese food, most veggies, and even hot peppers. He's a nut!

/this and the next one are from LJ
//i LOLed

/also ganked from LJ

CooperDaKat: sherpa18: CooperDaKat
I'll feed the cat later jpg

You know how they tell you to rinse out all recyclable cans? Well I don't have to, I simply give them to Dragon and he does it for me! (and it really does NOT matter what was in the can, although he IS partial to peas of all things...)

Thanks for the caption!

You're welcome! Faust, our 12 year old boy, will eat anything including chinese food, most veggies, and even hot peppers. He's a nut!

Yeah, that sounds just like like my boy! But he is picky about his chinese food:

/clicky for unedited
//popsy daisy

Thank you sherpa18!

There's a wealth of published veterinary information out there on the subject of inappropriate elimination. It isn't often they are urinating out of spite - though it may feel that way to the person who's left to clean it up - but rather a litterbox aversion manifested through discomfort associated with the litterbox. This could be painful urination, being attacked by other cats when in the box or some other variable. A vet check is imperative at this point to rule out the former.

/HTH



leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

Ricksha Shiksa: They are beautiful!

Thank you!
I love the macro!

The one with the mouse in his mouth loooves to sleep near faces and has a perpetual case of wind...

This cat was the star of Caturday awhile ago...

Ricksha Shiksa: img43.imageshack.us

I want to see the kitteh, but looks like Image Shack is getting hacked at the moment.

Ricksha Shiksa: There's a wealth of published veterinary information out there on the subject of inappropriate elimination. It isn't often they are urinating out of spite - though it may feel that way to the person who's left to clean it up - but rather a litterbox aversion manifested through discomfort associated with the litterbox. This could be painful urination, being attacked by other cats when in the box or some other variable. A vet check is imperative at this point to rule out the former.

Another great reference: drsfostersmith (pops)

Ku_No_Ichi: Thank you sherpa18!

You are very welcome!

lajimi: Happy Birthday Dragon!

ohnonotfloridaagain

spaghettios and tampon nose bleed... both made me LOL (Dragon is asleep, I'll show him them in the morning). Thanks for playing, we both appreciate it!

/happy birfday, Dragon!

Evil Canadian: By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Hehehehe, how about "Sinsemilla?" :P (Sorry, the parody Sesame Street sketch came to me as I read that last bit!)

Oh, and a happy birthday to Dragon. Yay!

I've been meaning to pull off and resize these pics for a couple of weeks, and hand them over to you all for captioning. I can't think of anything good, but if you've got something I'd love to see it. They are proof that all cats must attempt to occupy any container that has not yet been occupied at least once. Sassy likes the sink, and Sonny found the box that I had just emptied of strawberries.





I might have more later, once I have the chance to get some housecleaning done!

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

Are you still in the Madison area? You may have tried all these places, but still I wanted to give you some linky-links for no-kill shelters and places that will keep an animal who cannot be rehomed. She's a lovely kitteh, will keep paws and fingers crossed that she finds a forever home.

http://countryanimalhaven.org/

http://www.nokillnetwork.org/d/Wisconsin

sherpa18: /many thanks to SHG's mom for inventing this name

/My mom is thrilled that people here are using this word. :) How many 84 year old ladies create FARKisms? Hee.

Hooray Caturday! irt's 1:17 am here and i'm drukn lol!!!!

xanadian: Hooray Caturday! irt's 1:17 am here and i'm drukn lol!!!!

Oh hell, I should know better by now than to eat and refresh. Your prozac kitty almost made me snarf my mac 'n cheese. :)

thank you SHG for the links, i tried country and they rejected her. my hopes are with angels wish. i will branch out to farther from madison now and see what i can find. milwaukee and chicago are my next markets, anyone have any advice about no kills/rescues in either city?

thank you everyone for advice. so far all the no kill shelters in the area have rejected her. i want to get her taken care of, vet wise, but i do not have the money right now...and well, shes not my cat though i love her and would contribute money to her happiness. but i already had to spend $200 on my own cats recently and i just...i cant spent another few hundred to get her checked out. i have to move soon and...i just cant. and her owner is unemployed so he can contribute no money. he took her for a checkup but couldnt afford the tests. i contacted the vet school at uw madison and they actually charge more than my current vet. im just...im worried cause ive tried to find her a home and everyone who has generously offered support has just...not worked out. through no fault of their own, muggsers just needs a very particular environment. but what is it? how can i find it?

i really appreciate everything anyone has provided. please continue to advise.. im so upset over this.


she's so pretty, someone has to be able to love her.

sherpa18: ohnonotfloridaagain

spaghettios and tampon nose bleed... both made me LOL (Dragon is asleep, I'll show him them in the morning). Thanks for playing, we both appreciate it!

You're welcome, hope Dragon enjoys :-)

is dragon an mj fan? hope so.


also, tunas? is tunas provided? with candles?

this is someones. lajimi? im with my 11 year old 1st cousin once removed who loves the classics. this has gone over well.

also, further advice. i am NOT willing to put muggsy down. but when do you know that you have been defeated and its the only choice? does it ever come to that? i will do basically anything to prevent this, but...well, is it ever the right thing? ugh, i know its not..but has anyone ever been in this situation? fark.

leftteffticle: also, further advice. i am NOT willing to put muggsy down. but when do you know that you have been defeated and its the only choice? does it ever come to that? i will do basically anything to prevent this, but...well, is it ever the right thing? ugh, i know its not..but has anyone ever been in this situation? fark.

Would you have a child put down if they started to become too expensive to care of? Didn't think so.

Things will work out for her.

leftteffticle: thank you everyone for advice. so far all the no kill shelters in the area have rejected her. i want to get her taken care of, vet wise, but i do not have the money right now...and well, shes not my cat though i love her and would contribute money to her happiness. but i already had to spend $200 on my own cats recently and i just...i cant spent another few hundred to get her checked out. i have to move soon and...i just cant. and her owner is unemployed so he can contribute no money. he took her for a checkup but couldnt afford the tests. i contacted the vet school at uw madison and they actually charge more than my current vet. im just...im worried cause ive tried to find her a home and everyone who has generously offered support has just...not worked out. through no fault of their own, muggsers just needs a very particular environment. but what is it? how can i find it?

e-mail your vet's address and phone number to me at mariebolaATncDOTrrDOTcom

leftteffticle: this is someones. lajimi? im with my 11 year old 1st cousin once removed who loves the classics. this has gone over well.

Yeah, that's one of mine. This one isn't but I like it.

Ku_No_Ichi: Here are a few:



with apologies to your innards, of course.

What about this story?

Cat goes missing for a month, ends up 100 miles from home by the seaside.. cat and owner get reunited just in time for Caturday, yay! :)

Sorry Cooper, still had to post, but no votey.

Helping Paws in Crystal Lake, IL

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Razz :)

moar funny pictures

moar funny pictures

oh, and Evil Canadian

Lola.

/I now have an irrational desire for Spaghetti-Os

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

That sure is a swell pal you have there, laying all of that on you and running off, he is a real jerk.

You, on the other hand, seem like a very kind and empathetic soul. How did you ever get to be friends? I hope something works out for you because I can tell you are frustrated and sad about the difficulty in resolving your unfortunate situation. Good Luck. Poor neglected kitty...

Evil Canadian

I think you said it already......how about Emo? Seems to fit!

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)


Hmmm...I've got a kitty like that name of Esme (she seems to have some British shorthair in her, so needed a British name...) so following that train of thought, how about Gytha (for Nanny Ogg)?
She is also..well, if not big, 'comfortably built', playful, and loving (in her own way) and it takes an awful lot to rock her boat.

We've got a new addition to the clowder as well. No pics cos I don't have a camera...but he's a 10-week-old little ninja with a shiatload of Siamese in the mix.
Friendly, affectionate, chatty little guy (purred all the way through his First Exam, except for the ear cleaning) and his dial goes all the way to 13.
I'm not kidding...this kid's lungs would do credit to an operatic tenor.

sherpa18: Ricksha Shiksa:

Another great reference: drsfostersmith (pops)

i love this company! plus...if you use ebates, you can get a 6% rebate on your orders!
http://www.ebates.com/search/all.htm?store_name=foster+and+smith&x=0&y=0

i got Kisa's kittywalk there :)

THIS. IS. CATURDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!


moar funny pictures

CooperDaKat: leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

"...but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years." ..."and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed)." thoughts, advice, anyone?

First...would it be possible to get her to a vet for a urine check for infections or crystals? Also have them check the anal glands, they could be impacted. Any of those 3 could be the cause of "litter box issues".
Second...talk to the vet, there are several medications that could help with "emotional issues" and spraying, such as paroxetine (generic Paxil) or Fluoxetine (prozac). you can get the generics fairly cheap @ wal-mart with a Vet's prescription.
If you want a copy of feline behavioral issues and treatments, you can find our g-mail addy in our profile, send us a quick note, and we'll send ya a copy.

This is off the top of my head and I may be totally wrong...but sometimes nursing homes and such find kitties very useful in helping to care for their residents.

They give them something besides themselves to focus on, something to love that will love them back no matter what and will appreciate the care given...and it's been PROVEN that having pets around is good for blood pressure and heartrate and general all-around health and well-being...
I wish you the best of luck...

My new kitteh



Caption by a friend

sherpa18: ohnonotfloridaagain


Forgot to wish Dragon a very happy berfday!
May you and he celebrate many more together and may they all be wondrously LOLful!

ALREADY, my day's obligations has been fulfilled. :)

My mornings now consist of getting Britches off the roof.

@bessyglass: that is one beautiful pikshure. ;-)

This probably isn't going to be seen, but it seems appropriate to share it here anyway...

Sockington is Missing (new window)

FOUND



hjy6: HELP - SOCKINGTON IS MISSING

ABOUT SOCKINGTON (new window)

TWITTER (new window)

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

She looks like a...

Marie
Laurie
Lizzy
Sally
Cindy
Mindy
Ellie

(If you're going to sponsor me, please DO NOT do so until August 1.)

leftteffticle: thank you SHG for the links, i tried country and they rejected her. my hopes are with angels wish. i will branch out to farther from madison now and see what i can find. milwaukee and chicago are my next markets, anyone have any advice about no kills/rescues in either city?

thank you everyone for advice. so far all the no kill shelters in the area have rejected her. i want to get her taken care of, vet wise, but i do not have the money right now...and well, shes not my cat though i love her and would contribute money to her happiness. but i already had to spend $200 on my own cats recently and i just...i cant spent another few hundred to get her checked out. i have to move soon and...i just cant. and her owner is unemployed so he can contribute no money. he took her for a checkup but couldnt afford the tests. i contacted the vet school at uw madison and they actually charge more than my current vet. im just...im worried cause ive tried to find her a home and everyone who has generously offered support has just...not worked out. through no fault of their own, muggsers just needs a very particular environment. but what is it? how can i find it?

i really appreciate everything anyone has provided. please continue to advise.. im so upset over this.


she's so pretty, someone has to be able to love her.


Check with MATC. My daughter is a graduate of their veterinary technology program. The animals they keep at the school receive the best of care; the students love animals, of course, and the program faculty are veterinarians. Typically they keep animals for a semester and then arrange adoptions for them. (My daughter has a "pit bull" that turns out to be mostly rottweiler per her DNA.)

2 of our fatties, Tubby and Putter

I take care of a small feral cat colony that lives near my house, and one of the younger cats, Sweet Pea (who really is that sweet!) actually caught an adult squirrel yesterday. I could not find my camera in time to catch the fight -- and oh did that squirrel fight! -- but I did catch her marching up the hill with her fresh catch. Feel free to caption or just marvel at the rare sight! :)

I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

This has always been one of my favorite cat pics. Don't know who gets credit for this photo, saved it from an email I received.

It looks as if they are meditating - the child is trying to position his/her hands to match the cat's paws.

Once again I cannot part with one of my fosters so here's the new member of my family Mrs. Howl, aka Lovey.

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading
blah blah farkin blah


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

HOLY CRAP YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!

hjy6: meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

HOLY CRAP YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!

Were it not for the aforementioned folks Caturday wouldn't be much more than an empty thread...so do us all a favor and go be douchebags somewhere else.

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

A) Rags
B) Kissy
C) [Jeff] Spicoli ;)

SAFE AND SOUND!!! (new window)

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

For leftteffticle:


see more Lolcats and funny pictures

I hope you're able to find a home for your visitor.

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads... bunch of words, name calling, trolling and assorted crap I'm out.


then why did you come in here???
so what who is posting pics, funny is funny.
you just need to be more funny.

Speedy_Declipsed: I take care of a small feral cat colony that lives near my house, and one of the younger cats, Sweet Pea (who really is that sweet!) actually caught an adult squirrel yesterday. I could not find my camera in time to catch the fight -- and oh did that squirrel fight! -- but I did catch her marching up the hill with her fresh catch. Feel free to caption or just marvel at the rare sight! :)

I have been around cats all my life , only a few years ago did I realise cats eat squirrels I got quit the squirrel hunter here, but I havent found half squirel parts in a good while. I have watched him stalk them.

Happy birfday, Dragon!

leftteffticle
here is a whole page of (no kill) shelters in Illinois.
http://pawhelper.tripod.com/ilshelter.html

good luck.. I could send you $10 for tests. Any other farkers up to the challenge? 20 people...$10 each...testing paid for?
Will check back in a little while.

Devo Cornholiosky: Sorry Cooper, still had to post, but no votey.

haha...no problem Devo! I like yours too!

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

How about: Domino or Har le Quinn?

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

Can I have a caption please?

caption me please

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

Oh dear. Sounds like our house. We got our Lilith (our tabby that looks so much like your "Yay Caturday" cat) from a friend who got her from a friend who got her from someone who got her from someone. So, by our reckoning, we're her home #4 or 5.

When we got her, she had improper urination issues (she peed on stuff), but fairly rarely. It's been 6 years and now it's almost every day. We've redone the basement floor last year and the new paint on the concrete is already peeling from what we not-so-affectionately call "Lake Lilith". I buy smell remover liquid by the gallon. She's been checked regularly by the vet, blood tests, you name it. There are enough litter boxes around and they are kept reasonably clean. The diagnostic, in so many words, is that she's messed up in the head, maybe from bad treatment as a kitten. We tried Prozac, but she was so scared from having to be fished out from under the bed twice a day to get her pill that it made things worse.

She's an old gal now (we think 14-15 years old), and the vet told us he would agree to euthanasia in her case if that's what we wanted, since this is a serious problem and she is not adoptable. It took her months to get used to me when I took her in (I was living alone at the time), and every time we moved has been a huge trauma for her, so going to a new home would just be massively unfair to her. And every time I have to throw away a brand-new area rug we think that the time may have come, that maybe putting her down is something we should consider.

Mind you, we've been saying that for a few years already, so she'll probably go to the bridge because of old age or suffocating by forgetting to breathe when she's fed her weekly can of skinless, boneless, tuna-style salmon. (Tuna is certainly not good enough for this queen).

Soooooooooooooooo... get her checked by a vet to rule out physical issues that could cause the improper elimination. Then, if nothing is wrong, discuss the alternatives with your vet. He/she may be aware of further resources to help out.

Me too, caption please.

Evil Canadian since this kitty seems to be on the "slow and relaxed" side of the scale, I suggest "Gary".

I know it's a female, but it's funny for me, because I love SpongeBob SquarePants.

My kitties:

meer markt: Blah, Blah, asinine crap.

Some people are like Slinkies. They aren't good for much, but they're fun to push down a flight of stairs.

I do too fit!

meer markt: Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?

Get over yourself. Caturday is a nice way to relax. There is so much shiat going on in the world right now. If these farkers enjoy posting cat photos and caption them, what business of it of yours? Plus, there are many people on Fark that do not post in these threads but enjoy viewing them. (By the way, lurkers, come on out, we don't bite and enjoy any cat photo that isn't sick or violent!) Personally, my father and I view Caturday as bonding time, where we just sit and view the cats. We laugh. We snicker. We have fun. And if it wasn't for the Caturday posters you called out and the other Caturday posters, well, we wouldn't have a fun laugh each Saturday.

There are many Farkers that post here and enjoy the thread because the lolcats entertain them. There are some that can't have cats due to health issues but want one. This help feeds their cat lust. Farkers post in this thread when they have cat questions because they know there are people in this thread that truly and honestly care about cats. Farkers post in here as a support group for dearly departed cats that were family members.

So, if you don't like a few people dominating the Caturday threads, you can do two things: post cats yourself to get a variety, or, as this cat is captioned:

I'm going to post all the lolcats in my Photobucket account now.

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

[snip for brevity]

What should I do? It makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didn't want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. I only have until august 14th to figure this out. Thoughts, advice, anyone?

One thing you can do is take her picture and list her on Petfinder.com as a senior special needs kitty. But, the first thing to do is get her out of that apartment and bring her home, even if she has to stay in one room. Cats are social and she'll be missing her humans terribly, even if they left her behind. A good size crate or cage would contain messes and still be a better home than what she has.

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)


You may have named her already, you said it right in your post, She is going to be B I G. One of the (many) names for my 20 pound Maine Coon is Big, while my 7 pound Calico is often called Little!

/pics of the beasts are on my profile
//including the 3 middle sized cats

Evil Canadian,

First thing I thought of was rever Phantom of the Opera.... I'd probably call new baby Phantom

/ Mom to Keanu (aka Moose Cat, aka Boy Cat)
// and Alii Noealani (aka Ali, aka Girl Cat)
/// and Apuaa (aka Pu, aka Tiny Cat)
//// Guess I'm not that good at naming

For anyone new to Total Fark this week.

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.
*snip*

There are some vets who specialize in behavioral issues. This is going to sound funny but I'm absolutely serious -- some cats respond well to what amounts to "kitty Prozac" (a small dose of an antidepressant).

Could someone please caption my late great Ralph?

Ku_No_Ichi your little ones reminds me of my beautiful blue-eyed Snapps (RIP)






Just a few, couldnt remember if kitteh was female or male, lol!

KimJ: leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.
*snip*

There are some vets who specialize in behavioral issues. This is going to sound funny but I'm absolutely serious -- some cats respond well to what amounts to "kitty Prozac" (a small dose of an antidepressant).

PsyCATatrist?

Dragon say thanks to SHG and syzygy whizz for the birthday wishes. And to CooperDaKat, leftteffticle, Devo Cornholiosky, Weaselon, 12bnbda, TheShavingofOccam123 and lysdexic for the captions!

Awesome job, guys, keep 'em coming!

/note to lysdexic - I'm still laughing over the "travesty of a sofa" one!

More cat of the fishing variety:

peachy92 2009-07-11 10:49:29 AM

By the way, lurkers, come on out

It always stuns me when someone takes time out of their day to piss on other people's parades. WTF?

So, anyway, thanks to all (even the obsessively-multi-posting) for the entertainment.

/back to lurking

moar funny pictures



Why we leave his balls alone...

TheShavingofOccam123

Awww! you made me teary! *sniff* That's beautiful!

First thing that came to mind, lolz! Your Ralph was a beauty Jane Doe.

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.


/borrowed from Ku_No_Ichi

hjy6: meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

HOLY CRAP YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!

linuxpyro its just not Caturday without your pics! Luv em!

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

missionpants

LOL! That's great!
Thank you, he was a pretty great cat. He tried to be stand-offish and dignified, but then he would do some awesomely silly things and ruin his image. We still have his brother who is about 23 now and slowing down.

instead of the typical cat photo shopped stuff , how about something different ? heres a cat and a monkey making out ...Link

heavythumb: RIP Marauder, who's little body was not as strong as his spirit. I had him put to sleep last Sunday. He was my best friend. It's my first Caturday without him.

RIP Marauder
?/2000 - 7/5/09

So sorry for your loss.

I has many saved lols. Too many to upload. Here's what's already in my photobucket.

Danooli: sherpa18: Ricksha Shiksa:

Another great reference: drsfostersmith (pops)

i love this company! plus...if you use ebates, you can get a 6% rebate on your orders!
http://www.ebates.com/search/all.htm?store_name=foster+and+smith&x=0&y=0

i got Kisa's kittywalk there :)

Thanks for the link. I order from them all the time, never knew I could get rebates...

hjy6: meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

HOLY CRAP YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!

For hjy6 & meer markt:


clicky

I enjoy ALL the posts here, please keep them coming! :)

Posting this for my mom and dad:



Hemingway came into our lives almost three years ago to the day. We'd seen this strapping big guy roaming the alley and the neighborhood for about a year before that, often keeping company with a sociable little female we called Muriel. She showed him that we were a reliable source of food. For a long time, we thought he must surely have a regular home because he was so friendly and eager to get to know us. But there are lots of apartments nearby and it's not unusual for cats to be dumped when their owners move out.

One day Bob was talking to Hemingway on the porch, when Hemingway spotted some birds in the yard, sneaked around behind a tree and pounced, slapped one bird straight out of the air, gave it a quick coup de gras, and dropped it into his food dish. "You see? This is what I've been forced to do for food!" Those big polydactyl paws helped. It wasn't long after that that he showed up for dinner with some bloody nicks in his head, and they didn't get treated. I was afraid that someone had shot him with a pellet gun, and obviously he was homeless.

We packed him off to the vet, where we learned that his injuries weren't serious, and that he must have been somebody's pet at one time, because he'd been neutered, but sadly, he was FIV+, probably from his year on the street. We couldn't bear to put him down, so we brought him home, making a safe area for him to keep him away from our other cats. When we let him out of the carrier, he was clearly overwhelmed with gratitude that he was still indoors. A home again!

He was so glad to be in the house that for the next six months he never looked out the windows. He was very gentle and his manners were perfect, and it took many more months before he was assured that it was all right to get up on the furniture. He was a great companion for watching television, reading, or working at the computer. His two joys in life were his laser-pointer toy and his brush. Can cats smile? Hemingway did when he started his diesel purr while being brushed. We'll miss that and we'll miss his company. RIP.







They tell me that they've got more pics, but they haven't been able to get them to me yet.

/he can has captions?

//something in my eye

My own cats are now allowing me to post some pics of them:

Jane Doe: missionpants

LOL! That's great!
Thank you, he was a pretty great cat. He tried to be stand-offish and dignified, but then he would do some awesomely silly things and ruin his image. We still have his brother who is about 23 now and slowing down.

Wow, 23? Good for him! My old man Bart is 20 and has really slowed down, but he's still kickin it old school.

Cant help but see that bridge ahead though... :\

heavythumb

I'm sorry, that's an awful decision to have to make.

TheShavingofOccam123, the kitties thank you for their very first image macro.

/now they haz a sad

Now looky here Mr. Meer Markt:
This Caturday thread is a community which has come together in Cyberspace to support one another and foster a love of all things CAT. It is a refreshing change from the misogynists, fruit bats and wing nuts that typically dominate the other FARK threads. Anybody read the political thread lately? You'll see the same three or four names 'obsessively' posting.

I am a long-time lurker on Caturday because I do not have the time or the inclination to post pictures of our family's six cats, although ALL of the people whom you have accused of 'dominating' this thread have posted VERY simple directions to help newbies add their own pictures. Plus, our cats run and hide when the camera comes out--go figure.

Caturday is one of the few things I do for the sheer enjoyment--I look forward to it every week; it helps me relax after the working week is over, and I feel like a member of a community!

Caturday regulars: THANK YOU for Caturday. Our entire family enjoys it.

I'm trying to convince my boyfriend that we should get a second cat. My first cat loves me to pieces, and my boyfriend is a little jealous (seriously!) of the love I get from my Finnegan. There's a kitty I have my eye on, and I think Finnegan would enjoy having a buddy to play with since the bf and I are at work all day. Plus, I keep telling my boyfriend since he's home more than I am the kitten would probably adopt him as his person!

A few pictures of Finnegan as a kitten visiting the parent's house:

leftteffticle: what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

wow. this makes me sad.

please do email me LTT. i have suggestions, tried to contact you before about this to no avail. EIP.

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

I'm sure the fact she has been left behind all by herself has not helped with her inappropriate peeing. She could be spite peeing, or maybe she is trying to tell someone she has something wrong with her urinary tract. See if you can get a vet to check her out for cheap.

Also, this is a stretch, but maybe a retirement home or something that might want to take an older cat as their community cat? I know you feel frustrated trying to think of some solution to this, but I want to encourage you - don't give up, be creative, and have hope.

SgtArkie:
I have been around cats all my life , only a few years ago did I realise cats eat squirrels I got quit the squirrel hunter here, but I havent found half squirel parts in a good while. I have watched him stalk them.

I always knew they *wanted* to eat them, but not that they could actually, ya know, GET them to eat them. LOL I was amazed! And squirrel parts? Ew. A little large on the carcass continuum for me in terms of what I'd like to find on my porch.

I think the worst/funniest thing my own cat Angel (see my profile) ever did was bring a mole into the house and entertain herself while I was asleep. I woke up to this rhythmic thumping noise and could not figure out what it was. I turned on the light, and there was Angel, throwing this dead mole up into the air with her mouth, over and over again, then batting it in midair and chasing the body as it soared. Both horrifying and ROFLcopter all at the same time. ;)

Aww man.

Just like to say that I really don't care how many times one person wants to caption. Some of you are freakin' hilarious! Do carry on...and thanks for the laughs...

DoucheBaggerson: Helping Paws in Crystal Lake, IL

thank you, that place looks great i will call them for sure.

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leftteffticle: thank you SHG for the links, i tried country and they rejected her. my hopes are with angels wish. i will branch out to farther from madison now and see what i can find. milwaukee and chicago are my next markets, anyone have any advice about no kills/rescues in either city?

thank you everyone for advice. so far all the no kill shelters in the area have rejected her. i want to get her taken care of, vet wise, but i do not have the money right now...and well, shes not my cat though i love her and would contribute money to her happiness. but i already had to spend $200 on my own cats recently and i just...i cant spent another few hundred to get her checked out. i have to move soon and...i just cant. and her owner is unemployed so he can contribute no money. he took her for a checkup but couldnt afford the tests. i contacted the vet school at uw madison and they actually charge more than my current vet. im just...im worried cause ive tried to find her a home and everyone who has generously offered support has just...not worked out. through no fault of their own, muggsers just needs a very particular environment. but what is it? how can i find it?

i really appreciate everything anyone has provided. please continue to advise.. im so upset over this.


she's so pretty, someone has to be able to love her.

There are groups that help with veterinary bills. Contact some of them and see if there is anything they can do.

HSUS (new window)

Feline diabetes website (new window)

Good luck, she's not hopeless.

syzygy whizz: CooperDaKat: leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

"...but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years." ..."and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed)." thoughts, advice, anyone?

First...would it be possible to get her to a vet for a urine check for infections or crystals? Also have them check the anal glands, they could be impacted. Any of those 3 could be the cause of "litter box issues".
Second...talk to the vet, there are several medications that could help with "emotional issues" and spraying, such as paroxetine (generic Paxil) or Fluoxetine (prozac). you can get the generics fairly cheap @ wal-mart with a Vet's prescription.
If you want a copy of feline behavioral issues and treatments, you can find our g-mail addy in our profile, send us a quick note, and we'll send ya a copy.

This is off the top of my head and I may be totally wrong...but sometimes nursing homes and such find kitties very useful in helping to care for their residents.

They give them something besides themselves to focus on, something to love that will love them back no matter what and will appreciate the care given...and it's been PROVEN that having pets around is good for blood pressure and heartrate and general all-around health and well-being...
I wish you the best of luck...

actually, thats a great idea. i do think that an older owner would be very good for muggsers, and why not a bunch of older owners? thank you, id never thought of that but i will look in to it.

Amy is slow to greet this Caturday, but would still luvs a capshun...

Further to the inappropriate litterbox behaviour.. And let me preface this with the info that none of our cats has any medical problem that would cause it. They're fine. They just have bad habits.

We've got 11 cats. 8 litter boxes, variously around the house in good spots, that they do use (we went through several brands of litter, and found some they would not use at all; they all seem to like the clumping Tidy Cats, though, and I've seen them all happily use it). Kitty, our first cat, used to pee in other places (like on fabrics (clean laundry!) or plastic bags) when she was unhappy with the condition of the litterbox: either it's too dirty, or I washed it too well (it didn't take me too long to suss out a happy medium that she was content with, but sometimes she'd pee on laundry anyway). Other cats picked it up from her. When we moved into the new house, they all flipped out about moving (I thought they might), and instead of going to the litter (which we showed them, and was near the food (though not too close, and we've spread them around the house to problem areas since, which means the litter-scooping process takes me like an hour, now), so they had to be there anyway), they decided to pee around all our as-yet-unpacked boxes of stuff we had piled up in the otherwise empty dining room. Probably because they were stressed, and the boxes smelled normal and safe.

I understood that, but they still do it, and after the dogs started pooping in the dining room during housebreaking (which is still ongoing...), the cats started pooping in there too. I've shampooed the carpets repeatedly with enzymatic pet solution, sprayed stuff, used feliway (spray and diffuser), and that will cut down on the pooping, but there are still a few who pee in there for no reason I can figure.

We also have an issue where my husband tends to leave piles of whatever (clothes, trash, books, papers, anything) laying around, and the cats seem to have decided that these piles also make good pee-spots. Two of the neutered adult males started spraying all on their own (they never had before), and they go around spraying all over everything now, including the couch where he sits (one of them has actually sprayed *me* before, but they don't hit any of my belongings or where I sit, and I find this interesting and wonder at the cause) and the walls and doors and everything. The two of them like each other, and I don't think they spray over top of each other's marking.. it seems to be one cat will just repeatedly spray in one part of the house, and another cat repeatedly sprays the other half of the house.

But they seem to have picked up the habit of peeing on anything fabric or plastic that gets left sitting around, so.. pot holders left out get peed on (just a little, not a full bladder), shrink-wrapped flats of bottled water, or bags of plastic cups, or *anything*. One of them (I don't know who) pees in the kitchen sink sometimes, which I guess is at least better than the alternatives, because the sink is usually empty, and it's stainless steel. If you leave a bowl of water out, and it gets empty, and stays that way for a little while (we have bowls of water all over, mostly because I can't trust the dogs out of my sight when they're in the house), they'll pee in the bowls. Again, not a full bladder, just a little.

I never know who's doing what, where. Hubby said he saw one of the (spayed) females spray a wall one time, in addition to the two males who do it. At this point the whole entire situation has just gotten out of hand, and I'm really not sure what to do about it.

Hubby and I will be splitting up, so there won't be piles of junk and nooks and crannies between piles of boxes of stuff all over the house anymore as little kitty temptations. Which is something. But there's still the dining-room-as-litter-box, and all the spraying all over everything. Feliway seems to do nothing for the spraying, afaict, but even if it did, I'd have to go through gallons of the stuff, all over the house (and it's not just along the bottoms of the walls: they hop up on the furniture and spray the curtains and walls and things there, and then on top of the bookcases and spray the tops of the walls, and they spray the furniture itself, etc. etc.).

And they're all fine, no medical problems. My vet has no ideas.

Help?

/have EIP if you want
//love my kitties, not getting rid of them, but wish I could have people over to the house sometimes
///also *really* tired of cleaning it all up

I'm normally a lurker, because none of my cats will let me take pictures of them. So. . . here're a couple I've made from other peoples'.





/Sorry to all who have lost a kitteh this week.
//Keep being *awesome* lajimi, SHG, Cooper, Sherpa, Bessy, Occam, Ricksha, lysdexic, and everyone else!

Draco_WI: leftteffticle: thank you SHG for the links, i tried country and they rejected her. my hopes are with angels wish. i will branch out to farther from madison now and see what i can find. milwaukee and chicago are my next markets, anyone have any advice about no kills/rescues in either city?

thank you everyone for advice. so far all the no kill shelters in the area have rejected her. i want to get her taken care of, vet wise, but i do not have the money right now...and well, shes not my cat though i love her and would contribute money to her happiness. but i already had to spend $200 on my own cats recently and i just...i cant spent another few hundred to get her checked out. i have to move soon and...i just cant. and her owner is unemployed so he can contribute no money. he took her for a checkup but couldnt afford the tests. i contacted the vet school at uw madison and they actually charge more than my current vet. im just...im worried cause ive tried to find her a home and everyone who has generously offered support has just...not worked out. through no fault of their own, muggsers just needs a very particular environment. but what is it? how can i find it?

i really appreciate everything anyone has provided. please continue to advise.. im so upset over this.


she's so pretty, someone has to be able to love her.


Check with MATC. My daughter is a graduate of their veterinary technology program. The animals they keep at the school receive the best of care; the students love animals, of course, and the program faculty are veterinarians. Typically they keep animals for a semester and then arrange adoptions for them. (My daughter has a "pit bull" that turns out to be mostly rottweiler per her DNA.)

oh fantastic! i had no idea matc had a vet tech program. that would be great! thank you!

For heavythumb and your precious Marauder and for DoomsDayAardvark with beautiful Hemmingway...

missionpants: linuxpyro its just not Caturday without your pics! Luv em!

Glad you like them! I have like 600 Fishing Cat pics. I like to post them because most every other cat here is a normal 'domestic' cat (then again, I'm not sure if there are any 'normal' cats...).

Here are some more kitties:

That_One_Girl: My mornings now consist of getting Britches off the roof.

'Cuz everyone knows you can't go to work without your Britches.

sherpa18: Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!.......snip :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Easy. As in:

I give my vote to the name Easy

Dear Cooperdakat, Sherpa18, Bessy Glass, lajimi, and all other Caturday posters:

just "single-ing" you guys out as you have been mentioned by the below referenced Mr. markt. please continue your obsessive posting to the great fark tradition that is Caturday. at least WE have a hobby. :-P

as for you, Mr. markt, *points*, the exit is clearly marked over there. you may use it at your leisure. OR... please feel free to stay and enjoy teh luls. :-)

as for "dominating a fark Caturday thread"? IS THERE such a possibility?!1?!

please continue to post all new, old, regular, and infrequent posters. as for you lurkers out there, come on in, join the party! :-) or just continue to lurk as you wish. all are welcome; none are excluded; no posts are unappreciated (save for morbid ones, please none of those - do try to keep Caturday full of teh luls, not the "ews"). posts are welcome captioned or not, well photographed or poor, old or new. "showcase your cat. :-)"

signed, "just lurves teh hell out of Caturday no matter who shows up",
-tIdtmcats...



meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.

SgtArkie: Speedy_Declipsed: I take care of a small feral cat colony that lives near my house, and one of the younger cats, Sweet Pea (who really is that sweet!) actually caught an adult squirrel yesterday. I could not find my camera in time to catch the fight -- and oh did that squirrel fight! -- but I did catch her marching up the hill with her fresh catch. Feel free to caption or just marvel at the rare sight! :)

I have been around cats all my life , only a few years ago did I realise cats eat squirrels I got quit the squirrel hunter here, but I havent found half squirel parts in a good while. I have watched him stalk them.

I used to have a squirrel hunter who brought home presents. One day she was walking around the house with a half of a squirrel, I never could find the other half.
She also brought me a 3 ft black snake once. It wasn't dead yet, she left it on the porch so she could play with it for a while.

Now none of my cats go outside so I don't find assorted wildlife in my house anymore.

Japanese weirdness, making Robogeisha look tame in comparison.

CooperDaKat: leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

"...but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years." ..."and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed)." thoughts, advice, anyone?

First...would it be possible to get her to a vet for a urine check for infections or crystals? Also have them check the anal glands, they could be impacted. Any of those 3 could be the cause of "litter box issues".
Second...talk to the vet, there are several medications that could help with "emotional issues" and spraying, such as paroxetine (generic Paxil) or Fluoxetine (prozac). you can get the generics fairly cheap @ wal-mart with a Vet's prescription.
If you want a copy of feline behavioral issues and treatments, you can find our g-mail addy in our profile, send us a quick note, and we'll send ya a copy.

The drugs (generic prozac) worked reasonably well for my parents cat Nero (who has the same issues) for a while, but eventually they stopped. But definitely give it a try, maybe you'll have better luck.

On another topic:



/nothing is obscure on Fark

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meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?


Yea....have fun with that guys. I'm out.



/you'll get over it.

nb.t t3.wy 'nkh.ti rnp.ti dj.t nhh: Further to the inappropriate litterbox behaviour.. And let me preface this with the info that none of our cats has any medical problem that would cause it. They're fine. They just have bad habits.
[snip]


it sounds like the cats are definitely trying to mark their territory. i assume, since youve tried feliway, you've sprayed the crap out of the places they tend to frequent? also, are there litterboxes in the dining room?

sorry i dont have much helpful advice, im trying to figure the same thing out on a much smaller scale. kitty prozac might help? maybe if they were chilled out they wouldnt be so compelled to mark their territory.

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OrbitalFerret: leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

[snip for brevity]

What should I do? It makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didn't want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. I only have until august 14th to figure this out. Thoughts, advice, anyone?

One thing you can do is take her picture and list her on Petfinder.com as a senior special needs kitty. But, the first thing to do is get her out of that apartment and bring her home, even if she has to stay in one room. Cats are social and she'll be missing her humans terribly, even if they left her behind. A good size crate or cage would contain messes and still be a better home than what she has.

Maybe one of the local rescues can do a courtesy listing and put the cat on Petfinder or Adopt a Pet. Adults are more difficult to find homes for, but there are some people out there will take on special needs cats.

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thanks, guys, for the kind words.

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/finished now
/none mine, all from the members section of ICHC.

leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

I can't take any cat, as my cat is jealous of other cats and will attack them. (I had another cat for awhile, until she beat him up enough that she had him living on the back of the toilet, and my parents too pity and gave him a new home.) Also, I'm on the east coast, and can't imagine how I'd get the cat here even if I could take it, or knew someone who could. Surely someone out there will give her a home.

If she's difficult indoors, might she make a good farm or greenhouse cat? All the farms and greenhouses around here have cats. It's like a really big house for them, filled with dirt and plants, small rodents, and bugs to chase and eat. And it really doesn't matter if they spray here or there.

I also might suggest a bit of subterfuge here. You list a number of negatives about the cat, but no positives. Are there no positives? Make some up. Pretend you're selling an old car with some, uh, personality.

linuxpyro: My own cats are now allowing me to post some pics of them:

and what LOVELY "fellows" the are!

signed, "has a soft spot for Russian Blues, Blacks, ... oh hell, for all of them",
-tIdtmcats...

wolfserpent: TheShavingofOccam123, the kitties thank you for their very first image macro.

/now they haz a sad

Jane Doe: TheShavingofOccam123

Awww! you made me teary! *sniff* That's beautiful!

You're both welcome!

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

And the winner is: "Critter"

thank you thank you thank you thank you everyone for your advice and encouragement. i appreciate it so much. you've given some wonderful suggestions. by all means, keep them coming if you have more.

this whole muggsers situation has been stressing me out horribly and i can't explain how awesome it is to have a place to come to get lols and support. maybe it's just the hangover, but ive been a little choked up reading through all the kind words and great thoughts. you all are fantastic. aww.



time for a little hair of the cat and a nap.

Booboopriss: How about: Domino or Har le Quinn?

I LOVE Domino. If we voted on names I'd vote that!

A few more pics of the late Hemingway









/we'll miss you, Thumbs

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Why we leave his balls alone...

//Note to self
add coffee to 'Breakfast of Championz'

-She-

Sylvia_Bandersnatch: leftteffticle: caturday, i need some advice.

regulars here may remember i have been posting a personal ad of sorts for my friends kitty to try and find her a new home. as he has already left for the east coast, she is staying alone in his apartment and i am cat sitting her. also, the duties of finding something to do with her have fallen to me. she's an 11 year old cat, which is the first strike against her. shes in good health, but hasnt had a full check-up with urine and blood tests in...well, years. and she has litter box issues. she "spite-pees" when shes mad. and just a few days ago i caught her spraying (she's spayed). and then i discovered several wet spots on the carpet yesterday, which i had never seen before but the apartment smells so ungodly bad it's really hard to tell if its old or new smells. i knew she had issues with peeing on his girlfriends stuff (hence why the cat is being abandoned) but didnt realize until very recently that it seems to be worse than that.

ive asked around friends, strangers, here, craigslist...found nothing. the 3 cat rescues that contacted me back told me they would not take her because she cannot be rehomed. i have hopes that another local cat rescue may take her, but i have not been able to get ahold of anyone through it. if i take her to the humane society, she'll be put down.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

I can't take any cat, as my cat is jealous of other cats and will attack them. (I had another cat for awhile, until she beat him up enough that she had him living on the back of the toilet, and my parents too pity and gave him a new home.) Also, I'm on the east coast, and can't imagine how I'd get the cat here even if I could take it, or knew someone who could. Surely someone out there will give her a home.

If she's difficult indoors, might she make a good farm or greenhouse cat? All the farms and greenhouses around here have cats. It's like a really big house for them, filled with dirt and plants, small rodents, and bugs to chase and eat. And it really doesn't matter if they spray here or there.

I also might suggest a bit of subterfuge here. You list a number of negatives about the cat, but no positives. Are there no positives? Make some up. Pretend you're selling an old car with some, uh, personality.


hahaha. you make a good point. i dont mean to focus on the negatives, but well...as much as i want to find a home for her, i feel its only fair if people know what they're truly getting themselves in to. its only fair for them AND muggsy.

but there are a lot of positives about her. she is just the sweetest kitty. shes a little shy and skittish, but as soon as you get to know her, she is sooooo loving. when i go to visit her, she emerges from her hidey spots and just falls to the ground, belly-up, asking for loving. if i sit and watch tv, she hops on the couch and rubs her face on me and demands petting. and when shes done with petting, she snuggles up next to me. and she's got these big, gorgeous yellow eyes and is so good at using them to her advantage. ive never met a kitty who could give such good puppy-dog eyes, haha. she's a wonderful cat, just wonderful.

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Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Based on the facial markings, the first thing that came to mind was Blackjack, the classic anime character.

what should i do? it makes me ill to think about having to put this sweet kitty down because her person didnt want her anymore and she's older and a little difficult. i only have until august 14th to figure this out. thoughts, advice, anyone?

Hi leftteffticle,

We had the same problem as you and found a solution that was last option. We were not open to it for a year or so before we did it, but we let her go outside. Our problem cat is an adorable 7 year old calico I inherited. Putting her down or taking her to the shelter was not going to happen. We tried everything short of kitty prozac, which I heard works for cats that mark the house. Long story short, she wanted to go outside and so we let her. This turned out to be the answer. She stays close to the house and comes in to eat and sometimes to spend the night - she loves people, loves being outside more. She went from being an unhappy, nervous wreck to a happy little cat. We don't have problems with her anymore. She hates other cats, but she is now friends with another outside cat and fends off other cats very well because she goes off the deep end if they even look at her - thus she is not worth the hassle to them.

I know that every cat's situation is different, but hopefully this can work for your cat. If she's marking or spite peeing, she might be a neurotic like our cat. If you don't want to set her outside, get her health tested and if she's healthy, kitty prozac and retraining her with Cat Attract litter could help a lot.

leftteffticle, nb.t t3.wy 'nkh.ti rnp.ti dj.t nhh, DoomsDayAardvark and anyone else out there with a cat who has an elimination problem...

We have had this problem also and know how frustrating it can be to try and figure out and control. We tried 3 different meds before we found one that worked (Paxil). He also had impacted anal glands and we think that was also contributing to the problem.

We have a document published by The American Association of Feline Practitioners about feline behavior and in it, there is a chart listing different medications to try based on specific symptoms and causes. It also explains the many reasons for inappropriate elimination. You can find it here (pops)

/yes, i get up late
//central time so it's not THAT bad
///Caturday is for sleeping in. and naps. and posting cats.

nb.t t3.wy 'nkh.ti rnp.ti dj.t nhh: Further to the inappropriate litterbox behaviour..

We've got 11 cats...."

// thaddle do it ...
Territory must be marked and other marks edited out. X Eleventy

have you tried making totally a enclosed 25' [long] x 12'[wide] x 7' [tall] cat run out of green plastic chicken mesh on rectangular 2"x2" outdoor wood frames that can be tied or screwed together [use 8" triangles of 1/2" cdx plywood on corners of frames]
put alongside house & put several little cat houses in there, bushes or silk trees/plants, and a cat door to inside.


since you have Eleventy cats, 2 of these each side of house and one in the garden

heavythumb: RIP Marauder, who's little body was not as strong as his spirit. I had him put to sleep last Sunday. He was my best friend. It's my first Caturday without him.



RIP Marauder
?/2000 - 7/5/09

Oh, I'm so sorry. I just don't know what else I can say. I've had cats my whole life, so I've been through this a number of times. But I have to admit, it never gets easier.

Here's how Racer feels about meer markt...


/thanks again for the caption, Ricksha

Caption away!



This was taken while i was moving, just after I had gotten her into the cage.. Her name is Princess.

leftteffticle: thank you SHG for the links, i tried country and they rejected her. my hopes are with angels wish. i will branch out to farther from madison now and see what i can find. milwaukee and chicago are my next markets, anyone have any advice about no kills/rescues in either city?

thank you everyone for advice. so far all the no kill shelters in the area have rejected her. i want to get her taken care of, vet wise, but i do not have the money right now...and well, shes not my cat though i love her and would contribute money to her happiness. but i already had to spend $200 on my own cats recently and i just...i cant spent another few hundred to get her checked out. i have to move soon and...i just cant. and her owner is unemployed so he can contribute no money. he took her for a checkup but couldnt afford the tests. i contacted the vet school at uw madison and they actually charge more than my current vet. im just...im worried cause ive tried to find her a home and everyone who has generously offered support has just...not worked out. through no fault of their own, muggsers just needs a very particular environment. but what is it? how can i find it?

i really appreciate everything anyone has provided. please continue to advise.. im so upset over this.


she's so pretty, someone has to be able to love her.

Try Paws: http://www.pawschicago.org/ShelterInformation/chicagoshelter.htm

leftteffticle: it sounds like the cats are definitely trying to mark their territory. i assume, since youve tried feliway, you've sprayed the crap out of the places they tend to frequent? also, are there litterboxes in the dining room?

sorry i dont have much helpful advice, im trying to figure the same thing out on a much smaller scale. kitty prozac might help? maybe if they were chilled out they wouldnt be so compelled to mark their territory.

I've gone through several bottles of feliway, and three diffuser refills, yes. It doesn't seem to make any real difference, which is what leads me to think it's habit now, more than nerves. There were litterboxes in there for a while, which they used *in addition* to the floor, but hubby got irate about having a toilet in the dining room, and I moved litter over to the powder room, which is adjacent. They use it. Too. Just as much as when there was litter in the dining room itself.

They don't have much in the way of territory issues, I wouldn't think. Only a few of the cats ever show any signs of caring about territory, and they're not the ones who pee everywhere. The others don't give a good rat's butt about territory, do not try to claim any, and don't seem to have any sense of being in some else's. The female we caught spraying is almost best friends with one of the males who sprays, and apparently will just spray where he does. Maybe she thinks that if he knows she's doing it, he'll like her more. I really have no idea.

We do have one cat who just stays in the bedroom all the time, and has made a habit of going under hubby's side of the bed (#1 and #2) because he's afraid of one of the other cats. That seems to be our only dominance/territorial issue, though.. they'll all share food equally and happily otherwise, and while there may not be room for two of them to drink out of a single water bowl at a time, there's no problem with sitting and waiting, and no fights about who goes next: it's just whoever happens to get there first, there's no pattern and no disagreement. Where one litterbox is next to another, they don't seem to have problems using them at the same time, and there's nobody waiting to pounce anybody when they come in or out. With a few rare exceptions (and the exceptions aren't the ones with the spraying or inappropriate peeing issues, except for bed-cat), this is a happy bunch, and they all get along just fine.

I can tell you, though, that trying to medicate the two boys who spray would just cause them to get absurdly upset. You've seen that 'how to pill cats' bit? The flamepoint is just like that. The black one (the one who's sprayed *me*, twice) isn't as bad, but he has an uncanny sense of when I intend him harm, and knows where to hide such that I cannot reach him. It would upset them both so much to try and give them calming drugs that it just wouldn't be worth it. And then that still wouldn't fix the issue of cats going into corners and in the dining room and just peeing normally.

So. Yeah, I saw your problem up there, and I sympathize, although I don't really have anything to offer. I would say that probably the issue getting worse is because she's alone, so as someone else said, if you can have her at your place, it would probably help some. Otherwise.. obviously I'm no help with pee issues :P

I haz a late



But I also haz a cute, so all iz fergibben, rite?

PSA to asshat trolls:



Kisses,

SHG

bah it was just a tad too large

cretinbob: I haz a late

But I also haz a cute, so all iz fergibben, rite?

Whar is ur cute?

BTW a LOL i made of one of your pics is up for voting on ICHC, check it out!

Dr Tinycat enjoys karaoke in his spare time. (pops)

/we can has votey there, y'all?
//kthxbai

\\Little orange girl

This is Princess Possum. She's my mom's foster kitten, I just love her silly name...and that face. To die for..

i got a new furbaby this week. she's approx. 8 weeks old... her name is Yeungling (i had to keep up with the beer theme)

Here she is:

JSTACAT: Territory must be marked and other marks edited out. X Eleventy

have you tried making totally a enclosed 25' [long] x 12'[wide] x 7' [tall] cat run out of green plastic chicken mesh on rectangular 2"x2" outdoor wood frames that can be tied or screwed together [use 8" triangles of 1/2" cdx plywood on corners of frames]
put alongside house & put several little cat houses in there, bushes or silk trees/plants, and a cat door to inside.

since you have Eleventy cats, 2 of these each side of house and one in the garden

Well. As I say, where the spraying happens, the two boys aren't overlapping. They just mark their own places repeatedly (like I guess the smell wears off). There's no competition, they don't spray the same places back and forth. And they groom each other, and like each other just fine. The other cats aren't territory marking, they're just squatting and peeing because for whatever reason, they like that spot. Our house is also about 2500 sqft, which is about 230sqft per cat if they wanted to stay away from each other. I know, some cats have huge ranges, but they don't seem to even need this much, for the most part, though. A lot of our cats are perfectly happy to sleep right on top of each other.

And no, I haven't built any exterior enclosures. We don't have a garden, just a front yard, a back yard, and a strip along either side of the house that's just wide enough to have to mow. Pets aren't allowed to be visible from the street per the HOA (unless they're in your windows, they can't make a rule about that, just the exterior spaces), which leaves out everything except the back yard. But only one of our cats wants anything at all to do with being outside, and he doesn't have any inappropriate litter issues. The others will look out the door like they're afraid demons are going to come in, and want nothing to do with it. Also, this is Texas, and we've been having a run of 100+ degree days, with the heat index pushing 110 or so, and I don't think being out in direct sunlight in the back yard would be a good idea. I don't leave the dogs out in it, I wouldn't want to leave cats in it either. Plus I'd have to cut through the brick house walls to install cat doors, and then I'd get even *more* ants in the house than we already do, which drives me at least as crazy as the cat pee. And wasps and hornets can get through chicken fence. And I have no idea what that gap in the environment envelope would do to our a/c-inflated electric bill.

So, um, outdoor cat storage not really an option, and they don't even seem to want it. Next idea? :)

moar yuengling!

Scrambles, basking in her spoiled life.

Homeless kitty is looking for a new home and ready to be adopted.

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

I lurk. Occasionally I post a LOL. But I LOVE to see all the cats and I don't care if just one person posted them. Sheesh, don't you have something better to do than complain about a Caturday thread? Seriously?

bessyglass [TotalFark] Quote 2009-07-11 02:18:02 PM

OMFG!!1! that NEEDZ to be turned into a warrgarbl... someones wiff teh mad photoshop skillz please help.

we finally found our feline warrgarbler

cretinbob's fosters are getting so big so fast!

They all has teh adorable.

And now from the Classic Caturday files:

Okay, I have a conspiracy theory. Caturday trolls seem to have gotten ... less offensive, more toothless (if you will) lately. And then we all have fun poking fun at them. Sometimes the trolls even post their own cat pictures, which is kind of, huh?

So my conspiracy theory: there's a group of Caturday lovers who have realized that once one troll posts, we are less likely to see more. So they take turns with alts pretending to be trolls to head the real trolls off at the pass. And then we all have fun posting pics making fun of them (I LOVE the "OUT!" kitten).

I'm probably way off base and will go back to my tin foil hat now. :)

Catless lurker here, piping up to wonder why every other week some wannabe-killjoy spouts off in here, whining about Caturday.

I don't understand the pissy attitude, dude. The people you cite are not being inappropriate in the thread. I personally don't give a kitty-poop who does the posting, how may posts someone posts, blahblah. I just come by here every Saturday with the knowledge that I'm going to be amused and touched, and cry a little about someone's beloved cat dying recently, and AWWWWWing at the pix of someone's new bebeh kitteh.

I *depend* on Caturday for a lot of emotional reasons, most of them having to do just with getting my Cuteness quota, but not all of it being just that.

And did I forget to say Piss Off if you don't like it?

KimJ: And then we all have fun posting pics making fun of them (I LOVE the "OUT!" kitten).

I wholeheartedly believe in responding to trolls with EVEN MOAR kitteh pics. :) (And occasionally after calling them out to be pathetic losers who have nothing better to do than to trifle with us. ;)



/i love OUT! kitten, too :)

/has never been up for votey befoar

catzies: cretinbob's fosters are getting so big so fast!

They all has teh adorable.

And now from the Classic Caturday files:

All the kittens are ready to be adopted. Anybody want one, or two??

We just had to leave our wookiee at the animal hospital with a urinary obstruction. I haz a worried. :(

Always look forward to Caturday!

Lots of great cats today!
Thank you for macroing my baby kitties heap, Cheese eating surrender monkey & missionpants!
Yay!

Ku_No_Ichi your little ones reminds me of my beautiful blue-eyed Snapps (RIP): they are rescues.
I was going to get an adult rescue, one, but saw these guys online on a pet adoption site and fell in love.

They're goofy, but good boys.

Cold_Sassy: It looks as if they are meditating - the child is trying to position his/her hands to match the cat's paws.



Not my work, it's been around a while

/of course it's hawt

Cuddling up with Britches and Monster Truck


My Little Bit (She's sweeter than she looks)

Evil Canadian: We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called.

She looks like a "Buttercup" to me. Not sure why.

Trolls may have snark, but we Caturday posters, lukers (regular or obsessive)have this:




/Don't know who made this one, but I love it.

Evil Canadian: Help! We need your help!

We just got a new kitty who joined our family on Monday. Unfortunately, we have drawn a total blank about what her name is. She is going to be B I G. She is pretty much unflappable, loving and playful, although she looks kinda stoned or emo most of the time. We have kitties named Louise and Aleeta already, but are totally stumped as to what THIS kitty should be called. So, a month of TF to whomever gives us a good (or the best) suggestion :)

By the way, that is a Dog Nylabone beside her, not a big blunt.

Nougat

meer markt: I used to enjoy caturday threads. I tend to read a post before the farker's handle on these types of message boards.

And then one caturday, I read the handles of the farkers posting, for I had figured it was a number of different people.

And there are plenty of posters in a caturday thread, but there is a core of disturbingly frantic participants. Not gonna lie, today it got a little creepy and awkward as I just kept reading

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Cooperdakat

Sherpa18

Sherpa18

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Bessy Glass

Someone else...maybe lajimi


Little obsessive much? We all have our vices, but dominating a fark caturday thread?

OMG SOME PEOPLE LIIIIKE THAAANGS!!

nb.t t3.wy 'nkh.ti rnp.ti dj.t nhh: I can tell you, though, that trying to medicate the two boys who spray would just cause them to get absurdly upset. You've seen that 'how to pill cats' bit?

We crush up the cat pills and mix it in with their food. Have never had a problem. Maybe you could try that? And, there are some, like prozac, that's available in liquid form. They can still smell the medication but can't pass up the fishy cat food smell. It took ours a couple of days to really get into the "new taste" but he just gulps it down now.

Sneako -

What are all their names? We have vino named felines at our house and it could be fun to have a caption contest!

Y=Y

catpants:
I lurk. Occasionally I post a LOL. [...] Seriously?