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.