The Cat Status Thread
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error That's one very patient kitty.
The jumpiness indicates it took a lot of editing to give that impression.
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Cat status:
And since I no longer have to keep track of her comings and goings, hopefully, less checking on her will result in less stubbornly waiting outside for personal door service. She now goes out of the catflap with no assistance, but the past two days I've had to give in and open the door to get her back in.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
less stubbornly waiting outside for personal door service.
: Haha, no.
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
You know you're dealing with a serious heatwave when the cat feels begging is too much work.
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Colleague just send this as a reply in a mail chain
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@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
I can't get over the fact that another one isn't actually biting the dust.
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Where's my cat?
Is that my cat?
It has white on its face. It is Bob from next door. That is not my cat.
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@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
You know you're dealing with a serious heatwave when the cat feels begging is too much work.
Remember cats don't go out searching for water; they only beg for food. They drink if they encounter water. As such, during periods of heat, it is extra important that water is available in places the cat frequently passes.
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Cat status: will go out through the catflap with encouragement, and come in through the catflap only with the lure of a prawn (aka cat crack).
Came in around 3pm yesterday. Was observed drinking water several times over the afternoon and evening. As of 8am today the litter tray was untouched.
She must have been out through the catflap, and back in, overnight, right? She seems to prefer a bare patch of dirt to the tray but she doesn't have a problem using the tray. She wouldn't have held it for 17 hours, would she? Does this prove she's perfectly fine with the catflap, just spoiled and stubborn?
I tried dusting the step outside with flour one evening, but the following day observed her to exit the catflap without touching the step, so the test was inconclusive.
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@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
You know you're dealing with a serious heatwave when the cat feels begging is too much work.
Remember cats don't go out searching for water; they only beg for food. They drink if they encounter water. As such, during periods of heat, it is extra important that water is available in places the cat frequently passes.
And they prefer running water most of the time. Bit late for myself to realize this, but you can buy things like water fountains for cats now. (Probably needs much cleaning though)
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
You know you're dealing with a serious heatwave when the cat feels begging is too much work.
Remember cats don't go out searching for water; they only beg for food. They drink if they encounter water. As such, during periods of heat, it is extra important that water is available in places the cat frequently passes.
And they prefer running water most of the time. Bit late for myself to realize this, but you can buy things like water fountains for cats now. (Probably needs much cleaning though)
I have a fountain for the cat. It doesn't actually need much more cleaning than a bowl; mostly occasionally refreshing the water and washing out or replacing the filter. And of course topping up - the pump is designed to be submerged and will overheat if it runs dry, so it really shouldn't be empty if it's plugged in.
Yesterday I put a simple bowl in my office since the cat tends to be there a lot and yesterday afternoon she started on my own glass of water, which is what made me think "wait a minute". I don't think it's worth me actually investing in a second fountain; it's just with the heat now that she's not hungry during the day and thus doesn't visit her food bowl, while drinking is of course particularly imporant.
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
And they prefer running water most of the time. Bit late for myself to realize this, but you can buy things like water fountains for cats now. (Probably needs much cleaning though)
Also they prefer not to drink where they eat, so you should put the water in a different location from the food.
Poppy used to drink out the pond all the time and almost never drank from her bowl except on a few occasions when the pond was frozen over. We thought she just didn't like tap water, for about sixteen years, until we found this out, moved the bowl, and now she drinks from it regularly.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
Also they prefer not to drink where they eat, so you should put the water in a different location from the food.
Does the opposite hold for dogs (as so many things with cats & dogs, if I'm to trust tha Intarwebzzz)?
Mine will only drink in her bowl next to her food. There is a bowl in the room where she sleeps but she has never, ever drunk from it, even when we forget to fill her other bowl (next to her food). She sometimes drinks in any random puddle outside (the dirtiest the better, it would seem...), but even then rarely more than a couple of sips, and drinks a lot as soon as she's back inside.
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@remi I do not know.
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@remi said in The Cat Status Thread:
@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
Also they prefer not to drink where they eat, so you should put the water in a different location from the food.
Does the opposite hold for dogs (as so many things with cats & dogs, if I'm to trust tha Intarwebzzz)?
Mine will only drink in her bowl next to her food. There is a bowl in the room where she sleeps but she has never, ever drunk from it, even when we forget to fill her other bowl (next to her food). She sometimes drinks in any random puddle outside (the dirtiest the better, it would seem...), but even then rarely more than a couple of sips, and drinks a lot as soon as she's back inside.
My dogs favorite water bowl is in the bathroom. The one in the kitchen (where I feed them) is rarely touched.
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@topspin said in The Cat Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
@error said in The Cat Status Thread:
You know you're dealing with a serious heatwave when the cat feels begging is too much work.
Remember cats don't go out searching for water; they only beg for food. They drink if they encounter water. As such, during periods of heat, it is extra important that water is available in places the cat frequently passes.
And they prefer running water most of the time. Bit late for myself to realize this, but you can buy things like water fountains for cats now.
My cat goes to the sink and waits for me to turn it on. Even if there's water available.
(Probably needs much cleaning though)
If you have longhairs it will get clogged with hair frequently.
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@dcon said in The Cat Status Thread:
My dogs favorite water bowl is in the bathroom.
:getout: of this thread!
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@PleegWat said in The Cat Status Thread:
You know you're dealing with a serious heatwave when the cat feels begging is too much work.
Mine has become too lazy to bite my hand when I try to groom her. A small victory, but a very welcome one.
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@HardwareGeek Thankfully no! My previous aussie would.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
Also they prefer not to drink where they eat, so you should put the water in a different location from the food.
This is something I should try. If you do have a cat fountain and even a crumb of food may get in it, my experience has been you start getting slime and nastiness in the fountain that's impossible to fully get out.
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@dcon said in The Cat Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek Thankfully no! My previous aussie would.
I just assumed what @HardwareGeek posted. If not for these two posts, I would have kept that (IMO reasonable) assumption.
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@Zecc I guess my vision sucks.
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The neighbours cat came in the window while I was in a meeting again.
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@DogsB My cat stood in front of the webcam on one of the video meetings before summer. The other meetings she was content sleeping in my lap, just out of sight from it.
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neighbour cat status he's an absolute scallywag!
I was smoking out the window watching the cat. He wandered up to the neighbours window. Wandered away. The neighbour rattled his food bowl. He wandered up to eat the contents of it. Wandered away and is now sleeping on my bed. A space he's being occuping for the last week between 11am and 8pm
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Cat status: flop
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Well, you could call it "50% success" instead.
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@Zerosquare I don't know that she was aiming for the mat. She will use her beds but often she just flops anywhere. She'll be right next to a comfy bed and will just flop - sometimes audibly - onto the floor where she happens to be, instead.
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We need a :kneeling_cat: emoji.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
@Zerosquare I don't know that she was aiming for the mat. She will use her beds but often she just flops anywhere. She'll be right next to a comfy bed and will just flop - sometimes audibly - onto the floor where she happens to be, instead.
Must have been raised by dogs!
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It's not even laziness. She's literally just climbed out of a bed she was curled up in, to flop on the floor. She just likes it
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FB embeds are still b0rked...
https://www.facebook.com/WildCharlesShow/videos/3531134936919987
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Cat status: caught red handed.
Came downstairs this morning to a trail of paw-prints leading away from the catflap. She's increasingly often been going out of her own accord overnight, and I've been finding her outside, waiting for me to let her in for her breakfast. I suspect that on this occasion it started raining and she decided waiting for personal door service wasn't worth getting wet.
Catflap was completely shut and powered on. So now I know she can do it if she wants to, I can go away on holiday in a couple of weeks and not worry about her being stuck outside hungry and/or wet until the catsitter comes. Hopefully she'll get more used to coming in by herself, but if she always prefers to be let in when I'm here to do it, I don't care.
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@error What is it they set off (?) in the middle that scares them so much while utterly failing to scare the cat? The video is fairly poor quality to tell.
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@Bulb Looks like some sort of bottle rocket? That failed horribly at actually rocketing.
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The cat knew it would fail, so it didn't see the point of moving away.
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@CarrieVS said in The Cat Status Thread:
She's increasingly often been going out of her own accord
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