Cats

[Renzatic]

Time for a wall-mount.

Not in those walls. You can’t even drive nails into them.

And anyway, the cat would just hang off the TV.

 

[Roller]

Well, here's something we can all agree on as being something new in the cat world:

Airport staff find cat trapped in suitcase

TSA staff at New York's JFK airport found a ginger cat trapped in a suitcase that had been checked for a flight for Florida. The cat -- which apparently got in the suitcase by mistake -- was unharmed.

www.cnn.com

 

[lizkat]

Well, here's something we can all agree on as being something new in the cat world:

Airport staff find cat trapped in suitcase

TSA staff at New York's JFK airport found a ginger cat trapped in a suitcase that had been checked for a flight for Florida. The cat -- which apparently got in the suitcase by mistake -- was unharmed.

www.cnn.com

Cats sure do like to get into boxes and bags! There are also pretty often stories of cats getting into produce trucks and the like and traveling across a whole continent... curiosity seems to be a thing with them. Or else they just got caught on a mouse patrol and didn't bail out soon enough.

 

[Herdfan]

We have to keep the work van’s doors shut or we would take home people’s cats.

 

[Renzatic]

Cat smells the ham on my breath. She keeps getting up in my grill!

 

[lizkat]

The famous Los Angeles puma P-22 has had to be euthanized. RIP to a cat who became the face of saving his kind from extinction. Piece has video w/ stills of some of the photo captures of him over the years..

P-22, L.A. celebrity mountain lion, euthanized due to severe injuries

The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California's threatened pumas, was euthanized Saturday.

www.latimes.com

 

[shadow puppet]

The famous Los Angeles puma P-22 has had to be euthanized. RIP to a cat who became the face of saving his kind from extinction. Piece has video w/ stills of some of the photo captures of him over the years..

P-22, L.A. celebrity mountain lion, euthanized due to severe injuries

The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California's threatened pumas, was euthanized Saturday.

www.latimes.com

I was just reading about this on our Santa Monica Mtns account. This is such a sad loss in our area. I'm absolutely gutted. He was such an incredibly beautiful Puma.

 

[Clix Pix]

Saw the article in today's Washington Post..... He was quite the adventurer, wasn't he, and I can see how he was a local legend. Such a shame that he was no longer healthy, then sustained injuries, and would've not fared well on his own any more. He looked like a lovely, powerful cat who must've been something in his heyday.

 

[Herdfan]

Saw the article in today's Washington Post..... He was quite the adventurer, wasn't he, and I can see how he was a local legend. Such a shame that he was no longer healthy, then sustained injuries, and would've not fared well on his own any more. He looked like a lovely, powerful cat who must've been something in his heyday.

I love big cats. Got to hold a juvenile Leopard at a big cat rescue and it was probably one of the best "wild" animal encounters I have every had. Nothing will ever top diving with a pregnant shark, but this was close. He was just like a house cat, only bigger. He played, he nuzzled and was very sweet.

One day I hope to have either a Serval or an F1 Savannah.

 

[shadow puppet]

Safe travels on the next part of your journey P-22.
By @groundfloormurals

 

[lizkat]

I love big cats. Got to hold a juvenile Leopard at a big cat rescue and it was probably one of the best "wild" animal encounters I have every had. Nothing will ever top diving with a pregnant shark, but this was close. He was just like a house cat, only bigger. He played, he nuzzled and was very sweet.

One day I hope to have either a Serval or an F1 Savannah.

I was just rewatching a PBS Nature segment that aired back in November, the one about ocelots in Texas. They are about twice the size of a house cat... and I hadn't realized how nearly extinct they may be in the USA. I think there are efforts now to reestablish genetic diversity of that subset now --by working with Mexican wildlife authorities-- to bring in some new blood, since the ocelot is still more widely established south of our border, and has even been found to live comfortably there in a wide range of microclimates.

Nature | Preview of American Ocelot | Season 41 | Episode 4 | PBS

Dive deep into South Texas to meet one of America’s most endangered cats: the ocelot.

www.pbs.org

 

[Nycturne]

We got the news we have been dreading since our cat was diagnosed with IBD… that it looks like it has progressed to lymphoma. So this is where things get harder and more expensive, with the goal being to get her as many good years as we can.

She was excited to get some late Christmas presents just a week ago.

 

[Nycturne]

Some good news, we aren't going to be waiting for weeks to get a consultation with an internal medicine specialist, and just need to wait until Monday.

We also took a chance with some new dry food today to try to help get her eating again, and she's taken to some freeze-dried raw food made from turkey and duck. The anti-nausea meds are helping keep it down for now, and she's starting to perk back up. So we at least should be able to carry on until we get the results from the upcoming tests back.

 

[Cmaier]

The neighbor’s cat now insists he lives with us, so I bought this little house thing with a heat pad in it and stuck it in my backyard. Little monster seems to like it.

 

[Yoused]

I bought this little house thing with a heat pad in it

We have a cat that used to belong to my aunt. We do not relish the idea of her in the house (she probably cost my aunt one or two hundred thousand when she sold the house, due to her ongoing habit of "claiming" the stairs, although TBF no one in the house ever tried to do anything about it). She lives on the porch, gets fed (including a daily Sheba) and treated decently. but the idea of a heat pad is not entertained: as an outside cat, she has to maintain a fur coat appropriate for the season and climate, which a heat pad would compromise. She has a shelter and a nice bed in it, and that is good enough.

 

[Cmaier]

We have a cat that used to belong to my aunt. We do not relish the idea of her in the house (she probably cost my aunt one or two hundred thousand when she sold the house, due to her ongoing habit of "claiming" the stairs, although TBF no one in the house ever tried to do anything about it). She lives on the porch, gets fed (including a daily Sheba) and treated decently. but the idea of a heat pad is not entertained: as an outside cat, she has to maintain a fur coat appropriate for the season and climate, which a heat pad would compromise. She has a shelter and a nice bed in it, and that is good enough.

It’s a heat pad designed for outdoor cats. When I touch it I don’t feel any warmth at all. Apparently it just keeps the bottom of the house from being freezing due to whatever is under the house.

He normally sleeps in his owner’s garage - they leave the garage door open a crack. He has a bed in there with what seems to be a heat pad designed for humans (i touched it and it felt warm). I began to worry last week when their garage door was fully closed for several nights straight and the cat was constantly meowing at my front door. (We do let him in but we have to supervise lest he mark things).

 

[Herdfan]

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The neighbor’s cat now insists he lives with us, so I bought this little house thing with a heat pad in it and stuck it in my backyard. Little monster seems to like it.

We had the same one for a stray that was hanging around. We even went a step further and got him a heated water dish

He now lives with the offspring. Inside

 

[lizkat]

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The neighbor’s cat now insists he lives with us, so I bought this little house thing with a heat pad in it and stuck it in my backyard. Little monster seems to like it.

We had the same one for a stray that was hanging around. We even went a step further and got him a heated water dish

He now lives with the offspring. Inside

Y'all have been owned. Cats are really good at this. I swear some of them just like to collect humans.

 

[Herdfan]

Y'all have been owned. Cats are really good at this. I swear some of them just like to collect humans.

So true.

When we first started seeing him, he would run as soon as he knew he was seen. Then one cold winter day my daughter saw him sitting beside the generator and felt bad for him and brought a handful of chow out for him. But he only came for it once she went back inside. So she started bringing him chow every time she saw him. Then he started coming over when she was still outside. Then she could pet his back while he ate.

Then one day my wife got a text from her to come out on the back deck and he was sitting in her lap. She broke him and they had a bond ever since. So he lived in his heated house on our back deck for well over a year. Then when she was going back to school after COVID, she wanted to take him with her and he has been her pet ever since. We didn't think it was a good idea for her to take her older ragdoll because the other 2 ragdoll's we had starting having health issues around her age and we didn't think she needed to be dealing with that while at school. Fortunately Gabby has been doing fine and will be 16 in 2 months, but you never know.

 

[Cmaier]

The last thing you see before Dash the Wondercat What Lives Next Door eats your face.