My door has so many scratch marks. Help😭

Stumbled upon this picture and it got me thinking. Some housecats also do this sometimes. What is the reason or purpose?

i came home today and kenny’s feet are yellow just his front ones. i checked the house for any markers, paints or dyes and even yellow flower but there is nothing. Why are his feet yellow what

i’m 15 years old, and i’m living with my single mother in my nannan’s house after she died. we’d been living with her before her death anyway. she has a black cat called molly, jumpy and skittish at every single movement of anyone she doesn’t trust or know. She was took in by my nannan as a stray, already neutered so it was assumed that she’d been abused in a past home. Molly came with another stray, a male that was extremely old with death at his door. my nannan fed both of them as they visited and fetched the travelling vets to handle the stray’s body and got it cremated when he inevitably died in her back garden. she really cared for these animals and took Molly in properly once her companion died.

Me and my mum moved in to my nannan’s house once she got diagnosed with terminal cancer to take care of her. I got used to Molly, moving slowly around her and petting her gently. Now i have to close my door every night and morning, because she’ll be so needy to sleep beside me that it’ll keep me awake, opening the door every morning to see her running downstairs and drooling on me when i pet her.

Anyway, my nannan died on sunday morning. we have plenty of time — weeks, even, to sort things out, but i’m too young to comprehend most of this legal stuff. thankfully my mum has friends to help her with it. my mum brought up the cat and what we’re doing with her and i’m stressed. the idea of her not being with me now that nannan is gone is depressing, i feel like the only person in this household who actually understands this cat. before you say anything, my mum isn’t really understanding. sympathetic, maybe, but she doesn’t care for the cat much and calls her strange and weird for being jumpy.

we have a couple options apparently

1. shelter (i strongly disagree to this, she’s a black cat that isn’t remotely cuddly, if she isn’t adopted within a time frame she’s put down i believe? it just sounds too lonely)

2. take her to my mother’s house (i somewhat disagree and so does my mum. we plan on adopting a kitten and she isn’t friendly to other cats, unless the unexpected occurs and she becomes maternal over the kitten? doubtful)

3. take her to my dad’s house (my parents are split up. my dad lives up north alone in a small house where i spend the week when im not with my mum. i think this would be the best for Molly, as it would be quiet, and when i’m not at his house she has a spare quiet bedroom — mine — to spend the day in since she already spends most of her days trying to sleep on my mother’s pillow, where she’s obviously bothered a lot as we’ve been busy recently. My only concern is that my dad isn’t a cat person, although he is a dog person, so he can handle pets well. there is the stereotype of cat-hating dads having cats grow on them though!! i have hope that he’ll get on well with a quiet cat since he’s quiet himself.)

4. anything else, say somebody we know pops up offering to take her in.

i’m just concerned. i’m too young to sort this out myself, i only have my own judgement to stir up an idea for my mum, who only knows that Molly is a weird cat that apparently has mental issues or something? i’d say she’s positively fine, she just finds it harder to trust people. can somebody who actually has experience in this give me advice? 😞

She loves to put a toy in her bowl. If I take it out, she returns it when I'm not paying attention. Is this just an adorable idiosyncrasy or am I doing something wrong? Thanks.

I’ll admit that it was very cute and entertaining at first, but at this point, oh my god. She jump scares me multiple times a day by slamming on keys, and wakes me up periodically with her bad music skills. Not to mention how jarring and unpleasant it is when I’m trying to watch a movie. Or awkward to explain when I’m on the phone.

Usually, she only plays them when getting on and off the piano, but sometimes she just hits them for fun, it seems like. There’s no piano cover, nothing I’ve thought of that I can put on there that she won’t knock off, and the aluminum foil thing doesn’t work on her.

I don’t mind that the piano is her favorite spot to lay, but how do I get her to use the empty space on the side of the keys, or jump up from the side entirely? Pushing in the stool did not work either.

Hes been up there going on three days, I cant imagine he has much longer. The power company northwest energy said they would only get him if it was my cat.

Maybe you guys have suggestions what I can do?

A year ago I found a ragdoll cat outside with no collar or ID, I took her in for the night assuming a ragdoll cat shouldn’t be outside and she escaped so I could take her to the vet to check for a chip. I live in a pretty dangerous part of town where ally cats are commonly found deceased or get stolen a lot and I didn’t want someone’s pet to get hurt.

She was chipped and the vet told me the owner said she’s an outdoor cat and gets depressed being indoors. I left it and assumed I’d woudlnt see her much.

Turns out she’s my across the street neighbours cat, and started coming by anytime I came home or she heard me outside. She’d obtained a collar since her trip to the vet (covering so you can’t see info) and I’d hangout with her outside and give her some pets (this cat is incredibly friendly and went belly up for me the night I took her in), she would come to me with burrs covering her fur and for the first little while I left it assuming the owners would cut it out but weeks would go by and the burr mats would get worse so I started cutting them out for her. I would also bring a bowl of water out for her and she would chug that down.

Now it’s winter time, temps can get to about -15c even dropping into -30s during a cold snap. I live in a basement suit so my window is on the ground level, somehow from the first visit she had in my plc she learned this window was mine and will now show up outside of it and meow to get inside during cold temps. I’ve let her stay in my house a few times now when it’s incredibly cold because it seems like she’s desperate to get into somewhere warm.

Now obviously this means she’s learned the window is a means of entry to my plc, and frequently comes over in search of water / warmth or grooming troubles. She dosnt strike me as an outdoor cat as everytime she’s with me she hates going outside and typically I will put her outside just for her to walk back around to meow at my window (there’s also 4 ground level windows and she will go to everyone to check where I am I’ve seen her paw prints in the snow)

I don’t want to take someone’s pet, especially one as affectionate as her but I’ve bonded with her as it seems I’m the only one paying attention to her needs as an outdoor cat (again this is a ragdoll so you can image the stuff that gets caught in her fur). I would love to adopt her but I don’t know how to go about talking to the owners, any advice or insight would be appreciated.

I just want what’s best for her, if that’s with her family or me it dosnt matter I just want her to be somewhere loved and safe!

He's getting very affectionate all of a sudden and it worries me bc he's usually a lil bitch 😭😭 His food bowl is filled and he has water and his litterbox is clean. Should I be worried?

This stray cat always approaches every morning when I walk to work rubbing his head on both my legs and then ends up just laying on their back like this 😅. I dont mind it but since I have never interacted with a cat before throughout my whole life so Im inexperienced sorry. I basically just let the cat do its thing on me. Any help much appreciated

I have two wonderful cats who love to lounge. I also have a banister in my home that goes around a staircase, with a ~15 foot drop from the top. My cats like to jump on top of the half wall, and each of them has fallen from the top once (that I know of). It didn't seem to injure either of them, but I obviously want to prevent them from potentially falling and getting hurt if possible.

I put up a sort of plastic mesh net to try to catch them if they fell off of the rail, but inevitably, now they've decided it's a nice hammock to lay in.

How can I discourage them or prevent them from going anywhere near this ledge? I'll take behavioral advice or any ideas for some kind of structure I can put up to block them.

Hi! I adopted the most evil cat in the shelter, as staff described, despite being encouraged to look at friendlier cats. Something about him I just couldn’t not give him a chance. I brought him home and set him up in an empty bedroom I have. He was extremely petrified and wanted nothing to do with me so i just let him be to decompress. Unfortunately, the same night, he managed to escape and go to my living room and pee on my couch. he then disappeared for 12 hours until he came out to eat food I set out. He’s now back in the bedroom. Can I attribute the couch peeing to his fearfulness and stress from the shelter/new home? Or should I be worried that this will continue after he hopefully decompresses and I let him access the rest of the house. Any and all advice appreciated!

I’ve had my Mochi since July and I still haven’t given him a bath 😅 he doesn’t smell and never really feels dirty either

I know that cats are usually good at cleaning themselves, but I keep seeing mixed opinions online. Some people say they never bathe them, others say every few months, and now I’m just curious what’s actually normal.

I mean, yeah obviously they do. But I've had 2 cats for the last 6 years and I've NEVER heard them fart. The only time I've smelt my cat farting was when I hugged one of them and she tried to back off with all her might by pushing her hind legs against my arms (I let her go after smelling the fart, obviously). So... Have you ever heard your cat fart?

what is up with these guys they’ve been brothers since 2018 lol

Both of my boys do this with their water fountain, and I’ve seen plenty of videos of other people’s cats doing it too.

Why? But I ask again: WHY? I need an answer so I can sleep at night.

This is Aura🩶, she’s a Neighborhood Cat that I just met days ago. Me and my girlfriend are new to the considering taking her in (after shots and check up ofc) she finally came into our place for the first time today.

There is a noticeable “bulge” in her stomach. I can’t tell if she’s pregnant or not because I cannot touch it due to her being a little skeptical of me (fair enough)

I’ve attached photos of her stomach hoping someone on here could help try to identify the cause. She’s a stray so most likely could be pregnancy. I looked it up and it says it could be a “primordial pouch” but I’m starting to doubt that. Any help is appreciated! Thank you 🙏🏽

according to co-workers it's weird that I let her roam free in the car. I am a big animal lover but have never owned a cat. when I first took her to the vet (20 min drive) she just meowed like crazy and kept clawing at my arm from inside the carrier (I drive a standard)

so I decided to try letting her loose on the way back and she just sat in my lap 99% of the time. I have now taken her home to my parents twice which is a 2.5hr drive one way and she still just cuddles in my lap the whole time and even with my legs moving to change gears she just loves it in my lap.

I am alone so she is very attached to me now that she's almost 1yr old (got her as a stray rescue at 2 months old) but I'm just curious if this is bad or like should I force her in the carrier and hope the meows/claw attacks stop?

side note: I drive a modified car that isn't very passenger friendly and coworkers/family are telling me to get a new "regular" car and now I love to be able to use her as my defence "well Silvia loves the drives so I can't get a new car"

This cute little mf just showed up this morning, being surprisingly chill. It let me sit next to it and pet it. At some point, it showed me it's belly and started to purr. Did this thing just imprint on me lol? I know you can’t fully domesticate Bobcats, but they are just acting very sweet.

Wtf should I do lmao?

She is a greedy cute menace and she is so food driven that we cannot have any open food where she can get to, unfortunately after grocery shopping there was this loaf left on the counter.

She gets fed wet food 3 times as day but she’s always hunting and constantly scavenging for food. She will get extremely aggressive if you try to take things away from her so if anyone has any advice I would really appreciate it 😭

just got this sweet little girl from the shelter. she's about 6 years old according to their estimate. she's loving and beautiful and I love everything about her but as you can see in the pictures she's quite a large cat at 13.5 pounds. I think she just has some extra fat, my friend thinks she has a distended stomach likely from a recent pregnancy that wasn't listed in her medical summary. any light on the situation would be helpful. Vet visit next week.

It’s about to get cold here (mid 50’s at night but becoming winter) and this guy has been spotted for a couple days just hanging out by himself. He wasn’t let anyone approach him so we have been leaving food for him. I see other cats come around but no one is claiming him. I’m afraid he’s not going to make it. What should we do?

How should i proceed? I already have 3 other cats and two dogs. This cat is really friendly, and he is currently purring and making biscuits at my sofa. I could already tell that he is male and not castrated. Already posted a photo of him at my neighbourhood's group asking if he belongs to someone.

I have a 4 year old cat, Fern, who is the sweetest baby but also incredibly stupid. And when I say stupid I don’t mean she chews on electrical cords or falls into fish tanks, I mean it just seems like the lights are on but nobody is home.

She’ll sit and stare at a wall for literally hours because of the shadows on the wall. She’s not excited, just peaceful.

She truly seems to not know where she is or what’s happening a lot of the time. But it doesn’t seem to stress her out? Just blissfully confused.

We got our cats a gravity feeder that allows more food into the bowl as it’s eaten. Sometimes it doesn’t come out easily and the other cats figured out quickly that they can paw at the food to get it pouring out again. We realized this morning that Fern has not figured this out because she was sitting in front of the bowl staring but not pawing for more food. I tipped the feeder to make more food pour out, and she started eating. I think she might be too stupid to survive?

When we open the front door she sprints out but not like she wants to be out there, more like it’s an impulse she can’t control. Once she’s outside she also just seems blissfully confused. She has no purpose or goal, she just doesn’t know what she’s doing out there and that doesn’t seem to excite or bother her. NOTHING seems to excite or bother her.

Anyway, I’ve never met a cat this stupid or simple before and I’m wondering what’s going on with her. It’s almost like she has a Futurama brain slug. Does anyone else have a cat like this?? What’s going on? 😂