I'm concerned (about my cat...)

[carteater]

Does your cat get enough water or do you only give it milk?

we don't ever let it drink milk

 

[smeariestbat]

i was going to start a cat thread, mainly to attract the attention of [MENTION=4156]glasfryn[/MENTION], then i saw this and thought, hey i'll just hijack yours we brought back a rescue cat last week, about a year old castrated male. how long before it stops hissing at me? we have a two week settling in period where we can take him back if it doesnt work out. i have a feeling its gonna take longer than this to get him to settle and i want to give him the time, but my mrs is rapidly losing patience and i dont want to get 6 months down the line and he's no better :/

 

[dougdeep]

Remove the rock. Why do you people ignore the obvious?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

i was going to start a cat thread, mainly to attract the attention of [MENTION=4156]glasfryn[/MENTION], then i saw this and thought, hey i'll just hijack yours we brought back a rescue cat last week, about a year old castrated male. how long before it stops hissing at me? we have a two week settling in period where we can take him back if it doesnt work out. i have a feeling its gonna take longer than this to get him to settle and i want to give him the time, but my mrs is rapidly losing patience and i dont want to get 6 months down the line and he's no better :/

Put butter on its front paws, helps them to lick, lie down and settle in to new place

 

[glasfryn]

Put butter on its front paws, helps them to lick, lie down and settle in to new place

and you might try rescue remedy on the tips of his ears or a few drops in his water
male cats take a little longer to settle
my advice would be ignore him and if its only you then you feed him for a while
do you know any of his history, because if he has been a stray this might account for his behavior or he might have been with a woman before he went to the rescue
IMHO two weeks is not long enough anyway
my Mrs has just read this and is laughing agree's with me that two weeks is not really long enough
get his trust don't force things
none of our three are lap cats and we have had them for years, LuLu who we have had for 13 years still hisse's at me every now and then her's is a space thing
up shot is ignore him ,don't stroke him or pet him in any way let him come to you
good luck
let me know how it goes

 

[Thunder Bolt]

i was going to start a cat thread, mainly to attract the attention of [MENTION=4156]glasfryn[/MENTION], then i saw this and thought, hey i'll just hijack yours we brought back a rescue cat last week, about a year old castrated male. how long before it stops hissing at me? we have a two week settling in period where we can take him back if it doesnt work out. i have a feeling its gonna take longer than this to get him to settle and i want to give him the time, but my mrs is rapidly losing patience and i dont want to get 6 months down the line and he's no better :/

I've had two male rescue cats. They both took about a month to start trusting us, but became great pets after that. The butter on the paws is a good idea.

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

My nineteen year old cat likes licking our wood-burning stove. (We have a guard up when it's on!)

Assume he does it for the iron?

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Are there some concrete mixes / motar that have lime in them?

 

[Arthur]

Basically I have a rockery in my garden, and one of the rocks on it is essentially a bit of concrete with little stones in it, when my cat, after I feed her, goes outside, she goes to this rock in the rockery and starts LICKING it, as if she is grooming another cat, she is quite old, I wonder if its because it has water on it, but she does it when it's bone dry. I'm concerned because It may have some bacteria on it or something and she could get ill, also I fear she may be doing this because she may have slipped into a state of craziness. Does anyone know why she does this, or how to stop her? Help would be appreciated...

If your not a cat person don't spam me, I just thought this would make a change from threads about "we're gonna be a mid table team" and UKIP.

She is clearly just showing her support to Ian Hart....albeit several years too late.






I'll get my coat!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Are there some concrete mixes / motar that have lime in them?

Yes, lots. Tends to be older stuff though, I think.

 

[readingstockport]

It's nothing to really worry about I would imagine, and to be honest, cat's have stronger constitutions than us by a long stretch - they eat grass for gods sake!!

Apparently, particularly in older cats, there is a vitamin, amino acid, mineral or something like that in grass that they lose the ability to synthesise as they age. Which is why they tend to eat more grass as they get older so I have been told.
But I'm not a vet and have no idea if what I was told is actually correct or not, I suppose I could find out by hunting t'net but tbh I can't be arsed.

 

[readingstockport]

and you might try rescue remedy on the tips of his ears or a few drops in his water
male cats take a little longer to settle
my advice would be ignore him and if its only you then you feed him for a while
do you know any of his history, because if he has been a stray this might account for his behavior or he might have been with a woman before he went to the rescue
IMHO two weeks is not long enough anyway
my Mrs has just read this and is laughing agree's with me that two weeks is not really long enough
get his trust don't force things
none of our three are lap cats and we have had them for years, LuLu who we have had for 13 years still hisse's at me every now and then her's is a space thing
up shot is ignore him ,don't stroke him or pet him in any way let him come to you
good luck
let me know how it goes

I had a stray live in the garden for 8 months. He would appear each morning and sit waiting to be fed. When I opened the door he would run away, I would put the food down and he would slowly come back to eat. It took 8 months to socialise him enough that I could pick him up and stroke him.

At which point I took him to the vet and got his balls chopped off He now lives in the house most of the time except when he goes out to beat up the other local cats, which he does regularly judging by the scratches he comes back with.

But the vet has just told me he may have cancer, scabs on his ears that are not healing very well, so another trip to the vets for him to get his flappy things hacked off this time.

 

[glasfryn]

I had a stray live in the garden for 8 months. He would appear each morning and sit waiting to be fed. When I opened the door he would run away, I would put the food down and he would slowly come back to eat. It took 8 months to socialise him enough that I could pick him up and stroke him.

At which point I took him to the vet and got his balls chopped off He now lives in the house most of the time except when he goes out to beat up the other local cats, which he does regularly judging by the scratches he comes back with.

But the vet has just told me he may have cancer, scabs on his ears that are not healing very well, so another trip to the vets for him to get his flappy things hacked off this time.

your tale makes me very jealous
while we lived in Wales we had a similar tale
a cat that had been dumped in the village eventually came to us like you we fed him ..........for 8 years , I tried every trick in the book but he would not let us near him, even though he had his neck ripped out right down to the windpipe and his cheek ripped off (fortunately we had a great vet who trusted us with anti-biotics which we hid in his food) he loved our cats and they even Lu-Lu excepted him.
several times we could have moved but did'nt because of him we did'nt want to leave him to ....well nobody.
lots of times he disappeared for weeks after some floosy cat in another village no doubt ....but he always returned to us for repairs and food
in 8 years we never touched him once we took one step forwards and he took two backwards
he was deaf in one ear and that unfortunately was his downfall ....he was hit by a lorry and killed instantly
we then were released to come home knowing he was at peace.

you have done well ......look after him
Murphy was a handsome boy even with his scars View attachment 54179

 

[BN9 BHA]

I'm concerned about my cat, he has started drinking my Tennants Super lager when I'm not looking!

 

[smeariestbat]

Right, so after an e-mail from the rescue place turns out the reason he didnt settle in his first home was due to the fact he was very nervous around their newborn and only got worse as the kid got older. We went there with our daughter (18 months old) so why they thought he'd settle here is beyond me. We returned him to the shelter today, where he immediately returned to the affectionate cuddly cat we though we would be bringing home. I dont know, if given time, he would have settled here, but given as he didnt in his previous home, we thought it was better to return him so they could find him a more suitable home rather than put him through more weeks/months of stress. As i said, he immediately cheered up as soon as we took him back so i feel we did the right thing for him.

The shelter then suggested another a cat, a 2 yr old female. we stayed and played with her for a bit and again she was very cuddly at the shelter,so we decided to bring her home with us to try again at giving a cat a good home. She has settled remarkable for her first night, and is already cuddling and purring away on the sofa, and even snuggles up to our daughter. Shes still a bit cautious of the dog (a cavalier king charles spaniel), but i'm sure she'll warm to her, as our dog was 'trained' by our old cats in England when she was a puppy, so she knows the score

 

[glasfryn]

Right, so after an e-mail from the rescue place turns out the reason he didnt settle in his first home was due to the fact he was very nervous around their newborn and only got worse as the kid got older. We went there with our daughter (18 months old) so why they thought he'd settle here is beyond me. We returned him to the shelter today, where he immediately returned to the affectionate cuddly cat we though we would be bringing home. I dont know, if given time, he would have settled here, but given as he didnt in his previous home, we thought it was better to return him so they could find him a more suitable home rather than put him through more weeks/months of stress. As i said, he immediately cheered up as soon as we took him back so i feel we did the right thing for him.

The shelter then suggested another a cat, a 2 yr old female. we stayed and played with her for a bit and again she was very cuddly at the shelter,so we decided to bring her home with us to try again at giving a cat a good home. She has settled remarkable for her first night, and is already cuddling and purring away on the sofa, and even snuggles up to our daughter. Shes still a bit cautious of the dog (a cavalier king charles spaniel), but i'm sure she'll warm to her, as our dog was 'trained' by our old cats in England when she was a puppy, so she knows the score

females will settle better in my experience (all our three are female), he will find some old lady or gentleman to bully in the near future I am sure good on you for persevering its one more with a good home.