Cats

[Sahara]

We are hard core cat people, rescued 17 last year. Currently have four at home but as cat rescue people our house and my shop have a revolving door…
They will ultimately get along. Basically, cats don’t like change. Your old cats lives have changed and they don’t like it.
You need at least one cat box for every two cats, plus one, separated as far apart as you can put them. Place the cat box’s in places where one cat can’t cut off access to the box, forcing the others to pee on the floor. Cats are total ******** and will do this. Same with food dishes, place food dishes as far apart as possible, in separate rooms if possible.
It will take about a week for them to cohabitate, and they may never be friends but they will eventually get along.

 

[Sam69sat]

We are hard core cat people, rescued 17 last year. Currently have four at home but as cat rescue people our house and my shop have a revolving door…
They will ultimately get along. Basically, cats don’t like change. Your old cats lives have changed and they don’t like it.
You need at least one cat box for every two cats, plus one, separated as far apart as you can put them. Place the cat box’s in places where one cat can’t cut off access to the box, forcing the others to pee on the floor. Cats are total ******** and will do this. Same with food dishes, place food dishes as far apart as possible, in separate rooms if possible.
It will take about a week for them to cohabitate, and they may never be friends but they will eventually get along.

^^^ Good advice ^^^ I have a herd of them and everytime a new outsider gets introduced they don't like it but they'll get used to it after a week or two.

 

[64BEL]

We got these two guys from the local shelter in 2008. They lived inside. I think neutered male cats are easy to get along with and are pretty sociable.

Eddie was the gray one. I had a bond with him because we both liked to eat and had a weight problem. He used to wake me up every morning for his breakfast. He passed 4 years ago.


Andy is still with us at 17 years old. He's pretty mellow and very clingy. He's in good shape.

 

[QuickBpBp]

Ours was laying on the couch by the fireplace today as it rained most of the day….

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

Zeus and his football cat toy.

 

[YY1]

The litter box formula is really N+1 where N is the number of cats.
That can be a LOT but some cats just won't use a box if another specific cat (or cats) have used it.
After a while, if you observe (and it's hard) shared usage, you might be able to remove a box or two.
Agree about better placement being areas accessible from different paths, but that's not always easy to do.

Sometimes they just don't like each other.

Agree "change" is not something they like.

Best to keep the little ones in their own room.
They will likely share a box just fine, which may become permanent (or not).
...and let the big ones smell them under the door and vice versa.
Ideally, swapping the big cats into the room, and letting the little ones out to explore and smell (while also leaving their smell).

We've found calming spray to be more effective and much more cost effective than the diffusers.
You can directly spray their coat, or spray areas of likely unfriendly encounters.
I've also sprayed the ceiling fan to get a longer term, wider distribution.

 

[HEMI-ITIS]

I have 10 cats in a colony by my garage,wet food once a day and dry as much as needed for grazing. I had them all fixed.

 

[64BEL]

I have 10 cats in a colony by my garage,wet food once a day and dry as much as needed for grazing. I had them all fixed.

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This one looks a lot like our Eddie, Al. Even the pouch.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

I call this guy Spooky, he’s getting kind of fat. When he first showed up a few months ago he was skinny with dry rough fur, now it’s pretty soft and he has some weight. He usually shows up in the evening and gets a can all to himself as well as maybe leftovers from the other cats.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

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When I saw this picture, I thought of my Bandit he was a cool cat

 

[Sahara]

This is the gang that currently resides at our place in Mexico. They alternate between our garden and the security gate. The nine iron dog people foam at the mouth over them but they know not to mess with the security guys.

 

[OneWheelPeel]

CrazyHobo and CryBaby were enjoying the Coronet today:
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Long post warning!
Had a bit of an adventure with CryBaby yesterday. She is a stray but I let her in the garage at night and out in the morning, but since I'm having my roof done the racket scares her and she wouldn't leave the garage. Also because of the racket I took my meetings with headphones on, which I never do.
Last meeting of the day I think I hear an occasional beep and can't place it, meeting ends and I go to the garage and its the CO alarm. The roofers had a generator running too close to my garage so even with it closed the exhaust built up to dangerous levels, I coax her out of a hidden corner to get her to fresh air. She seems to just want out at this point so since she has been in the back yard before and knows how to get to her reg spot in the front I let her out there. Big mistake!

My usual yard cat that I've had for years goes on the attack and CryBaby darts in the wrong direction thru a thorny bush and under my shed. I get garden shears and hack the bush away and crawl and see her under the shed, turns out animals have tunneled under the shed and created a nice apartment, so nice she won't leave. I have to crawl on a tarp (to avoid thorns) to see her and after hours of checking she is suddenly gone, I walk in the house and hear her outside the front door meowing for me to grab her and take her in the garage. It was well after 10PM at this point.
All the crawling in the cold (by Cali standards I know) did a job on my back too, the price I pay I guess. Here she is chillin in the Batcave under my shed.

 

[64BEL]

Our pets really have a hold on us "tough" muscle car guys, don't they, @OneWheelPeel? Glad you got her back to her safe spot.

 

[Sahara]

My final shot of my garden gang. I’m going to miss them. They have a hard, short life here but if I made it easier and

better for them for only a few weeks they at least had that.

 

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My final shot of my garden gang. I’m going to miss them. They have a hard, short life here but if I made it easier andView attachment 1772179 better for them for only a few weeks they at least had that.

I think I mentioned in a post somewhere.
My Dad said ( you can tell a man’s true character by the way he treats his animals) Sahara I am proud to see your posts and character. My opinion for what ever it is worth.

 

[Sahara]

I think I mentioned in a post somewhere.
My Dad said ( you can tell a man’s true character by the way he treats his animals) Sahara I am proud to see your posts and character. My opinion for what ever it is worth.

Thank you. It truly breaks my heart to see what happens to many of these animals, whether it be dogs, cats, fish, or whatever. In reality, most or all of the cats in this picture will be dead in less then a year. It’s a hard life. But if I can make it better for them even for a month then they at least had a good month.

 

[Duckmanreno]

When I saw this picture, I thought of my Bandit he was a cool cat

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Yes amazing resemblance

 

[OneWheelPeel]

Our pets really have a hold on us "tough" muscle car guys, don't they, @OneWheelPeel? Glad you got her back to her safe spot.

True, as I was going back and forth trying to get her with the roofers all around, or even all the feedings I do with them around, I wondered what they must be thinking. Then thought nothing tougher that "F$#@ whatever they think"
I got a bit of a chuckle this morning, my neighbor who never had animals and no real connection is the one who named her months ago, only because he said that cat keeps talking like a cry baby, and I said well you just named her.
This morning I was in the Coronet to move it since the roofers are done and I don't think he knew I could hear him talking to her about how she was under the shed last night etc. Second neighbor I've kind of converted.

 

[Sahara]

Some of the guys that care about and for animals are truly surprising.
I had mentioned before that the guys at the security gate also watch out for these cats. The security guys are a cool bunch of generally old, tough Mexicans. They range in age from probably thirty or so to perhaps sixty or so. Much like the cats they lead a tough life and they are tough guys; if you don’t belong here you are not getting in, period.
So they feed the cats with whatever scraps they can find. They also feed some of the stray dogs and the birds. One of them has an old bulldog named Ruby, or something like that. It is a cool old dog and you can tell that the owner loves her. But my funniest cat/tough guy story happened a few years ago.
When we bought our huge old house it was on wood pilings, not a basement. Linda and I decided that we wanted a basement. So our two story, thirty two hundred square foot house was lifted up eight feet, rails and rollers placed under it, and it was rolled forty feet into our front yard. When the basement was completed three months later the house was rolled back into place. Except our old girl cat, Mango, wanted to closely inspect the rollers while the house was being rolled. A group of big, burley Mennonite house movers sweated bullets while Mango wandered from roller to roller inspecting.
While the house was being worked on we couldn’t live in it, so we stayed at various friends places. At that time we had five cats, and we moved them into my shop while we stayed elsewhere. One time someone left the shop door open and all five cats got out. One of my best memories ever is of a crew of big, tough, burley house movers gently trying to herd five frightened, confused cats back into the shop. It was hilarious, but they did it.

 

[66ChargerHI-PO]

Alright guys,

I have another problem. The 2 little kittens we got are not using the litter box even though we showed it to them when we first brought them home, and they are going in the living room. We found 6, (yes 6) little piles of poop and pee today. What do we do, anyone have any suggestions? This is the litter box we got for them in the bathroom….

This is the one we got for the other older cats that the kittens also go into in the same bathroom….

Now I see why you said you were sorry for me @Richard Cranium, urgh .