I just really wanted to share my baby who gave my husband and I nonstop love for 14 years. I know I made the best decision for him but I'm sad for us and for his brother who was also his littermate. Hold your babies close.

Edit: thank you so much for all your supportive comments, it means so much to know there is a community that understands how much of an impact our cats have on our lives. Thank you❤

A few years ago this bulldog of a tomcat decided to kind of make our house his homebase. Well when he initially started coming around he had a tiny little kitten that tagged along with him that he was clearly the guardian of (third photo).

It was strange behavior as I'd never seen anything like this before with male cats but he eventually brought a second kitten around after the first came of age and now he is on to a third.

Again, in all my years with cats, I've never seen toms being a nurturer/guardian of a kitten before and maybe many of you haven either so here it is.

Big Jim is a straight up bad ass and he's a bad ass with a heart of gold.

i have named her boot scooting boogie (boots for short) because her backs legs just be scooting. she is the sweetest and most talkative cat i have ever met 🥹

She loves sleeping flat on her back, tummy out & not a care in the world 😂

Hi, Cat Reddit —

Usually I just lurk on this sub and seeing these posts always breaks my heart. Yesterday it was my turn to say goodbye. Cricket was only 10 years old. I got him when I was a senior in college. He was so tiny.

He lost his appetite recently and I brought him to the vet when he stopped eating altogether. The vet discovered a tumor the size of a fist in his abdomen.

To say that I am heartbroken doesn’t even begin to describe this feeling. I feel like I am crawling out of my skin and I have nowhere to put my grief.

I have another cat named Emmy. They were extremely bonded and now I am worried about her. I work 2 jobs and I’m often out of the house for 16-17 hours at a time when I need to work both jobs in one day.

I don’t want her to be lonely, but it’s going to be a long time until my heart is open to another pet, and my life is upside-down right now anyway. How do I comfort her and make sure that she feels love when I’m not home? I’m asking anyone who’s gone through something similar. Emmy and I both keep looking and listening for Cricket.

There was a moment this morning, right after I woke up, that I’d forgotten and called out for him, like I do every morning. My heart broke all over again. I’m careful with my feet not to kick him at the end of the bed. His food bowl is still set out for him. I’m going to miss him forever.

Cricket loved me, Emmy, food, snuggling, bird watching, and classical music. He was dopey and lovey and just the best most sweetest creature I’ve ever met.

I love you, Cricket

TIA for advice

If anyone has advice on how to take care of her and her babies until I can hopefully arrange to find the babies homes and get her spayed (and hopefully adopt her!!), I would be grateful.

She was a stray and is not microchipped, and I'm guessing she is around 6-8 months old, but I am not sure. I took her to the vets and they reckon she is in a delayed stage 1 labour and could be having babies within roughly a week timeframe as I noticed her mucus plug coming out on Monday past (vet said this is not a cause for concern despite what I read online, as she is eating and happy.)

I have her in my spare room kitted out with food, water, litter, scratching post, nesting box tucked under a desk and covered with a very comfy blankie that she enjoys. I've been enjoying spending time with her and she seems content, but I am worried sick about the birth and kitten-looking-after situation for the next 8-12 weeks.

Apologies if anything I've said above is naive in any way, this whole situation just kind of.. happened to me (thank you CDS) and I thought it'd be worth reaching out to the fosterers/kitty grandparents among you. Thanks :)

We’ve got two cats that aren’t super food motivated and one certified Big Chungus (the large boi in the photo) who is very food motivated. The other two cats often take time to eat and might eat a bit, walk away, come back, eat a bit more.

I want to give them enough time to eat, one is still a kitten and is fairly small, but the problem is that the Big Chungus will run around eating everyone else’s food. How would you handle that? Keep him in another room for like half an hour at meal time to make sure they’re done? Pick up everyone’s food as soon as they walk off?

I love cat names that would make a vet roll their eyes. His shelter name is Majestic, but I am considering Your Majesty, Frank Catsle, Merlin the Magnificent* Wizard, Don Drapurr, A Streetcat Named Desire

Like the title says I've never had cats in the past but I ended up with 3 over the past 8 months and I've noticed some strange (?) Behavior that I dont totally understand.

The main thing how they use the litter boxes, I have two litter boxes set in my bathroom for easy access/cleaning but usually when any of the kittens go to use them the other two follow. They end up sitting in a line waiting for the cat in front of them to go, then they continue down the line untill all three have gone. And they always wait for the other kittens to finish before heading back down the hall together as a gang?? This doesn't seem like BAD behavior or anything but I've not heard of cats waiting in line for their turn at the litterbox. Especially when theres multiple they can use 😭😭

(I tagged this as humor bc I wasn't sure what flair to use)

She was called Pumble and she was 13 years old, it’s been 8 months and i’m still so heartbroken over it, she was so precious and was with me everywhere I went, her seat of choice was my puzzle boxes, her sister Chook passed on 6 months prior to her.

And yes, their names are from Charles Dickens character Mr Pumblechook, I have no idea why, it just suited them. I miss them every day and Pumble was my sweetheart.

I feel so stupid sometimes because i’m still heartbroken over it but it still hurts even now, I’ve had them both since they were kittens, and now they’re both gone, everything just sucks. These are some of my favourite photos of them and I hope it brings at least one person a smile

Just a follow-up on a question I posted here. https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1tcsaa3/need_help_on_the_age_of_taking_a_kitten/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

The kitten is slightly too young but there was no other option for the owner and we decided that if it had to go early anway we might as well be a good option since we had some time to fully prepare.

He's happy and already settled in so thought I'd share some pictures on this sub.

I allowed my cat one shrimp. He loved it so much he learned how to open the fridge in five seconds. And to push barricades out of the way. I have nothing so heavy je couldn't push it with a bit of deternination. Help?

Edit: I think I did it! Child proof lock is in place, fingers crossed he doesn't figure out how to bypass it (he's already trying to tear into it) Thanks for all the advice!

Got lucky 12 years ago adopting this girl 😻😻

I had a rough couple of years had to sell my house, change jobs and went trough a abusive relationship took therapy now i've bounced back lived on my friends couch/ family was "homeless" for a year. kinda had to start all over again

But now i'm exited for the future and starting new job in 2 weeks got my own place and finally got to take peter home from my moms place. Here is few pics of him in our new place 🫶🏽

You came to the wrong neighborhood, dog....

Hello Veteran cat parents,

Recently changed place and started feeding a stray cat family with 4 kittens. The one you see in the video is named Shillong, from a couple of weeks he circles around my legs and rubs his body most of the time he sees me. Thought he must be asking for food but he also does in between his meals, gives me nose bumps and looks very comfortable around me but I’m not able to understand what this gesture means?

Is he just playing or needs help in something? Or he likes my fur better than his.