I have two cats both 5 years old, both boys both without balls. They're not related. One of them keeps trying to intensely push his nose into my other cat's behind to smell it like a dog. The other cat never does this and also doesn't seem to enjoy it. His butt is clean, I checked. It's just weird and I've never seen cats do this.

Is my cat just a freak or was he a dog in his past life? Or is there something up here?

the fluffy smaller cat is 2mo, while the shorter haired bigger cat is 4mo. is this fighting or playing? their tails kind of flick around and the 2mo makes small meows and occasionally hisses but seems to also engage. their ears aren't usually flat and they chase each other around the room. my older cat backs off sometimes at the 2mo's cries but not always. pls lmk if i should keep them separate more!!

We rescued three male kittens. They are very healthy, happy, and probably due for their snippings soon. The vet advised us to feed them Purina one/science diet. We feed them four times a day, one half pate can to each kitten. But it's breaking our bank a little.

Is this too much? Not enough? They're very active and healthy and I know dry food has more calories- we have tried slowly introducing them to dry food but they turn their nose up at it. Money doesn't matter as long as they're healthy- i expected three kittens to be a bit of work- but I want to know if there's any way I can keep them happy while maybe getting more chomps for my buck.

We also got them a water fountain.

Their names are Stoat(marble), Edwin(black), and Ramses(gray.)

This isn't to rough of playing with her is it, this is the most playful cat ive had and Im not in the position to get a second cat for her so I try and play with her best I can

my roommates and I are in the process of beginning to introduce our respective cats (two in total). last night, my roommate let her cat out of her room (after about a month of staying in her room, I did the same) to explore the house on her own, and I, admittedly, forgot to put a towel down in front of my bedroom door.

she didn't go near the door at first and stayed downstairs but when I moved to my room, I noticed my cat was sitting by the door. after a minute he started trilling like crazy and meowing like "maOOW" and then it went into a trill. he trills ALL the time, it's probably his favorite form of communication. at first, I was confused and then I heard my roomies cat growling between his sets of trills, I promptly made sure to put a barrier between the cracks so her cat wouldn't be too distressed.

he's generally very friendly but I've never really had him officially meet another cat. his only other exposure (to my knowledge, I adopted him at 2yrs old) to cats is when I kept a friend's cat in my bedroom for a few hours while they had to handle some personal stuff at their place. he had an exp with a dog but it was an untrained chihuahua (toothless, harmless) who scared with him with his barking. but afterwards, he just rubbed up against me and purred and wanted me to pet him.

my question is basically the title, is it good that he was trilling and meowing?

My cat was recently in a fight with another cat and got his eyelid scratched, he couldn't open his eye fully and now after a few days it looks like this.

UPDATE: Got back from the vet, they said his eye was directly scratched and is infected. They gave my antibiotic drops and some sort of vitamin drops for regeneration that I need to apply 2 times a day. The cat is fine, thank you everyone.

hope you enjoy the video. anyways, i gradually switched her over from Dr. Elsie’s litter to tofu litter the last 2 months, but once I went full tofu, i noticed she has been peeing on this spot on the rug, likely in the last two weeks. But she still poops in the litter. Her sister doesn’t seem to mind the tofu litter either. Otherwise Luna acts as normal and doesn’t seem like she’s in pain. I didn’t even notice the pee in the rug until I stepped in it this morning 😃

I’m going to bring back her old litter (which I’m not fond of since it was dusty and made both of us sneeze) and I let the vet know, is there anything else to do in the meantime? Is she in pain or upset or just belligerent and goofy? Is this something your cats have done?

My neighbour said she can tell my cat apart from a neighbours cat because of it

Prior context he was feral and outside before, I fed and socialized him for 9 months and we brought him inside a bit over a week ago (10 days). He's been adjusting slowly to indoors and is now to the point where he'll only start crying once or twice at night but seems to have separation anxiety from me and I wonder if maybe that's part of it but I don't know.

Anyway, he figured out the litterbox pretty fast, first he was peeing on a cat bed but after I took it away he went straight to the litterbox and had no more issues. He would go several times throughout the day and he's a little weird, he would make eye contact with me the entire time and then spend a very long time burying it, but whatever. A few days ago I started having to leave for 12 hours each day to work, it's a short term thing so I'll be done with it after tomorrow, and family is home with him all day, but he apparently has not been using the litterbox at all until i get home. 12 hours of no going potty seems a little excessive to me and it seems to be directly because of me, because as soon as I get home he'll meow and rub on me, and then go.

Nobody has seen him go when I'm not home, and I scoop after every single time he goes and leave the litter perfectly flat and level so I can always tell when he's dug in it and I need to check again. Is that normal? My best guess is that he's still nervous about being in here and is comforted by me but it's not like he hides all day, he comes out to hang out by himself or with my family, so it doesn't seem like he should need to wait specifically for me. Also, how does my presence make pooping any less scary, he thinks I'm gonna protect him while he goes? My mom told me an hour ago that he finally did go without me, but this is the first time in 10 entire days that he hasn't just held it until I'm there.

I’m just completely baffled by her, when I first got Kupák she would try and sleep inside my shirt. Now at approaching six (6) years she won’t sit in my lap unless my legs have some kind of covering (pants, blanket, duvet, etc.)

She hasn’t touched my leg skin in a few years now. Hands, arms and my face are all fair game and she loves forehead kisses. I just can’t figure out the bare leg thing.

Any ideas as to maybe why would be helpful!

Kupák/Cups pictured

Hi! I'm a new kitten owner he's about 5 weeks old I believe, and he's starting to play for the first times with me!:> it's so cute, and I do entertain it but he bites my hand a lot... and I dunno if that's good or bad or if I should keep letting him do it..?
I've only had him for about five days :0 he kind of starts biting his own paws or the blankets around him and stuff, and I just don't know how to teach him to stop? Or is it okay because he's so young?

TLDR: So I've had my cat for about 15 years now. From New York. She's only developed this bad habit of smacking her lips, and when I noticed, she had lost a good amount of fur around her lips. And can't eat properly. She started doing it more frequently ever since she couldn't use the litter box properly.

Can't eat the same, and has become more lethargic. I don't know what to do.

Today I took my 11 year old female cat to the vet for routine bloodwork and a refill of her asthma inhaler. They wanted to do bloodwork before giving her the steroid. She is a very chill cat and her physical exam was unremarkable, they said she looked healthy and lungs and heart sounded great. They even said she was so chill during the exam.

They take her back to do bloodwork, and I noticed it was taking quite a while. Finally after about 45 minutes a nurse comes back and tells me that my cat “had an episode” and was in the oxygen chamber because she was open mouth breathing. They said they wanted her to calm down before bringing her back to me. I was of course anxious but they acted like this was not an uncommon reaction and that it was okay. My cat is 11 years old and has bloodwork and dental cleanings done every year, and this has never happened to my knowledge.

When they finally brought her back to me after an hour, she seemed a bit off. She was scared in the back of her carrier but otherwise normal. However when I walked her to the car, she started open mouth breathing and drooling. She also urinated on herself. I turned around and went back in to talk to the vet. In hindsight I should have done this before I even walked out but the nurses felt like things were normal.

The vet told me that she had reacted while they were drawing blood and started panting as a side effect of her asthma. The vet was knowledgeable and kind and I trust her. But I’ve just never seen this reaction from my cat before. She has had asthma for 8 years. The vet said she was just stressed from the vet environment and needed to go home to calm down.

We are back home now and she hasn’t panted or open mouth breathed for about four hours now. However she’s acting very lethargic. She ate a little bit of dinner but not much. I understand things happen at the vet office and not every animal reacts well. I don’t fault the vet or the nurses but I’m still just confused and wondering what could have happened. My cat is usually very chill and vet visits don’t phase her. She’s behaving so pitifully now and I’m worried something more serious is wrong. My gut feeling is that this is all just very abnormal and wrong and that they didn’t tell me the full story but I also have OCD and might be overthinking.