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How much dominance is normal in 2 cats at play?
I have 2 cats; one is young (8 months) and the other is 1.5 years old. During play, the older cat always takes the role of the chaser and the younger cat always runs away. I had read somewhere that ...
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My cat will only play with silicone earplugs, which is concerning. How do I fix that?
My 3 year old neutered female cat has gone mental on playing with silicone earplugs. They are small, chewy, yellow things you put in your ears to block out noise.
My cat thinks they are THE BEST ...
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Why does my cat insistently meow at me when I shower?
When I shower, my cat has this unusual habit. She meows at me insistently and repeatedly, and looks at me with wide eyes. I want to mention that I do not keep her in the bathroom against her will. I ...
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How can I stop my cat from eating plastic?
One of my cats will eat anything that is soft plastic. He will eat shopping bags, cellophane wrappers, anything. Fortunately, he hasn't had any issues. I've seen plastic in his poop, so when he ...
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How can I stop my cat from scratching her chin?
I have two six year old cats, brother and sister (friend "forgot" to fix their parents, so I know the specific litter and birth date). The female keeps scratching her chin profusely, to the point that ...
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Can't tell if cats are playing with or hunting each other
We've got 2 cats at home at the moment, both neutered. Our cat is a male ~9-10 months old and my brother brought his for the summer, which is a female ~11-12 months old.
They've met before and during ...
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How can I teach my cat how to properly bury her own poop?
My cat (a 2 year old female Bengal) has a few issues related to the litter box; one of the strangest is that she can't seem to figure out how to properly bury her poop. She'll go to the litter box, do ...
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How can I teach my cat to claw his scratching post instead of the curtains?
We're getting more and more scratch marks on our curtains. What would be the best way to make our cat scratch his scratching post instead?
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How can I tell if my cat is pregnant?
I discovered that my cat was pregnant only a week before she give birth to kittens.
What behaviors or signs could have indicated to me sooner that she was pregnant?
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Is my cat's aggressive behavior playful or mean, and how do I stop it?
My boyfriend and I moved in together a year ago, each bringing one cat. The older cat moved with me on moving day and the younger one arrived a few days later.
One cat is an eight-year-old female. ...
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My adult cat kneads and sucks on my blanket like a kitten. Why?
I have seen this behavior in kittens before who are nursing with the mother. They push and pull on the mother's fur with their paws to get the milk. My cat, however, is a adult and has no mother. She ...
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Cat is suddenly peeing everywhere
My female cat is 7 and I've had her since she was 4 months old. We moved when she was 1.5 and she started peeing all over the house. There was blood in the pee and the vet gave her antidepressants but ...
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My cat is terrified of me, can I repair the relationship?
Three weeks ago, I adopted a 9-month-old female cat, Kira. On the ride home and for a little while after, she seemed pretty calm, though withdrawn. She's set up camp in my bedroom and has food/water/...
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Cat uses litterbox while I'm cleaning it - Is my cat weird
I have a covered litter box which I clean twice a week. When I remove the lid to clean it, my male cat jumps into it and starts using it (urinates/defecates) in front of me, while I'm trying to clean ...
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One of my cats bullies the other. What can I do?
I have two Siamese cats that are siblings. They are almost two years old. Before I moved out and brought them with me, they lived in a house with three other cats. They always loved each other and ...
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Does a cat recognize her offspring after a long period of separation?
My cat had some kittens a while ago, one of which I have given to a friend.
It has been about a year since then, and I was wondering: If my cat (the mother) were to come in contact with her offspring ...
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My cat is staring at the wall constantly - why?
I have three cats. One, a male black shorthair, is starting to act rather oddly. He's starting to stare at the walls.
Normally this wouldn't be a problem. However, it's gotten so bad that we had to ...
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Can I stop my cat from pulling out his fur?
I have a cat whose been pulling his fur out since February. In February, he had most of his teeth pulled (three incisors and one molar left), so at first I thought it was because of that, since he's ...
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Cat: Sanitary Issues and Peeing Outside The Box
I have a two year old Bengal who, since she was a kitten:
Doesn't cover her pee or poop in the litter box after she is done. Meaning, if she comes back to a littler box with uncovered pee/poop, she'...
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What should I do to make my cat active?
As my cat is growing up, she is becoming so lazy. She just eats and sleeps. She does not even play with her toys anymore. She is 3 year old. Please help me. What should I do to make her active?
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My cat does not recognize me
My cat, which I adopted with my girlfriend, does not recognise me anymore after I came back from a two week holiday. Everytime it is near me, it starts running away.
After spending so much time with ...
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Whats the best way to prevent cats from going places they shouldn't?
We have 2 kittens that we brought home 5 days ago, they are 12 and 13 weeks old now. They have a very tall cat tree that they use, they use the litterbox and they get along very well.
There are ...
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Is kitten-rabbit "mating" behavior something to worry about?
We've got a 3 year old neutered male dwarf rabbit and a male kitten who is almost four months old. The kitten isn't neutered yet, but will be before he turns five months old.
The cat and the rabbit ...
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Help! Adopted stray cat peeing on my bed all of a sudden
My female spayed cat Togepi was a stray cat until earlier this year (round about March) when we decided to take her in. As a stray cat she spent most of her time outside and refused to use a litter ...
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5 month old kitten, still biting?
Our 5 month old kitten still bites sometimes. I know their teeth are growing--that is why they usually bite, but how long will tooth growth take? Is this behavior normal? Secondly, its been 3 months, ...
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New cat won't stop meowing
I have a new cat from the Humane Society that was once a street cat. It's about a year old and it won't stop meowing whenever it knows there's a human around. I've had it about a week and have kept it ...
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How do we train our 4 month old kitten to stop destroying things while we're away?
My cat is a 4 month old Himalayan rag doll.
We got her when she was 2 months old. She was cute, nice and gentle.
But now she keeps destroying so many things whenever we're not there.
She would also ...
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Will a neutered cat continue to mount a female in heat?
Is the mounting behavior solely hormonal, or will her scent be enough to drive him to it? Would getting a cat neutered have any effect on the behavior?
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I am sick of my cat's stealing habit!
My cat started off as a cute, nice cat but just after a month, she started misbehaving a lot!
The biggest problem is that she keeps stealing food no matter what! I leave my food on dining table to go ...
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Why does my Maine Coon dig around his water before drinking?
My Maine Coon digs around his water dish before drinking. Is this something that's common with Maine Coons?
Why does he do this?
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My cat is keeping me awake at night
I have 2 cats: the male is extremely affectionate, while the female from the same litter is more mellow and likes to keep herself to herself most of the time. They are both spayed and neutered.
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Kitten biting and scratching me when playing
My kitten is very much into bunting he will run full steam ahead when he see's me to come say hello which is often accompanied by bunting licking and biting my nose.
I sometimes need to grap him by ...
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Cat Ditches Own Bowl and Goes to Other Cat's
I had four cats who have been coexisting in my house with no problems. Then, recently, I adopted a new kitten, Blue, who is now 5 months old. A few weeks later, I adopted a younger one, Zo, who is now ...
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My cat hides when I move
So I got my first cat about 2 weeks ago! Her name is Thelma, and she is a domestic short hair who is really shy. When I first got her, I gave her the bathroom as her safe space, as my small studio ...
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Is it normal for my cat to become extremely affectionate while in heat?
Among plentiful behaviors exhibited by my cat only when in heat, one is getting extremely affectionate.
My cat will constantly for 24 hours go on prodding me to pet her. Wherever I am she would come ...
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19-year-old cat wails quite loudly
Our 19-year-old cat Zoë sometimes wails quite loudly; it sounds just as if she were being tortured but there is no indication of any distress -- she might be walking across the room and give a wail as ...
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My male cat is wanting me to follow him
My male cat is almost 2yrs old and today for the first time ever he has been meowing A LOT and it's not his normal meows. He is also staying very close to me and won't leave my side and will run a ...
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Transporting new cat with resident's cat blanket?
I'll be picking up a new cat tomorrow. She is 1 year old. At home I have a kitten (3-4 months old).
Is it a good idea to rub a blanket on the kitten at home, and then bring that with me to transport ...
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Older cat doesn't come home since new cat is here
I'm starting with a short flashback back about one year.
My girlfriend, me and our 2 tomcats - Elliot (4 years old) and Fridolin (2 years old) were living in a flat share at an old farmyard, inside a ...
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Why is my cat twitching?
My cat has been twitching quite a bit lately. She doesn't seem to be ichy or licking. Its just twitching.
Just a little concerned because she never did that before and now it happens all the time ...
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Male cat in heat symptoms and solution
I think my cat (male, 1 yr and 2 months old) is in heat (please pardon me if "heat" is not the right term for male cats). I have dogs, but he is my first cat. He is meowing very loudly and ...
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Is blinking slowly at cats a way to tell them that you love them?
When I was talking to my wife last night, it came up that blinking slowly at a cat is supposed to be a way to tell them that you love them. She said that when she tried it with her parent's cats, one ...
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Why do cats lick plastic bags, and is there any harm in it?
Most of my cats (past and present) have liked to lick plastic trash bags and grocery bags. Assuming that they are not tearing off bits of plastic and swallowing them, but just licking, is there any ...
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My cat mixes up the floors in my building. How can I help him?
My cat comes from two home cats: an English short hair father and Russian blue mother. I live in an apartment, and he enjoys walking through the corridor and sniffing everything.
The problem I have ...
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What can I do now that my cat is terrified of me after I broke up a fight involving her and two other pets?
I really need some help and advice. I have two cats and a dog. This morning, my dog was with me in the kitchen and one of my cats ran up to him and started attacking him. It just turned into an all ...
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Is it harmful for my cat to eat bugs?
Living in a basement apartment, I get bugs; usually ants, sometimes the odd spider or centipede, etc. I keep my house as clean as I can, and put out ant traps where my cat can't get to them to control ...
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Why does my cat come to me when I'm sitting on the toilet?
Whenever I sit on the toilet, my cats come to me and rest at my feet. Why? Do they miss something?
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How does a cat's personality change by having kittens?
I'm pretty sure that having kittens (and nursing them, etc) changes a female cat both physically and mentally. Exactly how it changes the cat is not quite clear to me. To me a female cat that has had ...
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Why do cats hate riding in cars?
Whenever we need to take one our cats in the car (usually to the vets, but not always), the in-car drama is quite intense with a yowling and even vomiting (rare for short durations). Why do cats, ...
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How do we handle two female cats in the household demonstrating alpha behavior?
Our oldest cat, Orla, has always been an alpha queen. She insists on getting fed first, claims a dominant position in the bed at night (right between my wife and I, in the middle of the bed), and had ...
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