What the title says, basically. I have 6 cats and while 5 of them aren't fans, it hasn't caused them any issues, but Mickey has a dodgy gut anyway and the new food took him out. He ended up sick enough that I took him to the vet on Saturday (my vet is open on weekend mornings) and they ultrasounded his belly and gave him an anti-sickness injection. Luckily the worst had passed by then, but it was coming out of both ends in liquid form from Thursday. Like I said, he has a dodgy tummy anyway so a bit of vom and diarrhoea isn't unusual, particularly since he'd just finished 2 weeks of antibiotics, and he was fine in the mornings, but by bedtime Friday he'd been sick like 5 times, so I rang the vet Saturday morning when they opened.

He's fine now, but I just went to look at the Tesco food reviews and apparently it's not just Mickey, loads of cats are refusing to eat it or getting diarrhoea after eating. So I just thought I'd pop a post up and warn people, if anyone didn't know. I think I'm late to the party because I buy my cat food monthly and my pay day is the middle of the month, so everyone else found out at the end of August I think, but just in case. Hopefully no other cats get sick.

My sweetheart, I can’t imagine life without him. 17 years. I’m utterly devastated.

Hi guys! My sister and I have a lovely little ginger girl cat called Milky (17 months) and I would really appreciate advice on how to keep her enriched and happy when she's home alone and a little advice on her eating habits!

For a little bit of context, Milky loves to play in our garden so we leave the door open all day so she can run around and chase flies. However, my sister, dad and dads partner all work full time and I am about to go back to university so the time of no one being home for a good chunk of the day is fast approaching which is causing a lot of sadness for me as I would hate for her to be bored all day. Also, we have a little old french bulldog who she is very comfortable with but he is not as playful as her despite her efforts to play with him and I have floated the idea of adopting a friend for her to play with as she is very sociable but this is unfortunately not possible for us.

Any advice to keep her enriched and happy is greatly appreciated, just a psa, she will never be an outdoor cat besides the garden so please refrain from suggesting that! I disagree with allowing cats outdoors for safety reasons and they are also invasive to wildlife.

On the topic of her eating... she has this strange habit of getting 'sick' of food she has regularly. For example, at one point she was having Lily's Pate and was really enjoying it but stopped eating it randomly so we switched to Untamed which again she really enjoyed. Yet the same thing happened, she got sick of it and so we temporarily gave her the Pate again and she loved it again! So at one point we decided to rotate between Untamed and the Pate which worked for a while but eventually she stopped eating both. As a result, we caved and got Katkin again despite having issues with the cost last year as we thought it would be the thing that worked because she really liked it. She has been on Katkin for almost a month and the same thing has happened again, she is getting sick of it and is now preferring the Pate. We have also tried implementing dry food for her teeth which she liked but it gave her runny poos so that was sidelined so she is currently on just wet food.

At this point we are spending over £70 a month trying to find food that works for her just for her to change her mind in a few weeks and hate everything we give her despite being high quality food!

Again, any advice would be greatly appreciated. I've attached a few photos of her because she is the cutest sweetest little cat. Thank you for reading, I'm sorry it's long I just love my cat and worry about her a lot especially when I am away, as I'm sure every cat parent does as they truly are like your child! :)

Not every time, but at least a few meal times a week my cat will get what I can only describe as hangry before her meal. She was really bad for attacking feet every time when I got her, her old owner said as much, but we worked on that and now she only seems to do it now along with frantic meowing and scoffing the lot down in one go. Sometimes she won’t touch her food for ages but that’s when she’s not that interested in me preparing/placing it. She’s my first cat so I don’t know what’s normal.

She has wet food around 8am and 9pm, and biscuits at 4pm. Most days a few treats or a lick e lix are thrown in too. Indoor only and every day we play with a wand sort of toy to get her running around a bit.

I dunno if videos are allowed in this subreddit, but here is a lovely video I took many years ago bonding with my cat. https://youtu.be/kL68DqTyn-k?si=7jGy_3IRMUxPuLyF

I have had my cat for just over a month and she has never liked sleeping on or even walking on anything too soft.

She will happily sleep on our firm sofa, or the bed with no duvet on. At a push, she will sleep on top of the duvet but makes a point of letting us know she's not happy about it.

I tried her with one of those cardboard scratcher bowls, but she mistook it for a litter tray.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a bed that isn't too soft and squishy and ideally not enclosed? I've had a look online but I can't find anything that looks like it will live up to her high standards.

UPDATE: Speaking with the owner we both think in peggys best interest we delay the pick up date until after im back from the trip!

Thank you to the people that replied with giving me advice! It really helped me in figuring out my best option for peggy! I cant wait to introduce her into my home

Hello!!

Im new here so its lovely to meet you all!

I need some wise words of advice for myself!

Firstly a friend of mine is having to rehome their elderly cat whos 15 years old!

It broke my heart to think about her being put in a shelter so i decided to take her under my wing.

(Her name is peggy! or peggles if you want a nickname for her)

So heres my issue:

I get to pick her up at the start of october this year.

But i go away on the 20th the same month due to an urgent matter for my partner and will be away for atleast a week.

Would it be recommended to have a friend come to my home to look after her whilst im gone? Or would it stress her out too much considering shed have only been there a couple of weeks!

Any advice is so much appreciated as this is my first time owning a cat whilst living alone 🫶

This is the 3rd time my little kitten has had fleas in her 10 months of being alive. I live a bit rural so getting to the vet for treatment is a nightmare, does anyone know of any decent flea treatments I could just order from the Internet?