How do i attract a stray cat into my backyard?

I love animals but my parents won’t let me have any. But yesterday, my mom said if a stray cat comes to our backyard, she will let me take care of it, since she feels bad for strays. How do i attract one to come to my backyard? Please help. Thank you!




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It would be a one-stop-shop for pet owners who love their animals, but just want their cats and dogs to stop being so annoying. Can I build a robot that can both declaw cats and debark dogs?




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How to travel with a cat?

I’m moving on Friday, and I have to take my 1 1/2 year old cat to this new house. When I first got her she HATED the car ride, cried and stressed out the whole ride home. Which I don’t want her to be stressed because moving is a big deal for animals apparently. Is there some product I can buy at pet stores, to calm her before the car ride? Maybe like a spray to put on her sheet that I’m putting in her carrier? Please help.




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Would a dog be okay in the back of a Uhaul?

I’m moving to another city 6 hours away and don’t own a car. I’ve rented a Uhaul, but was wondering if my dog and cat would be ok in the back of the truck with the other stuff I’m moving. We have a dog crate that we have used on the train before, and also a cat carrier.
Thanks!
i forgot to mention that i would be riding in the back with them…

i don’t consider my animals furniture! i love them loads, and i’ve never used a uhaul before, so i was just asking…




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my cat scratches herself to the point of bleeding?

My cat does not like other animals, unless they are very small and in a cage. If there are any other animals around, she constantly scratches herself and loses her hair. She has scabs all over her head and back towards her tail, and her tail looks very skinny. Unfortunately, my sister lives with me and has a rottweiler. Does anyone know why she would be doing this to herself?




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was i wrong to spank her cat?

my friend and her cat are staying with me. her cat is always scratching my things. her cat always scratches my door at night to try to enter. to prevent this,i have tried yelling at him, spraying him with water from a spray bottle(her idea), putting him in his cat carrier and i have spanked him. my friend says i am abusive to animals and she will never forgive me for hitting her cat. she says she heard me hit him and it was hard. i said she should have been controling her cat, however she left it up to me to deal with it. on the 3rd night of dealing with this problem, i spanked him. was i wrong to spank her cat? was she wrong to not do anything and leave it up to me? our friendship has suffered as a result. please reply with yall’s opinion




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We have 2 cats that are always indoors and don’t eat animals or anything like that. But every morning they get some wet cat food with their dry food. Could they get Toxoplasmosis?
I agree on that they are my boyfriends moms cats and one of them is fat.




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When I return from my one year deployment my wife and I will be moving from Las Vegas to Germany. She has a cat and is really worried about how the cat will be when she gets shipped to Germany. We’ve went through the vet and the cat has been chipped and will get a blood test (to get cleared for overseas travel) closer to the time we leave, but I am curious… Will the vet give us sedatives to give to our cat during her travel? How long do these sedatives last? Does the cat carrier (with cat) get put in the baggage hold in the bottom of the plane or is there somewhere else in the plane that animals go? If anyone has done this, was their cat the same after such a long move? We’re afraid she won’t be the same (ie. scared all the time, tramatized). Any help from folks that experienced this would be great.




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Our litter box smells real bad. We are out of fresh litter. Is it safe for the animals if i spray febreze in it?




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I’ve had this reoccurring dream for the past year. It isn’t the same dream after dream, but it occurs often. I can usually try to change it, since I usually do with most of my dreams, but sometimes it changes back to what it originally was. It’s very vivid, since I can remember it and such. The sounds are very sharp, since I can remember most of the dialog in each of them.

Unlike my lucid dream, this one is very difficult to change. I guess I should tell you what it is:

In the beginning, I am sitting on some kind of wooden post. It’s like a guard house, or a watch house someone on a border. I think it’s like a border between the United States, and someplace else. Perhaps the border leaving the country.
I am with my mother and brother. I remember hearing my father, but he disappears randomly, like telling us to "go on ahead" and "I’ll stay here". I watch my mother and brother climb out of the side of the wooden structure like it’s "no biggy". I’m pretty sure my depth perception is out of whack in most of my dream. (Ex: If I’m crossing what seems to be a narrow ditch, once I outstretch a limp over the edge toward the other side, the narrow ditch becomes a wide canyon. Leaving me to spasm from panic and wake up, haha.) They climb out like monkeys, but cat-like. I take my time, since I’m wondering how they go so fast. I wonder the same exact thing every time I have this dream, and I never seem to progress any better each time. There is like a fence or a beam that they balance on, and they use the fence to leave the wooden look-out.

Once we finally get to the ground, I always notice that I am standing on the side of a road. On our side is the wooden thing, and possibly woods. We are standing on sand-like gravel. Once my mother sees no cars, we raise across the road in a gorilla-like fashion. (Yes, very odd, but most of my dreams also pin-points how I love animals and their behaviors. Also, my brother likes to move about like a gorilla to annoy me, since he has really long arms. Anyway…)

We approach something like a military-training sort of obstacle. It’s a small maze where we need to find our way through. We are going through a barbwire of tunnels, so we can see the guards standing beside this large fence above us. I still can not understand why they did not catch us by now. They could have noticed our figures rampaging through the barbwire tunnel maze.

I’m guessing we enter a building since the maze finishes at a house air-vent. My family and I move through it until my mother finds an opening where we slide out of the ceiling and into a very large house. I finally am guessing that we are running from the United States. Illegal immigrants?? Both my parents were born out of the Untied States, but they were accepted as citizens. My brother and I were born there, so I am wondering the entire time why the heck we are doing this. I also begin to wonder if it’s like a movie.

We are sneaking through the house for an unknown destination, avoiding fat white men (for some reason, I am not against any large person at all) and we find a closet with a secret passage. We realize that only my brother and I can fit, and my mother can not. While she eggs us on, my brother goes ahead, and I find myself crying for my mother. I don’t know why I suddenly feel sad, maybe because a large man is about to get her, since he has notice her go into the closet. He had her by her leg, and I try to beat him with small stuffed animals I find in a basket. Of course, I can not make him let go of my mother, and she is dragged off while I sleek my way in the tunnel. At the end of the long tunnel, there is a bright light, and I wake up.

I find it very odd that I keep dreaming about this. No matter how hard I try, even if I do realize it’s a dream, I can not change it. The majority of my dreams are lucid, and I can control a lot. In this one, I somehow can’t. It’s starting to annoy me that I keep having them, since I hate having the feeling of bad depth perception and having to run away from people.

Any thoughts?




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