my cat "talullah" (who is a calico) just learned how to jump on our kitchen counters! and she is driving me insane! she not only learned that she also jumps in the widows to ruin the blinds, jumps in my 2 month old sons crib and bassinet to just play in it and attacks our heads!! she get enough attention, she has lots of toys, she has a very tall cat tower that goes to the celing and has plenty of food and water….what do i do i need help!!!! i dont wanna get rid of her cause i know no one will take her and even though she is a trouble maker we love her to death when she actually behaves (usually when shes sleeping)

things ive tried..
-spray bottle……….FAIL
-aluminum foil……….FAIL
-coins in a can………FAIL
-a few spanks on her thigh…….FAIL

ps. she is 4months old and not spayed yet
i have been a cat owner since i was little and all were tabbys and boys…and my boys have never been this out of control when they were kittens haha

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For some reason, my neighborhood is thoroughly run over with feral cats…none of them are friendly…and even hiss at you from time to time if you get to close. Our household has a real outdoor cat, whom we bring inside at night since he’s gotten very old. Unfortunately though he doesn’t always show up at night, and several times we have had to take him to the vet from serious injuries and bites he has gotten. He stay around the house and is fixed so we know any cat fights that he gets into aren’t his fault, plus he’s old so he really doesn’t want anything to do with other cats. However, since we feed him outdoors when he is hungry we have attracted some unwanted feral cats and one of them is noticably pregnant….I feel extremely bad for them, but after my mom and i found out that the cats helped themselves to our beautiful koi fish in our pond….that even had a net on it…they are going one way or another now….i have a very angry brother and he is less accomadating than myself…and i’m afraid if i can’t catch them, then he will shoot them instead….can anyone explain to me how i can catch these cats??? i’ve tried numerous times to conact animal control in my area and it hasn’t worked….
I would prefer to catch the female cat that is pregnant and give her kittens to someone who needs them…but if i don’t catch the mom they will just become wild as well…we really have a huge problem because there is several neighborhood cats that come around as well…and our solution starting today is not to put any more food out, and just bring our cat in when he wants to eat…
our outdoor cat…is an outdoor cat…because he doesn’t want to be indoors…he likes being outside…so if he gets beaten up by some feral cats..then the feral cats are the problem not him

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Ok, this is going to be a little long

My first cat was Tommy, i got him when he was thirteen weeks old. I got my second cat, Nala a month later and shes the same age as Tommy. Soon after, Tommy and Nala became mates and had a still born kitten. Nala had to go under immediate operation to remove her uterus, so she can’t produce kittens, and she is also spayed. Tommy was as well neutered, because he was spraying too much in his litter box. But after neutering him, the spraying problem still did not go away.

I got my third cat, simba, a male, a year later, he was…1 year old or something and neutered. i dont remember. Tommy is the nicest cat on the planet. he never hisses at a new cat, or shows any aggression. He tries to befriend them as soon as possible, so this was how it was with tommy and simba. they had no enmity. tommy, of course, was older but he was never territorial or anything.

after simba’s arrival, he kind of stole nala away from tommy. nala and tommy didnt play anymore like they used to. whenever tommy tried to play with her, she would meow, it kind of sounded like a warning meow, and she would run away. only simba and nala played with eachother.

and whenever tommy tried to play with simba, simba usually was kind of scared of tommy when he playfully stalked him. simba wud run under the bed and tommy would sit there, meowing and waiting for him to come out. i always saw it as play fighting, and i was sure it was at that time, because tommy was never aggressive.

so now its been 4 years since ive had all of them, and their relationships were fine. it was like they were a real family. until february 2009.

i started noticing more aggression in simba and tommy’s playing behavior. when tommy pounced on him, he would screech more than meow. i never gave much thought to it, until my mom brought it to my attention.

for two or three days, i also noticed a spray of pee which formed into a 1 inch puddle in the bathtub. i know that it’s tommy’s because simba doesnt have the habit of spraying. so then i started to think that the problem tommy had was territory. but after all of these years why would tommy choose to fight for territory now? i thought they were like brothers.

recently, whenever tommy pounces on simba, they get into a BIG cat fight. rolling around, growling, hissing, scratching… but tommy doesnt hiss or growl. its only simba. i know that tommy scratches and bites simba more than just playfully because ive found scratches on both of them which had turned into scabs. ive also noticed this killer expression tommy has on whenever hes stalking simba. before i was in doubt but now i really think tommy is reacting with aggression.

only one of them can be in a room. if tommy is out, then simba seeks perching on the top of my kithcen cabinets, which is near the ceiling. and whenever tommy is sleeping in the closet (which is for the whole day) simba can freely roam the house.

also, what i think is cute is that whenever simba and tommy get into a fight, nala hisses and growls and attacks both of them. it looks like shes trying to stop them. but is that also a problem?

what can u make of this situation and how do i stop this aggression?? oh, also i spray tommy with water whenever hes stalking simba. but that’s not working.
i appreciate all answers. thnx!

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Could someone please help me with some much-needed advice. What is the most suitable breed of cat for an indoor life in a one-bedroom apartment? Also, I am thinking of getting two kittens, so that they do not get bored. Maybe someone could recommend which sex to go for? Male or Female? All answers very greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

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For example, if a cat wags it’s tail, it’s often a sign of irritation. If a dog wags it’s tail, it’s usually a friendly gesture. A deep rumbling sound to a dog (growl) signifies aggression. But to a cat, a deep rumbling sound (purring) usually is a sign of affection. I think I had some more examples earlier, but now I can’t think of them! Ugh.

Do you think this is why even calm, well trained dogs can have trouble gaining the trust of a cat? Maybe because they read each other wrong? To those of you with both dogs and cats: how do they interact? When our kittens were born, there was a dog in the house, so they grew up around her for the last four months (all their lives). None have an issue with her, except the shy ones that startle easily, but even they are pretty good with her.

I guess the argument could be made that dogs don’t see us baring our teeth (smiling) as aggression, so why should they get confused by cats? But I think the reason why a toothy smile around a dog doesn’t illicit aggressive or fear in the dog is due to the fact that they can read THE REST of our body language as well, not just the smile, and realize that we don’t mean any harm?

What do you think? This is something I’ve wondered about for a LO-ONG time, but never thought to ask on here.

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I have 3 kitties. 1 is almost a year, 1 is 4 months, and 1 is 2 1/2 months. The 2 young kittens like to sit on top of my computer tower right underneath or near the desk lamp when its on… If i turn it off, they will meow for me to put it on and then either take turns laying there, or curl up together and sleep with it directly on them..

My fiance jokes around and says they are "sun bathing", or "tanning". that is exactly what it looks like too!…. Like they are just basking away in the "sun" lol!

it is funny and cute, I at first though it was just a quiet place for them to sleep and they liked that, but I am realizing now that it is in fact the lamp.

The 2 1/2 month old kitten does it more than the 4 month old, but they both do it. They sometimes even fight for the spot lol! Right now my 2 1/2 month old kitty is laying under it and sleeping away. If i turned it off, he’d get up and sleep somewhere else, like on the bed or his their cat tower.. so that is how I know it is the lamp.

Question… Is this weird?? Normal?? why do they like the light so much??? my almost 1 year old kitty doesn’t care about it at all and I never see her doing it.

My fiance says it has something to do with how kittens can’t control their body temperature like newborn babies can’t??. they like to feel warm because when they were with their mother and litter mates, that is how it felt…

Is he right?

thanks!
sorry for a few typos.

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I post this question once in a while just to see what people say. NO ONE ever defends the song birds, the chipmunks, lizards, etc. They always take the cat’s side. I don’t get it.

People who perpetuate these feral colonies say they are animal lovers but one Feral cat will murder 1,000s of birds, lizards, butterflies, you name it in it’s lifetime. They have wiped out whole eco systems and song bird populations in places like Hawaii and Australia. No song birds, just yeeeeeeooooowwwww.

Feral cat people say capture, sterilize and put back. That keeps other feral cats from moving in. This is one of the weirdest twists of logic I have ever heard of. If the other cats cant move in they don’t just disappear, they go somewhere else, where someone is NOT taking care of them and kill everything they can get their hands on. www.duh.com ?? So all you are doing by keeping a colony of neutered cats in one place is forcing other cats to move somewhere else.

Some people say “It’s nature”, it’s like a coyote killing a rabbit, cats have to live too. It’s not nature it’s human’s complete lack of respect for nature by throwing the cats out into nature in the first place, about like throwing a Mc Donald’s bag out of the car. It’s the same thing, they are both human litter. What a great coincidence!!! Cat’s have LITTERS of kittens. There is no difference between the paper bags, and beer cans that people throw out, and the kitty litter that people throw out. They are both trash that needs to be removed. Why do we hate litter so much? Because it is not natural, it is not what was here 5,000 years ago before white people came here. What if an alien space ship landed here and dropped of a few million 20 foot tall, armor plated, tiger like carnivores that were impervious to any method that we try to use to kill them. And then they ran around every where eating women and children. Sometimes they just grab a kid and toss him up in the air, and step on it, and etc, etc, and then just walk off and don’t even eat it.

I can hear it already “Women and children are different” BUT the people sustaining these feral colonies are ANIMAL lovers. What about all the animals who die an agonizing death at the hands of the feral cats? The animals who were here for tens of thousands of years before white folks brought cats here from Europe.

I say capture, put to sleep in a humane fashion, wait for more cats to move in, and repeat.

And how about we freeze the cats, and send them off to Darfur where they can be used to feed starving people. How weird and codependent is that? We have people starving all over the world, and we have animal lovers here in America dedicating endless hours of their time and money to keep wild cats alive so that they can eat about 500 times their body weight in wild animals over the course of their lifetime. It makes a lot more sense than burying them or burning them up which is the alternative. People in Darfur have no prejudice against protein like Americans do. They just want to eat.
More important things to get worked up about. THAT’s MY POINT. Why are people taking all their time and $$ to save wild cats, when they should be taking care of and rescuing PEOPLE!!

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Does it matter? I want the kittens to look like their mother because my male Siamese is not nearly as pretty.

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My ferrets LOVE that crinkle paper. They had a blue mat made for kittens filled with it, but it got thrown away by mistake. I’m not spending another .00 on a giant cat condo thing to JUST get the crinkle paper.(I got them the condo thinking they’d love it…sure enough they hated it and only wanted the crinkle mat!) Does anyone have any idea what it is? At the rate my ferrets destroy things…I usually just make them their toys and I’m hoping someone can shed some light on what that stuff really is.

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I’m getting a new Siamese kitten this week and I was wondering what is the best food for them. I’ve heard a lot about wet vs. dry food, and corn content and raw vs. store bought. I’m so confused! I’m hoping one of you guys has kittens or has had kittens and can tell me what is best.

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