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[Prokhor Zakharov]

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Hey scrungly appreciators, look at my friends cats paws, I have no idea why the hair grows like this but we just gave em a paw hair cut after taking these. Hes long haired but I decided you guys might appreciate their sillyness

Long-hair cats developed in very cold climates. Toe "floofs" are meant to keep their toe "beans" from freezing in the snow, and they also add to the overall size of the cats foot, so they can help the cat to walk on snow like snowshoes. If your cat doesn't live in a frigid climate most of the year and need to walk on snow, then trimming them won't harm the cat any.

 

[fat_rat_on_the_grass]

Thanks for the info! Aww hes growing little booties? Thats adorable

 

[troonshine]

 

[Lovely Kin]

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

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Transparent things, and water in particular, seem to vex cats to no end. One thing I've noticed consistently with kittens over the years is that when they are first introduced to a bowl, cup, etc... of drinking water they immediately try to put their dominant paw to the side of the container, almost reaching towards the back, and sort of move it back and forth, as if that will somehow help them drink the water. It seems to be part of the process of their brain learning to deal with transparent liquids.

I think housecat brains aren't good at dealing with transparent liquids because it's not something they need to interact with much in the wild. Cats don't tend to drink from still water sources. I think the refraction/diffraction of light by moving water is what helps them see it and understand how to interact with it.

However, my theory regarding running water is put to the test by the fact that every housecat seems to handle water from a faucet differently, some figure it out, and some never get it. I've seen more than one cat over the years where their head is in the water stream, and after it has cascaded over their head onto their fur, then they can drink it, and they do that throughout their life. Why housecats fail with running water sources like a faucet, I still don't know why that happens.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

All I know is my cats are really picky about their water. They will drink from the bowl, but only after trying to drink from literally anything else. I also tried fountains, but they get moldy pretty quick and are difficult to clean.

 

[Most Wanted Banana]

 

[not william stenchever]

pspspspsps

The necromantic ritual has begun.

 

[Elysian]

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

All I know is my cats are really picky about their water. They will drink from the bowl, but only after trying to drink from literally anything else. I also tried fountains, but they get moldy pretty quick and are difficult to clean.

I suggest a kitty water fountain that is 100% stainless steel with regard to structural material. The material of construction naturally resists biofilms.

Also, are you using filtered water in the fountain? If so, make it 1/2 tap, 1/2 filtered, the reason it grows mold so easily (I'm assuming it's the classic pink water mold) is that filtered water typically removes all the chlorine compounds from the water and that is the only thing keeping the mold at bay. Going 1/2 & 1/2 will leave enough residual chlorine to keep the mold away. If for some reason you can't keep the mold away, no fountain is a good way to go. The pink slime mold is exceptionally toxic to felines.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I suggest a kitty water fountain that is 100% stainless steel with regard to structural material. The material of construction naturally resists biofilms.

Also, are you using filtered water in the fountain? If so, make it 1/2 tap, 1/2 filtered, the reason it grows mold so easily (I'm assuming it's the classic pink water mold) is that filtered water typically removes all the chlorine compounds from the water and that is the only thing keeping the mold at bay. Going 1/2 & 1/2 will leave enough residual chlorine to keep the mold away. If for some reason you can't keep the mold away, no fountain is a good way to go. The pink slime mold is exceptionally toxic to felines.

I empty and wash my cat fountain every week (on Fridays). There's a tiny line of pink Serratia marcescens in some of the corners by that point.

Keep the cat fountain away from the cat food: cats prefer this with any water source, but you especially don't want protein chunks in the fountain, feeding bacteria.

Definitely recommend of those baby bottle brushes with a tiny nipple brush in the handle; makes it so much easier to get the smaller parts like the pump.

 

[fat_rat_on_the_grass]

What do you guys think about raised cat bowls for senior catizens? I heard it can help with their digestion and stop them throwing up? Cats and food seem to be an issue when they get older, to the point ive heard its beneficial for them to be (a little) chubby just as a weight buffer for kidney issues. Heard the bowl helps with joint stuff too, I plan on getting one to test it out as my old man cat is 18 this year. Hes a sweetheart and deserves the very best.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

to the point ive heard its beneficial for them to be (a little) chubby just as a weight buffer for kidney issues.

There is some research to back this up both in humans and in animals.

What do you guys think about raised cat bowls for senior catizens?

I've heard they are supposed to help, but I haven't read any studies on such, so I can't say for sure if it's true.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I feel like this is a good place to say that I have given a golden shower to my cat twice.
Both times I was peeing and the cat jumped over the bowl through the pee stream.

 

[Cholesterol Gremlin]

I feel like this is a good place to say that I have given a golden shower to my cat twice.
Both times I was peeing and the cat jumped over the bowl through the pee stream.

It would have cost you $0 to not post this. You couldn’t waterboard that information out of me

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

I feel like this is a good place to say that I have given a golden shower to my cat twice.
Both times I was peeing and the cat jumped over the bowl through the pee stream.

Your kitty seems less than brilliant for doing it not just once, but having apparently not learned his lesson the hard way the first time, he did it again.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

It would have cost you $0 to not post this. You couldn’t waterboard that information out of me

I didn’t enjoy it. I had to bathe him after.

Your kitty seems less than brilliant for doing it not just once, but having apparently not learned his lesson the hard way the first time, he did it again.

He got banished from the bathroom.

 

[Cholesterol Gremlin]

I didn’t enjoy it. I had to bathe him after.

Was he orange? Because that sounds like the kinda stupid shit orange cats do

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Was he orange? Because that sounds like the kinda stupid shit orange cats do

Typical brownish striped American domestic shorthair.

 

[Cholesterol Gremlin]

Typical brownish striped American domestic shorthair.

Oh yeah I can see that. I have known some “standard issue cats” and they are second only to orange cats in being complete and utter retards. The cat from my story a few pages ago, who woke me up to kill a bug for him, was such a one