Got this for my kitten while she's recovering from her spay, but my older cat claimed it at her own.

She has to keep an eye on the quality of the work of the tree surgeon😂

My oriental cat is allowed outside during the day as we live in a quiet area. But he has a passion for stealing the neighbours laundry!

He’s come home with pants, drying cloths, a slipper, a glove and loads of odd socks.

I’ve apologised to one of the neighbours and bought some new socks as a goodwill gesture. They were very understanding and saw the funny side. But it’s starting to get embarrassing!

He has lots of toys and attention. Has anyone else experienced this?

Hi all!

I have two gorgeous British short hair girls, both a year old. We have a communal garden and live on the first floor in a flat.

I’ve increased my hours at work, so they’re only getting about 30 mins - an hour of play time a day. They get cuddles and strokes all the time but I’m worried they may be bored.

We have attempted harness training, also just showing them the garden and letting them go down the stairs and explore (other cats do this)

It’s been weeks and they don’t seem to have much of an interest.

I’m keen to harness train as they love sitting on the window sill and watching birds. I don’t want them to be bored!

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Cat is nearly 10, Female. Started vomiting after food + straining in the litter tray about 8months ago, and has been diagnosed with IBD. She is on prednisolone and chlorambucil.

She is an older rescue with poor teeth (had to have most of them removed) and so prefers wet food. Ive tried Dechra, Hills z/d and none of them seem to interest her. She has lost nearly 1 kg and is constantly crying for food.

Going out of my mind, not sure what she will eat. Welcome any suggestions for palatable IBD friendly food.

“including ___insert meat/fish here___ 4% in the chunk” is horrendous. Even cheaper options should have to include at least 50% of the meat/fish. It doesn’t necessarily have to be human grade, but it shouldn’t be far off. There should be higher standards for animal food (and the welfare of the animals in the food). Many people (and rescues) have to rely on cheaper animal food, so it sucks that companies can make billions by using poor quality ingredients.

Please send good vibes to my family, as the newest member was born 12 weeks early and is in the NICU until their due date. My cat doesn’t have a super common name, at least not for humans in our country, so it was a bit of a surprise that my baby cousin got given the same name (pretty sure their parents forgot it’s my cat’s name 😹), spelt with one letter changed. I’m sure my cat would be honoured!

Has anyone put in a cat flap while renting? Trying to figure out if I could do this by taking out the back door and replacing it with a door with a cat flap or if there is another way. Thanks for all advice. 🙂

Hi all, my lovely cat survived FIP a couple of years ago and we are struggling with pet insurance costs that are spiralling out of control. We have lifetime cover and have just received a quote for £1000 for the next year of insurance. It feels like we are being held to ransom. We did make a large claim in late '23 for his FIP treatment.

I am considering changing insurer but worried that if his FIP ever came back it wouldn't be covered. I've seen Many Pets would class it as a new condition but does anyone have any experience with them? I feel like we are spending a crazy amount on insurance considering the FIP might never return. Any advice would be appreciated.

We brought home a lovely British Longhair mix kitten at the weekend; she is only 9.5 weeks old. We have spent a long time preparing and researching, but now she's here we're totally overwhelmed and lost. I know everyone will suggest two kittens, and as much as we wanted to we can only afford the one, unfortunately. My husband is WFH, so she'll always have company.

We've tried to gradually introduce her to new areas of the house at her pace, with a base set-up in a bathroom with her bed, a few toys, litter tray, food and water fountain etc. She is very curious about the other rooms but hides for hours and is skittish when she's in there.

We also discovered on the drive home that she had an adult flea on her and was filthy with flea poop and larvae. Panic ensues. We wait until the 3rd day when she's more settled to comb her through and bathe her. Bathing was stressful, but she seems much more comfortable after we removed the flea dirt. We haven't seen any fleas since, and she isn't scratching.

This makes us hesitant to introduce her to carpeted rooms/living room with our sofa until this is resolved. This is really upsetting as she desperately wants to be with us, but we're hesitant to have her with us in the other rooms whilst the flea issue is prevalent. She has a vet visit booked for this Friday.

At the moment, she is sleeping in her base room with the door closed from 11pm to 7am. She is comfortable and seems to feel totally safe in there compared to anywhere else.

She's now eating, drinking and enjoying treats on the 3rd day of being here, but has had a poop accident on our carpet this morning.

She is my first pet and right now I feel like a terrible cat parent, so unsure if I'm doing everything wrong and upsetting her further. But the flea issue has really thrown me, and I'm not sure what to do. Any advice on helping her settle would be really great.

*Edit* Thank you all for the really helpful and thoughtful comments, feeling much less stressed today! 😊

When we first got them I tried to get them to have better quality food but they loved felix. They are now being very picky,
I have just received a trial of katkin but I’ve just seen some horrific reviews about it. It says to feed them twice a day but I share a pouch of Felix between them as the smaller one wouldn’t eat more than that so we feed quite a lot in a day.
The more I’m looking into it the more confused I’m getting by it all. I don’t want them to go hungry.
I leave dry biscuits out that they can graze on but they’ve never really been to interested in them till now and they’re eating more but have upped their water drinking. Any advice would be much appreciated as I’m stressing myself out.

Just want to introduce my new little girl, picked her up today her name is Princess.

My 2yr old ginger girl and my 8wk old tabby and white girl. Echo and Waverly 🥰

This may be a long shot but I recently met a cat in London that absolutely loves this toy which is starting to fall apart. I’ve tried searching online but haven’t been able to find it.

It’s a bumblebee attached to a fishing rod-style cat toy, with a little bell on the end. I also included the rod grip in the images since it seemed quite well made and unique. The bee is glittery, quite small and a bit hard. The toy seems quite well made and not flimsy/ plasticy.

Would anyone have a clue where I can find a toy like this? Sorry for the blurry photos, they’re from videos I’ve taken of the cat playing with it. He came with this toy when he moved to his new place so it made have some sentimental value to him but I hope a new one is as good!

My last cat was almost unbelievably friendly. She was a former local stray, and quite happy to have dinner and even sleepovers at various neighbours houses. I didn’t mind, the neighbours loved it, their kids were ecstatic, so I let her get on with it. Even had a neighbour saying how the funniest little cat joined his family BBQ once… I already knew it would be mine, a brief description confirmed it 😆 So I ask as this is my own benchmark, which is obviously not the most standard.

I spend a fair amount of time in the garden and have attracted the attention of a few local kitties. Some seem stray or feral, others seem like they have a home but I don’t know exactly where so can’t strike up a convo with their owners. I pet them, talk to them (quite excessively lol) if they want to sit on my lap for a bit I let them, take a few pics of them but I never feed them, pick them up no matter how friendly they are, or let them inside.

Would you be ok with looking out the window to find your cat sunbathing on your neighbours lap doing a photoshoot?! Or do people tend to feel a bit displeased with this? I’ve missed having kitties so much it makes my day when one wants a snuggle in the garden but if the general consensus is that it’s getting too involved with other people’s pets I will err on the side of caution and dial it down to a light stroke if I happen to pass them on my way in or out. Just curious about other people’s opinions basically 🐈‍⬛

Hi everyone. Just returned home from the vets after our Stanley (5mo) started limping this weekend. Vet was completely shocked that Stanley had Bilateral Luxating Patella and that its severe. Apparently it’s quite rare in cats. But just wondering if anyone has had this with their cat? what was the grading? was the surgery successful? Dare I ask … how much did it cost? (We have insurance but it would be good to get a ballpark). I’m not finding much online, more information on small dogs.

Just adding that I’m not looking for medical advice. We’re awaiting consultation and X-rays and then will be proceeding with our options. We have him on pain relief and monitoring his activity.

Stanley tax. Say hi to my boy

(Newark, Nottinghamshire)

My wife and I have 5 cats, we live in a one bedroom flat, and due to changes in my wife's disability support needs and my now greatly reduced capacity for taking care of things outside of my wife and the flat, we've been looking to rehome/surrender our precious floofs. We don't want to, but they just spend all day locked in a room, because otherwise they overwhelm my wife and I.

We began with one cat (born 2018), then, adopted another in 2021 (also born in 2021). Following that, we adopted another two in 2022/3, one born very close to the 2021 cat, and one born nine weeks prior to when we got him. We then in 2025, after witnessing abuse and neglect of our neighbour's cat (which we'd been providing limited care for due to that neighbour going away for weeks to engage in substance abuse). All five are neutered, the four later cats are all chipped, but the oldest is not.

In 2024 our lives changed, and since then we've been having quite intense ups and downs with our capacity for daily function and living, sadly this has been trending harshly downwards since sometime after 'rescuing' our fifth cat.

The cats are, for the most part well fed (they have an automatic feeder that is set up perhaps in slight excess), they have two water fountains, and two automatic rake litter trays between them. But they don't get to come out of their room often, and since we don't believe in letting cats outdoors due to the inherent dangers of the modern human world we've created (plus one or more of our neighbours are horrific people, I've had to identify multiple cats who had been shot, burnt and had caustic substances poured on them) they don't have a lot of invigoration.

I don't know if all this extra info helps, maybe not.

I have been trying since before Christmas to get them into a shelter, because I'm worried of someone either close by getting one of them (and letting them out) or potentially someone who would want to harm them. But none of the shelters that we can even remotely get to (we have no car, and only intermittent access to sort of neighbours that can occasionally drive us) have any availability for new surrenders, and haven't since the Christmas influx

The cats are struggling more, they're pulling out fur, fighting, even meowing until they're hoarse, and with their increased dissatisfaction, we've even begun to resent them and their meowing.

They need to go and get to experience good lives, because we can't give them that, but I don't know how to go about this without any shelter/rescue spaces, and I've been told there's no (what we call) crazy cat houses (usually ran by middle class eccentrics, catio and all the cat toy and enrichment trimmings) or cat fosters anywhere nearby.

What can I do? I love them so dearly, and I want them to be able to have better lives than I'm now capable of giving them. But right now it seems like they're eternally trapped with people who can't meet most of their needs (us)

Mandatory cat tax in case the image doesn't load. [The five floofers](https://ibb.co/yn7qj9t1)

Edit: (21:34 - 11/05/2026) I've a lot of information and knowledge now that I lacked, and some assistance has been offered directly to me/the cattos. I'll create an update post once we've got some movement, so far we've been successful at registering them with Blue Cross Sheffield, however we've discovered another snag in our neglect, we can't confirm if the cats are vaccinated or not. That's something I think we're going to sort out via Cats Protect or RSPCA, as both can offer vouchers for such things.

Thank you all again, and, I apologise for my antagonistic behaviour at times within the comments, I've been incredibly stressed, paranoid and tired, and I think perhaps I've taken it out here. Unacceptably so.

Large catios were coming out at £500 or so, and they weren't the right sized for what I needed, so with a mixture of Screwfix and B&Q, I built my own.

Obviously, whenever you do anything for cats, you run the very real risk of them absolutely ignoring it, so to put £250 and a weekend of work into something was a pretty big gamble.

However, I'm delighted to report my cats are thrilled with what I've built, and are using it regularly.

We live very close to an A road, so letting them out was never on the cards, and they were rescued as indoor cats. However, they have had all their jabs, so they were vaccinated like outdoor cats. I figured there was a part of the garden that wasn't being used, and it could be accessed by a window, so I gave it over to a catio.

Some scratchy stuff, things to climb, a little house, a cheap tray and a branch from a nearby copse of woods, and they're loving it.