Pet(s): Photos & Discussion

[Gramto6]

Most of my cats at breakfast 10-28-24.  5-8 are missing, out hunting I guess.

[Mindthinkr]

@Gramto6 That’s a big crowd! They are lucky to have you feed them 😺

[meep.meep]

There's one plate that no one is eating from.  Is that the diet food?

[pinkandsparkly13]

Some of the stray cats at my Aunt's house

[pinkandsparkly13]

Momma. Ha

[fastiller]

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First time posting in this thread.  Loving all the kitty/doggo photos and stories.  Allow me please to add a few of my little guy.  His name is Fuinniúil DC.  Fuinniúil means feisty or energetic in Irish.  DC stands for Demon Child.  He was found in the bushes in front of my neighbor's front door on 07 June.  She couldn't keep him.  He was about a month old at the time.  There was no sign of Mama or other kitties and there's nowhere he could've walked from in the area.  We think he was dumped.  I have more but I'm supposed to be working.  First shot is from the day after Gotcha Day.

 

 

[Annber03]

8 hours ago, fastiller said:

 

BABY KITTY :D! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

[fastiller]

29 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

BABY KITTY :D! Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

Every time I see a video of a kitty that age, or scroll past a photo of him from that time, I say to him "Fuinniúil DC, I miss those days when you were that smol!!!"

His head right now us the size his entire body was.  They grow up so fast! Snifff!

[Annber03]

4 minutes ago, fastiller said:

Every time I see a video of a kitty that age, or scroll past a photo of him from that time, I say to him "Fuinniúil DC, I miss those days when you were that smol!!!"

His head right now us the size his entire body was.  They grow up so fast! Snifff!

Awwwwww :').

We adopted our cats when they were already adults, so I have no idea what they looked like when they were kittens and I wish we had, like, a photo or something of them when they were babies. Lily in particular is a big cat, it's hard sometimes to imagine she was ever as small as the kitten in that picture up above :p. 

[Bastet]

20 minutes ago, Annber03 said:

We adopted our cats when they were already adults, so I have no idea what they looked like when they were kittens and I wish we had, like, a photo or something of them when they were babies. Lily in particular is a big cat, it's hard sometimes to imagine she was ever as small as the kitten in that picture up above :p. 

In my entire life with cats, only three of them came to me as kittens (and only two of those as young kittens, the other was six months), the rest were adults, so I always wonder what they looked like as kittens.  Because the only thing in the world even cuter than a cat is a kitten.

Riley is a small cat overall, especially her head and paws, and I'd just love to have seen what a teeny tiny version of her looked like.

[isalicat]

I don't have any info to offer as to where this is, or anything else, but is this not lovely? The spirit of St. Francis is alive and well!

Edited Saturday at 10:25 PM by isalicat

[graybrown bird]

What a lovely picture of kindness and peace!

[SVNBob]

9 hours ago, isalicat said:

I don't have any info to offer as to where this is, or anything else, but is this not lovely? The spirit of St. Francis is alive and well!

Did a reverse image search and found an Instagram post from earlier this year (a post for International Cat Day) by the photographer that included this picture.  Per him, it's at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria of Foresta, Rieti, Italy, back in 2004.  And the Sanctuary does indeed house a Franciscan order.

[EtheltoTillie]

When I had kittens they were so much fun.  Run around run around run around drop and fall asleep.  Lather rinse repeat.  Hilarious!

Then they grow up so fast and they are fun of another kind. 

I've always adopted adult dogs -- never had a puppy -- but when we had cats they were raised from kittens. 

[Bastet]

2 minutes ago, EtheltoTillie said:

Run around run around run around drop and fall asleep. 

We joked that Louise had narcolepsy as a kitten, for all the times she fell asleep in the middle of doing something.  Including eating, so she once fell asleep with her head in her food bowl.  Good thing she wasn't drinking.

[Browncoat]

15 minutes ago, Bastet said:

Including eating, so she once fell asleep with her head in her food bowl. 

My brother did that once, when he was around two.

[Gramto6]

On 11/11/2024 at 4:44 PM, meep.meep said:

There's one plate that no one is eating from.  Is that the diet food?

LOL! The cat that was eating there is very shy and she bolted as soon as I pulled out my phone to take the photo.  She was back just as I left them....

Speaking of kittens, before I had all of my feral cats fixed there were several times when I'd have up to 3 mamas at one time. Each had 3-5 kittens. What was so cute is that all the mamas accepted any of the kittens to nurse. What a riot to watch them all grow. No more  kittens here any more...

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[Annber03]

18 minutes ago, Gramto6 said:

What was so cute is that all the mamas accepted any of the kittens to nurse. 

I've heard about how some cats will do that, yeah. It's so sweet when an animal takes in a baby, be it of their own species or sometimes a whole other species entirely, and cares for it as though it were their own baby. 

[Gramto6]

At that point in time all the mamas were littermates themselves so for them to nurse each others kittens probably was not so unusual. They all had the same "family" scent so they let any kitten nurse, they did know their own though when any other cat started nosing around the babies. 

[Absolom]

I used to foster unweaned kittens.  I had two male and two female cats of my own.  The cats who helped raise the foster kitties were the males!  They snuggled the babies to keep them warm, they took them to the food dish to learn to eat, they even plopped them in the litter box when it was time.

[Katrina Kate]

This reminds me of Grandpa Mason and his kittens.

https://www.facebook.com/MasonAndKittens

 

[Moose135]

These two are getting along better and better every day. Well, at least when Jake isn't trying to swallow her head.

[Is Everyone Gone]

I am a mess. My beautiful 19 year old cat has been dealing with kidney disease for about 3 years. We've been giving her fluids and watching her diet, but recently her values have gone up again. I've been a wreck. She's still eating, having fun, being feisty and snotty, so we're going to let her be, but I am so afraid that the end is near.

[Bastet]

28 minutes ago, Is Everyone Gone said:

I am a mess. My beautiful 19 year old cat has been dealing with kidney disease for about 3 years. We've been giving her fluids and watching her diet, but recently her values have gone up again. I've been a wreck. She's still eating, having fun, being feisty and snotty, so we're going to let her be, but I am so afraid that the end is near.

I'll post later this week some questions and suggestions, but right now I just want to let you know I'm thinking of you.  The important part is that she feels fine.  She has no idea she has CKD, let alone what stage it is.  She just knows how she feels from day to day, and that's happy and loved.  It's your brain where the turmoil of what ifs and whens goes on.  And you feel an absolute mess when that's happening.  You can't easily and quickly talk yourself out of that.  I know and empathize with what you're feeling.  Hugs.

[Is Everyone Gone]

1 hour ago, Bastet said:

I'll post later this week some questions and suggestions, but right now I just want to let you know I'm thinking of you.  The important part is that she feels fine.  She has no idea she has CKD, let alone what stage it is.  She just knows how she feels from day to day, and that's happy and loved.  It's your brain where the turmoil of what ifs and whens goes on.  And you feel an absolute mess when that's happening.  You can't easily and quickly talk yourself out of that.  I know and empathize with what you're feeling.  Hugs.

Yeah I'm trying to remain upbeat. I know that for now, she's still happy and a total snot, but the vet's call just made me realize how senior she is and that she does have health problems that are getting worse. She's such a special cat.