My cat is 1.5 years old and trying to harness train her. Does this harness fit? We’ve been trying for a few weeks short sessions but she’s still walking awkwardly like this

I 29F from USA am dealing with my cats who have been separated for almost 2 years. The cat behind the door is the newer cat (fixed female). She is the one you can hear hissing in the video. I have attempted to introduce her to my fixed male cat with multiple failures always ending with the female cat attacking or attempting to attack the male who is always very docile during these interactions. I give each cat turns out in the house throughout the day closing the other in their respective rooms. Sometimes if the female cat can hear the male cat next to the door she will run to the door, flop on her back, and put her paw under it as if she's playing. This sometimes turns into hissing. I'm unsure if I should allow this behavior so they can work through things or if it's making things worse? Its a hard thing to micro manage between them. I'm debating on bringing the female cat to the vet to see if I should put her on anxiety medicine. This behavior does not seem normal she is very intense. I've always had great success with cat introductions. I've never dealt with anything like this before.

Hi! I have an INCREDIBLY SWEET 4 year old cat who I adopted about 10ish months ago, her name is Percy (short for Persephone). She can be skittish around new things and can take a while to adapt, but she absolutely loves attention and being pet and will happily sit right next to people and even lean or stand on them, the only thing I havent quite managed to get her comfortable with is actually sitting/laying on a lap. When I first got her she was extremely apprehensive around even just standing or putting a paw on me, but with lots of treats and reassurance I've gotten her to where she will routinely come up to me and stand or partially stand on me when she wants attention- she just won't ever sit or lay down. When I looked online people normally seem to reccomend luring them onto a lap with some kind of squeeze tube treat, which DOES work with her, she just wont do that last step of sitting or laying down. She will literally just stand on my lap while going crazy trying to lick up the treat, part of me wonders if she just cares way too much about the treat to relax and lay down. She also doesnt care too much for those kibble-type treats, and usually when I'm trying to get her to chill on my lap I have one of her favorite blankets on my lap to make it more comfy. Any tips?

Tldr, I can get my very affectionate cat onto my lap, but she just wants to stand there like a weirdo, pls advise

May I present Hugo (M4y) and Britta (F12y). We found Hugo four years ago sitting at the side of a big road in the middle of nowhere. He was approximately 7 weeks old and skin and bones, 690 g. We took over Britta from an old relative who passed last Christmas. They are best friends and love each other, and also loves to fight.

a month ago 2 street cats came into my lawn and started living there, one is a year old and another is about 2 months now, i have been feeding them and they stay in lawn where they pee/poop in the mud. I am moving soon and i cant leave them behind in my new home there isnt a lawn so i was planning on making them indoor cats, the kitten has never known how to survive outside because he came into my lawn when he was 2 weeks old but he knows how to cover his pee/poop after doing his business, i want to litter train them but im confused how to i have never had a cat never planned to get one either they just spawned and i take care of them now, what should i do to prevent them from peeing/pooping all over the new house and where should i place the litterbox since my house is 2 floors im confused

we have been doing slow intro & have kitten in a pen at the moment. did a supervised play with resident cat and he’s just bopping the kitten but with no claws or hissing. he hasn’t gone for the kitten (he has no teeth at all & his claws are clipped so can’t do much damage anyway) but i worry about taking the next step/taking a step back.

they’ve met through the mesh pen supervised, and face to face sniffing which resident has hissed but not gone for kitten. they sleep in the same room as per the residents own choice with the kitten in the pen, and he’s not actually that bothered by him being around. it’s just when the kitten is out that he is like this.

any advice on introduction would be very helpful :)

Little devil is so adorable and knows that’s a no cat zone. Does tin foil work? And how long to form that barrier in their minds?

Edit: took the foil off.
1. Chance little guy even might get hurt
2. Not living with tin foil on my counters forever
3. Could scratch counter anyway.
4. You win this battle you adorable little guy. You’re too cute. Touché

Hi all. My fiancé and I have a wonderful boy who is about 6 years old or so, give or take. We’ve had him for about 4 years or so. He has been an outdoor cat almost his entire life although I don’t know his whole history. He showed up at our rental spot when we first moved in and started to come around more and more until he decided to move in. He has his own routine but comes home throughout the day and will sleep inside if it’s too cold or hot outside for him.

We are looking at purchasing our first home and it has a wonderful backyard he can roam in. My biggest concern is moving him. He’s never left this neighborhood (other than vet visits).

My plan is to harness train him so I can take him on walks and to move things he sleeps on often into the new spot first so he recognizes his scent. He’ll also be kept inside for the first 3 weeks while he adjusts other than walks on a leash based on my other research.

He does all his business outside and to my understanding has never used a litter box. He also loves to hunt.

Any litter box training or harness training advice? Anything else I need to take into consideration for this move?

The neighborhood we’re looking at is gated and the backyard is fenced. It’s also about an hour away from our current location.

I forgot to mention, I have a Tractive tracker on him. He also loves to outdoors, but he has also grown very attached to us. He loves to cuddle and comes in often asking for us to pick him up and carry him around.

I have been exhausted for the last 2 weeks. Cat picked up a new habit of meowing at 5am incessantly, while my wake up time is around 7am. She is very very persistent and can meow nonstop for >1 hour.

So far I have tried giving her an intensive 10 minute play time before my bedtime around 10-11pm. Didn’t seem to help.

Last night had to lock her outside the room which made me feel horrible. As she kept on meowing outside like an abandoned starving cat.

She has food and water. I believe she is meowing for attention. She is exceptionally pleased whenever I sit up from sleep, and she gets to hop into my lap. But the meowing continues once I go back to sleep.

We recently adopted a 3 month old cat and we have a 2 year old kitty as well. introductions went well and they are getting along. We feed separately because they get different food and that was going well but suddenly they decided to stop eating their food and only want each others!! we have tried feeding together and the kitten just rushes to the adult cats food and the adult cat will slip in to the bathroom to get the kitten food. any advice helps they’re killing me 😭

So my boyfriend and I have 3 cats total. When I moved in I brought my now 5yo male Ender and 3yo female Beef, both fixed. My boyfriend has a 2yo female Mei Mei, also fixed. (Mei Mei also only has one eye and can only somewhat see so she startles easily, Ender has no teeth and some behavior issues with sometimes chasing Beef around and fighting too hard, and Beef is very skittish)

When i moved in, my boyfriend already had a roommate with also 2 adult male cats. Mei Mei was used to be around them and they got along. My cats did not, we def messed by introducing them immediately. So we kept them in different parts of the house and didn’t let them interact. Eventually we got a gate door so they could see and smell each other. Ender was fine with that, sometimes they’d tussle through the door and only hiss occasionally. Beef did not like it, as soon as another cat came by she would hiss/growl and run away. It’s been a little over a year, our roommate and his cats moved out, and it’s only slightly better with Beef. She’ll sit by the door if we’re in the other room and just hiss if Mei Mei starts batting at her or hovers around the gate too long. We also have started feeding them at the door with the gate and they are all comfortable eating there. Every so often we switch their areas so they can sniff the others’ scents and they are chill about it. If we bring Ender in with Mei Mei he just tries to avoid her and will get mad if she gets too close. But they both have problems with boundaries and don’t understand that a hiss means back off.

We are about to move into a new place. A one bedroom apartment and desperately want them all to get along or at least co-exist. We’re planning to get at least 3 new cat towers, using the feliway diffusers in the apartment before they get there, and making sure they have places they can hide. We really don’t want to take steps back in their progress but we hope a new place with no scent will help them adjust. We think Ender and Mei Mei will get along a bit better but Mei Mei and Beef are our main concern. The rare times they accidentally interacted early on Mei Mei would chase after Beef and try to fight, we think cause it’s both females and both have only lived with males until now.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

My short haired black female 3 year old cat is a bit of a diva. She has to have a specific food brand, must be starred in and will mainly sleep on a blanket.

However recently shes been moody and swipy, I have been to r/catadvice as I think she has bad play aggression however we've gone down the route of increasing play with her. We're also looking into my mum (who she attacks at night on occasion) to wear citrus oil to deter her feom doing this further.

However recently she's started getting rougher while playing, we can't watch cat videos anymore (she thinks there's a cat in the house even though before she seemed fine with it) as she gets mad (growling) at the person watching them and tgey have to full on leave a room. She stares at myself with airplane ears alot despite me not eating during these instances.

She swipes at us we take her toy from her ( heard this could be resource guarding) and she starts starts scratching and biting hard when playing.

She's due for a check up so I'm insisting on a claw trim and with advice on het behaviour as she seems grumpy alot.

so we've gotten aton of progress on leash training with our 1 year old female, just because she is smart af and enjoys that we figure out what shes communicating and figuring out what we're trying to do, but right now one of the things im struggling with is recall. I would like to be able to get her out of bushes and neighbors lawns while out for walks without having to walk into neighbor's yards and physically extract her. she also keeps begging to go romp outside while i am trying to work, so being able to put her on a long line and sit in the yard and let her do whatever while i'm working would be a huge improvement for our quality of life cause then i have less angry cat screaming in my face.

but that requires the ability to trust her recall, even in the yard on a 20ft leash. she is, as the vet said, "a very petite little miss" and at 6lbs she's the perfect size for a large hawk's dinner. i dont want her on that long of a leash without recall.

the problem we are running into is motivation. so far our training has just been "shes smart and she actually enjoys it so is self motivated" with treats as rewards, but shes not like....treat motivated. we've tried tubes, and she loves tubes, but she wont do tricks for tubes, even with clicker training. we've been trying clicker training, and like, she absolutely understands the concept. when she *wants* to, she will bat at her clicker and i'm pretty sure i could train her to tap dance if she was in the mood for doing tricks for treats. its just she's not always in the mood, and recall is not a "when she wants to" thing.

and shes smart enough that i absolutely know she's figured out what the recall noise means (I click my teeth like you do for a horse, sicne we have a ton of dogs and i dont want to risk them coming over to a "come" command if i'm trying to get her up off the ground away from dogs). She just...well, the neighbor's bushes are way more interesting, and she's on her own schedule.

so how do i motivate a cat to want to recall when i call for her?

For context:

I currently have the following animals in my home

• Frankie: 6-year-old male terrier mix dog / neutered / rescued at 6mos old
• Cora: 2-year-old female cat / spayed / rescued at 6 mos old from the street
• Clementine: 1.3-year-old female cat / rescued 5 days ago / will be spayed next month

Frankie is my first animal. He's a dog, and he loves everyone. When I introduced him to Cora about a year ago, they were fast friends. Cora was a bit timid, but there was never any hissing, violence, growling, nothing. She absolutely adores him now, rubs up on him, tries to play with him, etc.

I recently got Clementine, a new cat. She's been set up in my office since Monday and has settled in SO quickly.

Originally, before either Cora or Frankie even saw her, we did scent swapping with a blanket Clementine was lying on. We also did feedings by the door.

Frankie: couldn't care less
Cora: Intrigued but clearly fearful (would run away and hide)

I worked up to doing a private intro with Frankie and Clementine since things seemed to be going well. Frankie originally was doing super well but then was smelling Clementine's rear end for too long, which caused her to hiss at him. But he backed down. I'm not really concerned with them because Frankie is really good with set boundaries and tends to keep to himself once he's gotten a good sniff.

The biggest issue seems to be between Clementine and Cora.

Last night I had the door open with a baby gate up after Cora repeatedly went up to the gate out of interest and wasn't running away. I actually had them both playing with a teaser feather toy on opposite sides of the gate. Then, Clementine hopped over the gate which scared Cora, who then growled and swatted at Clementine. I quickly separated them and put Clementine back in my office with the door closed.

Today, my husband and I are both working from home, and unbeknownst to me, he left the office door open. Cora got inside, and I found Cora and Clementine nose to nose, with Clementine growling and hissing.

I'm so disheartened. I feel like I'm failing them both. Individually, they're two of the sweetest cats, and I wanted them to be friends, and I feel like I've messed things up beyond fixing.

I don't know how to move forward. Is this salvageable? I don't want to make either cat uncomfortable. I just wanted them to be friends.

Any and all insight is deeply appreciated. Thank you.

We have an automated feeder in our kitchen with the exact same food and same bowl. After a recent surgery, I added a bowl in the bedroom so my little guy didn't have to travel downstairs in recovery.

Now, for some reason, they seem to wait all day for the bowl in the bedroom(it's closed during the day because they open all the drawers and cause general havoc🤣)

This bowl is empty by morning. I just don't get why.