r/cats Apr 17 '26

Discussion Discussion Thread - Ask, Share, and Discuss Anything About Cats.

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Welcome to the Cat-Chat Thread

Ask any questions you have about cats or discuss topics that don't require a full post. Whether you're a new cat owner, seeking advice, or just want to share something fun about your pets, this thread is for you. Feel free to:

  • Ask simple questions about cat care, behavior, feeding, etc.
  • Seek advice on any minor concerns.
  • Post anything cat-related that doesn't need its own post.

Also, if you see someone asking for help and you have the knowledge to share, feel free to jump in and assist them!

Just a friendly reminder to follow the subreddit's rules and be kind and respectful to everyone!


r/cats 11h ago

Cat Picture - OC 20 years apart

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r/cats 11h ago

Mourning/Loss Abandoned by my family

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She’s not dead or anything. She was abandoned by my family after I got kicked out, somewhere around the outskirts of town. I spent days looking, I put up posters, I cried and screamed her name across the streets for the longest time, I made posts online in my area.

Never found my baby. I miss you sweetie. I hope you’re okay out there. Sadly, knowing that you were a house cat all your life and that you had breast cancer, I’m not very sure if you’re still alive at all. My poor granny. Her name was Grandma Macaroni. I’m sorry for the sad post, I just don’t have anyone to share this grief with since I’m homeless and couch-hopping with people that don’t really care.

GOOD NEWS/UPDATE

She has been found and is currently safe with someone! Will be taking her with me tomorrow 😭 I am so glad someone told me to look on Facebook, someone found her and is taking care of her and I couldn’t be more glad to see her cute little face even on a picture. I’m currently waiting for the person to contact me back since it’s like 2 AM right now!!! But SHE IS FOUND AND SAFE AND WILL BE HOME SOON! ❤️😭


r/cats 6h ago

Advice Found this sweet angel today!

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Found this sweetheart under our work truck today. I heard meowing coming from the truck, and she was in the wheel well!! She hopped out and continued to meow furiously, and walked around a bit dazed. At first I thought she was just a cat who lived nearby, but we were in the middle of the city and she kept walking around the condos we were working at crying. She would look around for long periods of time, and something seemed off about her behavior. I asked all of the neighbors and the superintendent if anyone knew whose she was, but no one had a clue.

I took her to a vet to have her scanned, and got a hit! Name, phone number, and email address. I called and texted the number but no response. I emailed but no response either. I looked up the name and the only thing I could find is an ongoing divorce case with the owner, and her wife’s name. The case has the name of her attorney listed. I feel bad reaching out to her divorce attorney, as it’s a very intimate detail that I now know. Even more of an intimate detail is that her wife is apparently missing as well, which means I can’t reach out to her. How long should I wait to reach out to her attorney? The attorney should be willing to reach out to her on my behalf right? I have the owners address as well (could be an old one, it was 30 mins from where I found her) but that seems over the line, just showing up unannounced. It’s only been one day, but I know when I lost my cat I was going crazy! It was a terrible experience.

Also she slept the whole way to my house, 45 minutes away. Then slept all day here, outside of eating and using the litter box. She was obviously very exhausted from the experience, I don’t know how long she’s been out but she’s 1000% a house cat/lap cat 😂 I doubt she gets out very often, if at all.


r/cats 13h ago

Video - OC Doom and Gloom coming to collect the snack tax

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I'm more and more convinced that these two are both babies and little devils who know exactly how to get extra treats and love lol

Look at that walk!

Jokes aside, I genuinely can hardly explain the love I feel for them!

They were colony cats (trapped quite late at 4 and 6, now they are 6 and 8...ish) and it's just... so crazy that they are so brave now!

Shy cats who need a bit of extra love are truly the best!


r/cats 14h ago

Cat Picture - OC Best $6 ever spent.

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r/cats 12h ago

Cat Picture - OC here’s a neighbourhood cat i’d been feeding everyday! two weeks ago i found her unable to move her hind legs and covered in blood, barely responsive. took her to the vet and she healed up like an absolute champ. she’s not a neighbourhood cat anymore :)

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please say hi to my little baby starfish :)

my mum thought of that name and i think it’s perfect!

her hind legs are still recovering but she’s not letting that stop her from having fun!

photos are from when she was a neighbourhood cat all the way up to today! she’s living with us now <3

i think she likes me heheh

edit: a lot of comments asking what happened to her and honestly i don’t know :( and i don’t have it in me to look at the camera footage of her getting hurt.

the vet suspected spinal trauma, and super fortunately there wasn’t anything scary on the xray. he did suggest an mri after that, but her recovery in just a day made the vet reconsider on the mri.

she presented with diarrhoea, rectal bleeding and an inability to use her back legs but within a day her poops were solid, blood free and she was beginning to walk!

shes now on L-Sametine twice a day to help with nerve health, and RC’s gastro wet food since the kibbles (N&D prime) didn’t seem to work for her too well. i’m also giving her salmon oil once a day.

i’ve also put up climbing surfaces in my room since she can’t jump right now and she’s using them! she climbs up on my bed all on her own using the steps :)

her recovery’s gonna take a while but we’re with her through it all :)


r/cats 4h ago

Humor Door opens. Cat disappears. Every. Single. Time

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r/cats 17h ago

Medical Questions 10 months after getting spayed and her belly fur never came back?

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As you can see her belly is still bald 10 months after being spayed. Like a tiny bit of peach fuzz around the edges and nothing else. She never licked at the area and had a cone on for 13 days post surgery. I don’t understand why the fur isn’t growing back she looks ridiculous 😭. Is this normal? Will it ever come back?

EDIT: I work from home 3 days a week and I’m home a lot and she is pretty much glued to me most of the day and never see her grooming there excessively but possible she does it when I’m not looking. I’ll ask the vet next time we go. Im surprised there are so many other people here with bald belly cats cause the Internet research I did not seem to think that was a thing! It makes me feel better knowing there is a belly cat gang out there I guess I will embrace the pooch if the vet says it’s just a thing that can’t be helped!


r/cats 7h ago

Video - OC It took three days to make this. Pls give it some love lol

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Her government name is Punani Marguerite (middle name is after my grandmother 🫶🏽), but we call her Noni. A fever dream named her and nothing else stuck


r/cats 13h ago

Cat Picture - OC My boy Jinxy was diagnosed with a heart murmur today, please tell him how handsome and loved he is ❤️

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r/cats 9h ago

Cat Picture - OC Meet Helena!

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Me and my wife found a stray kitten that was abandoned by its mom in a friend's back yard. We were hoping the mom would come back, but after coming back the next day finding the kitten still there, we felt like we had no choice but to take it. That night it was going to get very very cold so we took her straight to the vet. Now she's doing great!

Funny enough we were on our way to a My chemical romance concert at the time, so we ended up naming her Helena after the last song they played that night!


r/cats 17h ago

Cat Picture - OC My cat is 15 years old and has graduated high school, college, and graduate school with me ❤️🐱

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This is Leslye, my 15-year-old cat. ❤️

She was with me when I graduated high school, college, and most recently graduate school.

She’s been there through exams, all-nighters, heartbreaks, mental health struggles, career changes, and every milestone in between. She has no idea what a diploma is, but she’s earned every one of them with me.

I know 15 is a wonderful age for a cat, and seeing these photos side by side makes me feel incredibly lucky that she’s still here. I just wanted to share my little academic accountability buddy with fellow cat lovers.


r/cats 9h ago

Update FINAL UPDATE. - I’m keeping her.

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I don’t think I’m “ready” for a cat BUT she’s just so sweet and precious.

I will be keeping her. Thank you for all the kind words regarding my late Gigi.

I wonder how they’ve would’ve gotten along. 🥲

Love you Gigi, this is Bo.


r/cats 7h ago

Mourning/Loss 18 years wasn't long enough.

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Just found out she has a tumor on her bladder. They say it's only going to get worse. I already dread the decision we're going to have to make.


r/cats 3h ago

Cat Picture - OC This stray cat comes today and I think she's pregnant

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Guys, tell me what to do? this is a stray cat, And I think she's pregnant also and I already gave her water and what more to do?


r/cats 1h ago

Update Cosmo down eight pounds!!

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I had asked for tips about eight months ago, he's been on a diet for well over a year though. Showing amazing results. He's a completely different cat now, so much energy and playful.


r/cats 55m ago

Cat Picture - OC My baby is in the ER, I came home and got emotional over her litterbox

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Last night while taking out the bins my kitty got out the door. We managed to get her back after a few hours of searching, but she was having poisoning symptoms

She’s in the vets now for at least 24hrs.

Coming home and seeing her last litterbox pee has made me really emotional. I just miss my baby

Please send thoughts her way


r/cats 10h ago

Mourning/Loss Tribute to this little Stray

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Found this sweet angel hit in the road today still moving. Brought them to the emergency vet and the best course of action was to euthanize due to numerous broken limbs and respiratory distress. I sat with them the whole time and gave them lots of love on their way out. Just wanted someone else to know they existed and were here.


r/cats 6h ago

Cat Picture - OC Post-surgery and this princess of menace has already escaped her recovery suit 3 times and pulled out one of her stitches 😭

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r/cats 21h ago

Cat Picture - OC I'll Doodle Your Kitten 😻FREE😻

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-send the best photo of your cat.

-only one cat per comment.

Tell me something about your kitty that makes you love them even more (Don't ignore this, an artist needs emotion to create🥰)

Since I have other activities during the day, I will only dedicate 4 hours to this🕒

I could do this all day if I didn't have a wife and children lol but I will do my best to ensure you receive a beautiful doodle✨

If you want a finished art, send me a message and I'll show you how it works.


r/cats 18h ago

Advice Need advice about stray cats, what should i do?

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2.8k Upvotes

EDIT: Thanks for the advices everyone. I dont want people fighting over my post so i removed everything i wrote. I saw some comment about putting them on a bag and throwing them away and that was the end point for me. Thanks again to people who wanted to help. You guys are the best.


r/cats 2h ago

Mourning/Loss I don’t know why my kitten passed and I feel like it’s my fault

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When I brought her home she was very sick. I named her Mocha. The next day I took her to the vet, which was just a week ago and they gave her medicine for upper respiratory infection and an eye cream. She seemed to be doing better right away, was walking around the house and exploring. Her little legs were so fast, and we would lose sight of her easily. She loved to sit next to my one year old son and follow him around. She also loved his little dog plushie and would even try to find milk from it.

But these past few days she was eating less, though she didn’t much of an appetite to begin with. She also slept a lot, I just thought she needed her rest so I don’t know it was because she wasn’t feeling well. But today she was sleeping a little too long. She was under my bed and when I checked on her, she was breathing. I should have woken her up to eat because when I checked on her again, she wasn’t breathing anymore. I freaked out and I keep crying. I didn’t even get to spend much time with her and take that many pictures.

I should have noticed that she was breathing from her mouth these couple of days and I figured it was because it’s been getting hotter where we live. She would sleep with her mouth open and I thought it’s just from her stuffed nose. I don’t know what caused her to pass away, if it was pneumonia from the URI, or fading kitten syndrome or the heat or what. It feels like it just happened to fast. She was here and seemed fine and now she’s not. She didn’t get to live a long life and she died alone in my room. I still have to tell my daughter and I feel so sad for her, she always wanted to hold her and give her attention.


r/cats 6h ago

Cat Picture - OC My handsome boy

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250 Upvotes

r/cats 13h ago

Mourning/Loss A final goodbye

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I lose my 14 year old Saucy boy tomorrow. I’m devastated to lose my sweet, soft, napping buddy. The house will never be the same and I will miss you the rest of my life. Applesauce, aka Saucy, Sauce, Sauce boy, sweet sauce…my side kick, my softest little guy, my baby Sauce…you got me through the grief of losing your brother and sisters. But now to lose you too? I know we gave you the best, spoiled life and there are no regrets. Your absence will be felt for eternity. But all I can do now is feed you chicken and give you the best pets until the end.