If You Have A Cat, These 30 Hacks May Interest You

One pregnant female can start a feral colony in less than nine months! Please trap, neuter, and return if necessary, but it is not kind to just feed strays. Help them!

Not only that but if they are inside cats it limits their want to escape I think, mine was always bolting for the door, we got him neutered and now he doesnt want too

This is especially important for female cats, not just because the cat could get pregnant. Being in heat is pure torture for the cat. In addition, the risk of getting uterine cancer increases many times over the more often the cat is in heat. Cats can already be neutered when 3 months old (it's not a common practice yet, unfortunately) before ever being in heat. And as cute as kittens are, the world doesn't need more of them. Also, be prepared to hand-feed them every 2 hours for weeks and defecate them daily if there are complications and the mother dies or refuses to take care of her kittens. Prepare yourself to spend thousands of dollars/euros on medical expenses for the kittens or in case a kitten is stuck in the birth kanal and the mother needs to have a c-section. Seriously... if you love your cat, please spare it the torture and just get it neutered.

Please, please, PLEASE!!! Find a way, ask for donations, beg the vet. Just do it!!

One comment I didn't read here was - CHIP YOUR CAT. As crazy as it sounds, yes, kitty does sneak out and the SPCA has a way of finding its home.

I can play with her toes, rub her tummy, grab her tail... To her I am a god and I can't work out why. She talks to me on the phone if I call my wife during the day. She gets jealous if I give my wife a cuddle or kiss her. She hangs out with me in the garden. She has to make sure I use my "litter tray" properly. Yeah, ok, I feed her raw beef and I get up at stupid o'clock in the morning to feed her... I am not her slave... Really.... ;-)

My cat stretches out his arms to have them rubbed, then I massage his toes. I live to serve.

My cat doesnt tust me then😂

My cats’ (3 at present, plus 1 dog) toes are ticklish. I can touch their whole paws, to pet them or clip their nails, but if I brush my fingers over their toes they pull them away and shake them.

Aww, mine does. He doesn't care which part of him I touch, except when he doesn't want to be touched at all, but I can always tell because his pupils dilate.

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My tuxedo figured out the how and what of that red dot, first he lost interest as he could not catch the dot, later on he figured out that it was me holding the pointer, so: so when he noticed the spot he looked at it, then looked up to my hand : I know what you are trying to do there, I am not chasing that dot

Lasers are unsafe, because if you accidentally point it to the cats eye, it damages its retina.

Yes! Very important. Much like you need to have hobbies that manipulate real life objects and create real life things, cats need toys they can touch as well.

My cat has zero interest in laser pointers. Same with boxes. She's a weirdo.

Tried laser toy twice, both times both our cats were clearly agitated and I saw nothing that indicated they enjoyed it at all. We stopped using it.

They also won't hunt birds and other animals to extinction.

Put up a Catio or cat-net your yard.

A cat's cognitive abilities are very similar to those of a 2-year-old human child; and cats allowed to roam outdoors alone face the same dangers as a 2-year-old child allowed to roam outdoors alone. They may get lost. Hit by a car. Kidnapped, then tortured and left to suffer, or killed. Attacked by an animal. Consume something poisonous, become seriously ill, and perhaps die. Fall, and become seriously injured. Become trapped in a place where they can't be easily seen or heard. If you have a 2-year-old child, you certainly would never consider allowing them to roam around outdoors without supervision. Please, if you have a cat, don't allow them to roam outdoors, either.

Unless you walk it on a leash like I do because that's his favorite thing ever.

And put a little of the old litter in the box so they can smell it.

Don't have a litter box, never locked them in at all when moving. Happy cats don't leave home.

That was what we did when we moved. I put her litter box in its permanent spot (in a closet) and closed the bedroom door so she knew that was her room and she was safe while we unpacked

Ummmm...is there a cat owner out there who DOESN'T talk to their cats? And, if so, does that person have no SOUL?!

I tell my cats "No Claws" all the time. They think it means that I love random scratches on my skin and please do it more.

I love talking with my cat. And I love when she answers. She has special name for me (She never uses it for anyone else), has special sound as "thank you" and can say it in a different, angry tone when we are "too slow" to react. And she actually meows like describing her day, when I ask. More so if it rains outside or some other unfair thing happens. She doesn't need "baby talk" but she loves when I repeat words like "my", "pretty", "little kitty" and "yes, you are" and so on.

“Pspspsps”

It is not safe or legal for cats in our large suburb to run free outdoors. So we have a zip-up mesh-type gazebo for our cat. We only let him in it when we are home and we check on him every 30 minutes or so. He loves getting to go out in it and will be content for hours. Some day I would love to have a catio for him.

Jepp, we call that Petflix or Meow-TV.

Tried that with ours. He ignored the birds but loves the bugs he sees.

My cat was obsessed with a sheer curtained window a few months ago. We were confused at first but it turns out the sunflowers I planted just outside have attracted a regular pair of Goldfinches. Now she gets very demanding that we open the curtain and replace the chair at the window after every time we use it.

My cat used to sit by the big window in the living room and watch the robins. If one flew away, she’d run to the back bedroom window, thinking the bird was in the backyard.

Be careful doing something like this if you live on a second level or above. Some cats will try to climb screens and could fall out the window in their rush to to dart to the window. I've caught my cats literally stuck on the screens with their nails, lol. Thankfully my screens are nailed in.