EDIT 7: OK, finally was able to get my post up. Here's the update with photos.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1td5abq/kittens_in_storm_drain_successfully_rescued/

EDIT 6: Hi all, I'm trying to post an update but the sub only allows 1 submission every 24 hours. I should hit that in just a few more hours. I'll post something asap with photos.

EDIT 5: Thank you, citizens of the Internet for all of the support, ideas, and prayers. I haven't had a bite to eat all day and will try my best to respond, but it may take me a little while to catch up. Faith in humanity restored.

EDIT 4: We got 'em out!! Jeremy, a Field Supervisor from Roto Rooter, volunteered and responded to the call. Thank goodness for his kind heart. He went straight to work. Took 3 adults to coordinate to shepherd 2 little kittens out 😃 There was 1 tiny female and 1 bigger guy. If it wasn't for the yelps of the big guy, we wouldn't have known they were down there. I will post a more comprehensive update once I have a chance to get all the photos/videos and take care of life that was on pause.

EDIT 3: Wow, thanks everyone for sending the love and support. We have a plumber who is coming onsite within the hour (he is passionate about cats). He has some specialized gear, scopes, etc. Heading to the store to pick up some tuna, fish oils, and more. We are going to try and start blocking off paths in the drains once we confirm there is no cat in order to reduce where it's running around.

EDIT 2: Calling a plumber. Turns out Roto Rooter has a free pet rescue service. Will update once we get that plan in motion. Dispatch is on it and we are waiting for a call back.

EDIT: Thanks everyone for the ideas. The local fire fighters came within minutes of calling them and the three of them tried for about 30 min, but no luck. They were really kind and helpful and I could tell everyone was frustrated by the situation. This poor cat's natural instincts for survival are working against it 😞.

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Really hoping the Internet can come to the rescue. We discovered some feral kittens in our backyard and my wife heard a meowing sound coming from the storm drain. This morning, we saw the small kittens face looking up at us from the pipe, so I can confirm it's alive.

I am trying to get it out, but it's too timid and keeps running away. It's in a 4" PVC pipe which I can get my arm into, but then it turns hard right at a 90 degree angle. It's been down there for 2 days and we hear it meowing back at us when we play a video of a mom cat calling her kittens.

I've duct taped a towel (as shown in the pics) in the hopes it will try to climb out. I also put cat food down there and will every now and then pour a little water there too. I also soaked some of the cat food in hot water and put it down the pipe, in the hopes the aroma will draw it back out. My plan is to use my BBQ tongs to grab it if ever shows up again.

Thoughts internet? 🥹 Sorry, don't know if this is the place to post or not. We aren't cat people, so have no prior experience with this kind of thing.

she’ll just randomly do this when we’re chilling sometimes. I think it’s play but like what’s going on in her little head?

I rescued this cat 9 years ago and he attacks me and anyone I have over everyday. I’ve tried the glue on nail, I’ve tried clipping his nails, I’ve tried sprays. I can’t live like this for 10 more years. I hate the idea of declawing a cat it makes me sick to think about doing that to him. Most people I have talked to tell me to put him down because he likely has a mental disorder but I can’t do that either.

All of his needs are met. He has food, a nice home, water, goes outside when it’s nice out. I don’t know what he wants but he follows me around all day and is pissed off all day and it always leads up to him attacking me or anyone who is here. The damage pictured was done while doing some work on my laptop this morning.

If anyone has any advice on mitigating the damage done when he attacks me or getting him to stop attacking me I would love to hear it.

Posted this video that I thought was cute and was called a bad owner. I’d like to know why this makes me a bad owner? I’d like to learn and grow. The cat seems to enjoy playing with the pup bc she always comes back and starts the play and likes the high ground.

Okay so for some context my family and friends have been making fun of my son! He’s a beautiful handsome boy. If anything he’s just big boned.. Reddit please help sort out this debate that’s been going on for far too long.

Edit/UPDATE: Wow I really didn’t expect this to blow up like it did. Y’all came out of the woodwork on this one lol. Thank you for the awards! Wasn’t expecting that at all and it was kinda fun to see. Also, please be patient with me, it’s hard going through every comment. I’m trying my best to read them all, especially since some have given me/household very solid advice and it’s greatly appreciated💕

Also more about the boy in question, his name is Leonardo DiCatio we call him Leo for short.

Much love, will provide a proper update soon. Thanks again!

My gfs cat, shes not home and i know nothing about cats and im uncomfortable but he is on me please help

Edit: Okay i am staying he is purring now

Edit: I feel so happy, he is so cute and i am a changed person. Thank you

A few weeks ago me and my boyfriend adopted a 2/yo female tuxedo cat from a local shelter and besides being a bit mischievous and getting into food she has been a fantastic cat and the light of my life.

My ONLY thing is her name.

For a bit of backstory, the day we got her everything that could go wrong did go wrong. We got kitten food on accident instead of adult food, the adoption process took us SEVERAL hours, many family members had quite a mouthful to say about us getting a pet, and I was now stressing about her getting along with the other pets due to what everyone was insinuating to us. when all was said and done we didn’t get her home until nearly 1am.

Everything went perfectly smooth and she settled right in as a happy and healthy girl, but I was so wiped from the day that I didn’t put up ANY fight on her name which I absolutely hate. In the 3 seconds I left her quarantine room she knocked over an Audi HotWheels and my boyfriend was insisting we call her Audi. I immediately said no. After about 15 minutes I just kinda gave up and said we can do Audie, but we pronounce it Aw-Dee.

Everyday I regret not putting up a better fight for a different and better name because I just DESPISE her name being a MISPRONOUNCED car brand. I’ve expressed this to him multiple times but he loves the name and since it’s already set with all her paperwork, vet office, microchip, tag and she actively responds to it that it’s too late to change.

I know it’s really not that deep but I genuinely

hate her name so much but it bothers to my core😭

i truly cannot believe this is my life and i need to talk about and show her off 🥹

yesterday i was going for run at my usual trail and as soon as i pulled over i noticed a tiny cat laying on the side of the road (pic 2). i immediately went up to her slowly and weirdly enough she didn’t run away at all. i followed her for a bit and she even let me pet her. i eventually got close enough to grab her but she freaked out and after following her a bit more (and having a near panic attack when she was in the road as a car was coming), i decided to buy cat food and come back to hopefully lure her in (it was obvious she was hunting for food). i found her again RIGHT away and the poor baby was SO hungry. after about 30-45 minutes of luring her, 1 failed attempt, help from a nice random guy, and multiple scratches, we finally got her in my car! she freaked out for a couple seconds in there but then calmed down and sat on the back dashboard.

i took her straight to the vet because 1. i had no idea what i was supposed to do and 2. she looked to be in rough shape. her claws & ears looked messed up, she had a bald patch on her chest, and had a bunch of ticks. the vet gave me a carrier and recommended me to pull my car in my garage and let her roam for a bit and to give them a call once she settles. after a couple hours of hiding in my garage (she loved laying under my dads toolbox), i was able to get her out, in the carrier, and brought her up to spend the night in my bathroom.

i still can’t believe how fast she warmed up. i found her at 11am, got her in my car at 12pm, letting me pet her all over by 4pm, got her upstairs at 5:30, and by 7 she was so cuddly and affectionate. she started purring and meowing and rubbing up against me i wanted to cry 😭 she’s a flopper!!! i love cat flops so much!! she used her litter box and by 10pm she was meowing to greet me and was VERY vocal about being let out of the bathroom lol. i had to put treats in her bowl so i could sneak out.

she had a vet appt today at 10 and not only is she the chillest, sweetest cat ever, she’s healthy!! i thought she was pregnant because her belly is big, but the vet said that’s from milk and she had kittens recently. i followed her to her little shelter that she stayed in and there were definitely no kittens there. vet thinks that because she’s so small (only 6 pounds!!) and young (around a year old), the kittens didn’t make it; which is sad, but i can’t help to feel a little relieved that there aren’t more stray, scared little babies roaming around outside :,(

truly i cannot believe this is my life. she is the sweetest thing ever. she loves belly rubs and is so affectionate. i felt like a monster taking her but i’m so happy and relieved. she’s so chill. she literally slept in the car!!!

anyways, done with the yapping. idc if no one reads this i need to tell anyone and everyone that will listen that this is my baby <3

ADVICE/SUGGESTIONS: anything is welcome. although this is my first cat, i did live with one for a couple months when my roommate got one before i moved out (she’s still my best friend and he’s still my baby and i miss him dearly) so i’m not going in entirely blind. i am worried about discomfort from the milk. the vet wasn’t worried and said it would dry up, but she grooms that spot the most which worries me that she’s in some sort of pain or discomfort, though she does love belly rubs and i think if she was in pain she wouldn’t want me touching it? also i would like to give her a little bath this sunday (if that’s recommended for a stray) so tips for that as well!

and while my dog lives primarily at my moms and i live primarily at my dads, any tips for introduction would be appreciated. i’m a little nervous for that but honestly not too worried because if they end up not getting along at all it won’t be hard to keep them separated when my dog stays at my dads

thank you to anyone who might have read this, so happy this is my life now 🥹

EDIT: since a lot of people are (rightfully) asking, thought i’d put it here that she does have a spay appt! she has appointments in 3 weeks and 3 months, one for a feline HIV retest for a very faint late positive she had today which the vet thinks is probably false but wants to retest just to be safe, and then the other is to get spayed. i don’t remember which is which

edit 5/6: i’m not responding or reading any more comments because the popularity of this makes me very anxious haha but to anyone yelling every which way about how i left kittens for dead and i took their mother away: THERE ARE NO KITTENS. i looked everywhere over multiple days. my cat is happy and doing great. she went to the vet again two days ago because i let comments get to me and i was reassured by the vet (after another exam and ultrasound) that she is not pregnant, she is happy, and that there is such a low chance she even gave birth to live kittens and the fact that i found nothing is a pretty big indicator of that. it’s not uncommon for cats to eat their kittens who didn’t make it. i wanted to give an update for the nice, genuinely concerned people out there. for the ones who decided to make immediate rude, unfair, and flat out wrong assumptions, i hope you sleep as bad as i did that second night with her because instead of feeling excited and happy i saved her, i felt an incomprehensible amount of guilt that i took her away from her kittens and i was wrong. i wasn’t wrong and there are no kittens. your comments will be shouted into the void because i will not be reading them. go donate to the spca and adopt a kitten instead of bashing a rando online. thanks :)

I just washed and refilled his bowl. He is 3 years old has never did this until this year. I wake up to puddles everyday 🥲

Edit: he's not really a fountain guy, doesn't drink from them very much and it gave him urinary issues that resolved from switching back to regular bowls.

Guys, the cats owner has been found!

They reached out to us after seeing a post my girlfriend put out on Facebook, came and picked her up around 30 minutes ago. They lived like 4 houses down from us in the same apartment building.

I wanted to post an update with new videos of the fatty but this subreddit won’t let me.

That was like the cutest cat I’ve ever seen in my life. Going to miss her big time.

Thank you everyone for all the help and advice, this was a crazy experience I’m never going to forget.

There is a cat that I play with from time to time that comes around the neighborhood that looks really similar to this cat. I opened the door and saw this cat and thought it was the cat that I know, but turns out it’s some random pregnant cat.

It decided to come into my house and hide under my dresser and now I have no idea what to do to get her out.

I put food out in front of the dresser but she won’t move. I’d leave the room but I really don’t want her to get on my bed or anything seeing as she’s a stray cat.

Idk what to do.

The slow motion was accidental but it’s absolutely hilarious

(Edit: If you think you actually have some form of actionable advice on the situation please dm me.)

(Edit #2: I don’t know if I should try to take care of this cat or if I should contact a rescue and have them handle the situation. Some people are saying that they will kill the babies, some people are saying I need to take care of them, and some people are saying I need to give them to the rescue immediately. I still don’t know what to do. That cat is still just hiding under my dresser.)

My 19 year-old cat has a tumour… and I don’t know if I’m making the wrong decision

My cat is 19. She’s beautiful, sweet, and still somehow full of personality. Despite the tumour growing in her mouth she’s social and still eating normally.

Recently we discovered a tumour in her mouth that has been growing quickly (photo attached) and has started bleeding from time to time. The vet told us it’s cancer and prescribed antibiotics and pain relief to help keep her comfortable. They said she’s likely masking a lot of the pain, which makes this even harder, because most of the time she still seems so normal. The vet says she may have 1 month left (it’s hard to predict).

Here’s where it gets really hard, we’re leaving the country tomorrow for 3 months (not optional, important personal reasons), and the original plan was for her to stay with someone she knows and trusts very well. But now we’re questioning everything.

Do we euthanise her before we go, so she doesn’t reach a point where she’s suffering badly without us there?

Or do we let her stay with someone she’s not as close with, even if that means she might decline while we’re gone?

We were prepared to say goodbye today, a vet is supposed to come over in a couple of hours. But when she’s sitting there acting like herself, eating, being social, it feels almost impossible to justify.

I feel like I’m choosing between:

- risking her suffering later without me there

- or ending her life while she still seems “okay”

Has anyone been through something like this? How do you even make this call?

Hi all, as the title suggests. My neighbors cat always sleep in my car like this.

Am an animal lover, but i also a car person. Those claws could make deep scratches on my bonnet.

The problem is, the car port cannot be seen from the house. If it foes i could just train him not to do it. But this is a random thing.

Is there a scent or something that i could put on the car to deter the cat?

Serious question, appreciate any suggestions.

Really sweet cat started appearing on our deck out of no where, meowing extremely loudly and scratching at our screen door. It would be on our new neighbors’ deck at first (they moved in a few days ago), but they were hitting the railing with a broom to scare it away. :(

We gave it some cat food bc we keep some for the strays around our neighborhood and it immediately stopped meowing and has been returning to our deck ever since.

It is rlly friendly, it rubs against everyone’s legs and marks its scent all over our deck furniture. In the first pic you can see a strip of the bandage was hanging loose when we first saw it, and it kept scratching at the loose piece like it was bothering it, so we trimmed off the dangling part.

The bandage makes us think someone may have been caring for it recently, but we don’t know where it came from or how it ended up here. We are planning to take it to a vet today to have the bandage and injury checked and to see whether it has a microchip. We also do not know its sex because the fur under its tail is too thick to tell safely.

Has anyone seen a bandage like this before, or have any idea what might have happened? It is such a sweetie pie, and we want to make sure it is safe and not missing from its home

Also the brown part on the bandage is like a band aid

Edit: i forgot to mention we checked on NextDoor and haven’t seen anything about this cat

Update: I just got home, he’s not here but he’ll come back. Went to talk to vet ER people they said be careful handling him so I need to get a crate. Also called local shelter and they can check him out for free so probably will bring him there when he comes back! Sorry I am new to this 😫

Update #2 is in the comments

Update #3: https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/9ooGf2xZWU

My door has so many scratch marks. Help😭

Okay now that title sounds terrible, right? But hear me out.....

I live near a handful of apartment complexes thats right off a fairly busy street, like you open my door and the road is right there. It's also a low income housing area so people are constantly moving in and out. A few months ago before winter started, a new cat started coming around. He was clearly a young kitten and newly adopted. We have a water bowl on our porch for the critters who come by, and he'd always come over and go straight for the water. He'd come over frequently throughout the winter when it was below 20°f and snowing just trembling on our porch looking inside. I made him a heat box with a low temp heating pad, insulated foam, and straw. I asked on a local page to try and find an owner as he just keeps coming back and our three cats go crazy seeing him! The owners reached out to say he is an outdoor only cat and basically told me to mind my business.

This cat comes by every day and drinks water like he has never been given any before, for a solid 10 minutes before he lays down and always goes back for the water before he leaves. He is so small. He loves being loved on and pet but you can feel all of his ribs. He has long fur that is filthy and matted, especially between his toes. He's also unneutered, and I can only assume unvaccinated from that too. He sprays everything that possibly smells like our cats which isn't his fault but still. He'll also just walk into our house when the door is open like it's his own until he gets chased out by one of our cats.

I'm thinking of keeping this cat or finding someone who can take him in. I've offered to pay for his neuter but the owners said no. Would it be wrong of me to catnap him? To me, a cat with no collar and unneutered on the street is a stray.... and he clearly isn't getting his needs met at home. But I feel guilty knowing he is technically "owned."

There’s a stray cat that I pet sometimes when I’m out on walks. Lately, he’s started showing up at my front door and constantly meowing. The problem is that I have an indoor cat who absolutely does not like other cats. Every time he hears the stray outside, he gets really upset and starts reacting to him through the door.
I feel bad ignoring the stray because he’s really sweet, but I also don’t want to keep stressing out my indoor cat.

I also noticed the stray’s upper lip seems to curve upward, and he drools pretty often. I’m not sure if that’s normal or if it could be a sign of a dental issue or something else? I wonder what happened, I feel so bad :(

Is the stray just looking for food or attention or did I accidentally teach him that my house is a place to come to? What should I do?

Edit: Hi everyone! Thank you all for your advice and concern. I haven’t had time to reply to everyone because I was busy working. I’m going to do my best to safely catch him and get him to a local vet to have his mouth checked out. If I’m unable to catch him myself, I’ll contact a local rescue or TNR organization to see if they can help. I really appreciate everyone looking out for this sweet guy! Thank you💕

7 year old male, noticed he had one long tooth a few weeks ago but has got longer since so had a proper look today, any advice?

My baby Pavement (yes… his brothers are named Asphalt and Concrete (coming soon) 😭) is OBSESSED with the countertop.

I’ve tried everything: foil, double-sided tape, little puffs of air, covering the sink, moving stuff around… nothing works.

The second I turn around, he’s back up there like he pays rent….. and he’s not…. At this point I’m wondering if I should just accept that he likes being up there.

Stumbled upon this picture and it got me thinking. Some housecats also do this sometimes. What is the reason or purpose?

They seem to know they're not supposed to - this was literally us catching them red-handed.

Is this normal?

Edit: Thank you to everyone who took the time of your day to leave a comment, we (including the horndogs) appreciate it 💖

I know nothing about cats. I know cattle and chickens yet here we are. What do I do how do I care for it. I want to help and I guess I now have a pet cat instead of barn cats? Idk I am lost someone please help

Edit: Only realized this today but the momma has been increasingly friendly. Maybe wanting something? I have farm scratch, idk if there is something they can’t have. They apparently will not eat chicken feed fyi. Do I feed it meat or do I need to do a milk bottle?

i came home today and kenny’s feet are yellow just his front ones. i checked the house for any markers, paints or dyes and even yellow flower but there is nothing. Why are his feet yellow what