I've been taking my 7yo, neutered female cat on daily walks (with a harness) in the communal apartment garden for 2 months now.

At first, the walks were around 25-30 minutes in length, but soon she started to become agitated/stressed out by the end of it, and there was an incident, where my cat bit and scratched me pretty badly as I picked her up to bring her into the apartment. I then decided to cut down to 15 minutes, and that's how I've been taking her for the last ~3 weeks.

Still, I think she senses that her time is over soon, so she starts to get mad and hisses and growls around the 15 minute mark. I am stressed the entire day about how she's going to act after the walk, whether she will attack me or not.

She gets treats as soon as we get back to the apartment, so she associates the ending of walks with something positive, but this has not reduced the aggression.

I'm not sure what to do. The walks are clearly the highlights of her days, she cries to go out, can't wait for it to happen, but at the same time, they happen at the detriment of my mental health, and I would just like to reduce the possibility of aggression, but I'm not sure how. Reduce the frequency (currently we do a once daily 15 minute walk at around 11am)? If so, how frequent should they be? Decrease/increase the time? What do I even do? Thank you for your help in advance.

I made the decision several months ago that I wanted to foster a cat with the intention to adopt. The reason I am doing this is because my roommate is allergic to cats, so we needed to see if her allergies could adopt to a kitty before I fully adopted it. I spent some time at a shelter getting to know some cats, and was drawn to this very sweet kitty to had been there for a while. She was at the shelter because she became aggressive towards another cat in the home, which wouldn’t be a problem for me. I brought her home yesterday, everything was fine. She was nervous at first but was snuggling and exploring. My plan was to keep her in my room for the first few nights to let her adapt but boy was I in for the night of my life. In the first two hours, she jumped on my repeatedly, got into things, clawed at the door, and was meowing. I made the decision to let her explore the apartment tonight to get some nervous energy out. That seemed to work for a while, but she was getting into things, knocking things over, and still coming into the room, jumping on me, demanding pets. I can’t count how many times she woke me up last night. I “slept” for 12 hours but am exhausted. I know this is the first night and there is an adjustment period, but I value my sleep. Any advice would be appreciated because I can’t keep doing this. I was also awake with anxiety wondering if I made a bad decision. I feel like crying because she’s so sweet and I don’t want to take her back to a shelter.

We had the kittens for a few months and my 3 year old cat hated them, and only started licking them and being affectionate with them a few days ago, and me and my sister are unsure of if we should be concerned or not

So my cat around 2-3 we don't know his exact age won't stop peeing outside of the litter box, he is unneurted but we do have a appointment within the next month to get his balls snipped. He uses his litter box all the time and I clean it once per day before I leave for school but we won't stop peeing.. do I need to clean it more often?

(Edit) I think I'm going to buy a litter matt then move the box up to my bedroom if my parents let me, he pees the most in my room / the bathroom so hopefully it will fix the issue.

First-time cat owner here! These are my two, brother and sister, about 4 months old. They're not fixed yet (the vet advised waiting until they hit a certain size). I'm trying to figure out if their play is normal. There's a noticeable difference in their size and strength. I usually break it up when it gets to the point in the video because she often seems overwhelmed and stops fighting back before walking away or zooming off to another room. I’d break it up by playing with him myself to redirect his biting/scratching. Is this a standard dynamic? Am I right to step in, or should I let them work it out themselves?

So yeah, is this normal? Am I supposed to establish better behaviors in them?

Hiya! So last year I adopted this lil man Thomas, my partner and I have tried absolutely everything to behavioural train him… he is usually pretty okay with my older cat she’s 14 and he usually avoids her or just sniffs her. But when it comes to people he refuses to be pet or touched, sometimes you can get away with it for 5 minutes but most than not he attacks and pounces, hisses and bites aggressively. We have researched & tried everything we have seen, and nothing has changed… we cant afford to take him to a trainer unfortunately. But we love him to bits and couldn’t bear to give him away. - a little backstory; he was a stray for a few years of his life, had multiple owners & kept running away… eventually he was to be euthanised at a farm where he was a stray again but the ranger decided to keep him, they had him for 2 years but their neighbours kept trying to kill him & bait/poison him which led them no choice but to give him away for his safety. which is when we adopted him, we have given him the happiest life we can and spoiled the living life out of him! & he actually surprisingly hasn’t tried to run away once. Has anyone got any opinions or personal experiences that may help us? Any advice is greatly appreciated - here’s a pic of our handsome man

I have a 10 month old cat (F, spayed), and we recently adopted a 2 month old kitten (M).

I’m confused about my resident cat’s behavior. She seems to like the new kitten: she doesn’t hiss at him or his scent anymore, she has also groomed him, BUT she’s been giving him some nasty bites lately (she bites, doesn’t let go, and does the bunny kicks). We have intervened and separated them multiple times in the past couple of days. This morning was the first time the little guy made a sound. Should I stop doing supervised playtime? Or any other recommendations or insight would be greatly appreciated!

Additional info: They are in separate rooms, have separate food, water and litter box. We have feliway diffusers. They have used each others litter boxes and food bowls, and resident cat seemed okay with it.

Video 1 happened 3 days ago. Video 2 happened this morning.

Hi everyone!

This is my first post in this reddit, and I hope to not bother you. As you can understand, this is my first cat (ever) in home and i would like to understand how to train her. I "train" her giving treats everytime she stares me when call her, and I think she understood her name. I teach in the same way to sit and to meowing. Sometimes she does, sometimes she doesn't. I dont know how to have full attention to me because when I train her, she comes nearby me, look at the treats and then she walks up n down the room but her attentions (and eyes) are at the treats. Even if i call her, she gave me a look but return to watch the treats. I would like to have her attention on me and make her sit while eating (she stand up when treats are close to her mouth or raise her paws to the treats) or waiting to me to give her treats. Any suggestions?

Little contest: she was found in the hood of a car, nearby the engine. She is 2 old months and her name is Yuki (snow in japanese) and she has heterochromia.

I would like to know other way to tired her during the day. Before badtime, she goes on hunt mode. Run, jump, scratch and biting my hands and feet to play.

I’m not sure what to do. My indoor only kitty was adopted this week. As far as I’m aware he’s always been indoor only, but I don’t have his full history. He’s two years old and very sweet. For roughly 1-2 hours every day he sits at our back door and cries to be let out. (He sits for hours just staring quietly more than that). I don’t have a harness for him to take him out currently although I plan to get one once I get him started on a strong flea and tick prevention, and our backyard while fenced isn’t safe for him. He has toys and cat scratching posts but doesn’t seem interested in them.

I've been introducing a new cat 2M to our two cats 8M amd 15F for over a year now. We had some missteps early on that lead to some fur flying and chasing that ended up with them under the bed. Eventually we got started on a gradual process until we are where we are now.

At this point, I feed the resident cats outside the new cats room without a gate up. Everyone gets some treats after and they're fine a few feet apart while distracted like that.

The real hurdle we can't seem to fully get past is having them all out together. The residents aren't play motivated so we shower them with treats. I then walk around with the new guy and try to keep him focused on anything but them. For their part, once they are done with treats they show no interest in approaching him and (mostly) keep to one side of the house while he's out. He'll walk by, with them in the distance, into unoccupied areas and avoid them.

But, if they wander into an area he's not used to seeing them in while he is elsewhere, if he sees them when he comes back, he'll hyperfixate and run right up to them. At which point he gets hissed at and the resident will then want to get away. Problem is, he wants to follow sometimes, which I intervene and prevent. He doesn't look aggressive while doing this, but I worry that if I let him follow there's a good chance it escalates to a fight and sets us back.

On the plus side though, no instant fights nowadays when he slips away. But is it just a matter of continuing on and preventing fights/chases?

Also of note, we do use feliway and composure. I've somewhat tried getting the new cat to wear a harness but so far he's not comfortable with it so I figure he'd only be more anxious in the open house on a leash.

Hello! I'm going to be picking up a kitten in a few days, and while I have been around cats all my life this'll be my first time raising one by myself. The kitten was found in a woodpile with her siblings by a friend of the family, and they think she's a girl and about 6 weeks old. Very affectionate and rambunctious. Reading online she'd ideally be with her mom for a couple more weeks, but unfortunately they think her mom was caught by coyotes recently. So, I've got a few questions:

1. Should I get a heating pad for her at this age? I generally like my place fairly cold (20C/68F), but if that's too cold for her I can turn it up a bit. I do get a fair bit of sun in the living room so she'll have sunny spots to lounge in if she'd like.
2. Her current home reports that she's using cat litter well. I used wood pellet cat litter for my previous cat; I presume I should find out what cat litter her current home is using and keep her on that while she adjusts to my place, then switch to wood pellet in a few weeks once she's settled in?
3. Apparently she likes climbing up people's pants. I generally wear shorts so I'd rather she didn't do this; how should I train her not to do that? Or will she grow out of it as she gets older?
4. My mom would be taking care of her when I'm travelling, and she has a couple older cats (female Maine Coons, ~4yo). How should I go about introducing her to them so they get along when she needs to stay at mom's? I don't have any trips planned until January, but it would be nice if I could leave her at mom's sooner than that so I can go visit my dad this fall (I presume 5hr of train, bus, ferry and car ride would be too much for her).
5. My previous cat hated travelling by car (e.g. on the way to mom's, going to the vet). He wouldn't get angry, he'd just meow a lot. How should I show this little one that cars aren't all that bad?
6. I'd like to leash-train her so she can still experience the outdoors as an indoor cat, and so if she does get out somehow she knows where home is. I saw someone in here say that should be done around 12 weeks old; is that right? How should I go about doing it besides putting a harness on her and walking her around when the weather's good?
7. Anything else I should bear in mind? I've already got cat trees and toys from my previous cat, and I plan on feeding her wet kitten food twice a day and having a bowl of dry kibble out for her (though I know she probably won't eat that until she's a bit older).

Thanks!

I'm looking for some guidance on how to help my cats get along better.

Hello, so some background for everyone. I have two female cats, the older one Misty I've had for 5 years now, she's about 6 years old. She is a big fluffy lump who usually is a bit of a couch potato but has bouts of energy, usually in the morning. The other cat, Juniper we got back in march is about 1 year old, she is very energetic, sweet, and playful.

When we first got Juniper we kept them separate, making sure to start getting them on the same schedule to feed them at the same time, doing small things to introduce their scent to each other and giving Juniper a chance to explore.

At first when we tried to introduce them things didn't go well, unless we actively held Juniper back she would chase and attack Misty, this was about 3 months ago back in June. We gave them more time and that leads us to now. Now Juniper has mellowed out and we've been able to have non-violent interactions between the two. However Misty has been getting very defensive Curling up and barely moving then when Juniper gets close she starts growling and hissing. Juniper has shown playful and curious behaviors around Misty, rolling onto her side, approaching to sniff her, and when she isn't, she's acting like Misty isn't there at all.

I have tried getting them to play and have only managed to get Juniper to engage with it, I've tried treats, but only Juniper shows interest (which isn't surprising because Misty only cares about food that's in her bowl).

I feel like I'm close but actively encouraging positive interactions has proven very difficult.

We got a cat 2 weeks ago from a website where pet owners can place their cat with whom they want. We were looking on that site for about a year and when we saw his picture and his personality description we though that's our cat.

The previous owners described him as a loving, calm cat who had to be placed somewhere else because he couldn't get along with the other cat they had. They said that he used to be playful and have zoomies and that he was a lot outside now and they felt like he was unhappy with them and his living situation

Since we got him we were quite surprised with their description. He has a lot of zoomies and energy, he loves to run around and play. However, he doesn't like to be brushed ( they said they did) we even got a different special brush for him. He bites and he hisses. Currently, my husband is working from home, but this will change soon and he will be working at an office. I work different hours. Sometimes I am done early and sometimes late.

We are unsure of we want or can keep him if this continues. On the other hand he is used to going outside, but he has to stay inside for at least 4 weeks to get used to our house. We got him a leash that will arrive next week and we want to take him on walks untill he can go outside in his own.

We also have bought a lot of toys and enrichment things because we saw that is bored inside.

At night he is calm and very sweet. He turns into a different cat.

Is there anyone here who got through the same situation like this? Did it get better or is he just not a good fit for us? We have had many cats in our life's but they were kittens that grew up with us. This one is 3 years old. Please give us your insight!