your kitty is adorbs — i just wanted to mention that sometimes when they're pressing their faces up to walls a lot it could mean something neurological
my baby was doing this a lot before he died of complications from having a brain tumor 3:
i'm sorry i'm really not trying to induce fear, i just wanted to spread awareness because a lot of people don't know that's a thing, & my best friends' cat also passed soon after it started doing that a lot too ...
i know you said they're recently adopted though so hopefully they've just always done that to block the light when they sleep¡! it would probably only be a concern if they started doing it while awake, or at a higher frequency, or having other neuro symptoms —like trouble eating, stumbling while walking, tremors, incontinence, etc... i'm sorry i don't mean to scare you
i just miss my boy so much & i don't know what if anything i could've done if i'd known about his brain tumor earlier...but awareness is at least a first step. i definitely wouldn't have gotten him dental surgery at the time (i didn't want him to be in pain because of his bad teeth) — but sometimes if a kitty has an undiagnosed brain tumor & they have another unrelated surgery, when they wake back up the inflammation in their brain can go crazy... he was completely fine before his dental work, then the inflammation in his brain made him stop eating. they thought he must've had a stroke during the surgery but it turns out he just had a tumor the whole time, that was practically asymptomatic before waking up from anesthesia increased the inflammation there...
i guess like i'm trying to kinda give a psa that some neurological symptoms can go virtually unnoticed & spring up suddenly, so be careful like if your kitty ever needs any unrelated surgeries — if there is any sort of undiagnosed neurological issue it can be rapidly worsened after general anesthesia, so that's just something to keep in mind...
with my best friend's cat we don't know exactly what happened with him, he had a vet appointment the next day, but wasn't able to make it. she thinks he may have ingested toxins like lilies or something, but in both her & my kitty the neurological storm was sudden as heck with no warning beforehand but this
I agree with you on the head thing. I’ve seen other cats that do that and a lot of people say that there’s something wrong with them, that they feel pain in their heads so the cats press them against things to make the pain less.
yeah the kitty neurologist who diagnosed my baby told me it's a common symptom! before his scan we were unsure if it was a stroke, some type of brain infection, or a brain tumor — those can each cause it
but yeah pressing their heads against surfaces, as well as circling a lot (kinda like how some dogs do before they lay down — but with cats) can be a sign
Lol I promise he's ok, he is just a weird cat and has interesting sleeping positions 😅 He gets 6 small meals a day (3 of them wet), plenty of training treats, a bonded sister who he wrestles and snuggles with, and plenty of human love 😊
We do. She was our rescue we got for our house we finally bought. She spent 5 of her first six years being bounced from no-kill shelter to no-kill shelter, waiting for someone to take her home. She'd become institutionalized. She was obese, had undiagnosed diabetes, slightly bad eyesight, was declawed in the front (no thanks, first owners), and had to be invited into rooms where we were sitting, like a little vampire. She slowly began to realize that all of this was hers. She wasput on a diet, put on insulin twice a day, and we just dealt with her weird eyesight issues (she was farsighted, though I started to see cataracts creeping in at the end). We never quite solved her dandruff issue, but we got it to be much, much better (she wouldn't eat salmon oil or any other fish oil concentrate. We had to work with eggs, and she was on again/off again with them and mayonnaise). We loved watching her learn to love us and her new home. We were grateful for the time we had with her.
I landed 2 in my RFY. Same thing, I spent a couple hours researching and comparing fountains. I stopped using them a few years ago because they all seemed designed back then to be impossible to clean. So when I heard they'd made a bunch of design changes that makes them wireless in a lot of cases, along with many of them (including the 2 I got) being dishwasher safe.
Black one showed up already and the big boy started using it right away as you can see. White ceramic one comes on Monday. Gonna text them both out for 2 weeks, clean each one, and depending on which works better and is easier to clean, that's the one I'll ultimately keep.
your kitty is adorbs — i just wanted to mention that sometimes when they're pressing their faces up to walls a lot it could mean something neurological
my baby was doing this a lot before he died of complications from having a brain tumor 3:
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i'm sorry i'm really not trying to induce fear, i just wanted to spread awareness because a lot of people don't know that's a thing, & my best friends' cat also passed soon after it started doing that a lot too ...
i know you said they're recently adopted though so hopefully they've just always done that to block the light when they sleep¡! it would probably only be a concern if they started doing it while awake, or at a higher frequency, or having other neuro symptoms —like trouble eating, stumbling while walking, tremors, incontinence, etc... i'm sorry i don't mean to scare you
i just miss my boy so much & i don't know what if anything i could've done if i'd known about his brain tumor earlier...but awareness is at least a first step. i definitely wouldn't have gotten him dental surgery at the time (i didn't want him to be in pain because of his bad teeth) — but sometimes if a kitty has an undiagnosed brain tumor & they have another unrelated surgery, when they wake back up the inflammation in their brain can go crazy... he was completely fine before his dental work, then the inflammation in his brain made him stop eating. they thought he must've had a stroke during the surgery but it turns out he just had a tumor the whole time, that was practically asymptomatic before waking up from anesthesia increased the inflammation there...
i guess like i'm trying to kinda give a psa that some neurological symptoms can go virtually unnoticed & spring up suddenly, so be careful like if your kitty ever needs any unrelated surgeries — if there is any sort of undiagnosed neurological issue it can be rapidly worsened after general anesthesia, so that's just something to keep in mind...
with my best friend's cat we don't know exactly what happened with him, he had a vet appointment the next day, but wasn't able to make it. she thinks he may have ingested toxins like lilies or something, but in both her & my kitty the neurological storm was sudden as heck with no warning beforehand but this
I agree with you on the head thing. I’ve seen other cats that do that and a lot of people say that there’s something wrong with them, that they feel pain in their heads so the cats press them against things to make the pain less.
yeah the kitty neurologist who diagnosed my baby told me it's a common symptom! before his scan we were unsure if it was a stroke, some type of brain infection, or a brain tumor — those can each cause it
but yeah pressing their heads against surfaces, as well as circling a lot (kinda like how some dogs do before they lay down — but with cats) can be a sign
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Lol I promise he's ok, he is just a weird cat and has interesting sleeping positions 😅 He gets 6 small meals a day (3 of them wet), plenty of training treats, a bonded sister who he wrestles and snuggles with, and plenty of human love 😊
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My cat used to do that to keep her head elevated when she slept. She was...odd. We loved her madly.
“We loved her madly” made me cry. I sense you miss her so much.
We do. She was our rescue we got for our house we finally bought. She spent 5 of her first six years being bounced from no-kill shelter to no-kill shelter, waiting for someone to take her home. She'd become institutionalized. She was obese, had undiagnosed diabetes, slightly bad eyesight, was declawed in the front (no thanks, first owners), and had to be invited into rooms where we were sitting, like a little vampire. She slowly began to realize that all of this was hers. She wasput on a diet, put on insulin twice a day, and we just dealt with her weird eyesight issues (she was farsighted, though I started to see cataracts creeping in at the end). We never quite solved her dandruff issue, but we got it to be much, much better (she wouldn't eat salmon oil or any other fish oil concentrate. We had to work with eggs, and she was on again/off again with them and mayonnaise). We loved watching her learn to love us and her new home. We were grateful for the time we had with her.
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This is Anna, but we called her Bitty. She liked it better.
She was beautiful. I’m happy she knew what love is. She’s your angel now. May she rest in peace. Thank you for sharing Bitty to us.
Thank you. She was a cutie. We still talk about her. We'll have other cats one day, but never another Bitty girl. She was one of a kind!
Thank you for taking very good care and loving Bitty
r/catfaceplant
Haha time to join another cat subreddit I didn't know existed
They will love your baby there!
Omg they look just like my baby
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Stop watching political commentary on TV. It's traumatizing your cat.
I don't blame you, kitty, I don't blame you.
Same, dude. Same.
Maybe he’s trying to beat the Blair Witch?
I can relate to sweet kitty.
I so feel this
I've been this cat before.
Funny little baby. So cute!
Me too, buddy, me too...
Me too girl
Same👏🤣
Lol looks like he’s on time out
I landed 2 in my RFY. Same thing, I spent a couple hours researching and comparing fountains. I stopped using them a few years ago because they all seemed designed back then to be impossible to clean. So when I heard they'd made a bunch of design changes that makes them wireless in a lot of cases, along with many of them (including the 2 I got) being dishwasher safe.
Black one showed up already and the big boy started using it right away as you can see. White ceramic one comes on Monday. Gonna text them both out for 2 weeks, clean each one, and depending on which works better and is easier to clean, that's the one I'll ultimately keep.
https://preview.redd.it/tza3md3uwq3g1.jpeg?width=1260&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49d9ed2d1678ef61f884d03dc076dfd172465e0e
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Cats do this just before dying.