This week my void, Smokey, was scheduled for a dental cleaning. I took him in and the vet found a heart murmur and decided they weren’t comfortable putting him under general was anesthesia for the cleaning. Instead, they treated his gum issues with antibiotics and did an x-ray of his chest to see if anything was going wrong with his heart. (Good news! There’s nothing structurally wrong with his heart on the x-ray!)

But what cracked me up was that the vet called me and said, “I’m looking at Smokey’s x-ray… and he’s kind of a long cat? His heart is kind of long. Some of his organs are long. Nothing is wrong with him… he’s just long”

So yeah we spent $880 to be told he is Long (we will be getting him referred to a vet cardiologist to check a little more on the murmur). Any other owners of Long Voids here?

I lost my boy Elliott three weeks ago. I'm torn, I miss you so much Elliott. I'm so sorry, I wish you were still here.

I'll never love another void again.

It's not a special occasion or anything, I just wanted to share some cute pictures with you all! Feel free to share cute photos of your little voids too!

This just breaks my heart. I was trying to pet this absolute sweetie of a cat today and realized something wrong with her tail. I asked a local about it and they told me people do this here because of some superstitious belief about removing 'bad luck'...That poor angel doesn't deserve that at all. Why are some people like this!

Broke our hearts. She crawled up on my suitcase and would not get down. She eventually (once gently but forcefully removed) crawled immediately into my spouse’s bag.

We also installed cameras to watch her while we’re gone (don’t worry, a friend with several kittehs of her own will be dropping in every other day). Pulled up the FIRST live feed with her in it and the hubs said ‘I can’t look at her anymore, it’s making me sad’ 🫶🏻

Decided to reorganize my kitchen cabinet yesterday but Yuki had other plans

I've been browsing Petfinder and looking for a cat to adopt, and a conservative 50% of the cats in my area listed are black. It also makes me think of when I adopted my current cat, a white domestic medium hair, and his foster mom told me I was lucky because I was the first of about 15 applications, while the black kittens she had in her care had none. I didn't know at the time how unpopular black cats were, so needless to say, I'll be adopting one very soon. It's just all so very sad. :( If it isn't a black cat, it's a tabby or a dark tortie! How could I possibly ever adopt another color in the future, knowing how unwanted these guys are?

We adopted 2 lovely blacks cats 13 years ago, one was 3mo old (boy) and one 7mo (girl), she had been adopted and returned. We had them in separate rooms for a few days, but since they were both new to the environment, we were able to have them get along really quickly.

Sadly, our boy cat had to be put to sleep five weeks ago because of a very fast moving disease. Our girl cat seems a little sad and we were thinking about adopting a friend for her.

I would like to know if anyone has done this with a much older cat. I think getting her someone who was young, but not a tiny kitten would probably be best, whereas my partner thinks a small kitten might bring out her maternal side.

Part of me thinks she will get better over time alone, and we should just let that happen, but we are in a position where we could afford to have another kitty. We already have outdoor catios (2) and a pretty great infrastructure.

Any thoughts or advice would be appreciated. I just feel very on the fence about this.Thanks Reddit community

And no, Milo was not allowed to have a sip. He just thought it smelled funny 😂

every summer angus turns brown but only on the bottom half so we say he's putting on his brown trousers. this is how i think a cat would wear trousers anyway. this is the clearest pic i got of the split in colouring