so a random cat came into my backyard and wont leave. I was inside when i heard it calling out. It was raining so I let him in. Im going to take a picture of him and post it around I guess. dont have any catfood, and google search told me he might eat chicken. This cat hasnt eaten anything I gave him (bread, boiled chicken, meat). Now hes just lying in my room. His nails (claws?) are long as hell and he basically digs into anything. Any cat owners here? What should I feed this guy for now? Its too early to go buy cat food. He better not shit or piss anywhere ugh. I've never owned a cat so dunno what to do with him. Any help would be appreciated

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If he's more or less healthy looking then he's probably a neighbor's cat.  I'd ask around and see if he belongs to anyone.

why did you give a cat bread. try an apple next.

all cats are different, but most like milk and fish. no offense but I thought this was common knowledge! you can just buy a can of cat food btw, which is like 1-4 servings and not too expensive. a lot of cats will eat particularly tasty food even if they're not hungry, but if he's passed up chicken and meat(?) there's a good chance he doesn't need food. you should give him a bowl of water tho

and yeah ask around, and if it's none of your neighbors keep an eye out for missing cat posters/craigslists, let it go outside if it wants

all cats are different, but most like milk

don't feed cats milk

we don't give our cats milk but they try to steal it. it's the cat stereotype tho, milk, mice and fish.

If the cat wouldn't eat chicken then I doubt it wanted to eat and/or it is sick.  If it looks healthy then it probably had it's dinner at home then was just wandering about.  Cats really shouldn't be outdoors like that but just about everyone let's their cat wander freely so yeah just ask around.

yeah that cats prolly local and just walking around doing cat shit. I prefer cats if they're cool cats because a good cat isn't annoying as any dog. My brother's cats name is smokey, he loves smoking weed and scrapping with my brother's pitbull. My cat does the same thing she stays at the neighbors house half the time and fuck knows where else. she's about 15 years old in human years so most of the time she's just sprawled out under my front tire like she's waiting for me to accidentally hit the car in drive.

Also fun fact I did not know you could blow smoke into a dog's ear to get it high until yesterday.

Also fun fact I did not know you could blow smoke into a dog's ear to get it high until yesterday.

yeah fuck anyone who does this

it doesn't mean much, but it's supposed to reflect the stage of life the animal's in, based upon its average life span. I doubt it actually corresponds or anything but I wouldn't call it really stupid.

No its still stupid. Animal life cycles don't match up with human life cycles on any scale.  And different breeds have different life expectancies anyway so cut the bullshit and use real years.

I whole-heartedly concur.


I mean, you already have to know what the life-expectancy of the species is before you can even make a metric between the length of it's lifespan, and the length of regular human lifespans (which can change within just a few generations anyhow). So it's entirely pointless no matter how you look at it. Plus they aren't even "human-years" to begin with! They are and have always been "earth-years"! There is no point making any conversions unless you are trying to raise your cat on Jupiter and you are sending someone on earth photos of your cat's first "Jupiter-birthday" over the space-internet (I don't think cats can live that long, but maybe they will be able to by the time we as a civilization are able to raise cats on Jupiter)

But I'm only really against it in principle because I'm against anything that refers to any animal in human terms. (I'm a firm believer that every problem everyone has ever had with a pet is because of exactly that.)

man I'm an idiot. The cat wasnt male, and she was pregnant. I made it a shitty litter out of cardboard and newspapers and went to go find the owner. I did find him, he was a neighbor 8 houses down (he already had signs up). when we came back she had 4 little kittens around her. Me and the neighbhor talked for a bit (followed by some drinks) then it was time for them to leave. He asked me if I wanted one of the kittens, but I refused cus I have no idea how to take care of a cat ( nor the space? not sure). He did say that if I changed my mind over this week to visit him.
The only pet Ive owned in my life has been a gold fish, which was really easy to take care of. meh.

At the same time, I don't think a week is long enough to decide if you want a cat.  Pets are a big deal and it takes more than week to know if you want one and if you should have one and if you're prepared to have one.

yeah pregnant cats will do that, they try to find a cool, dark place to have their kittens.

idk what kind of space you have, if it's just a studio I'd say forget it but if you have multiple rooms that should be fine. cats are little expensive tho, and they want attention/play time every day.