Daily Thoughts

[LilyBlueBBW]

Love how cat people are like “LOOK AT MY CAT!!!! ISN’T HE THE MOST PERFECT, BABIEST BABY ANGEL WHO HAS EVER EXISTED IN THE ENTIRE WORLD?!” And the cat is just sitting there chilling like “…oh, you’re talking about me?”.

Btw, it’s me I’m talking about. I am cat person.

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But seriously, look at his perfect lil face!

Your cat is absolutely adorable and he looks like a giant oreo. Where did you get him from? Was it a rescue or did you buy him from a seller on like craigslist? What is his name? How long have you had him for?

He's a cutie patootie and I hope that you get him lots of cute pet toys for christmas.

 

[Marceline]

Your cat is absolutely adorable and he looks like a giant oreo. Where did you get him from? Was it a rescue or did you buy him from a seller on like craigslist? What is his name? How long have you had him for?

He's a cutie patootie and I hope that you get him lots of cute pet toys for christmas.

His name is Finn! And his brother is Jake, so we’re all the Adventure Time crew hahaha. I’m really big on “adopt, don’t shop”, so I adopted both of them from an animal shelter in my hometown over four years ago. They were about 7-8 months old when I adopted them and they had been in the shelter for a couple months at that point. Which is so crazy to me that they were there for that long, because they are the best cats ever. The moment I met them I was in love and just knew I had to adopt them.

And, I’m really happy I did, because aside from them bringing so much happiness into my life, Finn probably would’ve passed away in the shelter. He had a pretty serious health condition when I adopted him that the shelter didn’t disclose. Whether they knowingly kept it from me or they just wasn’t aware of it, I don’t know. But he started presenting symptoms within a week of me adopting him and it was a pretty rare thing and it took me bringing him to multiple different vets before they figured out what was going on and did the surgery which definitely saved his life.

Spoiler: Kitty medical stuff

Basically, he had scar tissue almost completely covering up his urethra. The most common cause of this is when a litter of kittens are orphaned or abandoned by the mother while they’re still nursing and some of the litter mates will essentially “nurse” on each other. That causes scar tissue down there. The vet who finally properly diagnosed him told me that the majority of the time it goes undiagnosed and the kitten usually passes away early on because urinary blockages are incredibly fatal in cats. The only reason why he survived was because he had a tiny pinpoint in the scar tissue that allowed urine to pass through, so it wasn’t a complete blockage, but it still caused a lot of bladder issues.

All the other vets I had taken him to thought it was a bladder infection or urinary crystals that was causing his symptoms and was giving him medicine that wasn’t helping.

Thankfully, I did reach out to the shelter when the symptoms kept persisting and they paid for him to be brought to the only vet in my home state that specialized in cat urology, who was the only vet who immediately guessed that could be the issue. He was a wonderful vet and he performed a surgery to remove just the scar tissue (whereas from what I found out during the time, most other surgical vets would have probably just removed his entire parts which would have resulted in a life of medical issues).

Anyway, Finn hasn’t had any issues since, and I’m so happy that I adopted him, because I don’t know if many other people would have gone to the lengths I did to make sure he was okay.

Sorry for the novel, I absolutely love my cats and can talk about them all day!

Cat tax of both my babies cuddling:

 

[MarieElise]

Is the cute tax an ACF thing? Or like a Reddit thing? I've always wondered about that?
I've only ever heard it here, but there's a lot of internet culture stuff I missed out on, so that doesn't necessarily mean it's an ACF thing/ started here.

What's the history of cute tax?
(I'm aware that some of you here may have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about hahaha, but many will know too).

 

[Marceline]

Is the cat/ cute tax an ACF thing? Or like a Reddit thing? I've always wondered about that?
I've only ever heard it here, but there's lots of internet culture stuff I missed out on, so that doesn't necessarily mean it's an ACF thing.

Cat tax is definitely a general internet thing, and it is pretty common on Reddit! Because everyone wants to see cute cat pictures, especially if you’re talking about your cats hahaha.