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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 1h

Eevee got her first shot of FIP meds tonight because while we wait for labs to come back, she was running out of time, and we couldn’t just stand there and watch without throwing anything at her that made sense to try. I am not okay and I won’t be until she is okay.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 1h

Maybe this experience can be taken as a sign that you and your family are ready to have a new member join you, either as an adoption or maybe even a foster who could benefit from your care and love while they wait for their own forever home. Someone to share the love Greta left for you.

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Toasttocin (LittleBitsOfFluff) @toasttocin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So yesterday this little guy appeared on my porch. Had to be dumped since there are no new adults in the neighborhood. Trapped him last night, he was neutered today at the TNVR clinic. No ear tip since he is a foster. We are calling him Mork. He is a bit spicy. realcruzancats.org #catsofbluesky

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 1h

Toast, his frickin’ EARS 😭 I’m in love

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 4h

The color blending on this faux fur is -insaaaane- 😍

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Papas Place For FIV+ Cats @papasplace.bsky.social · 5h

Imagine starting your life out behind one of the Dollar General dumpsters. A kind stranger loads you & your family into a box to spirit you away to safety. You can read more about our newest foster kitties here : ko-fi.com/post/DG-kitt... #Cats #CatBoxSunday #Kittens #CatsOfBluesky #AdoptDontShop

Mama Louise & her kittens getting settled in at Papas Place

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 5h

Oh my god ;-; that’s so much time, I hope he had foster homes in that time and wasn’t just in a kennel 😭 what a good human for taking him home

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 12h

When the neighborhood bully meets the real OG . 🤣

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

She’s going to do so, so well, she was very brave and you guys did an amazing job from the scared and shut down kitten she started as. 😭❤️ Thank you as always for doing the hard work.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

Here he is playing with toys for maybe the first time in his life!

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

She is almost the last Final Fantasy colony cat— Cid is the only one from that expansive colony still waiting for his forever after. You can see him and apply here (look at that face! He is super special and cool!): www.petfinder.com/cat/cid-f05c...

petfinder.com

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

There’s a cat for everyone, and every cat has its day, and for Elena, today was that day. She has been in the rescue for just over 1 year, and even was adopted and returned once (the original person adopted two cats then decided they could only handle one). But today, it was a perfect match!

Elena, a brown tabby cat, enjoys pets from her new family at the adoption center.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

It’s funny because animals were eating *humans* before humans ever learned to eat them back! Early hominids were primarily foragers before the advent of tools for hunting.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

/looks at the shelter full of cats who have been sitting with no demand /looks at colonies still full of kittens /laughs bitterly

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

FWIW, there are a few small, independent places that do sell real prey diets for cats— things like rabbit, mouse, quail-based foods. Most are sold as raw foods & rarely as a complete diet so they also sell a supplement powder to add, but if one really wants to feed biological cat diets, they can.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

Yeah rats and Great Danes are right up there in Reasons I Will Never Have One because cats lives are short enough ;—-;

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 9h

Adding on to your fun fact, rodents and lagomorphs will chew on bones and antlers because it’s a great source of readily available calcium and trace minerals, as well as a good material to wear down their teeth on (because they constantly grow and need to be “filed” down naturally as they forage)!

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 10h

All the vegans I know are extremely normal about this and it’s only when it comes up online do I see all the misinformation and people that just want to argue (bad, wrong) hypotheticals.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 15h

Bunnies are wonderful! I’ve always found the actual space needed and special housing requirements bunnies appreciate to be more daunting, so I offered rats as a very overlooked and affectionate companion species 🥰 But responsible & knowledgeable bun-havers are so cool!

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 17h

There’s a lot of ways to reduce your impact and still give your cat a proper, healthy meat-based diet. But if that is still crossing a line for you, may I suggest rats as an alternative, amazing pet who can thrive on a plant-based diet! They are so smart, clean, and social!

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 17h

There are literally so many peer-reviewed papers on this. This is not opinion this is a biological fact. There are so many cool vegans who still understand that their cats cannot choose to remove themselves from the food chain, eating meat isn’t an ethical choice they can make. Hannah Shaw is one!

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 17h

The fact there are people —who have cats in their pfp— arguing about this in this thread is taking me out. It’s not just taurine supplementation. All of a cat’s biology evolved to convert meat into complex vitamins & proteins, & they don’t have the enzymes needed to process plant/synthetic sources.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Just a random congenital quirk! Nothing to worry about and just a unique little addition.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

It definitely will be! She is wonderful.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

The kittens were sent on without her because they were constantly demanding to nurse from her even when they didn’t need to & she couldn’t get away from them in the small space I had available for them all. That stress is what contributed to her sudden illness, so it was better for her they left.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Yes certainly they do when they lose their kittens young, but there is usually a natural time of parting between mamas and their kittens after weaning time. They are old enough now to be independent of her and she doesn’t show any signs of missing them— she is much less stressed without them.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Until she’s fully recovered she’s just hanging out in my office b/c of quarantine. She really wants to be with people. She hates the kennel. All our fosters are full with young adults & kittens, so we’re grateful our partner had room for her & her beebs. Another cool fact- she has a bisected nipple!

Mama Rainy, a grey tabby cat with white feet and a white belly. She is laying on her back with her feet in the air while getting pets.

A slightly blurry picture trying to show off Rainy’s supernumerary nipple with its two little nubs.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

I wish she could stay with our rescue but we are just so full right now, it’s hard to give her the attention she craves and already have SO many other cats and kittens needing homes (most of the kittens haven’t even been listed yet because they’ve not been ready). She’s going to be someone’s girl.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

She is doing much better today after we cut her food way back and changed to a bland diet that was more similar to the stuff she would have been foraging for the last several months after being dumped (plain chicken breast though instead of cold chicken wings and squirrels). She’ll move on soon, too

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Mama Rainy is soaking up some attention for herself now that her little ones went off to our partner rescue for their next chapters. Rainy developed an acute case of GI distress, probably pancreatitis, probably from the stress of having kittens demanding milk & too much new nutrition too soon.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

I think because she is still eating some amounts and not actually vomiting, they felt an e-tube was not necessary (on the last GI cat they put one in anyway and it ended up being such a waste because he worked it out after one day and didn’t really need it anyway as he was eating on his own without)

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Yes I don’t know why so many vets are so reluctant to just start them, days could be the difference between life and death, and if it’s not FIP, you just rule it out and move on to the next thing. It’s so frustrating.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is him the other day when his sister Freya smushed him

A white and grey and black tabby cat being smushed by his little sister, a fluffy grey cat named Freya, who is sitting directly on top of him. Theo does not seem to mind though.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Yes, she has been tested a couple of times over the course of her GI problems for tritrich (and other pathogens). I believe they did send out another fecal PCR either way along with everything else to IDEXX.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

But what else is there, really, without an actual diagnosis, so we wait, and wait, and hope her appetite improves and that we have time.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

I find myself trying to be patient and just wait for the results which is difficult because the natural desire is to just start trying to Fix It and when you spend several thousand dollars, it’s hard to think you just go home with a cerenia shot & nothing else to help her feel better while we wait.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

(Which they didn’t give us any of anyway, not even metronidazole or sucralfate to try to address some of the inflammation present on her ultrasound).

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

(Eevee**, her adoptive name is Ezri, sorry for the confusion). Her vet doesn’t want us to start the FIP meds until the other results come in which is a little frustrating, because there’s no risk to starting it— if it’s not FIP, it will just not do anything, it doesn’t interfere with other meds.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

Ezri is home from UPenn, they did lots of diagnostics, fluid samples, biopsies, sent everything out to labs, but are no closer to answers for why she’s sick until the advanced results come back next week. She got anti-nausea meds to encourage her to eat anything but is otherwise the same. So we wait

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 03/10/2026

We have so many good young adult cats who have been waiting for over a year because they just don’t do well at busy adoption centers. Ferrari here was even at a local Petsmart for four weeks and not a single application for her 😭 if you’re nearish Elkton, MD, check out our cats: bit.ly/4cOmi21

Ferrari, a brown tabby cat with cute round cheeks and yellow eyes.

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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A plea to all you wonderful folks who are thinking to adopt (not buy) a dog or cat… The shelters are FILLED with animals who’ve been surrendered. Yesterday they had a bed and a family and now they are confused and terrified through no fault of their own. Consider giving them a next chapter.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 02/10/2026

I love how -thick- and fleshy he is, and his incredible lips! All these wonderful details that make him feel like a living, breathing creature and not just a flensed movie monster.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 02/10/2026

Man these skeletons are just intensely menacing head-on. Phew.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 02/10/2026

It actually makes a lot of sense for a Rex to have this structure without any shearing premolars or incisors, he’s basically just build for crushing and tearing big sections of flesh (or just throwing back whole prey like a very large lizard-eagle)

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 02/10/2026

It’s actually way more safe this way! These guys are swallowing whole prey animals without teeth to grind or shear smaller pieces, and if the trachea entrance was further back like in most mammals, they would run the risk of blocking it & choking. The glottis puts the air hole in front of the danger

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 01/10/2026

That’s really odd, I’m sorry to hear that. I couldn’t speculate as to why as they work on mine and one of our fosters’ android plus my windows desktop. ;-;

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