# A Plague of Cats! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2018, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964 "2018-02-16T22:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/21 "2018-02-25T19:15:35Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Thank you for the updates. It sounds like they are settling in well. What type of litter are you using? Some adjustments of brand may help you with smell. Same deal with food. Using Tidy Cat, and smell is not an issue; just the amount of crap (literally) the two of them generate! I’m using two litter boxes, but the two cats pretty much share the one. I’m in contact with the possible owner of one of them via PawBoost. I can take Cat #1 (tentatively identified as “Sushi”) to Petco and see if she’s chipped, but I don’t have a pet carrier (not that big a deal; Petco’s nearby, I could run up, get a carrier, come back in about 15 minutes), and not too sure how “Sushi” would respond; I don’t want to terrorize/traumatize the poor thing. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/22 "2018-02-25T21:45:06Z")
You’re good people. What kind of food are you feeding? Generally, the better-quality the food, the less the poop. If corn is one of the first ingredients on the dry food bag labeling, it’s not quality food. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2018, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/23 "2018-02-25T21:50:44Z")
I have found certain brands of kibble and wet food ( plus treats) can make a cat more poopy than others. Experiment til you find the one that works for your cats. Good luck getting Sushi in the carrier. First timers freak the eff out. Ninja’d on the food. Oops. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/24 "2018-02-26T01:56:03Z")
Cat #1, aka “Sushi,” has been reunited with her people. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/25 "2018-02-26T04:29:54Z")
aww cool… going to keep #2 if no one claims him? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/26 "2018-02-26T04:39:13Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > aww cool… going to keep #2 if no one claims him? Debating it…but probably not. My hours are weird, and there’s occasional travel involved. So I hate to have to leave her for perhaps days on end all alone, or subject her to frequent moves/random people/strange homes. I have family (and friends of family) expressing an interest in taking her in, if the PawBoost website/FB page doesn’t pan out. I offered to kick in all food/supplies I’ve acquired to date, as well as pick up the cost of vaccinations & chipping, and to split the cost of spaying. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/27 "2018-02-26T04:45:40Z")
shh k ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/28 "2018-03-04T04:38:34Z")
Final Update: Cat #2 has been re-homed with a nice neighbor lady. She let me off on the vaccinations due to my supplying lots of “startup” in terms of pet supplies, but she said she’d take me up on my offer of going halfsies on the spaying. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/29 "2018-03-04T04:51:28Z")
Do you find you’re missing a little live being around? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/30 "2018-03-06T07:35:04Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Do you find you’re missing a little live being around? A little bit, yes. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/31 "2018-03-06T14:01:38Z")
I have a similar situation-except that these cats are feral. I’ve managed to gain a small measure of trust with the Tabby, he’ll hilariously run up the stairs and wait outside my door, then go running back down when I open it with some food. I can get within 3-4 feet of him without him freaking now. I put some grub out the other day, came back out to check-and saw a black one running away, who had gruffly pushed the tabby away and ate his food. Haven’t gotten within 30 feet of this one. I’d like to continue taming the Tabby, but I’m moving in a month. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/32 "2018-03-06T18:01:50Z")
> [@minor7flat5](#): > > A plague of cats? > > While visiting family in Brazil, I had the unfortunate opportunity of attending a funeral in Rio de Janeiro. The service was in an odd little place in a very urban setting, across the street from an enormous cemetery. After the service they simply carried the casket across the busy street into the cemetery. > > The weird part was the cats. > > It was largest cemetery I have ever seen, and I think there must have been a thousand house cats there, of all colors. They were sitting on top of the tombstones, curled up in corners, napping here and there. Everywhere I looked I saw house cats, for hundreds of yards. > > I have never seen so many cats in one place. Quite surreal. Excuse the hijack . . . what do that many cats in one place \*sound \*like? Do they meow at each other? At the humans? The most cats I’ve been around is maybe 8, at Hemingway House, and IIRC they really didn’t say much, to me or each other. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/33 "2018-03-06T18:07:44Z")
I go and volunteer at the Cathouse ( no, don’t think THAT) At feeding time it’s pretty loud. There’s always some one purring or meowing at other times. There are a few meowers who are obviously talking to people. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964/34 "2018-03-06T20:34:05Z")
**ExTank** , I’m so glad you took care of these kitties, and it’s so kind of you to help with spaying the second one. > [@John\_DiFool](#): > > I have a similar situation-except that these cats are feral. I’ve managed to gain a small measure of trust with the Tabby, he’ll hilariously run up the stairs and wait outside my door, then go running back down when I open it with some food. I can get within 3-4 feet of him without him freaking now. > > I put some grub out the other day, came back out to check-and saw a black one running away, who had gruffly pushed the tabby away and ate his food. Haven’t gotten within 30 feet of this one. I’d like to continue taming the Tabby, but I’m moving in a month. Could you borrow a trap from a rescue group? It sounds like he has taming potential, and with being somewhat friendly, I worry that the people who move into your house might see him as a nuisance and hurt him. If you can’t take him, maybe the rescue group would. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-plague-of-cats/808964.md?page=1)