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**Author:** [@Kate](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/Kate)\ **Replies:** 0
Share your cat story with our Cat Community for a chance to get featured on our social media! --- ## [The Hair Tie That Nearly Cost Us Our Cat: A Blockage Story](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-hair-tie-that-nearly-cost-us-our-cat-a-blockage-story/3706)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 14, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-hair-tie-that-nearly-cost-us-our-cat-a-blockage-story/3706 "2026-10-14T02:09:29Z")
Our cat Pepper swallowed a hair tie, and for two days we told ourselves it was an upset stomach. It took an X-ray, an ultrasound and abdominal surgery to get it out. Here’s what the warning signs actually looked like,… --- ## [The Night Our Cat Couldn't Pee: A Urinary Blockage Story](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-night-our-cat-couldnt-pee-a-urinary-blockage-story/3695)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 9, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-night-our-cat-couldnt-pee-a-urinary-blockage-story/3695 "2026-10-09T02:10:06Z")
Our cat Milo spent a whole evening going in and out of the litter box, and we thought he was constipated. He wasn’t. His urethra was blocked, and by the time we got him to the emergency vet he was hours from a crisis.… --- ## [Our Cat and Our Rescue Dog: Eleven Weeks to Sharing the Couch](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/our-cat-and-our-rescue-dog-eleven-weeks-to-sharing-the-couch/3686)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 4, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/our-cat-and-our-rescue-dog-eleven-weeks-to-sharing-the-couch/3686 "2026-10-04T02:09:03Z")
For eleven weeks, our cat Pepper treated our new rescue dog like a piece of furniture she’d decided to hate. Then one wet Sunday afternoon she climbed onto the couch and curled up against his back. Here is how we got … --- ## [The Cat Who Beat Cancer at Nine — And What Came After](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-beat-cancer-at-nine-and-what-came-after/3673)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-beat-cancer-at-nine-and-what-came-after/3673 "2026-09-28T02:13:32Z")
I found the lump by accident, running my hand down my cat Otis’s side while he dozed in a patch of sun. Pea-sized, firm, just under the skin near his back leg. He was nine. Two years and one very hard year of treatmen… --- ## [The Barn Cat Who Decided She Wanted to Be a House Cat](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-barn-cat-who-decided-she-wanted-to-be-a-house-cat/3670)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-barn-cat-who-decided-she-wanted-to-be-a-house-cat/3670 "2026-09-27T02:13:04Z")
Marge had lived in the hay barn for six years before she ever set a paw inside our house. She showed up as a half-grown stray the first winter we owned the property, and the deal was simple and unspoken: she kept the … --- ## [The Black Cat Everyone Passed Over for Eight Months](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-black-cat-everyone-passed-over-for-eight-months/3659)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-black-cat-everyone-passed-over-for-eight-months/3659 "2026-09-22T02:10:56Z")
She’d been at the shelter longer than any other cat on the adult floor — eight months, through two adoption events and a holiday push that cleared out almost every other kennel. Volunteers knew her by name. Visitors w… --- ## [The Cat Who Wouldn't Let Us Touch Her for a Year](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-wouldnt-let-us-touch-her-for-a-year/3650)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-wouldnt-let-us-touch-her-for-a-year/3650 "2026-09-18T02:08:58Z")
She lived under our bed for the first four months. Not hiding-when-scared under the bed — living there. Eating there, using a litter box we slid in and out on a cookie sheet, watching our ankles go by from the dark. W… --- ## [The Cat Who Wouldn't Stop Meowing at 4 AM — Until We Found Out Why](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-wouldnt-stop-meowing-at-4-am-until-we-found-out-why/3647)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-wouldnt-stop-meowing-at-4-am-until-we-found-out-why/3647 "2026-09-17T02:07:00Z")
For three weeks, our twelve-year-old cat Mabel turned 4 a.m. into a full-volume opera, and no amount of feeding her earlier, playing with her harder, or burying our heads under pillows made it stop. It took a vet visi… --- ## [The Summer Our Diabetic Cat Learned to Love Insulin Shots](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-summer-our-diabetic-cat-learned-to-love-insulin-shots/3634)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 11, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-summer-our-diabetic-cat-learned-to-love-insulin-shots/3634 "2026-09-11T02:06:42Z")
Our cat Pepper was diagnosed with diabetes on a Tuesday, and by Thursday I’d cried in the pharmacy parking lot over a box of insulin needles. Six months later, I could draw up a dose and give the shot in under ten sec… --- ## [The Two Kittens We Bottle-Fed Through the Night](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-two-kittens-we-bottle-fed-through-the-night/3630)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-two-kittens-we-bottle-fed-through-the-night/3630 "2026-09-09T02:07:39Z")
Two of them fit in one cupped hand. Eyes still sealed shut, barely bigger than mice, found in a cardboard box behind an auto parts store with no mother in sight. That’s how Waffle and Pretzel came into our lives — and… --- ## [The Cat We Almost Left Behind: Our Wildfire Evacuation Story](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-we-almost-left-behind-our-wildfire-evacuation-story/3618)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 3, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-we-almost-left-behind-our-wildfire-evacuation-story/3618 "2026-09-03T02:06:36Z")
We had eleven minutes. That’s what the reverse-911 call said when it woke us up at 2 a.m. in August: mandatory evacuation, fire moving fast, leave now. My husband grabbed the go-bag we’d never actually packed. I ran f… --- ## [The FIV-Positive Cat Everyone Told Us Not to Adopt](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-fiv-positive-cat-everyone-told-us-not-to-adopt/3608)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 29, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-fiv-positive-cat-everyone-told-us-not-to-adopt/3608 "2026-08-29T02:07:49Z")
The rescue coordinator said it gently, but she said it clearly: “Just so you know, he’s FIV-positive. A lot of people walk away when they hear that.” We didn’t walk away. Five years later, that cat is asleep on my des… --- ## [Two Cats, Six Months of Hissing: How They Became Friends](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/two-cats-six-months-of-hissing-how-they-became-friends/3594)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/two-cats-six-months-of-hissing-how-they-became-friends/3594 "2026-08-24T02:10:14Z")
For six months, our apartment had an invisible line down the middle of it. Mabel, our three-year-old tabby, owned the living room. Otis, the kitten we’d brought home in a fit of “she needs a friend,” was exiled to the… --- ## [The Cat Who Stopped Eating When We Brought the Baby Home](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-stopped-eating-when-we-brought-the-baby-home/3587)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-stopped-eating-when-we-brought-the-baby-home/3587 "2026-08-21T02:06:32Z")
Marmalade had never turned down food in six years. Then we brought our daughter home from the hospital, and for two days straight, he wouldn’t touch his bowl. That’s the short version. The longer version is what taugh… --- ## [The Cat Who Wouldn't Leave My Side — And Turned Out to Be Right](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-wouldnt-leave-my-side-and-turned-out-to-be-right/3573)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-wouldnt-leave-my-side-and-turned-out-to-be-right/3573 "2026-08-14T02:10:52Z")
Gus started sleeping on my stomach the week before I ended up in the ER. Not next to me — on me, pressed flat against my abdomen every night for six nights straight, which he had never done in four years of otherwise … --- ## [The Kitten Who Wasn't Supposed to Survive](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-kitten-who-wasnt-supposed-to-survive/3572)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-kitten-who-wasnt-supposed-to-survive/3572 "2026-08-13T02:08:15Z")
She weighed 62 grams. The vet tech who took her from me didn’t say anything encouraging — she just said “okay” in the flat, focused voice of someone doing math in her head. Four days old, eyes still sealed shut, found… --- ## [The Cat Who Hid for Three Weeks After We Moved Cross-Country](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-hid-for-three-weeks-after-we-moved-cross-country/3555)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 5, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-hid-for-three-weeks-after-we-moved-cross-country/3555 "2026-08-05T02:07:07Z")
Our cat Mochi didn’t come out from under the guest bed for three weeks after we moved from Chicago to Denver. Not for food left six inches from her face. Not for the sound of the can opener, which had never once faile… --- ## [Why Our Cat Stopped Using the Litter Box (And What We Learned)](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/why-our-cat-stopped-using-the-litter-box-and-what-we-learned/3550)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/why-our-cat-stopped-using-the-litter-box-and-what-we-learned/3550 "2026-08-02T02:07:46Z")
Our cat Mabel had used the same litter box without incident for four years. Then, over the course of about two weeks, she stopped — not gradually, but almost overnight, choosing the bath mat, a pile of laundry, once m… --- ## [Rehoming Grandma's Cat: How We Helped Him Grieve and Adjust](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/rehoming-grandmas-cat-how-we-helped-him-grieve-and-adjust/3540)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 28, 2026, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/rehoming-grandmas-cat-how-we-helped-him-grieve-and-adjust/3540 "2026-07-28T02:11:26Z")
My grandmother’s cat, a fourteen-year-old orange tabby named Whiskey, spent his first three days with us hiding behind the water heater. He didn’t eat. He barely drank. When I reached back to check on him, he pressed … --- ## [How My Grumpy Senior Cat Became a Foster Mom to an Orphaned Kitten](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/how-my-grumpy-senior-cat-became-a-foster-mom-to-an-orphaned-kitten/3528)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 22, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/how-my-grumpy-senior-cat-became-a-foster-mom-to-an-orphaned-kitten/3528 "2026-07-22T02:07:11Z")
My 14-year-old cat Winnie has never liked anyone. Not me, most days — she tolerates me. So when a foster coordinator called asking if I could take a four-week-old orphaned kitten for a few weeks, my honest first thoug… --- ## [The Cat Who Weighed 23 Pounds: Our Weight-Loss Story](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-weighed-23-pounds-our-weight-loss-story/3517)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 17, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-who-weighed-23-pounds-our-weight-loss-story/3517 "2026-07-17T02:07:29Z")
Our cat Otis weighed 23 pounds at his heaviest — nearly three times what a cat his frame should carry. This is the story of how we let it happen without noticing, what finally made us pay attention, and what a year of… --- ## [The Morning Our Cat Went Blind: Adjusting a Home Overnight](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-morning-our-cat-went-blind-adjusting-a-home-overnight/3516)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 16, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-morning-our-cat-went-blind-adjusting-a-home-overnight/3516 "2026-07-16T02:06:43Z")
Our cat Pepper went blind overnight, and for the first few days I was more scared than she was. She was twelve, healthy as far as we knew, and one evening she was chasing a moth across the living room. The next mornin… --- ## [The Cat We Thought Was 'Just Grumpy' Was Actually in Pain](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-we-thought-was-just-grumpy-was-actually-in-pain/3514)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 15, 2026, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-we-thought-was-just-grumpy-was-actually-in-pain/3514 "2026-07-15T02:08:00Z")
For two years, the story around our cat was simple: she was just grumpy. She hissed if you reached for her too fast, she’d swat if you tried to pick her up, and she’d disappeared under the bed the moment guests arrive… --- ## [The Three-Legged Cat Who Never Slowed Down: A Recovery Story](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-three-legged-cat-who-never-slowed-down-a-recovery-story/3503)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 10, 2026, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-three-legged-cat-who-never-slowed-down-a-recovery-story/3503 "2026-07-10T02:13:44Z")
Three weeks after the amputation, our vet warned us not to expect too much. Six weeks after, she was back up on the kitchen counter — the exact spot we’d spent a year training her to stay off of. Cats don’t read the r… --- ## [Missing for Three Weeks: How We Got Ziggy Back](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/missing-for-three-weeks-how-we-got-ziggy-back/3499)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 8, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/missing-for-three-weeks-how-we-got-ziggy-back/3499 "2026-07-08T02:07:37Z")
Ziggy went out the back door on a Tuesday evening in October and didn’t come home. Not that night, not the next morning, not after a week of flyers taped to every lamppost within half a mile. By day twelve, most of my… --- ## [Eighteen Months of Silence: The Rescue Cat Who Found Her Voice](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/eighteen-months-of-silence-the-rescue-cat-who-found-her-voice/3482)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 30, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/eighteen-months-of-silence-the-rescue-cat-who-found-her-voice/3482 "2026-06-30T02:14:37Z")
I found Sable wedged against the back corner of her kennel at the city shelter, as far from the door as the space would allow. She wasn’t hissing. She wasn’t swatting. She was just there, watching me with enormous amb… --- ## [The Senior Cat Nobody Wanted: Why I'm Glad I Changed My Mind](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-senior-cat-nobody-wanted-why-im-glad-i-changed-my-mind/3456)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2026, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-senior-cat-nobody-wanted-why-im-glad-i-changed-my-mind/3456 "2026-06-17T02:17:31Z")
I almost didn’t adopt Chester. He was nine years old, orange and white, slightly overweight, and had been at the shelter for four months. Everyone who worked there loved him — he’d park himself at the front of his ken… --- ## [The Cat I Almost Gave Up On (And Why I Didn't)](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-i-almost-gave-up-on-and-why-i-didnt/3447)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2026, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/the-cat-i-almost-gave-up-on-and-why-i-didnt/3447 "2026-06-12T02:15:14Z")
I adopted Magpie on a Wednesday in February, and by Friday I was Googling “how long does it take a rescue cat to adjust” at 2am, wondering if I’d made a terrible mistake. She hadn’t eaten. She hadn’t moved from behin… --- ## [From Feral to Family: Six Months Taming a Wild Kitten](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/from-feral-to-family-six-months-taming-a-wild-kitten/3445)
**Author:** [@CatLady6](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/u/CatLady6)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 11, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/t/from-feral-to-family-six-months-taming-a-wild-kitten/3445 "2026-06-11T02:18:34Z")
We found Mochi behind our garbage bins in October — maybe six weeks old, maybe seven, feral-born, and absolutely furious about the situation. She would spit and lunge at anything that came within arm’s reach. My partn… [Next page](https://forum.oscillotamerica.com/c/cat-stories/13.md?page=1)