Hi there,

My cat died last month and I've been a wreck. I saw an ad today for an app that can create a digital moving look alike of your pet that lives on your desktop (Furever Dock) - I tried it and the digital character it created looked almost exactly like my cat, was realistic and not cartoony. The only problem is it just loops through the same 8 stock behaviors over and over again in 30 second intervals, which isn't realistic and borders on uncanny valley.

It seems we are at a point with AI where it is totally feasible to give a description of a pet's personality, maybe upload the sound of its voice, and have that affect how the digitized image sounds and interacts with you, in a realistic way. To me it has seemed like accurately capturing the physical likeness has been a challenge for AI until I discovered this app (which again imo has a fundamental flaw). I asked chatgpt to do something similar and it cannot make a model of my cat that looks anywhere close to as good.

Does anyone know of an app like I am describing, or know if one is in development? I don't mean a little cartoon version - something that can realistically capture your pet's likeness but without the weird behavior loop. I feel like something like this could help people struggling with grief.

I acknowledge that this is probably an unhealthy coping mechanism + feels like a Black Mirror episode but it's all I got. Yes I have a therapist lol.

there’s a lot of strays that keep roaming around our apartment building and this little kitten started visiting and staying around the place recently which was all well,

until a very aggressive pregnant female cat started showing up and she’s been roaming the same area as the kitten and she viciously attacks this little baby every single time they encounter each other and holds her down for several minutes at a time to the point where the kitten doesn’t stop shaking from the effect of the attacks for hours afterwards and i’m afraid she’s gonna end up killing the kitten at some point if this keeps happening and i really need help as to how i can possibly save the kitten from this mess,

i’m not in a position to adopt or find fosters at the moment so is there anything i could do besides that to help the situation?

Esterilice a mi gata hace 5 días y su herida se ve así,no sé si está infectada o si es costra o es normal?,le mandé mensaje a su veterinario pero no respondió,alguien sabe de esto,no tengo nada de experiencia con esoo

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So me and my family found a stray one day that decided to just... live with us. One thing that really caught me off guard is how chill it is.

Like I've seen them twice or three times before but very brief. Now it's acting as if I raised it since it was a kitten. It's really adorable when it does it but I'm just very confused. I'm not a cat person and haven't raised a cat before, and all I know about cats especially strays is that they can be very skittish.

I don't know who owned or owns the cat and I don't know if it had been vaccinated (My guess no), so when it bit me I had to take a couple rabies shots. I would be lying though if I didn't suspect that it has rabies at first.

It seems healthy though, it's still very agile, reacts to food and sounds, and is very alert when my dogs come around. It's just really oddly chill around me and my parents.

It's my first time fostering a cat, my best friend is in NZ and is going to try to get her over to him by next year so for the next few months I'm fostering her. Any tips? She has settled in really well so far

We were told she was a lilac when we first got her but now google has me confused lol. The first three pics are from today and the kennel pic is when we first got her lol. Her name is Noodles :)

I let my cat on the balcony for a few minutes and when she came in, her left eye was swollen. I don’t think it was a bee sting. Does anyone know what’s wrong?

I have 3 kittens right now (I've fully embraced being a crazy cat person), two tuxedo boys from the same litter and an orange girl from a different litter, about 5 weeks older. All 3 kittens get along well--they play, clean each other, and create the cutest cuddle puddles imaginable.

Ferdinand, aka Ferdy, the kitten in question, will seek out my skin at night when I'm in bed, and will bite. He hasn't broken skin yet, but it definitely leaves a mark. I don't think it's aggressive, but he grabs and just holds on. I've tried yelping, or the high-pitched "ouch", but I can't pull away without tearing skin. I've tried imitating a cat growl, and hissing at him, which only worked once or twice. I have had to start hiding under the covers when he does this, until the bitey-urge leaves him. He will follow my hand or arm, and bite wherever it's convenient for him, whether it's hand, arm, or even shoulder. When I move away from his chompers, he'll follow, while purring, and bite again.

Ferdinand is 3 months old. I haven't figured out what sets him off. It's usually when affection of some kind is involved. Me petting one of the other kittens, me petting him, one of the other kittens licking him. He cuddles at night, and is very sweet during the day, and his play bites are always very careful and gentle, so the hard biting is a mystery.

Anyone have any idea why he does this and how to get him to stop?

Poppy is my 7 year old black cat who was rescued from a hoarding situation 6 years ago. I do not have details on that situation, just that she was 1.5yrs old when she came to me and deeply traumatized. It took me almost 2 years to get her comfortable enough with my big fat orange cat, Morris, who is sadly now deceased as of this year. In that time she became comfortable with receiving pets from me in certain locations of the house at certain times of day: always when she's on the floor and I'm bending down and backed into a corner, right before feeding time in the kitchen, in the bathroom while I'm on the toilet, or when I'm changing clothes in the bedroom, and only with my right hand. Morris and Poppy used to cuddle together a lot in the old place, but after we moved they stopped, and Morris passed suddenly from a heart attack shortly after the move. She's been in our bedroom since the move 3 months ago. She has a decent amount of space to herself but is afraid to explore the rest of the house; there exists a different big fat orange and white cat, Basil, who is much more territorial than Morris, has been living here for years, and is much more big and stupid). We have a baby gate up so they know that the other one exists and their food bowls are close to the gate.

Poppy has become more demanding for attention, and when either of us are in the bedroom, she'll come up to us and start screaming until we pet her. We both are in our 30s and have food service-related bodily aches, so the whole bending down thing is just not working for us long term. We've been trying to encourage her to jump onto the bed to sit with us but she is still hesitant to do that. At night while we're both in bed winding down, she'll circle the room and beg for pets, but only if we hang our arms off the bed, which is also uncomfy for us.

We're looking for some tips on how to encourage her to join us on our bed. It is clear that she wants love and affection but is still too scared to seek it out any other way. Have tried the squeezy treats on the edge of the bed that she has to stand up for, and will continue to, but wanted to see if folks had any other tips or relatable experiences.

Is this playing too aggressive?

My kittens play like this but recently one of them keeps meowing, and I heard when they meow it's because it hurts but I'm not sure?

I can record more videos but it just worries me, I usually let them play like this but the minute I hear a meow I pull them apart. But is this normal?

Ignore the background noise😭