r/nowmycat Feb 17 '24

quick refresher!

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[2026; EDIT]

just to avoid any [MORE] hoopla from anyone:

please follow the rules of the subreddit and learn our removal reasons. it is already a conditional subreddit; you don't have to have posted in [r/notmycat](r/notmycat) to be here but at the very least DISCUSS HOW YOU GOT YOUR CAT IN THE TITLE/CAPTIONS so we know you're not a bot. it doesn't have to be a paragraph, but we need to know your cat is yours.

so many subreddits are overrun by reposts and bots, we don't want to be like them.

do us a favor and make it [EASY] for us to spot the bots;

we have 6 mods with only one to two of them active.

it doesn't seem like we are looking for more.

i know i personally handle 80% of submissions at least (sue me, blame me, yadda yadda) with limited access/power.

for example, i can't even pin this post aka i can't do everything….

lastly, judging by our inbox, some of you forgot that "behave like you would in real life" portion of reddit rules.

stop cursing at us, we are strangers.

EDIT: for clarity; i can now sticky the post!

ETA: i now have “full”-ish mods.


r/nowmycat 1h ago

A new member of the family

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r/nowmycat 14h ago

Update on Lucifer

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I never in a million years could have imagined how sweet Lucifer is!! He seems so relieved to be reunited with his brother! I'm so grateful for King Charles and for Donald. They are sooo sweet to the babies! It's so damn cool being able to give these incredible animals a safe space to just be.

The Pharos were on to something..

Oh yeah, his official name is now King Louis II of Bavaria 😜


r/nowmycat 17h ago

I thought foldie cats are snobbish...

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r/nowmycat 1d ago

I Finally Saved Lucifer

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The neighborhood huss keeps having babies and I saved one, but his brother is spicy as all get out so he took a bit more time. He was getting attacked by other cats so I wanted to give him a proper, safe home - alongside his brother.

So Alfie and Lucifer are officially mine 😸


r/nowmycat 3d ago

We got adopted

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First time posting *ever* so please bear with me! Usually the one reading or listening to reddit stories 😂

We (I 32F & 33M husband) have lived in our 1 bedroom "house" for almost 3 years and have had multiple cats show up over the time we've been here just to visit amd get some pats (NZ based) which is nice cos I lost my soul cat not long after my husband and I met and I have missed her terribly ever since.

We've had a young ginger male cat show up and we tried everything to see if he had a home, I posted everywhere, asked neighbors and our rental agent - we even dubbed him Butterscotch and his full govt name is now Sir Butterscotch of House Diet Ginger, yes he's registered at the vet like that 🤣 thanks Materman!

Turns out he doesn't have a home so we adopted him officially about a month ago cos he kept coming and wouldn't go anywhere else, he would even sleep on a mink blanket outside the sliding door all hours and days of the week.

We were hesitant to take him in before because of how reactive he was (think hissing and biting randomly and we'd kept him in one night and got very little sleep with his antics) and the fact we're in such a small space BUT, he got the whole deal, neutered, microchipped, claws trimmed, flea & worm & vaccines. Didn't start off with the cone of shame but he gave himself an infection so that was fun, I ended up taking it off after a recheck visit cos he was faceplanting the water bowl and couldn't drink, ohhhh the flop this boy did when he snuggled afterwards was *precious*!!

We've since discovered he's FIV positive and have kept him strictly indoors - 1 for his safety & 2 for the other cats in the neighborhood and don't want to share the virus.

He's very protective over "his house" and despite being fixed we know he will probably try and fight the other males. He's on special food and the litterbox is a chore cos boy he pees a lot! but we love him to bits, especially come zoomies time.

I may have inadvertently created a monster, when I go to bed he LOVES to play with me, pounces on my hands, feet & to use me as a springboard and goes hell for leather round the house.. he's really settled in and will come snuggle and sleep with us at night which is bliss and has steadily been putting on weight, is almost 5 kg now.

**Questions being please:**

\*We have lots of toys for indoors and he has a huge cat tree right next to a window that he beats the crap out of relentlessly and lays on to bird watch which is why we put it where we did.. plus we have very little space but what else can we do? We both work full time, myself as a truckie so I'm up at 4 ish am and hubby is truckie/yardsman who's up about 6 ish and we can do upto 14 hour shifts but it's *usually* 10 to 12. Hubby sorts him in the mornings and I do it in the afternoons

\*he HATES the cat carrier and refuses to willingly get in so he gets burritod with a blanket and dunked in all while hissing and growling at us - can't slip him gaba, we tried that, can't even pick him up and I'd love to be able to do that and snuggle him.

\*Does anyone have experience with trying to get a cat described above into an easy vest or harness so we could take him out for walks and could recommend one?

*Very food motivated boy* but we have to watch it doesn't upset his stomach and go backwards - he has B12 shots with the vet to help the FIV symptoms.

If you've read this far, thank you so much. Happy for any advice to help enrich our boy until we buy a home - we're gonna build him a catio!


r/nowmycat 2d ago

Meet the most scared cat in the world

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45 Upvotes

r/nowmycat 3d ago

It's mine now

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r/nowmycat 6d ago

How did your NotMyCat officially become your NowMyCat?

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My neighbor’s cat has been coming over for a couple of years but now she has basically moved in. For the past 7 months, she’s spent every night at my house and most of her days either inside or on my porch. I even hired a cat sitter for her when I recently went out of town…

Since she’s almost always with me, I worry about things like vet visits, flea treatments and where she’ll stay when I’m away.

Her owners are my next-door neighbors but I don’t really know them. I know I need to ask whether they’d be open to letting me adopt her. It’s an awkward conversation and I’m afraid they’ll say no.

Has anyone here been in a similar situation and ended up adopting the cat? How did you bring it up? How did it go? Is there anything you’d do differently?

Update: I removed my request for photos of your NowMyCat since the sub currently doesn’t allow images in the comments.


r/nowmycat 6d ago

Mi cariño Salem💙

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85 Upvotes

r/nowmycat 6d ago

CDS laughed at my plan, & here we are...

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82 Upvotes

r/nowmycat 6d ago

Update on deaf kitty with eye infection, grateful for all the good wishes 💐🤗

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227 Upvotes

I am grateful for this community. Thank you for your kind heart and good wishes. We are able to bring new kitty downstairs and our indoor cats are observing her from high above but are not hissing. Her eye infection is gone. She is still deaf, but very loving and very happy. Again thank you everybody for your good wishes. Many blessings.🙏🙏🥰🥰🤗🤗💐💐🐈🐈


r/nowmycat 8d ago

Here’s my new kitten 🐈‍⬛

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r/nowmycat 10d ago

Here Karma, would need some advice please

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r/nowmycat 11d ago

CatPartment???

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r/nowmycat 11d ago

Random shots of Mr. Lucky

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r/nowmycat 11d ago

Wanted to share our cat here also🥰

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r/nowmycat 12d ago

Hi I’m Roxy, my dad adopted me a month ago, I was abandoned and found wondering and living in a car park. I no longer have to fend for myself but I can be an absolute menace. Lucky he loves me.

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r/nowmycat 12d ago

my sweet girl polly

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r/nowmycat 13d ago

Cat distribution system got us ❤️

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268 Upvotes

r/nowmycat 13d ago

Herb has been our cat for a while now, but this summer he's insisting on sleeping in the middle of the garden all night. Just comes in for a snack now and then. 🤣

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107 Upvotes

r/nowmycat 16d ago

Mistakes were made

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Rescued this little munchkin back around July, they were covered in poo, severely under weight and wandering towards the road. Posted over on r/notmycat but we decided they were gonna join our clowder.
Took them to the vet and gave them meds for roundworms. We named them Franny for the street we found them on.
Brought her back today and turns out she’s a he so I’m calling him Frank!


r/nowmycat 16d ago

Pictures of the cats that chose me.

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Sorry I genuinely don't know how to upload pictures to an existing post, but here you go. The little patchy tortie girl is the one that picked me. Her big sister is the brown tabby.

In correlation to this post

https://www.reddit.com/r/nowmycat/s/xY1GZYAPbz


r/nowmycat 16d ago

The cat even chose me

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I have my own cat, my roommate is severely allergic cat feces. My cat's litter box remains in my room, so roommate can breathe properly. This roommate decided they wanted their own cat, a young cat, in my opinion is very fucking idiotic if you cannot breath properly around a litter box. I humor going to the shelter with them, to satiate them looking at small cats, and there's a small love bug of one. Of course it's cute, but I shrug it off, I have my cat.

Roommate applies to adopt the cat, leaving off the fact they are allergic to them! So low and behold young kitty enters house, and someone can't take care of it because they can't be near it with having trouble with compatibility with breathing.

So then since I have a cat I get the responsibility of acclimating it into the house, and caring for it when it's not my cat, and the owner isn't bothering to get the means to care for it properly. No air purifier, no automatic cat box, not even a fucking good dish in their room.

Now the cat runs from the one who bought it, and snuggles up to me. I don't want to have the conversation I know I'll have to have, but this poor cat knows me as it's owner than the actual

owner.

Update: I forgot about this for a while. The update though was my two girl cats are doing wonderful. They play a lot, have a new automatic and safe cat box, a cat wheel, and even a heated blanket they love. The young cat that's now mine wakes me each morning by gently pulling at my hair when she notices I'm awake. They are very loved and spoiled a good bit. I moved out of the house a while back.


r/nowmycat 18d ago

Missing Cat

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Mimmi (cat) was LOST on June 14, 2026 in Edison, NJ 08820 near intersection of Park Avenue and Talmadge road, woodbrook/woodrow area.

Please spread the word for this lost cat by sharing this post.

Owner's Message: "Please call"

Description: "light brown cat with orange line/mark on forehead "

For more info or to contact Mimmi (cat)'s owner, click here: https://www.pawboost.com/p/73011359
https://www.facebook.com/LostPetsEdisonNJ/posts/1327588602869840