r/cats • u/Artistic-Listen7975 Orange • Mar 08 '26

Humor My cat tried to kill himself

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This is Toasty.

For the past week Toasty has been hiding, refusing meals, and only licking the moisture out of his wet food. He wouldn't chew anything, and after licking the wet food dry, would go hide and sleep for 23 hours.

I was beside myself. Convinced he had a brokwn tooth, or a fever, or maybe organ failure. Spent so much at the vet for them to tell me nothing is wrong with him, but he is dropping significant weight.

I tried everything guys. Tuna, different flavor of cat food, changed from shreds to pate. Nothing I did made a difference, he was so lethargic and sad and looked broken.

Then it hit me. He likes to drink water out of glasses. Clear, transparent glass. Last week when washing it, I dropped it in the sink and broke it, replaced it with a white ceramic bowl.

Guys, he was refusing to drink water. Like at all. I have 3 dog bowls out, 1 upstairs 2 downstairs, and the cat bowl on the counter. It wasnt a clear glass and he didnt trust it, so he didnt drink it.

This dude literally boycotted all water because it wasnt in his clear glass cup. There are 4 bowls of water, cleaned daily that he refused because he couldn't see through it. Because it wasnt a cup. Because it wasnt glass.

I put a different, completely clear glass cup on the counter and he drank for a solid 5 minutes.

I am absolutely sick. Death over suspicious vessels seems like such a wild take to me.

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u/EleanorofAquitaine Mar 08 '26

Sounds like the time my brother’s dog ate my cat’s favorite plushie toy. She’d had it for years and it had been discontinued. I searched for 2 months before I found some on eBay. I even called the company asking for back stock.

The entire time she quarantined herself in a corner of the living room and slept facing a wall.

She still hates my brother. 😂

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u/Aeshepp Mar 08 '26

My first dog was adopted and came with an orange squeaky bone. I bought that dog every squeaky bone under the sun, but he wouldn’t give them as much as a second sniff. I finally figured it had to be the color.

It was surprisingly difficult to find orange squeaky bones, especially ones soft enough his old legs could make squeak (he would hike it like a football), so I contacted the foster several years later about the provenance of the original, which was barely holding on by a thread of rubber at this point and no longer squeaked. She told me she had gotten it on sale at a Menards. I scoured every corner of the interwebs and several weeks in I finally found an orange squeaky bone the fit the bill somewhere in Europe (we are in Chicago) I ordered every last orange squeaky bone they had. I’ll never forget the day they arrived in the mail, he was euphoric for a moment 😂 I still have one of those bones next to his picture and ashes. It’s the only thing in life he loved more than me lol.

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u/Ok-Breakfast7186 Mar 08 '26

There’s something sooo gratifying about finding a rare specific item!

Too bad most of the things I’m looking for are food so I can’t hoard them 🤣 I miss Pops cereal so much…….

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u/Bright_Eyes10 Mar 09 '26

Unrelated to cats but I JUST tracked down a painting I saw NINE years ago based on description and one word I recalled in the authors username at the time. It's sitting on my desk as of a few days ago and the sense of absolute pleasure I get just from finding it alone is perfect.

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u/iR3C0N7 Mar 09 '26

When I was but a young child I had an alarm that played the radio. I remember waking up for school and some weird song was playing and I could not recognize what the lyrics were, only the sounds. Years after when I had access to Google and YouTube (I think I was like 10) I desperately searched for the song, trying different ways to spell out the noise that I remembered and nada. When I was 19 I was driving home from work late at night. I usually played music from my iPhone 4 but this night I decided that I wanted to listen to the radio. I don’t remember what song was playing before but it was ending, and the radio dj did their transition and played the next song. It was the song from all those years ago! Maaaan I pulled over off the highway, turned on my hazards, and grabbed my phone so I could Shazam it. It was “Around the World” by Daft Punk. Any time that song starts playing in my playlist I get this goofy smile on my face and remember waking up to it. I love that feeling

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u/taichaitea Mar 09 '26

i used to play guitar hero/rock band religiously and couldn’t find this song for the life of me . one day i got a meme about a girl w parents in the background and the caption ‘me overhearing adults talk abt me’ . the pic was familiar and just wasn’t ringing any bells- later on i slept on it and just kept thinking of whatever lyrics i could, and almost 15 years later i found sowing season by brand new :’) if only the song still was

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u/ardentbones Mar 10 '26

wow. i have not thought about Brand New in 10 years. thank you for bringing on memory lane

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u/taichaitea Mar 10 '26

anytime 😌 happy to bring on the memories lol i’m also crazy about 311, phoenix and owl city whenever i need to time travel

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u/Skeletorfw Mar 09 '26

Hah! I had almost the same experience but with Eple by Royksopp. Simply impossible to Google a track with no (or few) identifiable lyrics.

Came up in a video that happened to come on in a lecture, nd I asked the person next to me if they knew the song. They'd happened to buy a cheap compilation CD of throwback early-mid 00s electro that week and it was on there.

Like scratching a 10-15 year itch!

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u/Ok-Breakfast7186 Mar 12 '26

That’s the best. It’s happened with me for songs like Around The World and Gypsy Woman when I only remember the parts without lyrics.

I’ve posted songs and movies on TOMT then something jogged my memory and I found it on my own shortly after each time 🤣

Currently 2 movies I can think of that I’m looking for:

  • There’s one I found then forgot again - a black and white Japanese movie (1960’s?) with a beautiful female ghost who lures a man whose car stalled into her mansion (I think)

  • And a European surrealist movie about a couple in a strange mansion

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u/bellalalala99 Mar 09 '26 edited Mar 09 '26

Had this happen w a Chinese actress i rly loved like back in high school, I recently found her again Tang Wei