with much effort I got two of the stray cats to stay in my bedroom locked in with kitty litter box food and water. It’s going to be 0 degrees outside tonight and I didn’t want the cats to freeze to death tonight. what do you think? am I going overboard? I slept on the couch last night and I will tonight too.
Be careful. They might spray around your bedroom and that stuff stinks.
Meanwhile at Jukeboxes house…
You will end up like the Crazy Cat Lady on The Simpsons, and be throwing cats at people
I’m sorry I didn’t mean to freak anybody out.
You have such a big heart @jukebox!
You probably saved their lives.
You definitely did the right thing!
I would’ve done the same thing How come you can’t sleep in there with them? Are they aggressive?
yes, one cat won’t let me sleep, keeps biting my chin. lovingly but still scares me that he bares his teeth with me so I sleep on the couch here in the computer room.
About the cat showing it’s teeth, if they’re not being agressive I found this from the humanesociety.org:
The Flehmen response
Have you noticed times when your cat—perhaps while sniffing your shoe—lifts their head, opens their mouth slightly, curls back their lips and squints their eyes? They’re not making a statement about how your shoe smells; they’re gathering more information.
Your cat’s sense of smell is so essential to them that they actually have an extra olfactory organ that very few other creatures have: the Jacobson’s organ. It’s located on the roof of their mouth behind their front teeth and is connected to the nasal cavity.
When your cat gets a whiff of something really fascinating, they open their mouth and inhale so that the scent molecules flow over the Jacobson’s organ. This intensifies the odor and provides more information about the object they’re sniffing. What they do with that information, well, we’ll never know.
Here’s the full article if interested:
http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/cats/tips/cat_communication.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/
We rescued our rabbit after he was thrown out by his previous owners. We just found him hopping in the yard, on Easter, and then he was ours
My cat Gustav does that, too. I’m not crazy about it but it’s 100% affectionate, not threatening. That cat must be very grateful to you.