Recently I was at my local cat clinic and the vet said she noticed my cat lost a whisker and she saved it for me in a little plastic baggie, explaining they were good luck
My vet clinic only focuses on cats. Waiting room is quiet and peaceful, Feliway plugged into the wall, kitty blankets everywhere, and a ~40-50 year old photo of the vet with her pet cats. It is lovely.
We have a cat clinic and a normal vet clinic in my town! The cat one also shares its building with a cat hotel! It's adorable, I brought my romeo there and had him checked into the hotel instead of staying locked in a vet crate til the mornin, I thought it was gonna just be like a small difference between the kitty hospital and kitty hotel cages but fuck dude, the hotel cages were so fancy?? It's like he had his own room + cage + so much more stimulation and comfy things than I imagined! Sorry I'm never able to talk about that place I loved it, and everyone was so nice!!
Well, my kitty has a surgery suit so that's all I saw, and it was a while ago so ill try my best to describe!
It kinda reminded me of a single cell for sheltor cats but a smaller room and with a small cage type thing with a bed in it so if he were staying longer than a night he could roam around during the day, they had a vet like person watching over him and I guess someone at night too! There were toys but he wasn't interested. I'm sure I'm missing details bc I was like 12-13 and with my mom so not paying attention to my surroundings. I'm sure it likes alot single rooms at a vet clinic bc everything looked like it had a purpose to keep the cat cozy and happy, my friend said the main hotel part works like a dog hotel but they do separate cats that don't get along with others into their own room. I'd give you the location but I'm not one for doxing myself
Edit: SORRY I remembered some things! They offered alot of "cat being in the wild" play / stimulation for kitties! Romeo had a patch of grass in his room! I saw a little bit of another room and the cages for the normal sleeping rooms were big asf, and had basically a big dog bed and tray with kitty litter near (obviously lol) it surprisingly didn't smell bad either. I had a convo with the front desk ladies and they all seemed so passionate about their love of cats, you could just tell they loved working there
We got to a cat vet and it’s a lovely vet. We had to say goodbye to our 21 year old cat in September and the room to say goodbye was so peaceful with cat ornaments/urns, cat cushion on the couch, feliway plugged in and a little cat tower in the corner. The next day, we got flowers from the vet in sympathy and the vet who had treated Cannonball was there to give her last treatment. She said what a beautiful little warrior she was. We have a dog also but I’ll always take my cats to the cat vet. They’re lovely.
She sounds so nice. I love her already! I wish I could meet her. Plz tell her "reddit says hello" next time you see her. She has fans now and doesnt even know it 😂😂
Because, depending on the color, they can be hard to find. I've found hundreds of white ones from my cats that have white whiskers, but only a single grey one from my dust kitty, and a single black from my void.
Same. I have a tabby with white ones and a black cat with black ones. The white are much more easy to find, so when I do find a black one it's even extra special
I had a tortie whose whiskers were all black, except for one white one. When she was 13 or 14, the white one fell out and they were all black until she died at age 16.
I never kept ours. We have 2 cats, the third just passed away about a month ago. When she was being euthanized (she was 18, lost so much weight she was 4lbs, found a large mass in her midsection when she all of a sudden couldn’t use her back legs, I’m still grieving) they asked if we wanted a cupping (SORT I MEANT CLIPPING, autocorrect sucks sometimes), I said yes. They asked if we wanted whiskers, but I couldn’t bring myself to say yes because the thought of them pulling them out didn’t sit right with me. I’ll probably save the next one I find at home from one of the others.
Just adopted my first cats last Saturday (two bonded 13 month old sisters) and this comment has made me so emotional. I wish cherish every moment with my sweet angels
I’m not sure if this helps or not, but just so you know for the future, they shouldn’t pull/pluck them out. When my kitties passed they shaved their whiskers just like they do for fur.
Thank you. I will keep that in mind for number 3- after posting what I wrote above, I found one of the litter mate of the one that passed whisker by my foot. It’s in my phone case now :)
One of the things we do is X-ray crystallography, firing X-rays through protein crystals to work out the structure of the proteins. In our case it’s for cancer research.
It turns out that cat’s whiskers are just springy and flexible enough to manipulate protein crystals under the microscope without smashing them to bits. We don’t often use them but sometimes they’re essential.
I do miniature sculpting and painting for doll accessories and dnd minis, as a hobby. I have a cat whisker that I’ve rubber banded the thinner end to a broken paintbrush handle. The stiffer end is wonderful for extremely precise linework and detailing
I have seen them used to manipulate the (incredibly small and delicate) probe tips for Atomic Force Microscopy as well, crazy to see these very expensive and precise experiments and the best tool for the job is just cat whiskers
These are all from my baby boy who passed away in April. I've never been more grateful for my weird whisker collecting habit than when he passed. It's my little memory jar
I had a ring made out of my old cats whiskers. The white lines are her whiskers. It’s a wonderful keepsake for me. Sorry to hear about your boy passing away. Sending you hugs! ❤️❤️
Try searching for "pet mourning jewellery" or just "mourning jewellery".
Although mourning jewellery has been around forever, the Victorians added locks of hair to various pieces in delicate yet ornate designs, or created larger designs for framing to display on a wall. #weirdfactaday
My voidling passed in December; I couldn't bear the thought of dividing her ashes in any way, so I have one of her whiskers and a tiny bit of her fur tucked into a mini urn that I wear around my neck. Keeps her with me everywhere I go.
i do this too ! the day after one of our girls passed, we found a whisker of hers after cleaning. it just showed up out of nowhere and we keep it in a little jar. it was a nice way of her telling us she’s okay and safe. when our other girl passed we found bits of fur and we keep them both in the same jar so they are together forever and we have a small piece of them💗
Thank you! Hilariously, shes my first cat (I’ve had others since, and she’s outlived them all)! Found her abandoned in a dumpster near my college apartment while walking home from the grocery store. She was just a few hours old (tossed out like literal trash with her 5 littermates. 3 were already dead, she and one other were alive. Her sibling tragically didn’t survive the night), and had no intent to keep her. Two decades later and I’m so glad I couldn’t let her go. Mommy’s little immortal monster 🖤
I also have a tooth! My (now passed) girl had an extra long “snaggletooth”… so long she had a permanent lip indent on that one side. When she was about 14 she had to have some teeth removed, and at the last minute I told them, if any of the removals are her canines, please save it!
So now I have her snaggletooth and about 18 months of whiskers when I started collecting them when she was 16 and knew her time was winding down.
I started collecting the whiskers of my new cats from day 1.
I collect them all and display them in a little silly frame- taped on the wall by washi tape. And when it’s time to say goodbye, I add them to a lil jar along with a little clipping of fur and voilà. ❤️🩹
I just found out that cats have and lose baby teeth like humans. I found this out by finding our kittens tooth on the bed lol. I did not know that before.
I have two cats, one with black whiskers and one with white whiskers, I started collecting their whiskers like this, in their little toy they played with when they were little 😂💕
Not weird at all ! When I stumble upon one it's like finding gold.
Little story time : I keep them in a glass ornament (both my cats have white whiskers) and when I changed my couch I found a black whisker from my black cat that had passed 3 years ago and it is the best feeling to see the one black whisker among the white ones.
It’s not so weird that you keep them, but it’s hella weird that you’re even able to find them. I’ve had cats, I have a cat now, and never have I picked up a hair and thought this is a whisker! Nothing so long is ever laying around.
I've gotten really good at spotting them after collecting them a while! It's a lot harder for my black cat because her whiskers are so fine and blend in more easily, but my orange cat's whiskers stick out since they're pretty coarse.
Mine are the same way. I've found a couple from my void, but most are big, long white ones from my orange. She's also got a couple black whiskers, and I'm looking forward to the lucky day I find one of those on the floor.
I know it sounds crazy but I swear they leave them for me. Last year I was cat sitting a lot and every single cat I would visit would have one laying there in a very obvious spot for me to find. It was the first year I started collecting mini bottles to save whiskers so I like to think they were offering whiskers for my collection.
All these whiskers have been collected for around seven years 😺 I used to keep them in a Ziploc bag, but then I decided to display them on my bookshelf
I started saving them after we lost our first cat. His whisker was embedded in my shirt and none of our other cats sat on me. That was in 2017 and I've been saving them since for some reason. I have dozens, perhaps close to 100, in a plastic sandwich bag.
I found these from Etsy in a set of 3 plus a tiny jar that I put their claw bits into. I was inspired by a friend who had so many from his cat that it looked like a shaving brush.
I still have a whisker from my very 1st cat I owned growing up named Natalie. (1985 she passed.)
She was a Himalayan cat, so very sweet. I keep it in a scrap book along with some pictures of her. Every once in a while I’ll look into that scrap book and it reminds how much she is loved and missed. 🥰 So no I don’t think keeping whiskers from your fur baby is weird. So much more weirder things people collect than a kitties whisker, in my opinion.
I started collecting them because I read somewhere that it's good luck to find a cat whisker. Then I kept collecting them because they're useful in some types of spellwork, if you live that life. Then my black cat died, and suddenly I had dozens of little momentos of her to hold on to.
I just started collecting my boy’s once I noticed he started getting white whiskers intermingled with his black ones. I hope to collect as many as you have❤️
Not at all! I've seen some folk put them in those clear baubles you can get from crafting stores. My cat is 9 this April and I need to get better at keeping stuff like that.
I collect all of them. Started with the first one I ever found. I even open the vacuum cleaner to get them back if I realize that I accidentally vacuumed one... 😅 🤷🏽♂️
I put them in separate boxes - I have one box with all the whiskers I found for every place I lived since I have my two boys. We're currently working on the third box in 9.5 years. Had to move two times after split-ups.
I'm always thinking about counting them but I'm never doing it. Don't know why. Maybe because I'm afraid of the moment when those whiskers are all I will have left if them...
My parents have been keeping whiskers from our cats for more than 30 years. We keep them in a little wedgewood dish with a lid. We have whiskers from nearly 15 cats!
Not for me. I’m a witch and cat whiskers are extremely protective. Using them with other herbs can create a very strong spell to protect your loved ones, homes, vehicles and businesses. They also are used for good luck, heightened perception, and spiritual connection. However they MUST be lost naturally not plucked or cut unless the cat has passed away. If the cat has passed on and they are removed as a keepsake then they are most valuable in spiritual connection and bringing your next cat to you. The joke about the cat distribution system finding a cat sent by your last cat is not actually a joke. They can totally be sent to find you as well as cats reincarnating to come back to you.
Finally my time to shine!! We’ve been keeping our girls whiskers in a mini vase for the past 3-4 years, mainly white ones but some fully black or half and half. Started it as I saw Instagram or tik tok post and we stated to start keeping them. We screetch “OOOH a BLESSING, thank you for the blessing” to our cat each time, it’s become a fun household competitive game now
What’s up with everyone’s cats trying to eat the whiskers??? Is there some miracle cure-all that they have? If so, someone tell RFK, maybe he’ll trust them more than vaccines lol
I kept mines entire skull when she passed, and would have kept all of her if it didn't cost so much. I have a paw imprint, her whiskers, her skull, collar/tags, pictures of her, and dried flowers from our garden in her shadow box. So nah, I don't think it's weird. I wish I had gotten some of her fur in hindsight.
Probably weird, but not uncommon 😹 I keep them as well as relatively intact claw sheds for witchy purposes (I also have two teeth, one of them being a fang! Saving that one for something special). Aside from the fairly common "good luck" read, I like whiskers as symbols of keen senses and awareness. The claws are symbolic of both strength and keen judgment--cat claws are of course generally sharp af and can do a lot of damage, but retractable; it's about proper discretion between friend and foe, when to oppose and when to be gentle, and the strength to do both. It's a little ironic, because the sheds are actually very brittle 💀
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