r/orientalshorthair • • 1h ago

Advice First show help and recommendations

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Hello!

This young man is going to his first ever show in December and I am equally excited and terrified 😅

I am looking for any and all advice, but especially recommendations on what to bring to make it as good of an experience for both of us 🥰

We are EU based- if anyone can recommend where to get a small litterbox to fit in his cage, that would be lovely!

Any other advice is more than welcome too, something you wish you knew before your first show, etc.

Thanks in advance 😊


r/orientalshorthair • • 11h ago

OSH dad A taste of popcorn

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She’s recently gotten an accidental taste of popcorn so now movie night becomes a wrestling match


r/orientalshorthair • • 2h ago

That bright ginger coat and huge ears are stunning.

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r/orientalshorthair • • 18h ago

Peter lounging

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r/orientalshorthair • • 15h ago

Oriental Shorthair with giant ears

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r/orientalshorthair • • 19h ago

Gomez, Schrodie, and Boris The Fluff Bucket

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This morning we have Shrödinger and Gomez cuddling with Boris The Fluff Bucket.

You may have seen me mention that Boris and Gomez are buddies and partners in crime. Boris isn't especially athletic and specializes in cupboards, etc. at or below waist level... unless he senses Gomez has found some contraband that's hop-worthy, and then he'll hop up to share the loot. He looooves to chew into bags.

Like that bag of dry pinto beans in the cupboard (before we secured it): pinto beans all over the kitchen floor. Or, inexplicably, brown paper shopping bags reduced to confetti. I really don't mind.

Shrödinger isn't a troublemaker at all. But he has anxiety disorder, which was causing him to pee in various places, especially at night when the cats are left on their own in the front of the house so we can sleep. Occasionally I used to hear conflict out there.

Now he's getting Prozac (the vet said this was the best treatment for peeing like that) and he sleeps in the bedroom with us. No more peeing, and I no longer hear any disagreements.


r/orientalshorthair • • 1d ago

OSH mom Does yours do that too?

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Mine sometimes just come to mew at me and then leaves >.>


r/orientalshorthair • • 22h ago

All eyes on her 😍

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r/orientalshorthair • • 1d ago

OSH mom Earliest known photo of Gomez, and

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Picture is is the first photo we got of Gomez. It was love at first sight.

Of course, after that she got ringworm, as I've explained here, and a distended belly. When we actually met her she looked awful (picture 2)

The breeder treated the ringworm and the belly resolved on its own. We got her home, everybody else got ringworm from spores that didn't show up on testing, while Gomez remained sleek and glamorous. The ringworm was inconvenient but not painful or itchy. Easy to get rid of.

Then one morning she was dragging her back legs. She was partially paralyzed by dry FIP affecting the spine, usually fatal. But the treatment worked. She chewed off the fur on her legs during this ordeal but made a full recovery.

The other day we decided she might make a cute bat for Halloween (picture 3). I always thought people who dressed up their pets were insulting the dignity of the animal. Now I AM one.


r/orientalshorthair • • 19h ago

TRY THIS! Excellent source for finding breeders

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This OSH breeder, Ultravires, is in California. He has a list of US and international OSH breeders. Go to his Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100032388684493&mibextid=ZbWKwL

I've been messaging with him for a while now and he's got integrity as well as a very entertaining FB page.


r/orientalshorthair • • 1d ago

OSH parent How did he get so handsome?

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r/orientalshorthair • • 1d ago

Cuteness overload: Gomez and Shrödinger

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At 4:00 AM, somebody was using me as a trampoline. I knew who it was. I yelled, they stopped.

My husband got up at 5:30 (like he always does) and fed everybody.

Woke up at 6:30 (I'm an early riser, but not as bad as him!) to this: the culprits, Gomez and Schrodie, snuggled in a post-breakfast stupor.


r/orientalshorthair • • 1d ago

Miss BattyKoda's delicate dangle

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r/orientalshorthair • • 1d ago

That smug little sleepy smile on this Oriental shorthair is perfect.

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r/orientalshorthair • • 2d ago

OSH mom Such a weird little guy 🥰

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r/orientalshorthair • • 2d ago

Twins?

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r/orientalshorthair • • 2d ago

So he’s Bruno, and we’re kind of in a pickle, I need opinions

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UPDATE He’s 7 yrs old, we adopted him about a month ago, and we got him with this kind of food: cats fine food pure mono proteic with chicken wet food, Marley and Dan salmon sterilised dry food. So, the situation is, we think he doesn’t like the dry food, but we’re not sure, cause he’s vomiting them back every time, I know they have a sensible stomach, has anyone ever experienced it? Need to mention, we have another cat, a European, got her from a tree when she was ab 4 months old, and she stayed exclusively inside, she’s ab 2 yrs, she’s eating the same food as him, but she fine, she doesn’t vomit at all. Thank you, I’m waiting for ur answers!
P.S. they’re dewormed inside and outside, both of them, vaccinated up to date.

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We received a message from the old owners, and apparently he’s allergic to corn, and the food we were told to give him, has corn as an ingredient.

“He eats 3 meals/day, at 6am, 3pm and 10pm (RO time). All meals are wet food and he gets few bits of kibble mixed in (max 6). Unfortunately right now he is a compulsive eater, so having dry food available to graze on is not an option.
Concerning food, he has cereal allergy (corn is main offender), but rice is safe for him. He loves chicken as protein, and rejects beef and fish (salmon he may accept). He has rejected food (both dry and wet) from Applaws, Royal Canin, Hill's, Purina, Purizon, Canagan, Bozita, Carnilove, Brit Care, Greenwoods, Sanabelle, Crave, Feringa, MAC's, N&D, Porta 21, Petkult, Lily's Kitchen, Wellness Core. From GranataPet, Wild Freedom and catz finefood he’s accepted some of their wet food.”, this is what we were told.

We think this is why, and it would make the most sense, I have to note: when we adopted him we weren’t told about his allergies, we knew he was medically safe and has no disease, as the vet told us this too. We pushed to find out what happened, and we received this message.


r/orientalshorthair • • 3d ago

I have peterbalds

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I know this is an oriental group but I wanted to share my peterbalds! We’re keeping two torties from mom’s litter.


r/orientalshorthair • • 3d ago

Sweet girl Toska

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r/orientalshorthair • • 3d ago

OSH mom Kittens are thriving ❤️

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They grow so fast! Already 5 weeks old. I'll be sad when they leave 😿


r/orientalshorthair • • 4d ago

Gomez: Halloween rehearsal

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Here she is. Very difficult to get a good picture. Dad bribed her with Nulo.


r/orientalshorthair • • 4d ago

Take a peek at those tiny pink toebeans💗

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r/orientalshorthair • • 5d ago

Advice Picky Eater Kitten

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Hello! I picked up my OSH kitten muncie from LA about a week ago. I drove her back to my home (8 1/2 hours away). She's amazing and everything I've ever hoped for. My only worry is, she isn't eating enough! I have nutri-cal gel and I've been trying squirt little bits with a blunt syringe in her cheek pocket (which has been extremely hard to keep her head still enough to where she won't whip around her head, even with 2 people). I have also tried using KRM in her food mixed in, she barely eats it. I am wondering if anyone has other ideas on hie to get her to eat, or how to administer the nutrical so she'll eat. Thank you!!!!


r/orientalshorthair • • 5d ago

Grace

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I think she might be the chilliest osh ever exist 💘 she was bullied in breeders home, so she really enjoys being the only cat now


r/orientalshorthair • • 5d ago

Gomez again: tasting the milk. Eeek

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Gomez hopped up on the kitchen counter this morning to taste the milk I was going to use to make my cappucino. Just to make sure it wasn't sour, of course.

Eeeeeek

She has been removed, and the counter has been wiped down with Clorox cleanser. Twice. RN Hygiene Standards are strictly enforced in the kitchen.

None of the other three have ever hopped onto the counter. They are lying around in a post-breakfast stupor. But everybody knows the sounds of the morning cappucino ritual. Unfortunately, now that she knows milk in involved, she will definitely keep trying, because that's our Gomez.

When I picked her up to take her off the counter, she rubbed her little nose on my face. Not just a boop, a mom cat-baby cat rub. I'm experiencing Cuteness Overload.