She sure has settled in well. :love From wild kitty to queen of her castle. Gotta love cats. They always know their place is at the top. It's teaching us humans our place is as their servants that takes a while sometimes. :lol:
I'm pretty sure the Furminator has blades that cuts the hair, and isn't recommended for most breeds of dogs, not sure about cats. Never owned one though, just what I read, and what I've seen of them.
I remember back in the day when I had Persian cats that I used a hairball remedy daily. It was basically a delicious flavored form of petroleum jelly that was supposed to push stuff through. Something similar to this,
https://www.chewy.com/tomlyn-laxatone-tuna-flavored-gel/dp/57208
I'm always picking up various animal parts in my yard. No rhyme or reason to it. I try to keep my kitties well fed, so they don't eat them all up. The one rat ours killed they left it intact. I would not like to find whiskers like that. :oops:
I'm 6 months into my fiasco. The two kittens are still working on the Queen. I don't think she's gonna ever give in. I never knew how fickle cats can be about new cats.
Most cats play with their prey. From what I've seen they kill it by biting them in the back of the neck or even eating their heads off.
Cats are one species that kills without being hungry, so sometimes they don't have the motivation to follow through, and they let things go.
Females...
I agree the tub probably resembles a litter box.
Does she get wormed or checked for worms? Most cats eating stuff they catch will need an occasional worming.
She may have been afraid of her new surroundings those first few weeks. Now that she's comfortable with her new home she may be reverting back to her feral ways. Hopefully with time she will become more comfortable with her new humans. That would be my guess on the change.