Bug reporting is really helpful for smaller projects. My personal policy is to check if a big has already been reported. If it hasn’t, go to the project forum and ask if I’m doing something wrong. If it turns out there’s an actual issue, I report it as a bug. You can go straight to reporting it after step one if you want but I usually just make sure.
I had a cat like that and she was the best! She was so old and decrepit and all she wanted to do was love people but she didn’t quite know how.