Free Cat Care Guide http://aofra.com/cat-care.html Hope it helps. Arlene

My cat is 13 years old and he has never been too interested in playing with toys. Doesn't get a kick out of catnip. Pretty much a lover and not a player. Around Thanksgiving I bought the Cat's Meow for him, thinking I just blew $20, oh well it was worth a try. Well he is still playing with it. ...

How is he doing??

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I don't know which one of it was, as it was the middle of the night, all four of you were on the bed, and it was pitch black. But needless to say, I woke up to your loud hacking and throwing up. I really don't mind; that's one reason most of the house was tiled. But did you REALLY have to throw...

Thud is the dark calico that I adopted last August. She had been passed around several shelters because she was so terrified of people, and was finally scheduled to be put down as unadoptable. By a rather complicated chain of circumstances, she found her way to my home. You may recall that...

I had turned in for the night and heard a faint, high-pitched meow. It didn't sound familiar, so my first thought was "it must be Thud." She' s very quiet, aside from having a room-shaking purr when she's around Giovanni, so her meow isn't something I'd recognize. It occurred to me that I...

I've had Thud just short of five months. She's a little calico cat who by an improbably set of circumstances came to me from a shelter well out of the area; she was about to be put down because she's so terrified of people and there was no reason anyone would want a cat like that. Well, I'm a...

Has everyone noticed the frequent poster MLB hasn't been on this board in over two months? I believe he/she (?) is relatively elderly; I hope things are going OK. Art

Well, the blood has stopped spurting - I think - so perhaps I can type a little bit before the wounds start oozing again. The last thing I needed was a fifth cat. I had gone over to the vet's office to arrange for some needed work on Emma, and there was a picture of a pretty dark calico cat...

I'll put this up for a few weeks - she was quite a pretty girl! Don't know if this will become a clickable link, but if not just copy/paste into your browser. Art http://www.ocrebels.com/images/amber.jpg

Emma arrived 24 hours ago. She turns out to be closer to tan than orange, and is a quite big, possibly overweight longhair whose head is perhaps a little disproportionately small for her body. I figured, correctly, that Giovanni would be the only one to hang around with strangers in the house,...

It's pretty sad around here; my favorite cat Calico, only 14 1/2, had to be put down last night. A couple weeks ago she got somewhat lethargic, spending most of her time on one chair. She started drinking more and more, and last weekend stopped eating. This didn't seem to be expected given...

I drove over to see the kitty after my ride today, the location being a seaside community (Huntington Beach, CA) about fifteen miles from my ride start/stop location. She turned out to be a quite small kitty, super soft, and extremely friendly. She didn't even get upset at the owner's...

We were quite surprised and touched to receive a bouquet of pretty flowers yesterday, courtesy of our veterinarian. May I share a picture? http://www.ocrebels.com/flowers.jpg Not to belabor a thread, but we were briefly mentioning vacuum tubes in the "How Old I Am" thread. I happened to find...

A few years ago, one of my cats passed away and I was very pleased to receive a ceramic memorial rock from the vet. Eleven years in the wretched southern California sun and it has simply fractured: http://www.ocrebels.com/SammyMemorialRock.jpg I called the vet to see where I might purchase a...

Tuesday marks one year since I had to have Calico put down after sudden catastrophic kidney failure. I'm glad it was sudden, as it was so difficult to pick her up that a regular course of treatment would have been impossible. It was sad that she only made it to 14 1/2 years. In the last three...

On a whim I answered a CraigsList ad looking for a temporary home for a cat while the owner is in a "sober living" facility. Yesterday we were finally able to cross paths. I had to meet her in the parking lot of a shoe store in Anaheim (California), about 22 miles from my home. She was taking...

Emma is my orange tabby whom I acquired in December, 2010 at 11 years of age. The family that owned her couldn't give her as much time as she deserved, so they unloaded her on CraigsList. (That's pretty rotten, but she ended up in a good home!) She was in for dental work a couple weeks ago -...

I've had my dark calico / light tortoiseshell Thalia for about 5 2/3 years; they thought she was 8 - 10 when she wandered into my life. A microchip scan at the time had come up negative. The last three years we were fighting kidney disease and frequent bladder infections. Most of this year...