I just read a discussion where a vet had quoted $400 to spay a cat and everyone thought that was ridiculous. Well, I suspect my vet's bill would come close to that, by the time you added in pre-op bloodwork, etc. etc. (There's always a lot of etc.) I don't know, because my girls were spayed by...

My cat simply refuses to eat any of the nutritious premium foods I have bought after much research! First I thought she simply doesn't like paste and prefers chunks in gravy texture. However, that turned out to be only half true. What she likes are chunk/gravy cans from cheaper brands like Friskies...

I was thinking about possible food allergies (some cats are allergic to fish). I know that Eukanuba, Wellness, Pro Plan, and Nutra Max are among the best, but how about the supermarket foods. Someone was telling me that Fancy Feast is loaded with sugar, but a check of some sites indicate it isn't...

Just for clarification - some words are commonly misused. Here is a guide, Your - possessive - belonging to. You're - contraction - "you are" There - at a place Their - possessive - belonging to. They're - contraction - "they are" ---MIKE---

This was once a healthy news group with 1500 posts. Because of the off topic posts and flame wars and the fact that a few individuals have made it their personal chat club, many of the regular posters have left for other cat news groups. This group is down below 1000 posts and dropping steadily. ...

Hi There has been a recent invasion of small red ants at my place and for some strange reason they have developed a liking for Bubba's Royal Canin Maine Coon kibble. In the past, he has shown no signs of being a picky eater, but he seems to have drawn the line at consuming ants, which probably...

Hello, Our cat Luxor is two and a half years old, and is normally a very healthy and active (indoor) cat. (He's a Norweigan Forest mix, if that helps at all.) Seven days ago, he had a bout of of very foul-smelling diarrhea, and then for the past week, he has been throwing up a brown liquid. Most...

Please help I adopted a 4.5-5.5 week old kitten on friday since then she has only used the litter box 5 times 2 times were #2 and 3 times were #1 she sleeps all the time her little eyes are watering and all nasty been cleaning with a warm wet paper towel I made the mistake of giving her cows milk...

wrote in message ... I'm trying to get my elderly mom to stop giving her cat (with a granuloma like skin condition on her hind legs) Fancy Feast and try Hills low allergen Z/D prescription diet formula to see if it was the...

Thank you Easynews for accepting my apology and reinstating my posting privileges. Netcoppery is the recourse of people who lack the intellectual resources to meet a challenge with words and ideas. They get frustrated, and they run to momma. So where the hell is Conan? Has he been adopted out...

Nice porn. You have finally proven you were unworthy of Conan, once and for all. As if there were any doubt. -L.

My cats brought in a baby squirrel and I saved its neck (a scene that looked like the silliest slapstick movie you can imagine, up and down two levels of stairs), but the little critter nipped me a couple of times. I loosed him on the front porch and he scurried off. I wonder if I should have any...

i was wondering if anyone could suggest a good technique for cleaning cat's ears. is it at all possible to do that at home, on an awake cat? -L

Our Maine Coon, Reagan, will be a year old early December. He has never seen a Christmas tree before. He decimated our herb garden when we brought it inside. He has a fondness for cilantro, by the way. We are concerned how others have dealt with the tree situation. Any ideas how to keep him from...

I rescued/adopted Tigger, subsequently renamed him Trooper, when he was 6 months old. He had been abandoned in a house with a broken-legged dog. I loved his sweet personality when I adopted him, but discovered this mild demeanor was due to being sick. After getting well, he terrorized me, but...

I need some advice. My roommate moved out at the beginning of December 2003 (over a year ago). His plan was to move to Switzerland, and he asked if I could care for his two Siamese cats for a while, until he could get things squared away and find out how to get them over there. I agreed, since I...

wrote in message ... | If you want to talk about your religion or your politics, take it to an | appropriate group. This group is for CATS not CHAT. Marking a post "OT" | or "Way OT", does not make it somehow OK. For those of you...

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I posted a while back about my elderly constipated cat. I have added rice bran to his food, makes him go more, but still like pebbles, I now add 5 drops of liquid paraffin every evening to some tuna, but he still is very constipated, he has such trouble going, he often ends up being sick at the...

http://i12.tinypic.com/48f55cz.jpg http://i11.tinypic.com/40m1h0z.jpg She loves to go outside and fight, what can I do? She's very tough with an amazing pain threshold. Doc said she'll be OK, apparently she drained the wound by cleaning it constantly.