Today is the 3rd anniversary of Duffy's adoption, and what happy years they have been! Duffy is a true delight, a wonderful, bright, active, loving little cat. While browsing through some files last week, I came across a message I posted on Jan. 27, 2003 just after I had made the decision to adopt....

they're brother's, they came that way, lol from the SPCA...indoor cats, fixed....a year old both are large cats as in height and length, lots of toys and we do play with them Rudy is of average weight, Moe is fat out weighs his brother by almost 5 lbs...they only cat food for indoor cats....I...

I want to try the flax oil/cottage cheese treatment on my cat with the cancer, but after being online for a while can't find info. on dosage amount for a 12 pounder. I read to give this to the cat 3x a day but nothing on dosages. Also was reading that if the cat doesn't take to cottage cheese...

Hi - Please don't chop my head off or anything.... BUT! I have a female Tortoise shell Calico who is not spayed and will be 2 years old in May. WAIT - she has an appointment tomorrow for her boosters and pre-op, she is being spayed next week. I wanted to wait until after she was out of...

I'm thinking of getting another cat as a companion to me and my 2 year old male cat. What would be better, a female or a male? I have always been partial to male cats. I did have another male cat until recently and the two got along okay. Any thoughts? Sue

Yes, my cat is a puker! We have mixed breed long haired male cat that was nuetered as a kitten. We got him as a kitten and now that he is 2 years old he seems to be puking a lot. We haven't changed his food or anything. The puke doesn't have hair in it. It just looks like the food but...

Hello everyone, After almost 3 years of searching, finding, and stumbling my cat's chronic coughing has been diagnosed as a pseudomona aeruginosa organism. Gypsy is 10 years old. She's on 3/4 of a 22.7 mg of Orbax and had been since mid-Jan and it's somewhat helping. Her coughing bouts...

Anyone here have any experience with vaccinations given nasal? I just adopted an 8 month old kitten from a shelter and they told me he was given a nasal vaccination. I'm curious about the effectiveness of a nasal vaccine. Does anyone have any info on this? I'm taking the kitten to my own...

Usually in the morning when I prepare my coffee, I've got grains of it covering my hand, from spooning it out of the bag. Mico LOVES to lick the stuff off of me. Is this a good thing or what? Thanks in advance, - Ruby Tuesday

Has anyone done any work with this association? I do some volunteer work for an animal rescue organization, recognized as a charity under law, blah blah. It provides labor for certain CFA shows, and in return, CFA makes a nice charitable contribution and (truly) helps promote rescue cat adoption....

Hi, I have a 15 year old tabby called Rosie. She is still very fit and healthy and enjoys scratching anything that comes her way. However, over the past couple of months she has started to get her claws stuck in clothing, carpets, etc. as she can't retract them properly. She has never been one...

All, Just wanted to drop a note to everyone to let them know that Katie's thyroid has finally stabilized and her dosage is one half a Tapazole daily. Her behavior has changed somewhat since she's been on the meds. She's become a lot more needy and loves to sit on my lap all the time. This is...

My youngest cat (born in September 2002) was taken to the vet today because she was licking herself a lot and had some whitish vaginal discharge. I was afraid it might be pyometra, because she hasn't been fixed but stays indoors (trust me, I know that was stupid - no need to educate me). The vet...

Hi Folks, Last August, our 9 year old male DSH had a large bladder stone. Fortunately we discovered it early enough. He was cathetherised for a couple of days, and treated with drugs. Once he was back at home, our veterinarian had us switch him from his premium dry food to Science Diet s/d. In...

Hi, first-time poster here. I adopted a 3-year-old cat about five months ago and have been trying to figure out why he doesn't purr. He's a very affectionate cat, doesn't seem at all traumatized. But he simply doesn't purr. He does make a bit of a squeaky noise every now and again, but it's not at...

How is everything, Candace?

John Wesley wrote: Who cares? Why is this being posted to alt.pets? The important thing is we have spotted the abuse of house cats in relation to Korey Jerome Kruse. Can't you see how sinister this is? I mean, house cats, bumper stickers, Toyota Tercel pizza wagons and restaurants. Can't you...

Ah, the joys of managing a CRF cat ;) Ginger is on 100 cc's of Normosol-R sub-q twice a week. Approximately 10 minutes after fluids she vomits bile or a small amount of food and bile, 3 or 4 times. I am experienced in administering fluids to felines--worked for a vet for several years. I'm...

My ginger tom pet cat has a problem, he keeps biting a certain part of his back, he makes it really saw, to the extent of it bleeding seriously, he has to go to the vets several times per year to have it treated. We have tried putting stuff on that makes it taste horrible,,,but he still does...

I need to paint my living room. I'll keep my cats, Shiloh and Tiger, in another part of the house until the job's done. My concern is that the paint job involves patching up holes with spackle/plaster and sanding them down before painting. As you may know, this creates a huge amount of fine dust....