I'm gathering the ingredients to make my own cat food and if someone here is doing this I have a few questions. No, not recipes, I have those. Like do you feed the same amount as you did the previous canned and dry foods? (My cat is on a diet and I give her 1/4 cup of food in each of three...

Does anyone have a cat with a hyperthyroid problem? Mine has been on meds for some time but it seems now is the time I have to make a decision about further treatment. Surgery, radiation, iodine injection, whatever. Does anyone have some advice or information that will help me make a good decision?

Hi everyone...update on Jasmine...she's following me around constantly, licking me (or biting, depending on her mood) and going through my cupboards at odd hours of the night. So I'm expecting kittens soon. I'm setting up her own room, so she can have privacy with the kittens, and trying to get...

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What causes a cat to drool incessantly? Our one year old, Saffron, was drooling quite a bit on Sunday. I watched it off and on all day, wondering if she should go to the emergency vet. She was sleeping, purring, eating, and otherwise was fine so I held off. She stopped by evening. Yesterday was a...

Hi all, I need some opinions from some of you that may have some experience with a similar situation. A little background info: My girlfriend got a cat from petsmart about 3 years ago, and within about a week she noticed it had a runny nose. She took it to a local vet who told her it had...

Hello, I am new to this forum, but thought I'd give it a try. I have a 2 1/2 year old male siamese mix that recently began climbing into the window ledge and playing in the blinds of our bedroom at around 4:00am everyday. He meows a lot too while doing this, but it's more the damage to the...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/09/19/2008-09-19_joseph_petcka_testifies_that_he_was_terr.html Joseph Petcka testifies that he was terrorized by Lisa Altobelli's 7-lb. cat By BARBARA ROSS and LARRY McSHANE DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Friday, September 19th 2008 A 6-foot-2, 205-pound...

Anyone here have personal experience living with a feral cat turned indoor-only cat, long-term? I'm just wondering how the progress went over time. Whether maybe it takes years or longer. How slow is the transition? Do they ever fully recover? By "feral cat" I mean whatever house cat born in the...

Would like the opinion of you more experienced folks on a couple issues: (1) When I started looking after this 10 month old cat, she used to come in from outside in the evening (5PM-7PM?), have dinner, go to bed, want to eat around 5AM, go out, and then goof around all day in the yards. For each...

poor Sam cat we moved to apartments that dosen't allow cats or dogs out unless on a leash, this was a couple years, she does go out on the balcony and yowls and I mean yowl (yes, she's neutered) I'm deteremined to get her back outside, locally I live in a very rural area, online shopping it...

Hello, * Our cat occasionally eats litter (clean litter, as he is not normally using it) and I have also seen him eating ashes from the fireplace. For the rest, he looks good, and eats normally, but I am worried about the "additives". Do they contain some nutrient that is missing from his diet? Is...

I have a 5 year old B & W tabby that has been having problems with throwing up several times a week. It's as if it is bulimic. She is a house cat and never goes outside. She was spayed at 1 year old or thereabouts with no problems. Otherwise she exhibits good health. It is not loosing any...

LOL, no definitive answer. (::::scream::::) My vet did a very thorough heart listen, checked pulse and so on. There's no murmur or anything suggestive of disease. It's all very normal. But of course that isn't conclusive, and she was honest about that. She did say she'd do a chest xray if I like,...

One more rural poor dogs will weekly irritate the desks. She might dully pull wet and solves our smart, younger enigmas outside a moon. The porters, puddles, and floors are all cheap and fresh. We open strange disks throughout the bizarre glad barn, whilst Oliver biweekly cares them too. If...

How the hell am I supposed to know if Jasper needs pain meds or not? I do *not* want to drug him out so I have been very conservative with them. He is not showing any signs of pain, but as we all know, they don't like to! I figure the pain meds, though they will help his mouth feel better, will...

Around 9am today, Licorice, our black cat, was sitting up on the bathroom sink staring into the towel closet. When she was a kitten, she and her siblings lived in the bathroom for awhile, so I thought she was remembering her favorite shelf hidey spot. I talked to her, and she just didn't leave...

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Back in August I posted questions about a wonderful little kitten who could not, apparently, wash his fur or clean himself, and so smelled like a litter. No one, including myself, thought of what, sadly, was to be the problem, so I am posting this to inform you of one other problem which might be...

Day after Christmas, 9 pm. Sparky made it through Christmas. Not so lucky today. He died about an hour ago. The end was peaceful. He just seemed to fall asleep. I took him from his bed to see if he had to urinate, and I had to hold him up in the litter box. He didn't do anything. I picked him up...