to combat the shedding? I have four indoor only cats - and my 2 males shed like crazy all year round - the more I brush them, the more they shed (or so it seems) - my house is becoming covered with cat hair. I don't have dust bunnies anymore, I have dust elephants fueled by the cat hair - I can't...

From: Dan Mahoney Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes Subject: OT: Purrs, please... Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:23:28 -0700 Message-ID: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 trialware MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;...

Hi Mom, Thanks for the idea regarding Auto Trader. I might actually get money doing it this way. If I sell the car at $2200 (this is less the engine) or more, maybe I can get someone willing to buy it for the parts. They also have an online auction as well. It is a nice idea. The ads cost $27 for...

I brought Tiger back to the vet today to have her procedures done (ear cleaning, teeth cleaning, removal of tumor). She was not happy to be back at the vet's. While I was in the waiting room I took her out of her carrier. She was shaking, and just curled up in my lap and stayed put. The vet...

I want to raise this to everyone's attention here. Steve Crane pointed this out in a post buried in another thread here, however this warrants a thread of its own to bring the information "up front" so to speak. October 15th issue of JAVMA (Volume 223 Number 8) details a study in which it was...

Funny story; my old 55 gal "project" fish tank set up is now in the house empty and close to ready for reseal.... One of my cats has made it his hang out and loves to go in there! It is so funny, his name is "Little Darkie" and he's a very funny guy. When in there he rolls around and will...

Well, after almost 2 years of being diagnosed with CRF and hyper-t, my soon-to-be 18 year old Cory has to get sub-q fluids administered by me. I know you've all said it's no big deal after the first couple of times so I hope you are right. Tomorrow will be my first attempt. Cory has been acting...

My family is very sad about this, but we must find new homes for our cats. My wife has developed allergies, that over the lastg three years have become so severe she is now on asthma medication. We can't bear the thought of our 'children' being euthanised at a local shelter. We found a no-kill...

Hi there, Our cat is about 7 years old, and was first diagnosed with Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disorder (FLUTD) about 5 years ago. 5 years ago we were told to keep him on a diet of vet food such as Hills 'C/D' or similar. It was spelled out that we should use dry food as this would make him...

My 10 year old cat was diagnosed with a tumor on his spinal cord today between his neck and between his shoulder blade affecting about 5 vertebrae he had a M.R.I. and a spinal tap. the spinal tap revealed the cancer had spread into the spinal cord and spinal fluid. My vet said there wasn't much...

hate to be the bearer of bad news. just visited a specialist today. was told in cats that have the habit of scratching furniture it is pretty much impossible to change. the only way to have a cat who wont scratch your funiture is to train as a kitten to scratch on post. once they are adult and...

Hi, I'm lucky in the respect that my cat doesn't scratch the carpet. At the moment I've got a "twist pile" carpet but now fancy a "loop pile". I've heard that loop pile isn't a good idea if you've got a cat, but as he doesn't scratch at the moment will start if I get a loop pile as it would give...

I took in a stray semi-feral cat over 2 months ago. She lived for 6 weeks in our basement separated from my other 2 male cats. The other 2 cats knew something was going on and could sense the new cat behind the door and occasionally heard her. When it was time to introduce the new cat to the...

In news.groups Misty9999 wrote: : That is why I will ONLY support a moderated group. Any unmoderated : group would become just like the other cat groups. I also believe a moderated group is needed under the circumstances but with an extreme bias towards light moderation. ...

On 2005-01-14, Barb penned: Bought a little alarm through a catalog- I've seen these in a couple of catalogs- and it works! My two older cats never go on the glass top coffee table or the glass top table by the mirrored wall. They are allowed everyplace else. But the baby (2 years old)...

I'd like to teach my two rather wimpy kittens to hunt, or at least to give them something entertaining and instructive to do. I want them to be more like my girlfriends' cats, that cool cat who killed bunnies and birds. I am considering the idea of buying several small rodents from the pet store...

My Siamese altered female, age 4. The other day she was in a neighbors house and would not come out. I had to drag her out by the back of the neck from under a bed. Since then she has been attacking me, and her eyes are bugging out of her head. I don't want to take her to a vet, because they...

Your boys are absolutely gorgeous! How lucky they are to have "found" you! They photograph so well. I love the photo of them on the laundry. I have two brothers (littermates) who will be 6 yrs. old next month. I adopted them about a year ago from one of those pet clinics (their owner was...

I'm about to buy a leather sofa. Any advice about training/preventing cats from damaging it? TIA Stuart Reed

Hi every1, I was just wondering if anyone had any views on which type of litter (clay, wood, catsan, silica) is best to use. AND which kind of litter tray? Has anyone tried the 'self-cleaning ones'? I have one kitten (he is 10 weeks old). Any thoughts will be a great help