Momo, my cat, is sneezing and acting like he is trying to get rid of something in his throat/nostrils. The vet took an X-ray of his lungs and chest and found "shadows" around them, and concluded that there is infection. So now my cat is on medication from the vet but isn't getting better (or may...

Our cat loves iceberg lettuce. But only if it's served cold covered in thousand island dressing with a couple of saltine crackers on the side. We know he constantly tries to mimic our behavior, but this is kind of ridicules. Anybody else's cat like lettuce?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210@N04/ They use their skyway all day. The paranoid feral female learned a new trick recently. I was getting up to feed them, and Kitty was behind the her on a single board, pushing her out into the room where she did not want to be (since I was getting up)....

x-posted to alt.pets.cats, free.uk.pets.cats, rec.pets.cats.health+behav (follow-ups set to rec.pets.cats.health+behav) Hello A question demonstrating rather a lot of ignorance - sorry - but in the case of neutered males in some animals, the various biological processes of coming into season...

Age and Long-term Protective Immunity in Dogs and Cats, Dr. Ronald Schultz et als., Journal of Comparative Pathology January 2010...

Friends of mine have a young male cat, around a year old, who managed to do something to his tail in their apartment last week. They said he was acting fine but one of them noticed his tail looked odd. They brought him to the vet the next morning and it turned out he hurt his tail really bad. I...

The whippoorwill returned to the forest, she echoes in the ambient night air and her song bounces off the tree trunks luminated by a passive full moon. She belongs to the night, to us for a time, then like some lovesick ghost floats away to who knows where leaving us a piece of ourselves. Two...

Martha came to me from the local pound around Christmas, and has been a wonderful companion. She has some *wildness* in her still, in spite of being fixed before I picked her up. Specifically, she has a fondness for being out of doors. We have an arrangement where I take her for a walk when I get...

My cat Emily has been having more and more problems with diarrhea and occasional vomiting of her food as the years go on, especially this past year. She's fourteen now. I've had her to three vets. The only food I've found so far she can eat is Fancy Feast trout feast. I've unsuccessfully tried...

One of my two cats is losing hair on the back of his ears BUT it does not seem to be caused by mites. First, the veterinarian says mites typically cause hair loss on the tips of the ears but in this case the tips are fine - it is the backs of the ears only that are affected. Second, the cat is NOT...

Derek and I thought we were being very clever to take out a health insurance policy on Pemberton and Ebenezer, especially now with a kitten in the family (Ebenezer). ASPCA seemed to be the way to go, and were generous in arranging a "Level 3" policy on each cat. This translates too about $70 per...

I have an older cat who just turned 19 this month. He gradually began developing some breathing problems over the last few months. It appears that he can no longer purr, but wheezes instead. I took him to the vet a few months ago, they x-rayed his lungs and said that they were fine and showed no...

My year old cat, Mittens, has lymphangiectasia (very rare in cats). He is on prednisone at the moment, but I am unsure what to feed him. I know he needs a low fat, high protein, grain free diet, but is there one that works? I know switching him to the raw food diet might be best, but I want to know...

Hello, If you consider the average weight of (properly fed) kitties to be in the range of 5 (3 to 6) lbs, and the weight range of a St. Bernard is 110/200 lbs, you can own about 40 kitties of a St. Bernard's worth. Therefore if someone asks you how many kitties you own, you can say, “I have a St....

We don't know if anything's actually wrong yet, but at her vet visit yesterday the vet thought she felt a lump near Meep's cecum. Might be a tumor, Vet's not sure. Meep is also slowly but surely losing weight, despite eating (somewhat) better over the last couple of months - she gets two...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KswnjMa-MQ If not, you should. I've never seen anything like it. Woody the cat seems to be quite the water waster.

Has anyone tried the new curved cat scratcher on a wooden base? Supposedly it files their nails down so you don't have to clip. One of my cats hates to be clipped. Barb

On Apr 15, 3:02*pm, "cybercat" wrote: "nice guy" nice wrote in ... My kittie sniffs at the new post and walks away. How can I make it more attractive to her? The most important thing of all is that it...

First - it doesn't seem to be an emergency, and it's Sunday, and I'll make an appt with the vet tomorrow. But for now: Meep (14 yr old spayed female moggie) has a tendency to have a runny eye. Had it for years, on and off, vet says "probably allergies". She's not being treated for it at...

I don't see any of the familiar names here, but in case anyone is lurking - and for those who don't know this bittersweet story - here is how Jack came to be my special big boy. http://www.ect.org/dj/ His owner was dying of breast cancer, lived in Seattle, and wanted to find Jack a home. I lived...