We currently have a 6 month old ragdoll cat (Hummy - male) who's been with us for 3 months now. On Monday we brought back home a 3 month old ragdoll cat (Normy - male) that we purchased from the same breeder. We were expecting for things to go fairly smoothly given that: *Hummy is only 6 months...

This cat never ceases to amaze me. Since he's been on a mainly canned food diet, plus his pred. every other day (doing well on it, BTW) he still keeps trying to find Bonnie's food. She still won't eat canned so I have to hide her food from him, but leave it so *she* can find it since she free-feeds...

Ana had her surgery. The vet removed 3 inches of intestine, she said (I'm hoping I remember this all correctly) that basically about 2" of her intestine was almost non-functioning, so that had to go, and then she took half an inch on either side. She also did find some old feces in the colon...

Okay, looks like our cat may have emergency surgery for mega colon as soon as we can find a surgeon. Our regular vet says it looks like she has an old injury, a broken pelvis, or a congenital problem that makes her pelvic area much smaller than it should be. For whatever reason, things have...

I have a 9 year old cat and it underwent surgery on Monday to have a tumor removed from its left flank. It lies down doing nothing, only drinking water. This evening it will be 72 hours of the operation. I'm waiting for the results of the biopsis. The Vet said that it was a huge tumor. I'...

As we have mentioned to you before in another thread, "da Bunch" was with us for over 7 years. That would have been a lot of trips to the vets to have them trimmed instead of declawed. And our time is worth a lot of money. There would have also been the transportation expense. We are secure in...

People in a small town in Tennessee have rallied around to support Sammy the cat. Someone wrote a letter of complaint because the Post Office is a federal building and Sammy does not pay taxes. Therefore, the writer said, Sammy should not be allowed inside. Sammy was banned from the building...

Well, today was the day. To Recap - week 1 new cat (2 year old spayed female) was kept in a separate room with her own food and litter box, resident cat (6 year old neutured male) unaware of her presence Week 2 - latch put on door so cats could see and hear each other but not harm each other if...

Hi, I was just wondering if de-worming a cat that doesn't actually demonstrate any obvious signs of infection can have any averse effects on it's health? Is it also possible that any future worms might have developed a resistance toward the medication if I regularly medicate?

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After owning several cats our latest cat is all white. I have read that these cats are prone to getting sunburnt ears. What do you do to prevent this? Do you get a preventative cream from the vet or can human sunscreen be used. Any suggestions gratefully received, -- Dave Croft Warrington

Some of you might remember that I posted a little while ago asking if it was normal for a cat to pee in a linen basket ... Well we took him to the vet last night, as he peed in the basket again and he just isnt himself at the moment. The vet told us that he might have an infection so we had to...

A friend of mine is moving from Scotland to Norway soon with her cat and has to replace her current rather tatty carrier with a new IATA approved one. We were looking at them in a pet shop at the weekend and she liked the idea of one with an opening grill on the top as well as at the front grill ...

Does anyone have any suggestion on kitten food that might be particularly appealing to kittens? Sammy's brood is coming up on 4 weeks old this Sunday. All seem to have a complete set of baby teeth formed at this time. Four of the six babies will drink milk mix from a flat bowl although all of...

I take in abused dogs and thought they were under control. I bought a product called Urinegone and with the black light it showed my new carpet installed in November has numerous spots that one bottle will not work. I was horrified and still owe thousands of dollars for the carpet. The problem is,...

I use vinyl window blinds along with curtains because I like the night privacy they afford. (I'm not into big, heavy lined drapes; I prefer airier, lighter curtains) Jasmine has torn up three so far (lol) because she likes to look out the window. (Dmitri always did this too) She pulls the slats...

Soon we will be relocating to the Phoenix area of Arizona. I want to be prepared in case Rudy (about a 10 lb siamese mix) has an encounter with scorpions. He will be kept indoors, but sometimes the scorpions come inside. Eeewwww... What should I have on hand for emergency care before I can get...

Can you help us get our cat in the carrier? We tried to get her to the groomers b/c she has matts (she's a long-haired beauty), but after 3 hours my wife and I were beat. We have tried many things to get her in the carrier: * clicker training. we got her to go near the carrier, but not inside....

Have been following the threads on the dry food Vs canned and wondering how the sugar content in dry food is listed. I have been feeding Waltham's Renal LP dry and pouch. Can't seem to find in all the tiny print a sugar content in the dry food, unless the sugars are in a combination of...

the so eats her cereal and then puts down her bowl for the kitty to lap the milk. he seems to like it but not be wild about it. but he always takes some. question: the cereal is Basic 4, which is not Froot Loops, but still has some sugar in it. I figure this sugar is dissolved into the...