I'm skeptical that expensive cat food brands like Science Diet are worth the money, health and nutrition-wise, over brands like Purina One. Is this a "boutique" type issue, where those who shop at expensive, organic grocery stores for human food (e.g. Whole Foods, EarthFare, etc) also tend toward...

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Right now they have dog parks in the city where we live that are sponsored by the city, but I couldn't help but think that maybe we cat lovers should also have place to go with our feline friends that is sponsored by the city. What do you all think? -- Panther TEK: Staying On Top Of All Your...

Hi, I was on here over a month ago and several people helped me w/a problem my cat, K.C., was having. Thank you all. It seems that the situation has not cleared up. She is large (18lbs). She was leaking this foul smelling brown stuff from her butt. I took her to the vet, who said because she's so...

Why do cats like emery boards so much? Mine tries to eat it. And also digs very deep into my wife's makeup bag to get at it. Is the smell of the glue they use? Or more of a texture thing? -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1...

This is such a cookie cutter answer. Some things can be cured with bisquick and coke cola. and windex. Lord, Im going to become a vet.

I have seen a number of messages on this NG where people refer to their cats as "elderly" with little chance of a quality of longer life, with implications that it would be unkind to prolong the cat's life when the cat shows signs of illness. In some cases, these "elderly" cats have only been...

We took Precious kittie, est. age 8, 9 months to be spayed at a small vet clinic in Lima, Peru; after the surgery, wound seemed longer than needed to be able to enter abdomen and remove the uterus and ovaries, which we were shown after the butcher-like procedure. We were given no post-op...

The cheesecake mini-thread reminded me of this one, which I probably pulled from here originally: Kitty Litter Cake 1 spice or German chocolate cake mix 1 white cake mix 1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix 1 package vanilla sandwich cookies Green food coloring

Hi all Just got a new kitten last wednesday. A friend came over with him and said his friend found him abandoned along with 2 of his littermates which were dead. Initially I said I did not want the cat as I have four others so he said they were going to put him back where they found him. At that...

I was at a new-to-me vet yesterday. My regular vet was full and would only take my cat if I would drop him off so they could look at him between other patients and even then they were going to charge me for an unscheduled office visit. I was peeved and went elsewhere. I liked the new vet, an...

The cat and I are both diabetic. I check my own sugar 6-8 times per day, I check his twice. We have separate glucometer kits. Today, while preparing to check the cat's sugar, I had a brain fart and instead of lancing the cat I lanced my own forearm with a lancet that had been previously used on the...

Just wondering if anyone has creative ideas for what to do with old cat litter that has been reused for months on end... We have four boxes and use clumping litter with sifting pan liners. Every week we sift out the clumpy bits, add a generous sprinkle of deodorizer to the box, and top off with...

I treated my foster cat yesterday with Frontline because I saw a flea in the carpet in her room and she was scratching. I thoroughly cleaned and vaccuumed the room. Today, I noticed a nickel-size bald spot on her, near where I applied the Frontline. I'm not sure if the spot is exactly where the...

My cat is at it again... now he has "nailed" plastic items near the front door (which I cleaned and moved to higher ground) -- I really need a Feliway diffuser, but I do not have electricity near the door. Has anyone seen a battery powered one? Or similar? I do not have rugs near the door (he...

My Calico stands on its hind legs to butt the palm of my hand when my hand is raised above its head. Sometimes it grabs my hand but rarely uses its claws. It obviously enjoys that, it will do it three or more times in a row consistently. So I wonder how it learned. I've been trying to teach my...

I am currently looking for home for FelV+ stray, Big Boy, (about which I posted before). I have other cats who cannot be exposed to him so he is isolated. I get very conflicting info about one thing: I would be able to let him loose in my bedroom (instead of the attached bath & large dog...

Hello - I'm a somewhat frequent Usenet user, but never here. My parents have a cat that it's now time to put to sleep. He's about 14 years old and over the last month (or less) has ballooned up with fluid in the abdomen. The vet did a blood test (negative for any diseases) and then an...

We feed a stray cat. He isn't really a stray, because we have seen him go into another house down the block. But since he has no collar or chip, we suspect they don't own him either. At any rate, he is sick. His thyroids aren't working properly and he is skinny as a rail even though he eats at...

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 ...