My 14-year-old (will be 15 on April 8), Bandit, just went in for a dental cleaning today. She had just had a geriatric exam on December 12 and her creatinine and BUN have gone up since then (the vet said she is not concentrating her urine as well as when she was younger). I'm worried that these...

My cat of 15 years, Puddin', died last week. I noticed she was missing on Tuesday, April 25, and that afternoon after work I looked for her -- under my house, under my shed, under my neighbor's house. Did not find her. On Weds. I expanded the search, looking in neighbors' yards several houses...

we started bathing Chloe when she was a kitten and I think it helped her get used to the idea. Five years later she's still ok with it. It's the blowdryer (persian) she hates. Of course she only gets a bath about twice a year paige

equalizer wrote in on 19 Feb 2004: Cat Protector has gotten into the thread with such nuggets as the following: Ignore him. Those who engage in conversation with him there soon learn he is not very bright. --

Hi all, Carey is a cat I've written about before. She's currently 10.5, has a suspected brain tumor and has some OCD behaviors. She currently takes prednisone daily and Valium every other day. Since kittenhood, she's been a very vocal cat. It used to be cute when she would meow for us, we'd...

Please see this link: http://www.petplace.com/drug-library/interferon-roferon-a/page1.aspx Here it lists liver damage and nervous system damage, in addition to other side effects mentioned in the previous thread, such as loss of appetite and throwing up, as possible side effects. My vet saw the...

Know your Trolls Cybercat aka Mary aka Nancy aka Celeste aka Shiva Etc. has been up to her old tricks. It is time for a repost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Karma" Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats.health+behav X-Complain-To:...

Margarita Salt wrote: Please spare me the usual flames. At least try to feel something for the cat if not the cat-mom. A week ago, cat came down with am imfection that cannot be identified at bladder, tract, or kidney because no one can get urine from her. She was put on Baytril after...

mhmm, jupe is pregn'e i let her out long as she knows who opened the door for the dick (oh bigbad oh) i want to get my hands on the small round tabby that got her knocked up this little cute tabby kept coming around, jupe had turned white hot in heat I EVEN SEEN IT IN A DREAM, my little black cat...

My cat, Charley, is 6 months old, energetic, and by all accounts healthy. However, lately he's begun vomiting in the morning after he first eats his kitten chow. I think what is happening is that he snarfs it down, drinks some water, then the kitten chow expands in his stomach, and up it comes. ...

Looking for experiences. Have you ever hung anything from the ceiling for your cat to play with? How did it go? Is it still available? How is it going? Have you ever hung anything from the ceiling substantial enough so that your cat could grab on to the thing and lift itself up from underneath?

I'm looking at having one of my cats' teeth cleaned for the first time. Quite franky, I'm a little nervous about dropping her off for the day and leaving her scared, let alone worrying about her while she's under. What are the risks of this procedure? I know it needs to be done, I'm just trying to...

Hi, I had my five month old kitten neutered last Tuesday, everything went great and he has recovered extremely well from his "ordeal". My question is how long is it usually before you might see a difference in the cats personality? I think there are some changes already such as he doesn't seem to...

Hi everyone ! Has anyone else here medicated their cat to stop him/her from spraying? We just started researching this option and discovered that there are several drugs that can be used and several that we would never consider due to some of the side effects. Also, would a behaviorist be...

We have 3 cats, 2 of them are about the same age & are from the same litter. One of them is just an out & out snob, any time either my wife or myself EVER attempt to hold her, no matter how gently & slowly we approach, she inevitably runs away refusing to be allowed to be touched & when we do...

Got the following lovely little email this morning. Headers follow for those of you who are interested and also know how to use a command line to "ping", "tracert", and "finger". Odd how so many people here forget to use apostrophes in their contractions - LOL! -----Original Message----- From:...

Anyone know anything about the new Indoor Cat formula that's put out by Purina? How does it differ from their normal Cat Chow? Is it really good for indoor cats by providing them with other nutrients and helping them to lose weight and such? We bought a small bag of it today to try it out but...

As some of you know I own the website http://www.stopdeclaw.com I often get emails and they are usually positive, generally filled with good news about cats having their declaw appointments canceled :-), and occasionally I get some filled with ignorant statements that I pretty much ignore. Today I...

Last night I had just sat down when I noticed that my mobile phone had multiple messages waiting for me to read. I picked it up & opened the messages that I could see were from a friend who had one of Belle's kittens out of her summer litter last year ,& started to read them in the order in which...

I was describing my new cat Nipsy to friends at the beach yesterday and one said that he sounds like Maine Coon. Definite tufts of hair coming out the bottom of the feat, tufts of hair on his face that make him look somewhat lynxish. Most of those were removed by constant play with his former buddy...