Our 2 year old tom has starting having trouble peeing and when he does manage it he seems to use anywhere but the tray. He's constantly trying go and wondering around the house crying. He was previously diagnosed with cystitis (he was passing small amounts of blood in his urine) and given...

"I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course". - quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Fisher -- http://www.twainquotes.com/Cats.html It's a cool web page,...

I have a 13 yr old male cat. A blood test on him (1st time the cat had a blood test) tells that an enzyme in his blood is very high due to the pancreas not working properly, possibly pancreatic cancer. The normal level for this enzyme is 300-1100, his level has varied during his 3 blood tests from...

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...

Well, things are trundling along slowly but surely here. We've started using a spray bottle and by god Henry respects its authoritah..All I need to do is put it on the ground between him and the other cats and he calms right down. Anyway, Louis is relaxed enough to play (cautiously) in the...

Mike Kenzie wrote: Has anyone had any trouble with multiple cats sharing one of the automated litter boxes? Suffice it to say the things are troublesome. If your cat is large the automatic boxes may not be big enough. Some cats are afraid of the things and refuse to use them. Think of how...

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...

For the first time - my cat hissed at me! Twice - about an hour between each other. Thats because she has something stuck on her fur under her front leg and I want it out - just in case its sharp and its hurting her so I fiddled with the just to check it out but when I actually started to feel it...

Hi, I would like to get a perch for her Highness to look out the back window of our house. She has many options for the front but there is only one window that would be possible for backyard viewing and it's in the small dining area. I have seen some perches for around $20.00 in my Drs Foster and...

My fur baby Chaplin is getting old. He's a large-boned Ragdoll who turns 14 this September and weighs around 12 lbs. Down from 16lbs last year. This past year has been hard on him. Some of you may remember about the lump in his tail I asked about. It's still there and I did have it aspirated. The...

To preface, I'm a great believer in vaccinations for both pets and people. However.... My indoor only cat has a reaction to rabies vaccines. When I got her, at about 11 weeks, I took her in for the last of her kitten shots (if I remember correctly). She developed a lump at the injection site. I...

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...

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 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...

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...

Anybody have cats that will run a treadmill or a wheel? Any other suitable-to-the-boss ways of getting them some exercise? Bubba's getting to be a bit of a fatass at 22Lbs and reducing his food only seems to go so far, plus it ruins his normally sunny disposition when the food dish goes empty.

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...

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 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...

I've noticed that one of the flavors of cat litter I can get (I use Arm & Hammer) calls itself "Multicat". Given that I'm about to be a multicat owner, I'm curious what the difference is between that and "ordinary" litter. I have seen that the texture of the granules is noticeably different, but...