Recent Content by CatGuyAZ

I've gone through a bunch of stuff with my now late kitty, Onyx, related to uroliths (stones in the urinary tract, usually the bladder) and cystitis. Onyx's uroliths ended up being calcium oxalate, the worse of the two common types, with the other being struvite. Oxalate uroliths cannot be...

What a great compliment that would be! If a woman who cares a lot for cats is the "crazy cat lady," I wonder how guys like me who love cats are perceived. As you note, introversion is not a valued trait in our society, and even though we've come a long way, neither are things perceived as...

I put the roach traps in a lot of places where the cats could not get to them, and these places would have been more convenient (dark and "safe") spots for the roaches to get food, so they would not have to forage out in the open. I didn't see roaches out in the open very often before I put the...

Wow, thanks for all the input, everyone! Dakota is a domestic medium hair, according to the shelter. Her hair is shorter than Onyx's was (he was DLH) on the body, but both had/have really bushy tails and long fur on the stomach and chest. She may well fill out a little bit as she completes...

RIght after she finishes one of the single servings, she wants more right away. If I give it to her, she will ask for still more when she's done. At that point I have been resisting, so she just keeps on asking until she gets it (even if it is much later). She hasn't yet hit a point where...

I've had three cats before my current little girl, Dakota, and all three were overweight for most of their lives. It turns out I am a pushover for a plaintive meow for food, and the cats know it! Dakota has learned quickly... she started out (as an adoptee from the shelter) afraid of...

I feel a bit left out when it comes to the whole "crazy cat lady" thing. What about us, the crazy cat men? We exist too! Wait, "crazy cat lady" isn't supposed to be a compliment? Are you certain about that? It sounds like one to me. Seriously, though, when I read the letters to the editor...

I was unfortunate enough to live in a place that had a roach infestation several years ago. The apartment management kept sending a bug guy around, but it never did anything that I could see. Eventually, I tried some roach bait stations (Combat brand, I think) and put them in the typical...

I am sorry for your loss. I would have done the same thing, knowing what you now do. It's a very hard decision to make; I had to make it just about 3 weeks ago myself with the cat I mentioned above, Onyx. Miss him like crazy, but I know I did the best for him, and so did you with your sweet...

That's what I was thinking, but I also saw several references that said "calico, also known as tortoiseshell + white," so my thinking was: torbie + white expands to tortoiseshell + tabby + white, which is the same as tortoiseshell + white + tabby, which also means calico + tabby. She's...

My philosophy has always been to let them go when all reasonable hope for the cat living a good, comfortable life in the future is gone. It's frightening when your cat won't eat, but since there is no known underlying diagnosis (yet?), I would keep investigating to find out why it is happening...

This is Dakota, my new kitty! She's 10 months old and I've had her for a bit over two weeks now. She was born in the shelter, and all of her siblings and even her mom were adopted, but somehow this angel was overlooked for this long. She was shy, so that may be part of it. She's come out of her...

I bought a digital luggage scale for $15 or so (on sale). It has a hook on it where I can put the cat's carrier handle. I just turn it on with the carrier (empty) on the hook and it zeroes, and then (leaving the scale ON) I go get the cat, put him/her in the carrier, and lift the carrier just...

My girl cat Frisky had something like this years ago also. I brought her to the vet, and it was chin acne, as the others have written already. The vet said to stop using a plastic bowl (which I did) and prescribed some oral antibiotics, and it cleared it right up. Her chin had swollen up, and...

I am so sorry! If I were a HVAC person, I would cancel appointments with people who had "just" broken units to save a cat. I only wish more people had been that way. But I do agree with the others who said that this alone should not have been enough by itself to result in this outcome...