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We have an eight year old nutered male who was a semi-feral. As a kitten he shown up at our home. We fed him and provided a warm comfortable place to sleep. At first we weren't sure that the cat did not belong to someone else. When the kitty matured and became a Tom cat we realized that we had...

Hi, We have been members of this site for a while. I log on and read posts, however I don't post very often. We are animal people, not so much cat or dog people, more like cat and dog people. I run a small rescue from our home. We take in strays, both dogs and cats, get them medically checked...

You have gotten some good advice already. This brother sounds very immature... Good, that makes it easier for you to manipulate him! 1) See if your boyfriend can talk his brother into giving the him the cat. Even though the brother is jealous of you, he might not be so jealous of his brother...

If your cat is not part of a breeding program everyone in your home will be much happier if he is neutered. Males don't go into heat, only the females do. Males are ready any time day or night, and only need a female who is receptive. At three years old inside of a house with spayed females...

So sorry for your loss. She sounds/looks like she was a great cat and a dear friend.

We are controlling Sam's access to the outdoors about the same way as you are, except with a sunroom instead of a bedroom. Mostly we do enter and exit through the garage, however our porch is used several times daily. Our simi feral cat Buddy lives on the front porch and he loves for us to come...

Maybe that is the case. Sam has experienced the outside and wants to repeat the experience. As for the outdoor cat enclosure, that is a great idea. Actually I am working on something similiar. It is 20 foot long x 6 foot high x 6 foot deep and is made from the four panels of a 10 x 10 chain...

Our four year-old Maine Coon mix Sam has suddenly decided that he wants to go outside. The problem is that we live up on a mountain in the deep woods of NC just outside of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We have mountain lions, bears and Coyotes in the area. Coyotes hunt domestic cats...

Hi, We are not new members, however we have not been very active. For many years I have done cat rescues on my own, usually one at a time. When I get a rescue cat, we have them vetted and if they are in poor health we nurse them back to a healthy state. If they are spayed or neutered that is...

Welcome, It sounds like you have quite a family...

I will post some pics on my next day off.

We have been doing cat rescues for many years. We are not a shelter, and usually only have one or two cats at a time that we are trying to find homes for. Currently we have five cats and four dogs. Four of the cats our part of our family, and the 5th one, a rescue is currently up for adoption...

We have a three year-old neutered male that we got from a shelter when he was three months old. We were told that he is a pure-breed Maine Coon from a litter turn-in due to a family crisis, however we have no way to verify this. We call him Sam. We saw several of Sam's siblings, and they sure...

One of the posts made reference to the "peanut brains." There is a recent university based research study on the IQ of animals, and according to the results of the study, cats have the highest IQ of any domestic animal, with thier brain function only slightly below that of Chimps and Gorillas...

This is not a problem post, we are just courious about a behavior that one of our females exibits. We share our lives with four kitty's and three dogs. The kitty's are all rescues. Our first born is Abby, a seven year old short hair mix. Our second edition is Izzy, an eight year old pureblood...