Recent Content by DET_CAT_DAD

Thank you so much for taking the time to write all that and reply. I truly appreciate it and that's why I love this community. I will be trying all these tips. He has been coming out in the room and not hiding all the time. The other night I peeked in his room and he was sitting on the windowsill.

I will gladly give him all the time he needs but I can't keep him. I have six already.

Thanks. That sounds like a good plan. He has been using the litter box but I'd like to clean out the room and clean the carpet. I don't know how I will be able to get him in a carrier so I might just have to trap him again. I don't have a problem giving him some time to adjust and spending time...

Thank you so much. I'm off work this week so I'm going to try to work with him. At the very least, he'll get TNR'd but I'd prefer to have him come around on being indoors and find him a forever home.

I've posted for months in many different groups on Facebook to try to find his home with no luck. Neighborhood groups, lost pet groups, etc.

I trapped a cat that was outside a week ago. I live in Metro Detroit in we were going to get hit with a pretty bad rain/ice storm the night I trapped him. He's in my guest bedroom right now. He had been coming by my front porch since late summer and he can't be over a year old. I leave food and...

I'm heartbroken to report that the little guy passed away last night at around 1:45 a.m. of cardiac arrest at the vet's office. We just had a weird feeling at around midnight that he needed to go in and we took him to a 24-hour vet. They tried to revive him but I think it was more than his tiny...

On Sunday, a lady contacted me through Facebook asking if I could help with a sick kitten who keeps coming by her yard. She wasn't able to keep it and didn't have the means to take it to a vet. Despite wanting to just sit around and watch NFL football all day, I agreed to let her bring it over...

I wrote this piece about my foster fail, Ziggy for Petco's annual holiday contest. I went to submit it last night and they said there was a 500-word limit. Mine is 1800-words. Even though I can't submit it for the contest, I still wanted to share it. My wife and I agreed to foster Ziggy, a...

Oh, we've been letting Ziggy out for an hour or two every day with the other cats put away. He often jumps up next to my wife or I and is a purring machine. It crossed my mind to get a waterproof mattress pad earlier this week. I didn't want to have to go to Prozac but if it's absolutely...

He's pretty fat even with all that hair. He went to the vet back in March and was 16 lbs. I was actually surprised he wasn't heavier. I'm hoping he's dropped a pound or two since we've had him but I'm not sure, it's hard to tell. There is a groomer close to me and I contacted them a few days ago...

That's my Ziggy buddy!

He was dropped off here from his previous adopters who just couldn't handle his litter box issues. He was an only cat and lived with them for a little over a year. The shelter that he was adopted from has a Catfe so he had been around cats before. And as I've heard it from that shelter, he was...

He is actually in good health despite his weight. The vet gave him a clean bill of health. I will try the pee pads. I haven't tried those before. And I'm not sure it's arthritis because he can hop up onto couches and the bed in that room.

There are two different litter boxes in there right now. And I was using two different types of litter but he wouldn't pee in the one I was using that Cat Attract stuff in so I just stuck with my normal Tidy Cat stuff. I don't know if he's lost any weight or not. I THINK so but he's like 16...