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Update: Took him to the vet yesterday. Other than worms, he’s the picture of health! No chip. :( The vet dewormed him and gave him his rabies shot, and I gave him a dose of Revolution. He’s scheduled to be neutered on Monday. The vets office took his pic and put him on their Facebook page, and...

ive been using Revolution on my kitties for as long as I can remember and it has always worked great. I was about to order some, and an ad for Bravecto popped up. From what I can tell, it seems to treat/control basically the same conditions as revolution does, but it lasts for 2 to 3 months...

I posted a question the other day asking about the sex of a cat. Long story short, we have decided to keep the stray kitty that found us. I took him to the vet yesterday and other than some worms, he is the picture of health. I got him his rabies shot, he was dewormed, and he will be neutered...

I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and take him to the vet tomorrow. He's really just way too sweet to be a long-term stray...I'm thinking either he was out prowling around and maybe got lost (unlikely) or somebody dumped him. :(

Here's another pic.

Not sure what were going to do yet. I already have two indoor cats. While I wouldn't mind adding a third one to the mix (who would?! :) ) I really don't have room for a second litter box. This kitty seems generally in decent health--thin but not painfully so, a bit of flea dirt, but not...

My cat came home limping one day several years ago. The vet checked him over thoroughly and said he had gotten into a fight and must have been bitten, but he couldn't find any puncture wounds on the affected leg. Put him on oral antibiotics and sent us home. A day and a half later, the wound...

So this sweet (SWEEEEEET) stray turned up on our front porch last night, and based on a quick glance to his rear end, I assumed it was a male. Since he's STILL here today, and is super friendly, I've been petting him, picking him up, etc. His belly is very, very firm--not huge, but still...

This exact same thing happened to my female cat several months ago.  She would walk around the house and on the patio and vomit up small piles of white foam.  I'd feed her, and she'd vomit up orange/brown foam and bits of food.  I called the vet and she said since she's indoor/outdoor, she...

I've never heard of anything like this.  My male cat was bitten by something last summer (we assume it was another neighborhood cat) but his leg swelled up and filled with pus.  Long story, but we ended up treating him with an antibiotic shot (can't remember for the life of me what it was...

I think spending that much time in a car, and then at a strange house/hotel would be far more stressful than leaving him home alone for several days.  That's the beauty of cats--they do FINE by themselves for short periods of time!  I'd say either have a neighbor check on him a couple times...

I've had cats my whole life and have never had any odor problems with them other than one cat I had as a child developed a UTI and stopped using her litter box.  Wherever she peed, it would soak into the padding and carpet.  Assuming your cat is using its litter box, you really shouldn't have...

I've been lax with using Frontline Plus and as a result, my two kitties got fleas. I gave them both one Capstar tablet then applied one pipette each of Frontline plus to their necks/shoulder blades. They groom each other and I'm pretty sure my female licked a bunch of the medicine off of my...

A couple days last week, our cat started vomiting white foam several times a day.  Occasionally it would have a blade or two of grass in it, but for the most part, it just looked like saliva.  I looked it up, and found that it's not too serious as a rule--just means they're vomiting on an empty...

I adopted a 16 week old kitten from the SPCA almost two weeks ago.  Several days after I got her, I took her to the vet for an exam just to make sure she was healthy because I noticed she was a bit wobbly in her back legs, and she kept scratching her ears.  After an exam (including a rectal exam...