Recent Content by jessica smith

From what I've read over the years, speaking in generalities, two boys get along well, a boy and a girl (what we did) get along well, but a girl and girl is more risky. I'd narrow it down to a boy and just look for personality. Downside though is that boys are more likely to have urinary...

So I have a boy and a girl, littermates raised together as tiny kittens, and they are both very comfortable with me but one thing they have always done since young is that the boy will make direct eye contact with me all the time, but the female refuses. If she really wants attention, she'll...

Of course after doing research on youtube, now this kind of stuff is showing up in my feed trying to whisper "its worth it": https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bvoz01tHm-4

Thank you, that's an excellent point, we could meet in the middle. The Turkish Van if we adopted brothers would be still semi-long coat and still large in size like he likes. I'm just hesitant with the Maine Coon even though they are beautiful because I'm a very lazy person (well outside...

We have two domestic shorthairs, and luckily they are very low maintenance and brushing them seems to almost be optional and once a week is more than enough. We are thinking of adding two new kittens to our family, and are debating between shorthair (my preference) and longhair (SOs...

OK we'll stick with the metric system then.

If mama is feral and at a shelter though, wouldn't rehoming them at 8-10 weeks allow them to be influenced more by our home and "role model" cats for the prime development period? That was kind of the idea of overlap, is it took some work to get our cats so well behaved and wanted that...

We adopted two kittens, siblings, 14 years ago and they are perfectly raised and I have zero complaints and the two are true cuddle bugs and the female adores the male and he tolerates being groomed and snuggled relentlessly by her. While it was some work at fist, for years I'm always amazed at...

I agree, and you don't really notice how bad even the dust-free ones are on dust until you put them in an enclosed space like a closet and notice how everything is getting coated in dust. The litter box is now surrounded on all three sides by a WinX air purifier on speed 2 (pretty high...

I fought with this for years, we tried so many solutions that didn't work that its really exhausting to even try listing it all. Any supplement, injection, medication you can think of, been there tried that. Long story short, ask your vet to prescribe a small bag of this as a trial...

So I thought the house was immaculate, and we even have three fancy robot vacuums that vacuum different sections of the house daily... until I just tried out our new ultra powerful blacklight. Well, over the years all those little hairballs or occasional food barfs that I thought I cleaned up...

Totally normal for my cats, its just "stranger danger" not recognizing the different smell of the cat that went to the vet. The stink of a stranger cat was likely transferred, and they get hissy in response acting like they don't know each other. Two microfibers usually fixes it, or just...

Yeah, I don't quite understand the science behind it, as going by ingredients it seems like garbage tier. It was so exhausting though going through so many different novel protein choices with no success, even the hydrolyzed pork one didn't work which didn't make sense because supposedly once...

I have also noticed that Amazon seems to have quite a few knockoff products on there (electronics, not on food mind you), great selection, but also lots of scams. Chewy is also our provider for prescription foods, and they have run out as well in the past, but luckily only for a couple of...

For anyone googling, fast forward half a decade, and results are: 1) We bought a whole bag of the LID hydrolyzed pork, tried very slow transition, but horrible bowl issues returned. 2) We tried a few other diet options, but even with slow transitions first only 10%, then 20%, etc over a period...