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That picture is deceptive - she is tiny undeneath all that fur. The patch you see in the picture on her side is from her neutering operation where the fur grew back a different colour, although it's darkening now. We tend to tease them apart and either trim or tease them out. They seem to...

She's of unknown parentage (as she was a rescue from a litter of 4). We have her brother too, who is a short-haired tabby. This is Freya - (asleep as usual - and yes the picture IS the right way up !!) We do use wetwipes sometimes, but that's only when she has a stinky rear or ...

My wife and I are at the end of our tether. We have 2 cats, one of whom is very long haired, but no matter how often we groom her (which is every day) she always seems to get matts of fur either side of her body near the base of her tail. We have 3 items we use. 1 - A rubber massage brush...

Here is a picture of the 2 of them when they were very little - captured at a moment where they kept still for a microsecond. Amazingly Freya actually grew into her ear tufts !! The size difference between the two of them now is phenomenal ! Thank you for your advice.... perhaps my wife and...

Well we adopted Merlin and Freya from the rescue centre locally. They came from a large litter, but only 4 had survived and the mother had pretty much deserted them. There were obviously several fathers involved (although I'm no expert on cat genetics or the probability of certain genetic...

My wife and I have 2 cats (brother and sister). Merlin is a 10th month old neutered male Freya is a 10th month old neutered female Freya is considerably larger than her brother. Whilst not overweight / obese (at 4 and a bit kg) she is physically stockier and "taller". I was wondering at what...

Yes he was neutered at 6 months old. He's already sent the big ginger tom from across the street packing. "Jaffa" hasn't been seen ANYWHERE near our house for weeks. (Jaffa was un-neutered and sprayed near our front door) We think the black and white cat he keeps taunting is the other tom...

Our fence is 6ft high and wood too. The problem is that Merlin scales it like he is Spiderman.

The neighbours who live two houses away from us have 2 cats - both pretty tortoiseshells. They are big cats who spend most of their time sitting on their garden shed, which gives them a vantage point over a few gardens and the school field behind our house. They are obviously siblings as I've...

Our 2 (boy and a girl) do it all the time. They are brother and sister (both neutered) and 10 months old. Usually Merlin will instigate it and start rolling around the floor with Freya. She'll play along for so long letting him "pretend" to beat her up, and when she's had...

Merlin and Freya go all over the worktops (counters) at home. The one by the kitchen sink is a nice vantage point where they can watch the birds through the window. Merlin sleeps on top of the cupboards in the small gap under the ceiling, and both have the freedom to go where they want...

Ok, I've finally had enough with Freya's smelly rear end ! She's long haired (not very clean either when it comes to washing herself), and when she lifts her tail up...... ... Quite frankly she is really stinky. On closer examination she has no clingy on bits or "stuff" stuck to her rear...

Merlin on the left, Freya on the right. This was when they were 3 months old. Freya having a sleep Freya having another sleep - yes she sleeps like this a LOT ! Grr it got away AGAIN !

Hedgehogs may look cute and illicit an "aaaaawwww" response , but they are a walking flea-bus !! They inherit them from their mothers in the nest, but hedgehog fleas are very different to those found on dogs or cats. Hedgehog fleas only live on hedgehogs. If one finds itself in the dense...

Merlin loves to eat spiders. He'll just bat them off the walls onto the floor and he's got himself a quick snack. The most disgusting thing he eats however is Dried White-bait. You can buy them here in England as kitty treats. Basically they are small dried whole fish (about the same size as...