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OK, this is possibly a crazy question, because obviously it would be gross for us to share our toothbrushes with someone or have our human children share a toothbrush.... but I mean, these are cats. They share food & water and I've even seen them eat each other's barf (while I'm running crazily...

Does anyone know of an affordable mousse textured wet cat food? That is, one that is very very smooth? Or do you know what I could add to pate cat food to make it more smooth? I experimented with some and found that whipping egg whites and then mixing with pate worked to give us the texture we...

I just brought home a foster puppy who had some very serious injuries and can't walk much. She's also terrified of humans. I was assured she didn't have worms, but I'm paranoid, so gave her deworming medication anyway. Apparently I'm not paranoid enough, because, just going on the claim from the...

Sorry if this isn't the right place for this... but does anyone know of a forum, website, facebook group, etc. where I can try to find a forever family for a dog? I've always been a cat owner, not a dog owner, so I don't have any experience with dog related groups. But I'm a member of an animal...

I want to start by saying, my cat didn't actually lose her siblings, but she doesn't know that. I adopted 3 cats while living in China, but because of Chinese regulations I can only take one cat out at a time. I took the first cat out in February and I took the second on April 1st. The final...

Hi all! I've always fed my cats half wet and half dry food, mostly because of financial reasons. I'm in the middle of moving from China back to America and my mom has been taking care of 2 of my 4 cats. One loves wet food and will steal it from my other cats. I normally prevent this from...

My 9 month old was just spayed 2 days ago. I had to take her to the vet yesterday and today for follow-up care (you can see my other post for details if you want). The vet sent us home today w/ a tube of some sort of ointment or cream and told me to put it on her incision twice a day. I watched...

Hi all! My 9 month old cat was just spayed yesterday (Monday) afternoon. It's Tuesday night now. She hasn't had a bowel movement since at least Sunday night, if not before. The vet felt her before the surgery and said that she had some stool in her intestines, but her bladder was empty. If she...

I need a little advice about spaying my cat. There are a LOT of background details that I'm leaving out, because otherwise it would take me even longer to ask/explain. I need to get my almost 9 month old cat spayed. I would have liked to get her spayed much sooner, but I found her seriously...

I'm hoping someone here may have some experience, especially recent experience. I'm flying with one of my cats soon and am confused by the carry-on policy. I have looked at their website a million times and always assumed the cat was the carry-on, so I would only be able to take a personal item...

I like to name my cats after characters from my favorite movies or books. However, I'm finding that there are far fewer female characters than males - and not only that, the ones there are have not-so-pretty sounding names (like Hermione). I loved the Hunger Games books, but I'm VERY hesitant to...

I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but I just want to rant a bit. The other day, I asked two girls/ladies if they liked cats and their immediate response, both of them, was "I'm allergic." I get that response from people all the time! Also, right now I'm living in China and finding someone...

Hi all! I took my eldest baby (1 year 3 months) in for her yearly vaccines today. I did research to find a government certified vet, which is needed to take the cats out of China. (I didn't realize that the first time around, I just assumed the vet wouldn't be allowed to operate if they weren't...

Hi all! I just rescued a 3 month old kitten over the weekend. I posted about her injury in another thread, but long story short, the doctor thinks she was a house cat that fell out of a window and injured herself (either that or someone beat her). He didn't see any signs of fleas but treated her...

Hi all! I'm a member of a cat rescue group in China and I rescued an approximately 3 month old kitten last night. Now, my experiences with vets in China have not been good at all. The 24 hour vet I took her to last night was convinced she had FCV and would die soon, so there was no point in...

Hi all! Does anyone know whether a harness without metal will make air travel easier with cats? I had previously purchased a harness called "TSA Fast Pass" () for one of my older cats, but never actually used it for air travel as I had intended. I now have two 1 year old cats that I will be...

I know it's not nice to laugh at the suffering of others, but I just love these pictures of my boy Shade from several months ago, back when he "went under the knife". They so perfectly sum up how he was feeling, I don't even think I could come up with words to make it better! The first is from...

So a little over a year ago, a Chinese friend rescued a 2 week old kitten and asked me if I wanted her. She told me (in Chinese) that she was a 3-color cat, which is their way of saying calico or tortoiseshell. So that's what I was expecting - but when a 1 month old ball of fluff arrived home...

The packaging says no grains and lists pretty good ingredients, but I'm a little wary since I've never heard of the brand. I'm in China, so I tend to not really trust Chinese manufacturers very much - even with human food, there have been so many scandals over the years that I'm constantly...

Hi all! This has been a bad few weeks for my cats... I'm located in China where the vets are not very knowledgeable at all. My youngest kitten, Shade, is 6 months and just finished his last round of vaccinations 2 weeks ago. I think they gave him all the normal ones, even though he actually had...