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Hi! I have two cats. One is a 5-year-old Balinese girl who loves every human being she has ever met, except for my loud and unpredictable daughter (understandable). The other is a one-and-a-half-year-old Siberian. She is beautiful and very soft. Unfortunately, she only loves me. She is...

Hi! I have 2 longhaired cats, Deedee who is Balinese and Ruby who is Siberian. Deedee is just fine, her fur does not mat, although it is scraggly and scruffy even (or especially) when she's freshly brushed. Ruby, however, tends to mat horribly. She has downy-soft fur, and there is LOTS of...

Here's a story you may have heard before. There are two cats in my house, and their needs are really different. I have a thin, ratty, toothless Balinese cat, LK. She is only 5 but had serious stomatitis when I got her, so she is in permanent recovery. She's on a topically-applied steroid...

Hi! My 1-year-old Neva Masquerade (colorpoint Siberian) was originally described as a seal lynx point when we got her at 12 weeks old. She had a black nose and was developing dark lynx pointing, dark grey w rust-colored nose bridge. Her eyes were pale icy blue, a little darker around the...

hi cat friends My Siberian cat Ruby has long, fine, fluffy fur. It has been a humid, hot summer, and seemingly overnight she developed big mats under her arms and legs. I just brought her to the vet to have the mats chopped out, since they seemed to be bothering her. However, when I got Ruby...

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this post, but I would like to consider rehoming one of my two cats. We have a little Balinese and a big Siberian. I really pushed to get the Sib as a kitten last year; the Balinese seemed very lonely and was also sick (not contagious). I didn’t...

Hi! I have read some threads on this topic, but I am looking for new responses; I hope this doesn’t seem redundant and thanks in advance. :) My cat Ruby will be one year old in September. She is a very large, strong Siberian cat. Ever since she was a baby, she will do a kind of fake bite if...

Hello! I have a problem that is annoying to me, since I'm trying to keep my cats super-healthy. I have two cats, both indoor spayed females. One is a 4-year-old Balinese (Kitty) with stomatitis and no teeth, who is always skinny and rough-looking. The other is a 10-month-old Siberian (Ruby)...

Hi, I have a Siberian cat, who is about 9 months old. When I got her, the breeder showed me something that says that her father doesn't have HCM, which is how I learned that this may be a problem in Siberians. I am sort of concerned about her, because when she runs and plays--especially if...

Hi, My kitten Ruby is a 7-month-old Siberian. A few times per month, she will have loose stools that are extra horrible-smelling. She also gets gassy sometimes, and her cat farts smell like sulphur. I am not sure how to proceed other than trying to switch out her food, which will also mean...

We are going out of town this weekend and will have to leave our two cats alone overnight. I am concerned because I usually feed them wet food 3x per day, although they always have dry out for extra food if needed. I clean their litter boxes several times a day. Also, I have always closed...

My kitten Ruby is six months old, and she is always eating stuff off the floor. I just can’t sweep up fast enough, plus I have a very messy second-grader. So she’s always eating bits of crackers, cereal, nuts, veggie scraps, snow, dirt, etc. Half the time I don’t even know there’s anything on...

Hi, I have had a lot of trouble lately finding an affordable kind of wet cat food that is also of good quality. Chicken Soup for the Soul is $1 per can. It is listed on the website that analyzes cat food (sorry, can't remember the title of that page...?) as "significantly above average". All...

When I groom my long-haired cats, I need to give them treats while they're being brushed so they won't feel like life has lost all meaning and hope. The best thing I've found are those Churu cat food tubes. You know, they have like chicken and shrimp paste inside. I went to the shop to pick...

Hi, I feed my cats wet food, in small amounts, 3x per day. They don't get a lot since they're inside cats. I feel okay about this, since they also always have access to high-quality dry food at all times. But, of course they prefer the wet. Will they actually make up the nutritional...

My cats currently eat: Wellness Core Kitten dry food $24/ 5 lb bag Wellness "Minced" wet adult food (older cat) $1.99/ 5.8 oz can Blue Buffalo Wilderness kitten wet food (6-month-old kitty) $1.49/ 3 oz can I can't afford to keep feeding my cats this stuff. They don't eat an extreme amount--I...

Hi, So, my 5-month-old Ruby got home today from her spay operation...she was at the vet overnight. Our 4-year-old LK is not being aggressive toward her, but I’m afraid she doesn’t recognize her. They have mostly been apart, but when together LK will just peer suspiciously at Ruby from behind...

I have a 4-year-old female cat, LK, who has no teeth. She is sort of shy and skeptical, but very vocal and sweet. I also have a 5-month-old, Ruby, who we got 2 months ago. At first, the cats were great friends, and LK would groom Ruby and they would sit and sleep together. However, Ruby's...

Hi all, My poor little 16-week-old kitten has come down with calicivirus, despite being fully vaccinated. She comes from a responsible breeder (long story) and my other cat is from a sketchier breeder (also long story). The vet said it may have come from my other cat, who is not showing signs...

My two cats, LK (4 yrs) and Ruby (3 or 4 months), are getting along pretty well so far thanks to your help with intros. They spend nights and long stretches of time separated, but are otherwise together in the house. There is plenty of play-fighting, but it rarely escalates; they also groom...