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Thanks for the great idea! The cats decided for me that I didn't need to keep them separated any longer anyway (kitten kept sneaking out and the bigger kitty didn't seem to care), but I still need to keep the kitten out of our unfinished basement as there are too many places for her to get...

We want to block a room off that doesn't have a door and am looking for suggestions on how to do this so cats can't jump or push through it. We have a new kitten that we are introducing to our resident cat. For two weeks we've been keeping the kitten in a separate room that has a door, but she...

Fantastic article! We just got a new kitten (found in a box on a construction site) and have been keeping her in our room. Our resident cat occasionally sits outside the door hissing. It's comforting to know that this is normal and that we didn't make a mistake in getting the kitten.

Wow! I never thought about them fighting and running off. That's a scary thought. Now that it's getting warmer our cat has been trying to squeeze through my legs to get outside when I leave in the morning and Other Cat is always there. So I see what you mean about give an inch take a mile...

Thanks for you thoughts and advise! I don't know enough about feral cat behavior, but nonetheless I don't think it's worth getting fleas over. They can stick to staring out the window at each other for now.:)

There's a feral cat in our neighborhood that our neighbor looks after (they've had it spayed, shots given, micro-chipped, have a shelter for it etc). "Other Cat" as we call her, started coming around our house when we got a cat (booth are female), our cat was very interested and they became...

When I was a kid we had an indoor cat that was declawed (back then it was considered fine to declaw), he got out through an open window by popping out the screen. Our dog was trying to alert us but we didn't realize it at the time. Two weeks went by and our dog started going nuts at the back...

Thanks! I'll look for a low carb dry cat food. I started only giving her a couple of tablespoons of dry a day. I haven't seen that brand of food in Canada but I see the litter. I'll keep looking. Thanks again!

They're both so beautiful! I love how their colors actually compliment each other like a well put together outfit. Thank you for this info. I've come to realize that even a couple of tablespoons of extra food a day can contribute to weight gain. I forget how small they are sometimes. Since...

Thank you! I lowered the amount of dry.

Thank you! So much great advise from everyone!

Not nursing anymore. I've just started to feed her the recommended servings now that I figured that out, and switched back from a "savory" food to just food for indoor cats.

This is handy! She was about a six when we brought her home. Now she's definitely a seven. There are places she could fit into a when we brought her home but can't anymore. :(

Thank you for this! I realize that I have actually been overfeeding her! I thought she wasn't eating a lot, but I looked at the bag and did the 20 calories per pound and with just the dry food alone I'm giving her twice as much as she should be getting! Wow, rookie mistake! She's sooooo going...

She had her last exam with shots on Aug 28 and I took her home Sept 5. They didn't do any blood work there. That's why I'm not sure if this warrants a vet exam since she just had one.

Hi all, I've had my two year old tabby for about 6 weeks. I got her from the Humane Society. She had a litter of babies and then she was spayed. The shelter was feeding her Royal Cannin Indoor Adult, I feed her whatever I have a coupon for. The HS said they were giving her 1/2 cup dry 1/2...

Hi! Thank you! I read that article and since I don't really want a scratch pad in my bedroom because of the scratching noise, the only alternative would be tape or spray. I'll try the spray first since I don't think I could tape up the entire perimeter of my bed. :D

So, I followed the advise given in the articles on this site to stop my cat from waking me up at 4am and it's sort of worked. She stopped meowing at 4am, but now she instead has started to scratch our bed to get my attention. I can't just ignore this like the meowing. This is my mattress she's...

Update! Feliway seems to have helped along with my husband politely ignoring her for the past several days. She's approached my husband to smell him and my husband has just left her be instead of trying to play with her. She hasn't rubbed up against him yet but she did allow him to pet...

I will try that as well, thanks! One thing I've also noticed that I forgot to mention in my post was that as soon as my husband leaves in the morning she sits at the door for a few moments and then rolls around and kneads the front mat where he keeps his boots and then sits on his chair and...