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found a tiny deer tick behind my cats ear. ~7 year old male, always been healthy, he's outdoors for a few hours about 4 nights a week in warmer months. I saved the tick in a bag and called the vet but receptionist said wait about a months before testing. With myself, in past few years I found...

googling these ingredients most sound actually dangerous for cats especially as concentrated essential oils, but just saying, I do think it's the lavender though, ever heard of this?

I had a bag of organic herbs de provence on the table. ingredients: Lavender, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, thyme, fennel [fennel seed probably]. my male ~5 year old cat loves it and is showing the same affect as cat nip which can't be confused with anything else. I googled each ingredient...

giving him 3 small feedings a day instead of all at once is STILL WORKING GREAT! Thanks again! He's even been eating a little grass.

so far so good on the giving small portions instead of one feeding a day. I don't give him fish anymore I read it might be bad. I'll learn to DIY wet food to make the gel-like stuff in the wet food, so he's more hydrated. But not in a way that it's like all nutrient-void or possibly unhealthy...

thanks yea I'll try mixing it slowly to transition, he sometimes throws that up too though. true I know not to deprive him of his preferred brand because cats will sometimes go without eating longer than is healthy for them, I remember that from when he needed to eat the prescription food to...

5 year old male cat. He never liked wet food which is strange because the 4 other cats I had before LOVED wet food. He does however LOVE to just lick the gel off of wet food. A few years ago he had bladder crystals but vet gave him prescription food that solved that and the problem never...

True, thanks for the suggestion, a coconut husk mat (or rolls material I'm seeing for sale online, or maybe a hemp mat or something harmless like that [will have to do some email confirmations]) should be good. And with some sand on top maybe, or even clean dirt from the middle of the forest...

I took him out the other night, he was rolling in the gutter (where the street meets the curb and where oil etc from cars drains into the sewer) there was some sand in the gutter and I had to stop him from rolling in that. I bought a bag of regular non clumping cat litter, cut a piece of carpet...

I would worry about with 'sanitized' sand is grittiness getting into their teeth and wearing down the enamel. I don't know much about cat digestion but swallowing a bit of sanitary sand now and then probably won't hurt considering cats in nature groom themselves. If I don't provide a rolling...

I bought some shredded pine product that says safe for basically all pets. they also had red cedar which said the same but yes cedar does naturally repel insects and I guess that's because it's toxic to them. Anyway, I bought a shallow, large bin from Walmart for like $6, sprayed it with 90%...

there are also paper beddings which maybe can be mixed with sand or omit the sand. Such as Oxbow Pure Comfort Small Animal Bedding, it boasts about how safe and clean it is so I think this would be ok too but yes some Pines are toxic to cats and some cedar types but it sounds like the wood...

^ oh great more things to complicate this. True, pine is quite oily and maybe it's bad for cats. I would think though if hamster ok to basically ingest cedar then a cat would be ok too. Will look into this.

and just wanted to note since I can't edit for some reason it seems, that in case this helps anyone else, I'm getting him a larger-than-litter box sized bin for rolling since he really likes to stretch out when rolling sometimes and want him to prefer and therefore learn to use the larger bin...

yes agreed no diatomaceous earth. I will look into that though for any benefits it has. I'm 99.9% sure he doesn't have flees. He also looks like he's rolling for pleasure or instinct like scenting mentioned. I'm not doing flea treatment since I haven't been letting him out especially. yea...

good points thanks, I agree extremely fine chinchilla dust seemed too dusty. And I think I read some of these powders are meant to absorb oil etc, so anything breathed in would have that affect as opposed to plain sand. edit, yea you explained it perfectly. I can email bagged play sand...

My male cat likes to roll in the litter box, he's been doing this for years. He'll get filthy rolling in dirt outside too. I know why they do this to clean mites and fleas etc. I can't stop him from rolling in the litter box even though he's usually very clean. I use clumping litter and don't...