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    More Flower Worries

    For a cat named Blossom we have certainly had our share of flower-related worries. A few months ago you were all very helpful with a concern about lilies in a bouquet my wife received. So today, my wife’s cousin sent us some flowers. The florist says there are no lilies in the bouquet and that...
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    Firewood?

    It’s starting to get cool, and I recently got some oak firewood delivered. Does anyone know if oak logs or bark would be dangerous to a cat? I usually put them directly in the fire, but as it starts getting rainy it would be useful to keep a few logs inside. I know acorns can be toxic (to humans...
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    Fear of Lilies in House

    Blossom is still doing well. Does anyone have any idea how long it takes for any residual pollen to become non-threatening? I cleaned very thoroughly but it sounds like even a single bit of pollen could be deadly. I really hope none got on anything that was somehow missed in cleaning.
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    Fear of Lilies in House

    We don’t have any houseplants inside that aren’t already verified to be safe. My wife was just in a rush, she had bought the bouquet at the florist and then was on her way to visit her mom, but she left the flowers with the intention of taking them tomorrow when her mom wakes up. We are both...
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    Fear of Lilies in House

    My wife got home and we got the bouquet out of the house. She held the bouquet and I held a black trash bag under it in case anything fell. Blossom was out on the catio. One of the lilies had opened a little, so we were extremely careful. We took it out the shortest path, about ten to fifteen...
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    Fear of Lilies in House

    I vacuumed the entire house except for the room the flowers are in, since I didn’t want to open that. Then I changed clothes and took a shower. My wife is out but when she gets home we will sequester Blossom on the catio and then move the flowers out to the garage (Blossom isn’t allowed in there...
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    Fear of Lilies in House

    The picture is unrelated to the post topic, just a cute picture of Blossom. So my mother-in-law is having some surgery tomorrow and my wife got a bouquet of flowers for her, to give her after the surgery. She brought it home from the florist and we noticed it had some unopened lilies. She held...
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    (Possibly Unjustified) Heartworm Concern

    That you everyone for the replies. My wife usually applies the medication, and I asked last night if she had ever applied it after our trip. She sort of suddenly realized she had forgotten, and then started looking up symptoms of the things that it prevents against. We put the Advantage on last...
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    (Possibly Unjustified) Heartworm Concern

    We give Blossom Advantage Multi for protection against fleas and heartworm, as well as a couple other things. In July we went out of town, and our neighbor watched Blossom. We didn’t ask her to apply the medication because we didn’t want to burden her or have her possibly do it incorrectly...
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    Unnamed tortoiseshell treasure... my preciousss!

    As I understand it, a calico has a good deal more white on it than a tortoiseshell does (although in some places the term calico is not used and both are called tortoiseshell.). Blossom has one little white patch on her chest, but is almost entirely dark grey and cream. This picture is a bit...
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    Unnamed tortoiseshell treasure... my preciousss!

    She’s adorable! My cat has a similar patchy face. When I found her she was all grey except her tortie face, and her tail was very short-haired and small. Now that she’s almost one, she’s a bit more tortie (still not brightly colored, but sort of between dilute tortie and regular) and has a...
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    What nicknames do you have for your cat?

    Blossom is a nickname to begin with for her real name. It was actually one of the two names in the running, and we’ve since used it as a nickname for her sometimes, a pseudonym for her on here, and increasingly as a name for her feral mother who we see in yard from time to time. Nicknames my...
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    “how much is that kitty in the window?”

    Blossom at sunrise, looking out over the vineyards across the road. From the other side of the window, with my travel mug of tea in the reflection. My wife always sings her “How Much is that Kitty in the Window?” when she’s looking out or through a window. Her lyrics are: How much is that...
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    I’m not really worried about the price of any cat food I’ve encountered so far. I can get her what she needs to make sure she’s healthy. I’m very upset about this fish thing. Nobody- not the vet, not anyone on this forum, not anything I read about nutrition for kittens, told me this until now...
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    Most of the foods she eats have at least some fish. I had no idea whatsoever that fish was considered bad for cats (I guess I just made the assumption that cats like fish, they must be meant to eat it.) I feel like I’m going insane trying to figure out everything to make her diet right. It...
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    So I went to Petco today (it’s in another town but I was there anyway) and it’s amazing how many more choices they have than the local grocery store and feed store! All of the Weruva products said they were for adult cats, and I’m not sure Blossom is quite an adult yet. I bought seven types of...
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    Here’s a picture to illustrate why I was worried. This is her after having eaten and sitting up, looking extremely pear shaped. I have never had a cat before so I wanted to make sure it wasn’t a problem. I feel certain that if shapeshifters ever evolve on this planet they will descend from...
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    Taste of the Wild and Pure Harmony are the two brands we’ve used. Pure Harmony has salmon, oceanfish, and crab cuts that she likes. Looking at the ingredients it looks like Taste of the Wild does not contain carrageenan but Pure Harmony does.
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    I took this picture in the morning before she had eaten. I can always feel her spine if I pet her back. Her ribs are a bit hard to feel (I have to press slightly) but I can feel them. I think based on the chart she seems like a 5 or at most 6. She just looks extremely pear-shaped when she sits...
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    Sudden Overfeeding/ Free Feeding Worries

    This is how we weighed her when she was little, on the kitchen/kitten scale. But she’s too big for that now! The postal scale might be a good idea. I’m going to start measuring her dry food intake. Her wet food consumption seems pretty reasonable. I’ll put out a given amount and see how long it...
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