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Shere Khan if nearing five years and he has been fixed for about half of that time. He seems to be healthy and powerful, but he has calmed down considerably since kitten time. He is a lap cat. My cats normally go in the yard. This week has been bitterly cold, so we are all inside. Shere...

Dickon's prescribed food is Royal Canin Renal Support E. (Google.) It may not help, but it would make me feel better. Talking to Dickon has not proven fruitful.

The short of it: I have this pate that the veterinarian wants Dickon to eat. He won't. Dickon has always preferred shreds and the like over pate. Is there a little trick I can employ? Mix something with the pate? He never moves beyond the sniff. I once heard that a spoonful of sugar helps...

I pulled down the ladder and climbed into the attic to perform a small task. I carefully stepped across the joists. When I turned to egress, I saw that three-year-old Little Dorrit had followed me up the ladder. Before I could reach her, she bounded from the safe platform onto the sea of...

My new kitten is Heathcliff. He appears to be six weeks old. He is a walk-on. Heathcliff lives on the front porch. I cage him at night because he is so very tiny. My six (fixed) adults look at him and then hiss and move away. Fortunately, no one has moved in for the attack. I suppose this...

We experienced a walk-on earlier this week. Frankly, I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often here in our rural location. Our clowder has held steady at six over the last two summers. Heathcliff seems like he is plucked from a litter, but he does seem to be weaned. I fed Heathcliff from...

I continue to believe that this was someone's kitten. We have no close neighbors and certainly no children. Today is Monday. I heard a cat yelling on Saturday after dark. I ignored it because my cats were ignoring it. Later, I realized that I should at least investigate, but the cat was...

I just found a lone kitten. It was up a tall tree. I was able to get it down easily. I must believe that this little one belonged to a child because it is so friendly. My six adults are curious, but that is about it. There is some snarling. All six are fixed and they live outside. If the...

My cats live out of doors. We live in the Southeast and have suffered two cases of Bobcat Fever. One survived; one did not. We are now taking more expensive precautions with flea and tick treatments. I suppose I am circulating information that is already widely known... We must give...

Eppie seems to be missing a claw from her foreleg. It's the one that that's on the side and it seems like a thumb. I have not examined it as much as I would like because it is sore. Eppie is very affectionate, but she hisses violently when she doesn't get her own way. Should I be concerned?

I have seven cats that enjoy their freedom out of doors. All are fixed and well-fed. They stay close to the house. So long as I call, no one ever misses mealtime. What is a good treatment for fleas? I just feel like most products are intended for indoor cats. Furthermore, products require...

The hospital is now a week behind us. Little Dorrit is still underweight, but she is gaining. She is smaller than her mother, whereas once upon a time she was larger. Her back is no longer a sharp spine.

Her name is Little Dorrit, after the Charles Dickens title character. Symptoms Little Dorrit stopped eating. She stopped eating altogether. I tried everything. She was lethargic. When I lifted her out of the bed she had made for herself, she would look around and return. She never stopped...

My yearling female has just recovered from a week-long bout of cytauxzoonosis. There were two other patients in the ward at the same time, but they did not make it. (I wonder if their owners decided against the expense.) Anyway, I have this experience behind me if anyone has questions.

(On TV, when someone says "someone I know," it is usually the individual himself. This is not myself. My kittens were born and raised inside the house and they are still with me.) Someone I know experienced a walk-on kitten last fall. They made for her a boot or something with a blanket and...

Eppie is a year old now. We have made two trips to the veterinarian, but she always breathes as if she has a deep cold or hay fever. We treated her with antibiotics and then steroids. She runs and plays with good energy. Her "congestion" is most evident when she is sniffing something. Of...

I have medicine that needs to be dispensed from an eye dropper. None of my cats like this. Eppie is an extreme case. Eppie is a pleasant lap cat, yet she absolutely will not tolerate the eye dropper. Scratch, scratch, scream, scream. Where does a person go from here?

Each one of my litter has now had the climbing experience. Some have been as high as thirty-forty feet in a black walnut tree that has large gaps between limbs. Last night, my guy was in a cedar tree. Such a tree is think with small branches and he should not have had such a terrible time...

It has happened four times with my litter of four. They are seven months old and mostly outside cats now. Each one, in turn, has climbed a tall tree, but without any apparent skill for climbing back down. After this experience, each one seems to have developed downward capability. Yesterday...

Wanna know what's amazing? I'll tell you what's amazing. Four kittens. Six months old now. Play-fighting, play-stalking, tail-biting, neck-biting, scratching, rolling and clawing. Sixteen paws with sharp claws. The claws can accidentally draw blood from me rather easily. Four sets of...