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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...

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...

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 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...

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?

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...

Two summers ago, Shere Khan and Dickon were fast friends. It was SK who first reached out to Little D and invited a scared, hissing walk-on kitten to join us at the front porch feed. They are nominally outside cats, but they often come inside. SK is now three, while D is two. Seemingly...

Scout! is ten months old. I assigned her a birthday. She showed up and jumped into my lap. I remember wondering if she was even weaned. Her litter is one month old. I'm not saying they are poorly nourished. They are active and have bright, attentive eyes. I wish they walked more...

My two- and three-year-old toms received their operations today. Perhaps I should have made two different visits, because it's difficult to keep them both inside and separated. The ride "to" was miserable with all of the yelling. (There was a time when they were big buddies.) The ride "from"...

My ten-month-old kitty is doing well with her month-old litter of four. She is beginning to spend more time with me and away from the litter. During the course of a long evening, she will go back and forth a time or two. Now, she will sometimes hop into my lap along with one of the little...

At first I thought this would be annoying, but then I thought someone might enjoy having a look. These ones are twenty-five days old. It's "Lady and the Tramp," I think, but it could be other animations. Two dissimilars, beyond all expectations, become parents together. The boys all look...

Today is the second afternoon in a row. Yesterday, around 5PM "Scout!" seemed really sick. There were several bouts of upchucking with lots of liquid. She seemed very lethargic and did not want to be handled, which is quite unusual for her. She sat like the Sphinx for about two hours, then...