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My cat Lexi is a beast to pill, but luckily we (her and I, that is) worked out a system that was working for us. If I crushed her fluoxetine, mixed it with Fortiflora to mask the taste, and mixed it into a little food, she would just eat it! That worked for several months, but she's recently...

Hello everyone, long time no post! This is Bodhi. I've had him and his sister since they were three months old. Bodhi is lovely and friendly and playful and that's all well and good. He'll be two in January! The problem (so to speak) is that he is obsessed with licking faces. This is not a new...

Woke up this morning. Cat had knocked over two bottles of OTC supplements at sometime during the night. Vitamin D3 1000IU and melatonin 1mg. I have literally no idea if she actually got into any of them. I picked up the pills and didn't see any kind of teeth marks (she's a cat who chews her...

Tiger died over a decade ago, and it still feels like I'm missing a limb. In less than twenty-four hours, I lost one of my best friends, and it kicked off my first major depressive break. Until that morning, she seemed fine. She slept on my bed the morning before. (She was a bed hog. You moved...

I'm not looking for advice so much as I just need to talk about it. Lexi bit me very badly tonight. Like, I've lived with cats my entire life, I have scars from being a stupid kid trying to play with cats, and nothing like this. It feels like it's going to be bruised as all hell in addition to...

Hello! I am in the process of introducing my cat (Lexi, age 2) to my brother's cat (Braeburn, age 5). At this point, they are separated for most of the day, but interact around dinner time. Braeburn growls whenever Lexi comes too close to him, but he hasn't shown any signs of aggression. Lexi...

I had a whole post typed up, but it was getting bogged down in the details and I was rambling, so. Long story short, electronic pet doors are ugly, how can I change that? I really like the look of cat doors like this or this, but all of the microchip controlled doors appear to come only in "ugly...

I recently bought a house with my brother's family. It is a big house, and we have it divided up--top floor is theirs, middle floor is communal, bottom floor is mine. They have a dog (Puck, 5yr old terrier) and a cat (Braeburn, 4yr old DSH). Braeburn and Puck get along very well (though I...

I know that it's not uncommon for a new cat to stop eating. I am especially concerned, however, because this is Lexi's third home in about as many weeks. Her owner had to go into assisted living and asked her neighbor to take Lexi in and find her a good home. The neighbor is an acquaintance of...

Hello all! I'm in the process of looking for a house. Yay, me. In looking at houses, I've suddenly become aware that many buildings have potential hazards that I've never had around, just because they were built in a different time or place from other places I've lived. I'm especially nervous...

I'm moving to a solo apartment and need cats to keep me company, obviously. And I'm feeling super overwhelmed, because there are approximately a billion rescue groups to choose from, and that doesn't count town pounds. Rescue applications are intimidating, but town shelters don't keep their...

For a variety of reasons which are mostly unrelated, I’ve been living with my parents since I got out of college. (Don’t worry, I pay rent, no mooching. ;)) The time has finally come for me to move out, and I’m super excited! I’m also very worried. When I said “mostly unrelated,” there is one...

I'm struggling to figure out what's going on with my cats and am hoping for some suggestions. Trying to keep things short and succinct, because if I ramble it'll just get confusing. 1) Jackie and Julie are constantly are a pair of sisters from the same litter, and they're always vying for...

Hiiii! I found this website almost by accident and I love cats, so I joined. 😸 I live with two cats atm. Julie is a polydactyl princess and Jackie is a one-eyed calico cuddle-bug. They're a pair of nine-year-old sisters who were pulled from a bad home when they were tiny kittens. We've had them...