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Hi, I just wanted to mention that when I was doing reintroduction due to non recognition aggression, my cats reacted badly to the Feliway Optimum. It was very puzzling because it would seem we had made progress, then for no discernible reason, they would start attacking each other. Even the two...

When she has her meals, does she eat as much as she wants until she walks away? That’s what I started doing with my cats, and it cured our food obsessed cat of this habit.

I agree that in general people need to learn that accidents like this will happen when cats are allowed to roam freely. I myself hit and killed a cat years ago and it can still bring me to tears now, so i can really relate. But I’m thinking that just now when these people have lost their cat...

If he is part Maine Coon, maybe he isn’t as overweight as you think he is? Why do you think he is overweight? My boy has no Maine Coon at all, and he is 17 pounds and healthy, with great body condition. 25 pounds isn’t out of the realm of possibility for a Maine Coon. Edit: okay, I see the...

I’ve been gone for 12 or more days a few times. It’s really hard, I worry about them all the time. We have sitters come twice a day to feed and do litter boxes, but they don’t stay to spend time with the cats. We figure since we have three, they can keep each other company. The sitters will text...

You mentioned feeding raw. Is it commercially prepared or are you preparing it yourself? The reason I ask is it needs to be properly supplemented so they get all their nutrients, and it can be tricky unless you buy a prepared supplement mix. Probably you are aware of this. Just another angle to...

I think exposure therapy will eventually help- just have the wrapping paper out all the time, mess with the wrapping paper frequently. Our cat inexplicably became terrified of the flickering light that the gas fireplace makes on the ceiling. He used to lay peacefully in our laps in the basement...

Thank you for the suggestions everyone. We talked about it a lot today and decided we’re going to build something to hold the feeders that we already own. We looked at so many and none of them seem much better than what we have. This is basically what we are thinking of doing. For now we have...

Hello everyone, as the title says, I’m hoping to get some recommendations on an auto cat feeder for dry food, preferably Wi-Fi, that my cats can‘t get into. We currently have the Peteme brand from Amazon. The problem is, our cat Penny can dig up the shoot and sometimes get it to drop a full...

When I travel I leave my cats at home and have someone come twice a day to feed them, clean the litter box, and make sure everything is okay. Even though they are in their familiar environment, I still have trouble enjoying my vacation and worry about them the whole time. I think it’s just the...

The first priority is definitely to stop the strays from coming around. We had a stray coming around and upsetting one of our cats. We bought a motion detector sprinkler and we haven’t had a problem since. It can be a hassle because you don’t want people getting sprayed (mailman, delivery...

Once when I was in Paris, there was a homeless woman who had a cat. She had a small cart for her belongings and she even had a litter box in a heavy duty garbage bag. The cat was on a harness and leash. Of course it’s not the ideal for people or animals to live on the street, but from what I...

Our sibling cats, Chloe and Fizzbin, are extremely different. Fizzbin is the most easygoing, sociable, adaptable cat. He loves snuggles, greets strangers at the door, doesn’t scare easily. Chloe is scared of every little noise, runs when the doorbell rings, doesn’t like being pet, is very...

Penny likes to sit on the heating vent. This morning she was sitting on the vent and up came her wet food breakfast, mostly on the floor and partially in the vent. So I had to remove the cover and rinse it out and reach down there and wipe it up. Other bad spots have been the bed (on freshly...

I would consider him larger than the average. He’s beautiful!

I have an occasional elevator butt cat, she starts in a squatting position and slowly ends up standing, with the pee going over the side. I place puppy pee pads under the box and tape them onto any walls or other surfaces near the box. It makes clean up easy and is something you can do...

Every indoor/outdoor cat I’ve ever had just one day “disappeared”. Whether they just wandered away or were killed, I will never know. I’ve never seen any of them live to a ripe old age. Most people I know with outdoor cats have had the same experience. I don’t do indoor/outdoor anymore. Better...

I used the Optimum during a stressful time and it made my cats worse. All of them were affected, but our especially territorial cat was the most affected. In my case, I believe my cats thought that the pheromones from the diffuser were from an intruder cat. They were on edge, nervous, constantly...

As a last ditch effort before returning him, have you tried ”catification” of your home? Basically putting up cat trees, shelves, perches on walls and building a cat highway so he can walk around, keep an eye on the dog from above, without having to walk on the floor. Does he have large cat...

We had a sitter that I wasn’t too happy with either. She didn’t work for a company, it was her own business. I looked into companies like Rover and Care, but the cost was insane to come out to our rural area. We decided to take a chance and ask our neighbors. We are not close to any of them...