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I moved a month ago to a new home. My old place had a second-story balcony that my two cats had free access to. This one is a rancher and has no outdoor space for the cats. I'm not able to even think about a catio at the moment. I'm exhausted from the worst year of my life, my house is a...

I just moved to a new place that has a lovely outdoor space through French doors. My old place had 2 second-story balconies that my cats had free access to. This place is a rancher with no balconies. My one cat is leash trained, and although she grumbles a bit, she's actually pretty happy...

My Willow has always been a bit on the chubby side, but two years ago my new vet told me that she should only eat the TD dry food and limit her intake so she could lose weight. The exact opposite has happened. The problem is that she has become utterly obsessed with the TD and literally...

I am about to buy a house in a very quiet area that has a fairly extensive garden. It is fully fenced with solid wood all around so that apart from raccoons predators can't get in and black bears will ignore the place because it has no fruit at any time of the year. It's big enough and...

My neutered male Dude always avoids his litter box for days after I clean it out, and naturally he's pooping and peeing elsewhere. I haven't changed the kind of litter, and I bought a second identical litter box so that I can swap them out to clean them, since he seems to react to anything...

I have two litterboxes, one for my original 9-year-old female, and one for my adopted ten-year-old male. My girl's litterbox is accessed through a cat flap into an enclosure in the garage. My boy's litter box is in the downstairs powder room for want of another place to put it. I've...

In order to keep the peace, I need to have both cats' nails trimmed every few weeks so there's no imbalance. I hesitate to sling two cages into the back seat of my car without making them secure as I don't want them sliding around Any suggestions?

I can always tell when Dude and Willow are both around because they talk to each other. Willow makes a deep BRRRRRRRRRR! sound, while Dude's sound is a much higher Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! This usually starts when Dude is telling Willow he's just going to walk past her and please don't chase me...

A few months ago I posted asking where the list of cat food rating was. I received my answer and the link. I want to go back and review the list via the link, and rather than ask the same question, I thought I could go into my account info and see a list of all my old posts. but I can't find...

I took my male cat Dude to the vet last week. He got a clean bill of health, except that he's dehydrated. Not severely, but enough that his skin is a bit loose. The vet had me try a special food that's slightly salty and he ate it once, then rejected it completely. It occurs to me that I've...

Okay, so here we are six months in, with Dude (9-year old male adoptee) and Willow (8 year old female). They are pretty peaceful together, and I'm pretty sure they're playing, but because I'm new to this two-cat thing I'm not sure and I have a couple of questions. Up until recently Willow...

The other day we noticed our Dude making spraying motions. I've seen him do this before but not actually spraying. However, this time there were a couple of drops of spray. I've found a couple of other spots on chair legs, too, now that I'm looking. There's no smell that I can detect, oddly...

My two cats are really getting along well, with very rare hissing incidents. Every now and then we catch them playing together for a few seconds or even a couple of minutes on one or two occasions, which is pretty good for two middle-aged cats who met 5 months ago. We have a peacful house with...

My Willow has very long sharp claws that don;t retract all the way. We can't allow her to sit in our laps without a towel between her and our clothes. I've noticed that our adopted cat, Dude, has started to be playful with her a few times, but seems to retreat after a few days and avoids her...

A while back someone linked me to a chart on this site that showed the protein, fat and carb content of commercial foods. NOT the ingredient spreadhseet listed here. I've found a wet food that both cats will eat but its VERY expensive. I don't mins spending the money if it's a decent food...

After three months my original cat, Willow, and my new cat, Dude (both middle aged cats) were being friendly, even showing sighs of affection and playing together, and we shared some truly adorable moments with the two of them. She's been very friendly with Dude until recently, dominant, but...

After four months our 9 year old male adoptee and my cat Willow seemed to be getting along really well, with some affectionate exchanges and some playing. I thought things were going very well indeed, but all of a sudden Willow's behaviour has changed to bullying. It seems strange that this...

We adopted 9-year-old Dude three months ago to join our 8 year old female. We had a great intro phase and three months of peace between the two cats, even signs of friendliness. Dude was even showing hesitant signs of wanting to play with Willow, and he was definitely trusting her. But all of...

My overweight cat is still refusing to eat canned food of any kind. I've been feeding her half pouch food and half dried, but my vet wants her off the high-carb pouch and commercial dry food and onto a high-protein canned food. The trouble is that I have tried literally every single canned...

I was hoping the vet would help me with this, but all he said was not to feed my Willow dry food as it's high in carbs, except for the occasional TD for her teeth. He also said that a lot of the pouch foods are high in carbs. She is a very picky eater and will only eat Natural Balance pouches...